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The impact of women artists on the contemporary art movement has resulted in a powerful and innovative reworking of traditional approaches to the theory and history of art. This course offers an interdisciplinary study of women's position and potential in the signifying practice and looks at the work of the individual artist within the wider social, physical, and political world. (Isaak, offered alternate years)
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The mass media play a critical role in our society. They provide a context in which ideas and information shape our visions of ourselves. Historically, women and national minorities have had little input or influence in film and television. In this course, students learn that the past two decades have seen a new growth in media production by women. Increasingly, numbers of women in independent media have generated new subject matter and approaches to the exploration of cinematic form. Open to seniors only. (Isaak, Spring)
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An investigation of sculptural tradition and personal expression through figure and head studies observed from life. Projects are modeled in clay and cast into plaster. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach that melds science with sociology and art as we seek understanding of the human form ranging from the physical embodiment to cultural perceptions. In addition to a vigorous investigation of anatomy through lectures, readings, and drawing, students will also explore art historical context, the politics of body image, and the psychology of portraiture. Prerequisite: ART 114 or ART 115. (Aub, offered annually)
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This course is a survey of selected monuments in medieval architecture, sculpture, painting, and treasury arts. The semester is divided into the Romanesque period and the Gothic period. After lectures on the historical cultural background and material, students examine a specific monument though slides and texts in order to understand the monument. One presentation in the Romanesque half and one in the Gothic half are required, as well as an end of the semester project. This project may be a group or individual project with the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: previous art history course or permission of the instructor. (Tinkler, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the arts of China from the Neolithic period through the 20th century. Students consider examples of different media (including painting, calligraphy, woodblock prints, bronze vessels, lacquer ware, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, and garden design) in the context of Chinese literature, politics, philosophies, and religions, with attention to dialogues with other cultures. Broader topics include notions of artists' places within specific social groups, intellectual theories of the arts, and questions of patronage. When appropriate, students read and analyze Chinese primary sources in translation. Prerequisites: previous art history or Asian studies course. (Blanchard, Fall, offered alternate years.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the extraordinary flowering of the arts in 14th and 15th century Florence. Artists include Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and Leonardo. The course considers the development of individual styles, the functions of art, the culture of humanism, and the dynamics of patronage. (Ciletti, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
It was once assumed that men and women enjoyed perfect equality in the Renaissance and that the beautiful representations of Venus and the Virgin Mary in Renaissance art signaled the esteem in which women were held. Recent research suggests otherwise, finding instead increasing subordination of women. This course explores this question by considering the interrelationships between images of women in Renaissance painting, social realities of women's actual lives, the phenomenon of successful women artists, church dogma about women, and the period's literature by, for, and about women. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. Prerequisite: one course in either art history or women's studies or permission of the instructor. (Cilett i, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
course explores the development of the sensuous styles of Venetian painting, from its first flowering in the late 15th century through its Golden Age in the 16th, in the work of such artists as Bellini, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. It considers the impact on the arts of a variety of phenomena: the invention of oil paint, the rise and fall of Venice's economic and political fortunes, its gender arrangements, the unique social organization of the city, and its organs of patronage. (Ciletti, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the formal dynamics and the expressive potential of figure drawing. Students explore a variety of wet and dry media. Prerequisite: a 100-level studio art course or permission of instructor. (Aub, Bogin, Ruth, offered annually)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of art in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries. The primary concern is the emergence of a distinctively Northern pictorial tradition, as seen in Franco Flemish manuscript illuminations and Flemish and German paintings and prints. The course traces the contribution of such 15th century artists as Campin, van Eyck, and Bosch in transforming the character of late medieval art, and the role of Dürer, Holbein, and Bruegel in creating a humanistic, Renaissance style during the 16th century. (Offered occasionally)
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