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A survey of the major developments in Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present, including archaeological discoveries, bronzes, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, calligraphy, and painting. The course explores factors behind the making of works of art, including social, political and religious meanings, while examining the historical contexts for and aesthetic principles of the arts of China. Ms. Giuffrida. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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A survey of the major developments in Japanese art from prehistoric times to the present in a wide range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, architecture, calligraphy, painting, garden design, woodblock prints, film, and installations. Among topics covered are: Buddhist art, narrative handscrolls, ink painting and portraiture associated with Zen, ceramics for tea ceremony, Edo and Meiji period woodblock prints, and Western and Chinese influences on Japanese artists. Modern and contemporary filmmakers and artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yayoi Kusama, Yasumasa Morimura, and Takashi Murakami are also investigated. The course explores factors behind the making of works of art, including social, political and religious meanings, while examining the historical contexts for and aesthetic principles of the arts of Japan. Students will work with Japanese objects from the collection of Vassar's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center as part of the course. Ms. Giuffrida. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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Momoyama Period (1568 1615)] Instructor and topic to be announced. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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A survey of major movements and figures in European art, 1789-1848, focusing on such issues as the contemporaneity of antiquity in revolutionary history painting, the eclipse of mythological and religious art by an art of social observation and political commentary, the romantic cult of genius, imagination, and creative self-definition, and the emergence of landscape painting in an industrializing culture. Mr. Lukacher. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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A survey of major movements and figures in European art, 1848-1900, examining the realist, impressionist, and symbolist challenges to the dominant art institutions, aesthetic assumptions, and social values of the period; also addressing how a critique of modernity and a sociology of aesthetics can be seen developing through these phases of artistic experimentation. Mr. Lukacher. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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(Same as Media Studies 264a) The formation of the European avant-gardes is studied as part of the general modernization of everyday life. Various media are included: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the applied arts, and film. Ms. Nesbit. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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(Same as Media Studies 265a) The history of modernist painting in Europe and America from 1930 to 1975, together with those contemporary developments in film, photography, and the mass media. Special attention is paid to the criticism, theory, and politics of the image. Instructor to be announced. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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(Same as Africana Studies 266) An introduction to the artistic and material production of African Americans in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present day. We examine multiple influences on (African, European, American, diasporic, etc.) and uses for black creative expression. Working with an expansive conception of art, we pay close attention to the work of formally and non-formally trained artists in relation to their social, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts. Ms. Collins. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Media Studies 268) This course studies the visual arts of the last thirty years, in America and abroad, together with the often difficult discussion emerging around them. The traditional fine arts as well as the new media, performance, film and architecture are included. Instructor to be announced. Prerequisite: Art 264 or 265 or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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European architecture and city building from 1300-1500; focus on Italian architecture and Italian architects; encounters between Italian and other cultures throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Mr. Adams. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or 170 or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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