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3.00 Credits
Introduces the arts of Black Africa, i.e., dance, drama, songs, and poetry, as expressed in a multi-media framework and a social-religious context; focuses on Yoruba art and surveys the art traditions of southeastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central Africa, and East Africa.
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A one-semester introduction to the arts of central Africa. Sculpture, pottery, architecture, body adornment, contemporary art, and performance will be examined and discussed on the basis of aesthetic, religious, political, and social contexts. Discusses many changes and continuities within African artistic traditions as evidenced in late twentieth-century urban, popular, and political arts of central Africa. We shall also investigate some central African artistic influences found in African American arts. Same as AFST 312.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how multiple "modernisms" emerged from African independence movements, and thereby influenced the development of African and African-American art from the 1960s to the present. Same as AFST 313.
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Arts of Byzantine, the Crusader States, and Russia from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Same as MDVL 322. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the major artists, movements, and institutions of Spanish modern and contemporary art, including Gaudi, Dali, Miro and Picasso, in their national cultural context.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the two major directions of art in the United States from independence to the centennial, with focus on major figures and the scientific and philosophical movements which influenced them. Prerequisite: One year of art history or consent of instructor.
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Examines American art, particularly painting and sculpture, 1876-1940, against its cultural background and the relation of the American artist to Europe in an attempt to isolate the roots of Modernism in the United States. Prerequisite: One year of art history or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between the visual arts and propaganda, with special attention paid to images of war. It focuses primarily on art in Europe and the United States from the time of the French Revolution to the present, and on the ways in which artists have sought to justify or condemn the violence of war. Same as GLBL 352.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the complex interconnections of women with the visual arts in Europe and North America from the classical era to the present, including the modes of artistic production and the representation of women in western society. Same as GWS 360.
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3.00 Credits
Elective seminar designed to give advanced undergraduates a deeper understanding of the relationship between religion and human experience in the middle ages. Participants will be encouraged to apply a variety of methodologies derived from anthropology, art history, literary studies and music history to the study of medieval sources. Same as CWL 369, HIST 344, MDVL 369, and RLST 369. (Counts for advanced hours in LAS). Prerequisite: Any course in medieval history, medieval literature, or medieval music.
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