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4.00 Credits
Prereq: AS.010.101 is required or by permission of the instructor - A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Murals on the side of the local grocery, Washington monuments in both DC and Baltimore, a 16th century manuscript painting at the Walters, film series at the Charles, galleries in North Arts: this course asks how visual culture shapes and is shaped by the urban experience. Critical readings in museum studies, urban studies, art history, cultural politics. Weekly field trips to local sites, museums, monuments; discussions with artists, curators, collectors.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore Islamic artwork throughout the medieval world, from Damascus to Jerusalem, from Cordoba to Marrakesh. We will explore exquisite ivory carvings, bronze metalwork, textiles, ceramics and manuscripts that reflect the elite cultures and societies that produced them. Themes we will address include the exchange of luxury goods and culture; the influence of Islamic styles and modes of production on European art; and Islamic art and the Muslim faith.
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3.00 Credits
The circumstances of artistic production in Florence compared with those operating in Naples, Rome, Milan, and Venice. The city as site of divergent uses of art by different communities and interests, employing images for the expression of identity and status and as a strategic means of producing consensus or exploiting social division. Note - This offering may be counted toward the major requirement for Renaissance courses.
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3.00 Credits
Processes of globalization have increasingly structured the ways in which art institutions and their audiences display and perceive the world. This course will attempt to address some of the theoretical problems facing contemporary art in the global context from the display of others to theories of subjectivity impacted by the increasing movement of peoples and expansion of communication technologies. The course explores some historical precedents of exhibiting global cultures beginning with colonial and world exhibitions. It also examines a number of global exhibitions in recent decades as case studies in exhibiting the global.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course will offer a selective, thematic exploration of the art of sculpture as practiced in the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman empire in the 4th century BCE to the dawn of the Renaissance. Our primary concern will be to analyze sculpture in all of its forms -- monumental free-standing, architectural, liturgical, and commemorative -- as the primary medium utilized by patrons, both private and corporate, to display political messages to an ever growing public. Through a series of case studies, we will study how a sculpture's form and style related to a broader social and cultural realm. Selected topics include the medieval understanding of the body (living and dead); urbanism and politics; and the lure of classicism in the Middle Ages.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the Japanese image as a distinct and readily identifiable cultural expression. Through a series of five critical works serving as visual landmarks, the students trace the emergence of the Japanese image from its roots in imported Chinese paintings, through the interpretations of the Rimpa painters, ukiyo-e printmakers, and decorative arts craftsmen of the early modern period, to the internationally acclaimed expressions we now find in 21st-century manga and anime. This course will be taught by Robert Mintz, Associate Curator of Asian Art at The Walters Art Museum.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how the belief that God had assumed flesh was fundamental to the development of Christian art. Works of art remain the focus, but the course also considers manuscripts, relics, the Eucharist, and other manifestations
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of Viceregal Peruvian painting, sculpture, and architecture between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Documentary sources inform our study by providing both institutional and personal accounts of events, histories, philosophies, and rebellion. Examined are the roles of religious orders, art schools, artisan guilds, and cofradía and the social and political implications of art patronage.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the constructed imagery of the harem and the veil in relation to politics and visual culture in the Middle East, North Africa, India, and Euro-America. Topics will include: Ottoman palace architecture, Orientalist painting, mandating/banning the veil, Islamic feminisms. We will address visual culture broadly, including advertising, architecture, contemporary art, film, news media.
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