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| ART HIS 40C | HIST OF WESTERN ART | HERBERT, J. | Less a comprehensive survey than a collection of historical vignettes, this segment of the course explores the meaning and function of works of art--painting, sculpture, architecture--in Europe and America at various moments in time from the mid-seventeenth century to the late-twentieth century. In each case study, we will examine the mechanisms through which works of art formulated, preserved and propagated certain ideas, social and political as well as artistic.
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| ART HIS 42C | HIST OF ASIAN ART | WINTHER, D.E. | This course presents an overview of developments in art in the Japanese archipelago from ancient times to the present day. Focus will be placed on religious expression, artistic technologies, urban design, painting formats, political functions of art, and art historical methodology. Topics include the transmission of continental culture to Japan, castles and other monuments of the age of the warrior, mass print culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, and modern developments of visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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| ART HIS 107 | ANCIENT POMPEII | MILES, M.M. | A study of the archaeology, art and architecture of ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum and the villas in the Bay of Naples destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Emphasis on how the finds from the buried cities provide evidence for Roman social history, religion and everyday life. One research paper, mid-term examination, final examination. Suggested prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics.
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| ART HIS 110 | THE MEDIEVAL CITY | GONOSOVA, A. | The subject of this course will be the study of the relationship between the built environment of medieval cities and medieval urban society and its institutions between ca. 900 and 1400 in Western Europe. History and theory of medieval urbanism will be applied to the investigation of major categories of urban formation, such as royal cities, cathedral cities, free cities and city-republics. Furthermore, the course will also examine the interaction between medieval urban society and the major categories of urban architecture and structures (walls and gates, squares and streets, castles, religious buildings, town houses and urban palaces, town halls, etc.). Short class quizzes, two short papers, mid-term and final examinations. (Same as Humanities 110)
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| ART HIS 118 | ISLAMIC ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the art and architecture of Islam as they evolved in the Mediterranean and the Near East between the late 7th and early 14th centuries. Course requirements will include class quizzes, two short papers, a mid-term and final examination.
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| ART HIS 123 | VAN EYCK TO BOSCH | BAUER, G.C. | This lecture course examines the history of painting in Northern Europe between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. It will relate the work of such artists as Jan Van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch to a variety of social and visual practices associated with looking and symbolizing. Course requirements will include a short, written paper, as well as midterm and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 134D | EUROP ART:1907-1940 | MAXIM, J. | This course introduces its participants to the principal artistic movements that marked the period between 1890 and 1940 in Europe, and to their fundamentally international character. The class will weave into the study of major episodes of European art some of the developments that occurred on Europe's eastern margins, where artistic figures and practices that played an integral part in the definition of modernism remain often overlooked by mainstream scholarship.
Art historical texts that have contributed in important ways to our understanding of modernism will accompany key figures and works. Therefore, the course will present specific aesthetic achievements inside modernism in relationship with the principal theoretical debates that have surrounded them, and with the various interpretative methods that have often emerged out of them.
The visual examples will be used to enhance students' familiarity with the basic descriptive and analytical tools of art history, as well as with the particular problems that notions such as perspective, space, line, color, and materials, pose when applied to modernist practices. In addition, the class will discuss, in relationship with specific artistic examples, a number of fundamental theoretical notions that developed together with modernism or were transformed by it, such as abstraction, avant-garde, aesthetic autonomy, figuration, expression, realism.
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| ART HIS 164B | AFAM ART: 1900-PRES | WILSON, J.A. | By the end of the 19th century, African-Americans had mastered the techniques of Western high art and begun using them to combat widespread racial stereotypes. During the 20th century, they would attack the problems of developing stylistic languages of their own. The course will survey African-American activity in such fields as architecture, comic strips, graphic design, photography, film, video, and computer generated imagery, as well as painting and sculpture.
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| ART HIS 180 | FEMINISM & ART HIST | STEIN, S.A. | This course surveys the diverse ways over the last quarter-century that art history has grappled with second-wave feminist concerns and challenges, while feminism has grappled with the meaning and power of the visual in high culture as well as every day social experience. Course readings and discussions will engage some key historic debates: “Why have there been so few great women artists?” “Could, or should, feminism involve a modification of traditional artistic standards and criteria of judgment?” “What’s beauty/desire/objectification/heterosexuality/pornography got to do with it?” “Might art be a way for expanding or redefining those reigning values and perceptions?” Course work includes keeping an ongoing journal about the readings and a final paper.
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| ART HIS 190W | PRACTICUM FOR MAJORS | STEIN, S.A. | A required course for junior and senior art history majors, the practicum cultivates basic skills and knowledge necessary for specialized study in art history. We shall concentrate on basic bibliographic research skills and analytic reading skills in the field, while constantly honing skills in writing about art, and writing about writing on art. Accordingly, students should expect to write, edit, and revise numerous descriptive, technically oriented, and analytically oriented reading and research assignments.
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