Course Descriptions
Winter Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| ART HIS (W24) | 40B EUROPE:MEDIEVL &REN | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 42B ARTS OF CHINA | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 42F ARTS OF KOREA | JUNG, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 100 PYRAMIDS AND POWER | OSORIO G. SILV, L. |
| Power in ancient Egypt had many different forms and could be wielded by a variety of actors: not only human and alive, but also divine and dead. This course offers an overview of distinct manifestations of power across ancient Egyptian history, primarily focusing on monuments of kings and gods. Beyond the famous Pyramids of Giza, we will think about the evolution of royal funerary structures over time, starting with very early burials surrounded by human sacrificial victims, to later tombs decorated with elaborate paintings and texts. By analyzing archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, we will consider how these royal constructions worked alongside temples built for major gods and goddesses across periods—as well as how the distinction between “temple” and “tomb” is often much blurrier than we might think. Rather than simply examining these monuments on their own, we will think together through how they might have been experienced by distinct audiences: including not only kings and gods, but also non-royal Egyptians. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 140B ASAM VISUAL CULTURE | CHING, K. |
| This course provides an introductory look at Asian American and Asian Diasporic art and visual culture. We will approach the term “Asian America” as a heterogenous and relational term to explore the interplay of racialization, social inclusion and exclusion, and global circuits rather than as a discrete identity category. Students will examine the problematic nature of homogenizing all Asian Americans under a singular ethnic group by exploring visual culture produced by artists of Asian descent who live and work in the United States and also artists who travel between U.S., Asia, and those living abroad, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Students will examine the role of Asian American artists, their contributions to and engagements with art historical traditions, as well as depictions of Asian Americans throughout U.S. history. This course addresses themes such as (im)migration and displacement, militarization and empire, origins and diasporas, social movements, and the politics of (in)visibility in museums. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 145A MODERN ARCHITECTURE | DIMENDBERG, E. |
| The emergence of the industrial revolution and large cities permanently changed the relation of human beings to nature and created the modern built environment. This course will introduce the principal developments in architecture and urbanism from the French Revolution to 1932. It will treat advances in engineering, industrialization, rapid scientific progress, the emergence of the railroad, and automobility as preconditions for the development of the metropolis, the skyscraper, the factory, public housing, and the suburb. We will consider canonical designs by international architects such as Ledoux, Boullée, Berlage, Loos, Schinkel, Sullivan, Behrens, Gilbert, Wright, Gaudi, Sant’Elia, Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Melnikov, Ginzburg, Mies, Wagner, Gropius, Poelzig, Taut, Mendelsohn, and Aalto. The aesthetic projects of William Morris, art deco, futurism, the German Werkbund, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian constructivism will be approached as varied responses to political and social change and the perceived need for an appropriate style in the modern age. Finally, we will track the shifting agency of the architect, a figure often associated with change and social improvement, in a period marked by war, colonialism, revolution, class conflict, totalitarian society, the onset of consumer capitalism, and large-scale patronage by government and institutional clients. Course requirements: Weekly reading questions, take-home midterm, and final research paper. Instructor: Edward Dimendberg | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 150 IRAN AFTER ALEXNDER | CANEPA, M. |
| This course will explore the art, archaeology and history of Western, Central and South Asia and the Iranian world, broadly conceived, from Alexander through the Parthians. It will concentrate heavily on the development of architecture and urbanism under the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms that emerged on the Iranian plateau and Central Asia after the fall of the Achaemenids, and the Iranian peoples who eventually overthrew these Greek kingdoms and established their own empires. Thus the core of the class will be on the development of Seleucid Asia (from Syria to Bactria), the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, the Indo-Greek kingdoms, Parthia, and post-Achaemenid Pontos, Cappadocia and the Caucasus. In addition it will consider the impact of the Hellenistic Iranian visual and material culture on the nomadic empires of the Eurasian steppe. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 150 JAPANESE PHOTOGRPHY | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 165B 19TH CENT AMER ART | ROBEY, E. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 198 FLORENCE | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 198 OTHER IN GREEK ART | ACOSTA, C. |
| Ancient Greek art often used oppositional imagery to compare and contrast different groups: men and women, wealthy and poor, human and animal, Greek and foreign. This seminar explores representations of the “other” in Greek art, those individuals who were portrayed in opposition to the ideal Greek citizen: foreign “barbarians” such as Persians and Scythians, mythological Amazons, and human-animal hybrid creatures such as centaurs and satyrs. Using both ancient works of art as well as primary historical and literary sources, we will seek to understand how these images reinforced cultural norms and values, and how intersecting aspects of identity such as gender and ethnicity functioned in ancient Greece. This course will also use archaeological evidence to study the real lives of marginalized people in the ancient world and consider how images of the "other" are displayed in museums and portrayed in popular media today. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | ACOSTA, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BETANCOURT, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | CANEPA, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | CHING, K. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | COOKS, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | JUNG, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | LAPIN DARDASHT, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | MASSEY, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | NISBET, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | OSORIO G. SILV, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | PATEL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WINTHER TAMAKI, B. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| ART HIS (W24) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | WUE, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
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