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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A critical study of the major movements, paradigms, and documents of modernist art from the Post-Impressionism to the "Degenerate" art show. Among our topics: primitivism, abstraction, collage, the readymade, machine aesthetics, photographic reproduction, the art of the insane, artists in political revolution, anti-modernism. Two lectures, one preceptorial.
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A critical study of the major movements, paradigms, and documents of postwar art--abstract-expressionist, pop, minimalist, conceptual, process and performance, site-specific, etc. Special attention to crucial figures (e.g., Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Robert Smithson) and problems (e.g., "the neo-avant-garde", popular culture, feminist theory, political controversies, "postmodernism").
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
ART 217 surveys the arts of Japan from the pre-historic period through the present day. Painting, sculpture, and architecture form the core of study, though we will also examine the critical role of other forms, including calligraphy, lacquer, and ceramics. Throughout the course we will take close account of the broader cultural and historical contexts in which art was made. Our topics include the ongoing tension in Japanese art between the foreign and the indigenous, the role of ritual in Japan's visual arts, the re-uses of the past, the changing loci of patronage, and the formats and materials of Japanese art.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces the history of art in China through focused studies of major media taken in roughly chronological order. First come the chief art forms of ancient China: bronze ritual vessels, jade, lacquer, and silk. A turning point in their slow eclipse by representational art is the famous Qin terracotta army (210 BC). A little later a foreign religion, Indian Buddhism, came to China, bringing new forms of devotional art; we look at sculpture and cave temples from the 6th to the 9th century. The rest of the semester will be devoted mainly to painting and calligraphy, but porcelain, architecture, and gardens will also be mentioned.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An analysis of the emergence of modern architecture from the late nineteenth century to World War II, in light of new methodologies. It will focus not only on major monuments but also on issues of gender, class and ethnicity so as to cover the experience of modernity from a more pluralist point of view.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica, including the cultures and regions of the Olmec, West Mexico, Teotihuacan, Oaxaca, Maya, and Aztec. From temple pyramids and carved stone monuments located in plaza centers to the broken ceramic sherds and stone tools found in household trash deposits, material culture comprises one of the basic resources archaeologists examine to understand past ways of life. The course will explore the inferences scholars make in the analysis of material remains as well as the ways in which material culture was integral to the making of ancient political, economic, religious, and social systems.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Survey of the transformations in Greek art beginning with the decline of the Classical period (fifth century BCE) and continuing through the period of Alexander the Great's unification of the Mediterranean world, up to and including the Roman conquest of the east. Emphasis on sculpture, painting, and mosaic.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of painting and book illustration in the Islamic world between the 8th and the 20th centuries. Topics may include thematic subjects, styles and schools, as well as intensive discussions of some masters. Visits to museums are planned.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The main goal of this course is to acquaint students with the major architectural monuments of ancient and post-classical Rome, paying particular attention to creative transformations of form and meaning. The urban development of the city will be stressed and used to provide a contextual reading of individual buildings and public spaces.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Process and Performance - This seminar will examine artistic practice in the twentieth century according to the strategies of process and performance, paying special attention to the techniques and materials employed and the aesthetic and political implications of those choices. The course will draw on literature from art history and criticism, philosophy, and media and gender theory to investigate a selection of moments in modern art from Mondrian to the present. How does a focus on performance and process alter our understanding of the history of modernism, and what are its implications today?
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