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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Thematic studies in Chinese film (Republic, People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong), 1930s to the present with emphasis on recent years, viewed in relation to traditional and modern Chinese visual arts and literature, colonialism and globalism, Communist politics, gender and family values, ethnicity and regionalism, melodrama and the avant-garde, the cinematic market, artistic censorship, and other social issues.
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This course surveys the history of print in Europe from ca. 1400-1700. It attends to the distinctive techniques and material processes that have been involved in printmaking over the centuries, as well as the myriad cultural and formal developments that the efflorescence of print wrought. Artists to be studied include Dürer, Raimondi, Rembrandt, Lucas van Leyden, and others. Students will meet in the printroom of the Princeton University Art Museum bi-weekly, where they will work with objects from the collection.
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This course explores the ancient culture known today as Olmec, which flourished from 1500-600 B.C. Renowned for its monumental sculpture, fine pottery, and delicate jade carvings, many aspects of the Olmec remain enigmatic. In this course, we will delve deeply into what is and is not known about the Olmec, with a heavy focus on visual culture both as explanans and as explanandum. The course will include intensive study of original works of art, both in the collections at Princeton and in other area collections. Issues of authenticity, quality, and provenance related to these works will also be considered.
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This course surveys the development of modern art and artistic media, architecture, painting, sculpture, and photography in the Islamic world from the late 19th century to the present. It aims at providing a background on dominant artistic traditions in the Middle East after 1900 as well as an evaluation of how traditional aesthetics changed and were re-negotiated under the influence of Western culture. The course explores, for instance, the persistence and reemergence of traditional arts such as calligraphy as an expression of national artistic identity within this region.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to a range of art-historical approaches and to the writings of key figures in the history of the discipline. Attention is also given to research and writing skills specific to the history of art.
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Required for concentrators specializing in archaeology. Aims to introduce students to the methods and thinking of archaeologists and prehistorians, so that they will be at home in fields where archaeology supplies the evidence they study. Topics include the concept of prehistory (the idea that part of human history is not recorded in writing); ethnographic analogy and the interpretation of material remains; relating material culture to texts (e.g. a Mesopotamian site to the cuneiform texts found there, or Jericho to the Bible); schemes of cultural development (the definition of "civilization"); and how to read an excavation report.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
War in Greek Art - This seminar examines the art and archaeology of warfare in ancient Greece, from the Late Archaic through the Hellenistic periods. Topics include: the memory of war; the depiction of violence; portraiture and the cult of personality; propaganda; and responses to destruction. We will look closely at painting, sculpture, monuments, weapons and armor, and archaeological sites as we try to understand how changes in the material culture relate to historical and political developments, artistic trends, and/or shifting conceptions of conflict.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course has three aims: close encounters with some of the world's major traditions of ornament, close examination of issues that arise in the study of ornament and its history, and the cultivation of skills for writing about ornament. One troublesome issue is simply the problem of defining "ornament" (or "decoration"): is this anything more than a catch-all category for arts traditionally excluded from "the fine arts"? Themes for discussion include plant, animal, and geometrical ornament; space constraints as a stimulus to invention; and the relations between ornament and architecture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A course about Chinese concepts of nature and human nature, theories and traditions of landscape art. Weekly consideration of such themes as replicating and transforming the landscape; submission to/control of nature; landscape as political allegory; pilgrimage and exile; gardens and artists' studios; landscape magic in ancient China; endangered pandas, power dams, and the technology of modern art.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar examines Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th through the 19th century. We will consider the formal and technical aspects of prints, the varied subject matter, including the "floating world" of prostitution and theatre, the Japanese landscape and urban centers, and the links between literature and prints, especially the re-working of classical literary themes in popular prints. The seminar will emphasize the study of prints in the Princeton University Art Museum; students will also research Japanese prints at an art gallery in New York and recommend one to be purchased and added to the collection of the Museum.
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