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  • ARHI 40460: Spanish Surrealism seen through the works of Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course offers a close analysis of surrealism in Spanish literature, film, and the plastic arts. We will focus primarily our attention on the artistic output of three of the most universal figures modern Spain has given to the world: Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel. The course begins with the study of the history and main theories of surrealism, including Breton's manifesto and Freud's seminal work Interpretation of Dreams (1900). We will also study the intellectual climate at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where the lives of these three friends converged for several years during the decade of the 20's. We will turn our attention to the analysis of a selection of the surrealist plays, poetry, films and paintings authored by this vital triumvirate in contemporary Spanish art. Throughout the course, we will study the way in which these three different art forms borrow from each other and how they complement and supplement themselves. We will also use our close investigation of surrealism to examine arguments for and against the revolutionary import of its key tenets. These tenets include: the subversion of traditional concepts of art; the irrational, the instinctive and the intuitive; art as a form of liberation from constraints like logic and morality, among others; the promotion of an aesthetics of defamiliarization and shock; the vindication of the subconscious and, finally, the connection between personal and artistic revolt and political revolution.
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  • ARHI 40470: Architecture of the Twentieth Century

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course is a survey of the significant themes, movements, buildings, and architects in 20th-century architecture. Rather than validate a single design ideology such as Modernism, Postmodernism, or Classicism, this account portrays the history of architecture as the manifestation-in design terms-of a continuing debate concerning what constitutes an appropriate architecture for this century. Topics include developments in building technologies, attempts to integrate political and architectural ideologies, the evolution of design theories, modern urbanism, and important building types in modern architecture such as factories, skyscrapers, and housing. Class format consists of lecture and discussion with assigned readings, one midterm exam, a final exam, and one written assignment.
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  • ARHI 40480: Black Milk and Heart-Shaped Boxes: The Grotesque in Modern Art, Literature, Music and Film

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Since the Renaissance - when ancient underground rooms were discovered beneath Rome with walls covered in scandalous depictions of human-animal hybrids - the grotesque has been a controversial presence in the various arts. In this class we're going to look and listen to examples of the grotesque, from German Expressionist sleepwalkers to Goth singers with smeared mascara, from Kafka's man-who-becomes-an-insect and hunger artist to Kurt Cobain's starved body with a "mosquito" for a "libido," from Alfred Hitchcock's shattering swarms of cinematic birds to the violent fairytales of David Lynch, from Kara Walker's unsettling silhouettes from Antebellum South to Matthew Barney's body-as-spectacle, from Surrealism's "exquisite corpses" to the Rodarte fashion shows of burnt dresses, from Sylvia Plath's suicide sideshow to Lady Gaga's sensational masques. We will also consider various theoretical frameworks for the grotesque. Course work will write one short paper and one longer, research-based paper.
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  • ARHI 40490: Architecture Now: Trends in Contemporary Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This is a survey of contemporary trends in global architecture with a focus on recent developments in design theory and building technologies. The course will examine a broad spectrum of architecture produced in the past decade.
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  • ARHI 40520: Anthropology of Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will examine art as a functional part of culture from an anthropological point of view. Attention is given to evolution of art as part of human culture and to evolution of the study of art by anthropologists. Open to graduate students.
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  • ARHI 40522: Fashioning Identities in Colonial America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will focus on dress and material/visual culture in Colonial North America. It will provide an introduction to methodology, and offer an overview of key themes in the history of dress (the production, marketing and acquisition of cloth and clothing) and will assess the importance of fashion to commerce and politics. We will evaluate the role fo dress in the construction of colonial identities, and we will examine the ways that dress operated as a visual locus for racial, class and ethnic encounters.
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  • ARHI 40550: Seeing for Historians: Photography as Evidence and Interpretation

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    History, proverbially, is about story telling. Historians have concerned themselves primarily with language, narrative, evidence, and argument. In other words, historical practice is rooted in words not images, sound not sight. The advent of photography in the middle of the nineteenth century should have changed all that, at least according to some theorists, providing new sources of evidence, new means of interpretation, and most importantly a new relationship between past and present. However, the general consensus is that historians have failed to avail themselves of this new resource. This course explores how historians might learn to see better, what the pitfalls are as we approach still photographs, and how technical images change our relationship with the past. By engaging various theoretical works and witnessing these theories in action in various ways, the class will explore the nature of historical evidence and whether still images tell stories. During the first weeks of the class, we'll read debates over the nature of sight and the kind of evidence provided by photographic images; during the following weeks, we'll contemplate photography as a social and discursive practice; finally, we'll deal with it from psychological, anthropological, and quotidian perspectives.
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  • ARHI 40580: History of Design: Form, Values, and Technology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will provide a historical perspective on the development of industrial, product, and graphic design in the 19th and 20th centuries. More than the aesthetic styling of products, design mediates the intersection of technology and cultural values in the modern era. The role of the modern designer as both a facilitator and a critic of industrial technology will be examined.
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  • ARHI 40850: Native North American Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Native North American art existed for thousands of years and continues to be created today. Its original context was often sacred (both public and private) and/or political or decorative. Contact with Western Europeans and their art traditions along with the art traditions of Africans, Asians and South Americans beginning about A.D. 1600 and thereafter modified form, technique, and context of Native North American art. However, traditional form, techniques, and context continued through the centuries since 1600.
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  • ARHI 43104: Pottery in Archaeology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    In many archaeological sites, pottery is the most common type of artifact recovered. The analysis and interpretation of ceramic remains allow archaeologists to accomplish several goals: establish a chronological sequence, track interaction between different areas, and suggest what types of activities people may have conducted at the site. This course will focus on the ways that archaeologists bridge the gap between the analysis and the interpretation of ceramic data. Class meetings will involve discussion of the readings, student presentations, lectures, and the analysis of archeological ceramics in the archaeological collections of the Department of Anthropology.
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