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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years While ostensibly a theme steeped in naturalism and verisimilitude, the body in art throughout the modern era was actually a topic greatly influenced by contexts, hierarchies, and systems. This course investigates the way “natural” bodies were represented from Goya throughWorld War I.
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4 credits. Spring Surveys American painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture until the opening of the Armory Show in 1913. The course explores the distinctiveness of the American art tradition. Prerequisite: One art history or history course (preferably ARH 1020), or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) A seminar examining the history of photography within both the historical and the neo-avant-gardes. Special attention is given to photographic activities of the Weimar Republic, the Soviet avantgarde, surrealism, and American pictorialism, modernism, and FSA documentary work, as well as the postwar formations of the New York School, conceptual art, and photographic postmodernism. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years A study of the German painter, printmaker, and draftsman Albrecht Dürer. The artist’s interestsin science, politics, religious conflicts, sexuality, and the non-Western world are emphasized. Prerequisite: One art history or history course, or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Examines the history of painting and sculpture in Northern Europe from the 14th century to c. 1570. Flemish, Dutch, French, German, and Czech works are considered, with emphasis on artists like the Limbourg Brothers, Van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer, and Bruegel. Prerequisite: One art history or history course, or permission of instructor
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4 credits. Alternate years Investigates the themes, diverse genres, and major figures in 17th-century Dutch painting. Current problems of interpretation are examined, including the idea that there may have been a specifically northern form of visual thinking. Prerequisite: One art history or history course, or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) When modernism is discussed in art history, it is generally dealt with in terms of the formal, stylistic advances of French art. In the case of 20th- and 21st-century German art, form follows feeling. This course surveys significant movements of German art from Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter to the present.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An examination of the visual arts in Venice and its hinterland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797. In addition to indepth treatment of artists like Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, and Tiepolo, the social context of the arts and the unique urban development of Venice are studied in detail. Prerequisite: One art history or history course, or permission of instructor
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4 credits. Alternate years A study of the representation of Asians, Africans, and Americans (and their native lands) in E u ropean and American art from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Some consideration is also given to the impact of non-Western arts on the European tradition. Prerequisite: One Western art history or history course, or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) Examines the productive interaction between canonical works of literature (both prose and poetry) and the visual arts during the period commonly called the Romantic Age. Works by Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Scott, Byron, Constable, Gericault, Delacroix, and Turner, among others, are discussed. Topics include nature and landscape, social commentary and political critique, and mythic iconologies. Also offered as LIT 3323.
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