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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Painting in Holland and Flanders during the seventeenth century; investigates the rise of baroque painting from mannerism throughout Europe; dominant artists in each country.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Critically explores the photographic representation of Native Americans and First Nation Canadians prior to the First World War and the advent of modernism. This period, which also coincides with the early years of photographic practice, covers the attempted assimilation of the Native American and the so-called Indian Wars of the 1850s-1890s.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the development of Buddhist art and architecture in Japan from the introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the sixteenth century. Examines paintings, sculpture, and ritual implements, as well as architecture, temple plans, and landscape gardens. Considers the function of art in Buddhist practice; the perception of Buddhist art by lay and clerical audiences; the role of art in Buddhist philosophy; the relationship between the Buddhist arts of Japan and art in China, Korea, and India; syncretic elements in Japanese Buddhist art, especially those arising from Shinto beliefs; and the different forms of religious and artistic expression to be seen in the centers of power and the rural areas of ancient Japan.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the major trends in Japanese pictorial art from the seventh century to the early twentieth century. Focuses on important developments in style and subject matter, particularly emphasizing the relationship between Japanese art and that of continental Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Offers a general view of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese art by discussing the emergence of Chinese modernism in the pre-modern period, the new modern art movement in the 1930s, Mao s revolutionary art, and the avant-garde movement in the post-Mao period. Through lectures, readings and discussions, this course investigates the momentous changes political, economic, and cultural that have swept through modern Chinese history and have profoundly impacted the development of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Also examines how rapid modernization, changing political realities, and conflicting global, ethnic, and local identities are transforming centuries-old Chinese visual traditions and the cultural assumptions behind them.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the representations of figures and landscapes from the dawn of Chinese painting in the pre-Han period through the Yuan dynasty. Particularly stresses important developments in style and subject matter. Supplements classroom study of visual images with readings from ancient Chinese critical and theoretical writings (in translation) and modern art historical readings. As appropriate, relates issues in style and subject matter to contemporary developments in philosophy, religion, government, society, and culture.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Investigates the different forms of African American visual artistic traditions in relation to their historical origins and sociocultural context from the early days of slavery to the present time. Starts with an overview of African art, the experiences of the middle passage, and slavery in relation to African American traditions in the decorative arts, including pottery, architecture, ironwork, quiltmaking, and basketry. This is followed by a fine-art survey starting with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, continuing through early twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance up to the present. Also explores certain issues related to African American arts and creativity, such as improvisation, Black aesthetic, Pan Africanism, and gender. Slides, films, and videos are used extensively to illustrate topics discussed in class.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines a current topic of interest in art history, i.e. architecture, medieval, non-Western, Asian, etc.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: art history major or permission of instructor Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics course; the format is largely discussion but also includes classroom presentation and collaborative research. The specific topic varies with the instructor s area of expertise and involves some faculty-undergraduate research, with a general presentation at the end of the term. The course also takes advantage of current exhibition projects, visiting faculty, and regional events.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC European rococo and neoclassical painting of the eighteenth century, including Tiepolo, David, Hogarth, and Gainsborough; sources in baroque and Renaissance art; effects on romantic painting.
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