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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the ancient world (ca. 3500 bce to ad 400) based on masterpieces of art and architecture from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The monuments are accompanied by a selection of myths and documents representing the cultural life of these ancient societies and constituting their legacy to our modern world.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to engage the broad diversity of art in Africa and African artistic consciousness and aesthetics from early rock paintings of the San Art Movement to the present. However, the organizing principle is not a time bound system of "development" in the Western sense, but instead hinges on an engagement of particular aesthetic trajectories that embody specific cultural concerns. The goals of the course are to expand students understanding of African Art in the context of African history and cultural values; introduce students to non-Western concepts of time, metaphysics and the notion of "art" itself; to explore the notion of "the Classical" in a non-Western context; relate artistic movements in Africa to movements in other parts of the world; and to gain a comprehensive understanding of artistic production in conversation with historic cycles and events. No prerequisite.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: a major or minor in Art History, permission of the undergraduate adviser requested in advance, and a letter from the sponsoring institution stating the nature of the internship.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in Art History and Archaeology. Writing-intensive course-topics vary. See current semester listings. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major artistic developments in Northern Europe, ca. 1400-1575. The course looks at the production of painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, manuscript illumination and architecture in social, political, and religious contexts. The major artists covered include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Hieronymus Bosch, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Anthro 310C
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the history and creation of prints. We examine the specificities of the medium, historically and in the present, that contribute to its particular meaning, and that render it distinct from other forms of visual culture. Ideas of expression, interpretation, and ideological investment are seen on the continuum that ranges from the highly personal relationship of a print to its maker, to the commodification of the print within popular culture. Weekly lectures on the history of prints complement the studio sessions, as do field trips to studios of St. Louis artists, and visits to local museums. We look at prints in their historical role as reproductions in a prephotographic age, as representations of shared religious and social values, and as vehicles of social or political critique. Artists discussed include, among others, Durer, Rembrandt, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Warhol, Spero, Rauschenberg, Gonzales-Torres and Kiki Smith. All students make prints, and all write critical and historical analyses. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112 (Introduction to Western Art).
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3.00 Credits
A penetrating study of the artistic achievements in ancient Egypt during the Old, Middle and New Kingdom (ca. 3000-1100 bc) The great monuments of Egypt are considered both for their aesthetic importance and as expressions of the superior culture developing, flourishing, and declining in the pristine valley of the Nile. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
The art and culture of prehistoric Greece as reflected in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer. The course examines, analyzes, and researches the Minoan/Mycenaean civilization and its legacy that resulted in the renaissance of the 8th century bc. Topics range from the 20th to the 8th centuries bc and focus on major sites such as Knossos, Phaistos, and Mycenae, burial customs, trade, warfare. and the emergence of the Greek city-state. No prerequisite.
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