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  • ART 249: Islamic Art & Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    Students examine Islamic art and architecture from its beginnings in classical Mediterranean media and forms to the expression of autonomous stylistic developments and the impact of colonialism and post colonialism. They consider the myth that Islam prohibits imagery and examine the use of the abstract decorative technique often dismissed in western criticism as the "arabesque." The western colonialist response to the Islamic world, the subsequent Islamic response to western art styles, and the contemporary search for an authentic Islamic style in art and architecture conclude the course. (Tinkler , Spring, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 250 20thCentury: European Art:Reality Remade

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    Beginning with the naturalist tendencies of the Impressionists in the 1860s and 1870s, this course follows the progression of art toward constantly new methods of expression: expressionism, cubism, constructivism, surrealism, Dadaism, etc. The purpose is to come to an understanding of the change that occurred in the practice and theory of art during the first half of this century. The intention is to explore the foundations of modern art when art no longer mirrored reality, but took to analyzing its role in the construction of reality. (Isaak, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 252: Japanese Art & Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the arts and culture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the twentieth century. Students consider examples of visual media in the context of Japanese literature, history, society, and religions. Topics include Shinto architecture, Buddhist art (including Pure Land and Zen), narrative picture scrolls, traditional and western-style paintings, shoin architecture, gardens, tea ceremony ceramics and ukiyo-e prints ("pictures of the floating world"). Students read primary sources in translation, including Shinto myths, Buddhist texts, and selections from literature. Prerequisite: previous art history or Asian studies course. (Blanchard , Spring, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 253: Buddhist Art & Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course examines the arts and architecture associated with Buddhism from its beginnings in India to its dissemination to Southeast Asia and along the Silk Road to East Asia. The organization of the material is primarily chronological, tracing significant developments in Buddhist practice in each region, with an emphasis on major monuments of architecture, painting, and sculpture. When appropriate, students read Buddhist texts in translation. Prerequisite: previous art history or Asian studies course. (Blanchard, Fall, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 256: Art of the Russian Revolution

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    One of the most exciting movements in 20thcentury art, Russian art of the Revolution, radically reassessed the role of the artist and of his/her work in society and has had reverberations in Western art which continue today. This course begins with the Russian futurists and traces the manner in which new formal vocabularies and new attitudes towards materials were harnessed after the 1917 Revolution by artists like Popova, Goncharova, Rosanova, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Malevich, etc., to develop a full and multidimensional philosophy for the design of functional objects for the new socialist society. (Isaak, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 259: Chinese Painting,Tang to Yuan Dynasties

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course explores painting practice from the beginnings of China's "Golden Age" in 618 through the end of Mongol conquest and rule in 1368. Painting is regarded as one of the premier art forms in the earliest Chinese histories of art, second only to calligraphy. Material is presented chronologically, but broader topics include popular subject matter in early painting, including figural topics and landscapes; early theories on painting and the development of art criticism; notions of artist's places within specific social classes; questions of patronage and collecting; and relationships between painting, calligraphy and poetry. (Blanchard, Spring, offered alternate year
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  • ART 265: Intermediate Imaging

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course expands on themes introduced in ART 165 with additional emphasis on Photoshop digital imaging techniques. Attention will be given to refining technical skills while expanding the student's artistic horizons to produce images with powerful content. The critique process is an important part of the course structure. Classes are geared to the creation of an open, yet critical environment that fosters each student's emerging visual sensibility. (Jones)
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  • ART 267: Digital Imaging

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    An investigation into the use of computers for the making of fine art. Students in this course learn how to explore the organization of visual form using the software Adobe Photoshop. Projects and assignments help students build on their knowledge of the use of visual elements, reconsider photography in the age of digital manipulation, and explore the combination of image and text. Students use perceptual and conceptual approaches to image making, and also learn basic bookmaking and web design techniques as methods of presenting their work. Prerequisite: ART 105 or 125; 234 also recommended. (Ruth, offered annually)
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  • ART 270: Art and Architecture of the 1st Christian Millenium

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course covers the beginnings of Christian art and architecture in the cities of Rome and Constantinople and follows the diffusion of forms into the fringes of the Mediterranean world. The course is organized chronologically around the adaptation of classical forms for new purposes and the invention of new forms for the new religion. Of primary concern for architecture is the interaction between use and design, typified by the development of liturgy. Special attention is paid to the importance of the icon, its role in society, the subsequent politicallydriven destruction of holy images during iconoclasm, and the final restoration of the cult of the image. Prerequisite: previous art history course or permission of the instructor. (Tinkler, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 282: From the Ash Can to the Campbell Soup Can-American Art of the 20th Century

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course is a study of American art from the turn of the century to its ascendancy as the center of international art. (Isaak, offered alternate years)
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