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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces Islamic culture and its art and architecture. Uses both a chronological and geographical approach, beginning with the establishment of Islam in Arabia in the seventh century, following the course of its spread throughout Europe, Asian and Africa, and ending with contemporary Islamic art and architecture.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Familiarizes students with Islamic culture and its art and architecture by focusing on specific topics and issues, such as architecture, painting, patronage, or a geographic region. Concentrates on a different theme each time, such as Art of Islamic Iran, Art of the Ottoman Empire, History of Istanbul, Women and Islamic Art, and Islamic Painting.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Painting and sculpture produced in the new European democracies for a widening, critical public. Focus on neoclassicism, romanticism, and realism. Considers these styles in light of the Industrial Revolution in England, political revolution in France, and the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC French art from 1860-1900; Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cézanne; the aesthetic nature of their works and the connection to contemporary literary, political, philosophical, and scientific developments. Impact of impressionism and postimpressionism on the art of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Wright s sources, innovations, major works, and his position between the nineteenth century and current modernism; visits to some of Wright s houses in Buffalo.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Undergraduate seminar; begins with a description of the artistic and cultural climate in which Eakins and Homer worked. Each following week addresses a specific theme of central importance to the artists work. Such themes include realism, the artist in society, the nature/culture divide, masculinity, femininity, whiteness and blackness, and class. In addition to asking students to think about the multiple ways in which the form of art held meaning for different audiences, the seminar exposes students to a range of scholarly studies, encouraging them to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of particular methodological approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Begins with an introduction to European realism and a discussion of its adaptation to an American context during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. The course then denaturalizes Realism s ties with objectivity, explaining the movement as one in a series of subjective strategies for ordering one s relation to the world. Focusing then on several discrete artistic movements, the course considers the changing cultural functions of the real , ranging from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Movements to be addressed include romanticism, sentimentality, naturalism, impressionism, urban realism, regionalism, abstract expressionism, neo-realism, and photorealism.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines how American writers and artists negotiated the complexities of U.S. society during the final third of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing issues ranging from women s rights to laissez-faire capitalism, and from Reconstruction to manifest destiny, we consider how the era s cultural products provided artists, patrons, and audiences with metaphoric coping strategies to counteract what Victorians perceived to be the period s overwhelming social and political changes.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Art produced between 190 and 1940 in France, Germany, Russia, and the United States; impact of social and political events on culture.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Considers the representation of gender (femininity and masculinity) in pictures, and the impact of gender on making and looking at art and media. Discusses works from several historical periods, concentrating on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and media. Topics and issues considered are the professionalization of the artist and myths of genius; artists and models; the problems of a feminine aesthetic; the nude; and the gendered spectator.
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