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3.00 Credits
Painting and sculpture between 1820 and 1920 - when it evolved from objective realism to modernist abstraction - is explored in the context of changing artistic and cultural values. Permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the shifting constructs of race, power, and representation in American art and mass media from the colonial era to the present day. Its primary focus will be an analysis of works produced by Black American artists, but students will also examine how white artists and intellectuals have attempted to define and represent "blackness" from the 19th to the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory-level lecture course designed to introduce students to the formal issues involved in the production and perception of moving images. The course provides students with an understanding of aesthetic concepts that support the making of films, digital cinema, videos or video games. It reinforces the use of aesthetic vocabulary and demonstrates how audiences interact with, and are manipulated by, film language and syntax. Therefore, the course is useful for students who wish to enhance their skills in the making of films and videos as well as for students who wish to refine their ability to deconstruct motion pictures for critical and analytical purposes.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to art and architecture produced by the Precolumbian cultures of Mesoamerica. The course will survey the most important ancient civilizations of Middle America (Olmec, Monte Alban, Teotihuacano, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec) from the earliest complex settlements to the time of the Spanish conquest.
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0.50 - 3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of art that examines a specific geographical area and chronological span during a study abroad experience. The course provides the student a thorough grounding in the major art works and artists involved, adding the concrete dimension of direct observation and personal experience of the places and motifs that informed various movements. The two to three week study/travel abroad includes readings, discussion, a daily journal, and a written interpretation of themes and ideas in art.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A thematic or topical course on the art of the Mediterranean basin between 3000 BC and 300 AD. Specific course contents will vary and may include Egyptian funerary monuments, Greek and Roman sculpture, and topics such as ritual/magical uses of images, gender and sexuality in representations of the body, and the continuing legacy of the Classical tradition.
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3.00 Credits
A thematic or topical course in European art between 300 and 1400 AD: specific course contents will vary and may include medieval manuscripts, Byzantine icons, Gothic cathedrals, and topics such as the cult of the saints, the lives of medieval women, and interactions with the Islamic world.
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3.00 Credits
A thematic or topical course on European art in the 15th and 16th centuries. Specific course contents will vary and may include early Netherlandish painting, Italian painting and sculpture, early print-making, and topics such as the changing social status of the artist, the impact of European exploration and conquest, and the lives of Renaissance women.
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3.00 Credits
Art and architecture of Baroque and Rococo Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, with a focus on Italy, France, the Netherlands, and England.
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