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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A topically organized course, with the specific topic varying according to program. Course may be repeated for credit on a different topic. (AH251N is designated a non-Western culture course.) Art History Faculty
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the production and reception of art in Europe during the century traditionally known as the baroque period. Artists discussed will include Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. Special attention will be paid to Counter-Reformation spirituality, patronage, conceptions of the artistic process, and the ways in which art engaged ideas about power, gender and social identity. Prerequisite: AH100 or 111. M. Hellman
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the production and reception of art in Europe at the beginning of the modern era. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which visual representation both expressed and actively shaped the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and intellectual preoccupations of the period. Artists discussed will include Watteau, Chardin, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and David. Themes explored will include shifting conceptions of public and private life, engagements with nature and antiquity, the status of the artist, and the role of portraiture in the construction of identities. Prerequisite: AH100 or 111 or permission of instructor. M. Hellman
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3.00 Credits
An examination of critical moments and monuments in the history of European art during a century of radical cultural change. Artists discussed will include Ingres, Delacroix, Friedrich, Turner, Courbet, Manet, Monet, van Gogh and Cezanne. Special attention will be paid to shifting conceptions of the artistic enterprise and the ways in which the production and circulation of art engaged issues of history, modernity, politics, nationality, spectatorship, gender and social identity. Prerequisite: AH100 or 111. M. Hellman
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3.00 Credits
A survey of European and American modern and contemporary art beginning in the late nineteenth century and concluding with contemporary trends. We will consider a range of movements including postimpressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual art in their cultural and art historical contexts. Prerequisite: AH100 or 111 or permission of instructor. K. Hauser
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3.00 Credits
A history of modern design from 1750 to the present, with an emphasis on design movements in the twentieth century. We will focus on modern European and American design, surveying objects made from a wide range of materials, including textiles, metals, ceramics, and the print media. We will situate movements such as Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Bauhaus in their cultural and art-historical contexts. Recommended preparation: AH100 or 111. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) K. Hauser
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the stylistic evolution and meaning of dress, hair and body accessories in Europe and America from c. 1400 to the present. Through analysis of both artifacts of material culture and representations of dress and hair in works of art, this course focuses on the role of men's and women's fashion in constructing identity, for example, to signify gender, political ideals, and social class. Further, it investigates the religious, economic, and political institutions that work to shape fashion. Additional themes, such as the relationship of fashion design to the fine arts and to craft, the rise of haute couture, the undressed body, and the history of specific items of dress such as the corset, the periwig, and the suit will be explored. Prerequisite: AH100 or permission of instructor. P. Jolly
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of the arts of Nigeria (West Africa) from its earliest archaeological sites through the post-Colonial period. The course considers the breadth and range of Nigeria's artistic traditions from traditional masquerades, textiles, ceramics, and body arts to contemporary urban trends in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Prerequisite: AH103 or 207 or permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) L. Aronson
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3.00 Credits
Buddhist art (sculpture, painting, architecture, calligraphy, graphic arts, and ritual implements) between the third and fifteenth centuries in East Asia. The course examines the religious and aesthetic principles underlying Buddhist art of East Asia, and analyzes works of art as expressions of Buddhist values interacting with local cultures. Special attention is paid to the site of Dunhuang, and to three modes of Buddhist art: Esoteric, Pure Land, and Zen Buddhist. Prerequisites: AH105 or 106 or 210 or HI241 or permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) R. Linrothe
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3.00 Credits
A focused study of a small number of Chinese archaeological sites distributed between the Neolithic (ca. 3000 B.C.E.) and the end of the Han dynasty (220 C.E.). The sites and the works of art found in the sites will be placed within their aesthetic, social, and political contexts. These sites are mainly newly discovered tombs, and special attention will be paid to the evolving attitudes to the afterlife in ancient China. Prerequisites: AH106 or 210, HI241, or permission of instructor. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) R. Linrothe
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