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4.00 Credits
4 credits. This course focuses on how the ancient societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome used art to present and represent the relationship between biological sex and the social invention of gender. It also explores sexuality in the ancient world, the interpretations of the lives and roles of men and women, and the role of art in communicating ideas about sexuality.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. The scope of this course begins with archaeological studies of prehistoric artifacts and continues with the geography and traditions of historical cultures. Emphasis is on visual vocabulary, identifying materials and techniques, and recognizing formal elements of design and style. Textiles, pottery, utensils, tools, architecture, sculpture, costume, masking, and ritual objects are viewed and discussed.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Taught at Dia:Beacon, a museum of the Dia Art Foundation’s renowned collection, this course focuses on the challenges made by works in this collection to traditionally understood artistic media. Students examine the question of whether a medium counts in this seemingly post-medium age by comparing the historical dominance of painting to the effects of conceptual art. Dia:Beacon is located in Beacon, New York.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. A discussion of the fate of painting in the period following the “endgame” tactics of Stella’s work (late 1950searly 1960s). Students investigate the attempts by artists in the post-Stella period to find a critical position for painting in a quickly changing artistic terrain, and examine the ways in which art historians and critics have reframed the question of painting’s relevance to a critical art practice during this period.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. The simultaneous development of various painters associated with Impressionism (e.g., Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Cassatt) is presented. This radical new art movement is traced from the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 to the last exhibition of 1886 and the appearance of the post-Impressionists. Students explore the shared relationships of the Impressionist artists.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. A study of images related to dying, death, and the afterlife in the ancient, pre-Christian world, particularly Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Within the context of each of these four major civilizations, students examine the beliefs and rituals that attend death and the afterlife, as evidenced through archaeology, art, mythology, and literature. The interplay between images and beliefs is emphasized. Also offered as AHU 3480.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Commedia dell’arte is a Renaissance theatrical tradition developed in Italy in the 1500s. It includes comic improvisation, mask making, comic business, jokes, routines called lazzi, mime, acrobatics, and physical action, including what is known today as circus arts. In this course, commedia is taught in combination with the elements of classic pantomime.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Students are introduced to a variety of works in English that deal with religion, Jewish history, the Palestinian issue, and the Holocaust. Stylistically, the dramas range from the realism of Mittelpunkt to the surreal, absurd works of Levin. Discussions place the works within the social and political contexts of contemporary Israel.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. This course explores the variety of ways in which readers, critics, actors, and directors have interpreted, and can interpret, Shakespeare’s plays and poetry. While written work and some research are required, there are also opportunities for oral presentations and performance.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. A narrative survey of U.S. history from the Colonial period to the present through an exploration of its musical history. The course investigates America’s fundamental principles of politics, its primary social issues, and its wealth of aesthetic musical initiatives. Students examine the unity, diversity, originality, and adaptability of significant political, social, and musical institutions. Also offered as EMT 3115.
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