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4.00 Credits
Independent film occupies a central place in our cultural consciousness. Its success speaks to the value America places on the 'outsider.' From the pop-violence of Quentin Tarantino, to the introspective cinema of Mark Rappaport, what does it mean to be an 'independent'? After all, films we consider to be 'independent' often have more connections to Hollywood than we tend to think. But how do we begin to approach this term? For instance, is it a question of funding? Does it indicate certain conditions of authorship or production? Can we think of 'independent cinema' as a genre unto itself? We will consider such questions by examining a number of important works from the past 20 years by filmmakers such as Kelly Reichardt, Jon Jost, and the Coen Brothers, while also attending to recent critical trends in film and visual studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to art made from the late 19th century to the present day. Broad coverage of a long time span will be supplemented with a consideration of selected “key” works to familiarize students with points of reference and to introduce concepts. Readings will introduce ideas from contemporary theory. Issues of gender, the effects on art of technology, and the way in which institutions have influenced the production and reception of modern art will be considered. The course will be taught by a combination of lecture and discussion.
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4.00 Credits
As an introduction to the art of film, this course will present the concepts of film form, film aesthetics, and film style, while remaining attentive to the various ways in which cinema also involves an interaction with audiences and larger social structures.
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4.00 Credits
Theoretical treatments of photography have ranged from ridicule (Baudelaire) to ambivalence (Benjamin) to earnest investigations of its ethical and social implications (Sontag). But in order to understand how photographs affect us, we have to locate it historically, at the intersection of social history, the history of technology, and art history. Touching on several nodal points—from the history of urbanization and police work in the19th century to the conceptualization of charity in the 20th to the impact of digitalization on artistic authorship in the 21st—this course seeks to develop new ways of looking at photography and photographs.
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4.00 Credits
What makes a situation aesthetic? What are aesthetic properties and how do we know some objects have them? What are aesthetic values and how do we justify our value judgments? We will examine historical answers to these questions. Among the views to be studied are those of Aristotle, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Burke, Hume, and Kant.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the physical remains of ancient Roman civilization, with an emphasis on architecture, sculpture, painting, and other visual arts, in order to understand Roman culture and society. Covering a span of time from the ninth century BC through the fifth century AD, we will first look at the Etruscan background to Roman civilization; we will then trace the development of art and architecture in the city of Rome, with a particular emphasis on the monuments in the city during the period in which Rome was the capital of a vast empire. Along the way, we will also examine evidence from other sites around the Roman Empire, such as Ostia, Pompeii, and Constantinople.
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4.00 Credits
Zen Buddhism was the core around which many of Japan’s greatest cultural achievements evolved. From the medieval period on, with its importation from China, the culture of Zen served as the primary context for much of Japanese metaphysics, architecture, landscape and interior design, medicine, ink painting, noh drama, haiku poetry, as well as the entire cultural complex known as the tea ceremony. Along with the Zen doctrinal and textual roots of these remarkable achievements, this course will examine the vibrant culture fostered in the medieval Zen monastic temple institution known as the Gozan and its dispersal into the culture at large.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the cultural politics of Chinese visual culture through an examination of its mediums. We’ll consider how in pre-20th century China paintings structured relations of gender and of inner and outer worlds; how the inscription of calligraphy on land mediated image and writing, nature and culture; and how the mass production of artworks intersected with conceptions of nature and social organization. We’ll then consider the new media culture of the 1920s-1930s, iconoclasm and idolatry during the Cultural Revolution, and the emergence of experimental and documentary art in recent decades. Our concern will be how mediums, as assemblages of images and surfaces with specific material qualities and practices function within real social spaces and create virtual spaces of representation and imagination.
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4.00 Credits
This offering explores the cultures of northern Europe from the 5th century BCE to the 10th century CE. In the first unit, we will deal with the Celtic peoples from their prehistoric pagan past to their continuing cultural identity after their conversion to Christianity, especially in Ireland. The second unit traces the Germanic peoples from their movement throughout Europe during the Migration Period to their conversion and settlement as Christian kingdoms. The last unit considers the history of the Vikings, "the last of the barbarians", and their impact on the Christian West. The course stresses the sources and interpretation of evidence from Archaeology, art history, historical texts, inscriptions, and place names, which allow us to reconstruct the cultures and assess their contribution to Medieval and, ultimately, Modern society.
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4.00 Credits
The course covers European art of the period from about 1775 to 1860. This was a time of major upheavals in sensibility -- Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism -- and in politics. The connections of art with historical and cultural phenomena will be discussed with special reference to events in France. David, Gericault, Goya, Delacroix, Constable, Turner, Friedrich, the Barbizon artists, and Courbet are the major artists considered. The course will be taught by a combination of lecture and discussion. This course fulfills the department writing requirement.
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