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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 the mid-seventeeth 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. |
| ART HIS 42C | HIST OF ASIAN ART | WINTHER, D. | 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 Asian culture to Japan, castles and other monuments of the age of the warrior, mass print culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, modern developments of visual culture since the 19th century, avant-gardism and popular culture in recent years. Students will be responsible for a midterm exam, writing assignment, and final exam. |
| ART HIS 107 | ANCIENT ROME | MILES, M. | The art and architecture that illustrate the development of the city of Rome, from the period of the Etruscan kings to the reign of Constantine. Sculpture, painting, monuments, and artifacts of everyday life will be studied together with remarks and descriptions of ancient authors for an understanding of Rome's development, customs and contributions to western civilization. Requirements include one mid-term examination, one research paper, and a final examination. Suggested prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics.
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| ART HIS 134D | EUROP ART:1907-1940 | HERBERT, J. | The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed major shifts in the cultural hierarchies of Europe inherited from the nineteenth century. The status of Paris as the cultural capital of Europe began to face serious challenges from other European artistic centers. The privileged standing of painting--and even of high art--came under question. The upheavals of the First World War and the Russian Revolution opened new possibilities for art overtly engaged in social engineering. This lecture course will trace these developments in painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts from the turn of the century to the beginning of the Second World War.
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| ART HIS 150 | SOUTH ASIA:8-16TH C | PATEL, A. | This course will begin with the Gupta period’s aesthetic legacies in South Asia’s architecture, sculpture and painting. (As such the course can serve as a continuation of XXX). It will go on to explore the dispersal of Islam throughout South Asia, including the Muslim communities of southern India, and the resulting uniqueness of artistic traditions combining indigenous and imported practices.
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| ART HIS 162C | JAPNS ART:1945-PRES | WINTHER, D. | An investigation of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, crafts and graphic design in Japan from WWII to the present. Topics to be considered include artistic responses to the war, avant-garde groups, corporate advertising, academic exhibition salons, meanings of abstraction and neo-traditional art. Three frameworks of investigation are employed: individual artists’ careers; specific historical movements or groups; social systems or institutions of art. This course acquaints students with Japanese perspectives on international developments of modern art as well as art world perspectives on Japanese cultural history. There will be a midterm exam, assignment, and final exam. |
| ART HIS 165A | AMER ART:1620-1800 | WHITING, C. | This course examines American visual culture from the era of European exploration and colonization of the New World to the beginning Civil War. We pay special attention to image making and the production of knowledge about the New World in the early modern period, the training and status of the artist, the role of visual culture in fashioning national identity after the American Revolution, and the emergence of different audiences for the arts.
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| ART HIS 183B | 20TH C PHOTO HIST | STEIN, S. | After a quick review of major developments of photography in its 19th century infancy, this course surveys the history of photography from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The period represents one of dynamic change for the medium, covering photography’s rise as a medium of mass communication and private documentation, as well as its legitimation as a form of artistic expression. Furthermore, only in the second quarter of this century was there any conscious effort to formulate a sustained history of medium, and only in the third quarter of the century did this medium and its history begin to be considered as a form of academic field of study. Thus, this course will consider whether academic institutionalization is a response to photography’s central role in the culture’s modern mass media, or whether it is a response to the medium’s “museumization.” A final concern of this survey is to consider the ways that photography is both like and unlike traditional arts of painting and drawing and newer visual modes of film and electronic media. |