| ART HIS (W27) | 40B EUROPE:MEDIEVL &REN | MASSEY, L. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 44 IMAGE COLLISION | CASIMIR, Z. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 158 AFGHANISTAN/C. ASIA | CANEPA, M. |
| This course will explore the art and archaeology of the eastern Iranian world, Central Asia and northern India before from the Achaemenid Perian Empire through the coming of Islam (ca. 550 BCE to 700 CE). It will focus, however, on the period between Alexander the Great and the Sasanian Empire, and thus on the Seleucid, Mauryan, Greco-Bactrian, Indo-Greek, Arsacid, and Kushan kingdoms and empires of Iran and South Asia. The course will thus study the impact of Persian, Hellenistic, Indian and Central Asian steppe nomadic visual and material cultures on these regions. One of its focal points will be on the development of Buddhist art in Afghanistan and Northern India (Gandhara), which selectively integrated aspects of Hellenistic visual culture to craft a visual message in a prestigious and globally intelligible idiom. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 114 BYZANTINE ART | BETANCOURT, R. |
| Focusing on the central role of images in Byzantine culture, this course pays attention to how images and their powers in the medieval world can inform the ways we think about images today. Spanning the crucial years of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453 CE), this course looks at the art, architecture, and theories of visual culture in the medieval lands of the eastern Mediterranean, encompassing diverse places such as Sicily, Venice, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and modern-day Turkey, Greece, Syria, and Russia. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 121 GENDER &RENAISSANCE | MASSEY, L. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 134D CUBISM TO SURREALSM | ROBEY, E. |
| An investigation of visual arts and design in Europe circa 1905-1940. The course follows European artistic and intellectual developments from the radical dissolution and reassembly of the visual field offered by the Cubists in the first decade of the century to the Surrealists’ explorations of unconscious desire on the eve of World War II. The period covered is one of extreme dislocation, including the breakup of the Victorian social order, the horrors of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the promises of new technology, the chaos of economic panics, and the deadly rise of totalitarian governments around Europe. Against that background, artists used their media to investigate the nature of representation, propose new expressions of male and female sexuality, adapt popular and consumer culture into the fine arts, combat social norms, celebrate the machinery of the modern world, advocate revolution, resist (and promote) Fascist authoritarianism, and model utopian societies. The course will primarily examine painting and sculpture, but will also introduce students to developments in industrial and graphic design, architecture, photography, and film of the era. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 157A MODERN KOREAN ART | JUNG, G. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 162C CONTEMPORARY JAPAN | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| In recent decades, Japanese visual art has developed in manifold directions converging toward and diverging from transnational trends. This course highlights Japanese avant-gardism, women artists, environmental art, exhibitions, and post-disaster art. Media discussed include architecture, sculpture, performance, painting, and graphic design. We will investigate Japanese artistic responses to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and other historical events, the reassessment of traditional arts, artists' groups, the critique of popular culture, and artistic statements about environmental disasters. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 164B CONTEMP AFAM ART | COOKS, B. |
| This course is a study of art by African Americans with a particular focus on the politics of representation. Beginning chronologically with government sponsored artworks in the 1930s, students will discuss artworks created in a variety of forms including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and new media. Museum visits will be incorporated into the class activities. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 181 MUSEUMS/HERITAGE | CANEPA, M. |
This upper-division class will focus on the intersection between archaeology, cultural heritage, museums, and scholarly and national narratives about the past and present identities. The class will be organized around case studies to explore the broader intellectual, political, institutional, and economic ecosystem behind this phenomenon. Topics will largely be drawn from the ancient Mediterranean and Near East and include (for example): the role of archaeological sites and objects to create or destroy national identities in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the role of the antiquities market as a shadow financial network; the impact of transnational programs like UNESCO in shaping public perceptions of the past; the multi-layered histories of museum collections from princely collections, to colonial acquisitions, to the art market, to excavations; the impact of forgeries on museum collections; the construction of scholarly fallacies such as "Median art" (the supposed precursor empire to the Persian Empire) in the 20th century through a combination of excavated, looted and forged objects in museums and scholarly narratives.
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| ART HIS (W27) | 198 CHINESE THINGS | WUE, R. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | ACOSTA, C. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BETANCOURT, R. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | CANEPA, M. |
| No detailed description available. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | COOKS, B. |
| No detailed description available. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | JUNG, G. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | NISBET, J. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | OSORIO G. SILV, L. |
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| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| No detailed description available. |
| ART HIS (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WUE, R. |
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