Course Descriptions
Winter Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| ART HIS (W26) | 30 LATIN AMERICAN ART | LAPIN DARDASHT, A. |
| This course charts the history of Latin American art and architecture from the invasion of the Americas in 1492 to the present. Covering a broad range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, installation, and printmaking as well as architecture and urbanism, this course investigates transnational exchanges with West Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and North America; protest and resistance; migration; racism; the erasure of Black identity; persecution of Jewish people; Indigeneity; gender; sexuality; regionalism; and the relationship of the fine arts and popular culture. Aiming to challenge the whitewashed history of Latin American art, this course focuses on racial and ethnic identity formation in artistic production. We will examine the production of art in relation to shared issues of colonization, imperialism, and migration, understanding international exchange and racial formation through shifts in artistic production. In addition to lectures and section discussions, this course offers students the opportunity to become familiar with Southern California’s extensive Latin American art and archival collections. Students will see Latin American objects at the Langson OCMA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (MoLAA); and/or the J. Paul Getty Museums. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 40B EUROPE:MEDIEVL &REN | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 103 ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 107 ANCIENT DEATH ART | ACOSTA, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 150 ACHAEMENID PERSIA | CANEPA, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 165B 19TH CENT AMER ART | ROBEY, E. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 165C MODERN AMERICAN ART | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 165D THE SHAPE OF POWER | COOKS, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 167 HOL&ARTINLATINAMERI | LAPIN DARDASHT, A. |
| This course explores how the Holocaust shaped war-time and postwar art and architecture made by both Jewish survivors and witnesses as well as allies to perpetrators in Latin America and the Caribbean, negotiating definitions of placehood, trauma, memory, and belonging. During the rise of Nazi Germany, many Latin American countries adopted fascist approaches and commissioned compatible public art and architecture. During and after the war, Jewish residents and refugees used art as a method of resistance and to depict the Holocaust. We will look at the work of architects, designers, painters, photographers, printmakers, muralists, and installation artists, and examine how they leveraged depictions of the rising built environment in cities around the region to claim space as an act of resistance after their traumatic experiences of death, displacement, and marginalization both in Europe and Latin America. Additionally, we will explore the architecture of perpetrators’ allies in the region before, during, and after the war and their interactions with Jewish artists. Although many Latin American countries had adopted a rhetoric claiming that their national identities were diverse in the 1920s and 1930s, they marginalized and racialized Jews as others, with many governments officially barring entry to Jews fleeing the Nazis. By centralizing the Holocaust and Jewish artists, this course reveals an understudied aspect of Latin American and Caribbean art and architecture history, aiming to redress inequities in the field. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 181 HOARDS & LUXURY | CANEPA, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 198 TOKYO: ART AND THE CITY | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| Tokyo is one of the largest, richest, and most dangerous cities in the world. This seminar examines visual expressions of this global metropolis with a focus on photography, painting, sculpture, and architecture. These media will be explored as windows into the daily life and environmental design that gave Tokyo its character at different moments in its modern and contemporary history. Emphasis will be placed on disasters, public monuments, architecture, and individual artists’ visions of the life of the city. Seminar readings will include urban studies, as well as texts in art history, art criticism, and media theory. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 198 ARTS OF DEATH | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | ACOSTA, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BETANCOURT, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | CANEPA, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | COOKS, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | JUNG, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | LAPIN DARDASHT, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | NISBET, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | OSORIO G. SILV, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WUE, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
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