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This course covers the history of art and architecture from the prehistoric period to the High Middle Ages in Europe. it will have a special focus on architecture and the city in ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. Students will be expected to be able to identify by name and date of works of art and the periods in which they were produced.
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This course covers the history of art and architecture from the prehistoric period to the High Middle Ages in Europe. it will have a special focus on architecture and the city in ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. Students will be expected to be able to identify by name and date of works of art and the periods in which they were produced.
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This course covers the history of art and architecture from the prehistoric period to the High Middle Ages in Europe. it will have a special focus on architecture and the city in ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. Students will be expected to be able to identify by name and date of works of art and the periods in which they were produced.
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This course covers the history of art and architecture from the prehistoric period to the High Middle Ages in Europe. it will have a special focus on architecture and the city in ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. Students will be expected to be able to identify by name and date of works of art and the periods in which they were produced.
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This course presents a creative exploration of art from the late medieval to the post-modern era. Attention is paid to major international artistic movements, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. The course itself will give you a broad overview of visual culture and social history of art up to the present. The weekly discussion sessions may provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some issues further through lively discussions and a creative exploration of visual culture in the modern period.
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This course presents a creative exploration of art from the late medieval to the post-modern era. Attention is paid to major international artistic movements, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. The course itself will give you a broad overview of visual culture and social history of art up to the present. The weekly discussion sessions may provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some issues further through lively discussions and a creative exploration of visual culture in the modern period.
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This course presents a creative exploration of art from the late medieval to the post-modern era. Attention is paid to major international artistic movements, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. The course itself will give you a broad overview of visual culture and social history of art up to the present. The weekly discussion sessions may provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some issues further through lively discussions and a creative exploration of visual culture in the modern period.
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This course presents a creative exploration of art from the late medieval to the post-modern era. Attention is paid to major international artistic movements, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. The course itself will give you a broad overview of visual culture and social history of art up to the present. The weekly discussion sessions may provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some issues further through lively discussions and a creative exploration of visual culture in the modern period.
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This course will emphasize artistic and theoretical issues in painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic arts and landscape design in Europe and America during the period we call the Enlightenment. Special topics will include historical and theoretical discussions of the rococo and
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This course is a practicum at the Nasher Museum giving students a work experience (5-6 hours/week) in a particular museum department (curatorial; museum education; development/external relations; registrar/collections management; communications/marketing) along with exposure to general museum issues (ethical, theoretical, philosophical and economic) and all museum operations (additional hour meeting in a group seminar, specific time TBD). Prospective students should contact Anne Schroder, Curator of Academic Programs, anne.schroder@duke.edu, to be interviewed by the pertinent museum department, and if selected for an interview, will be given a permission number to enroll. Students will develop a project in conjunction with their museum supervisor, which, in conjunction with their museum work and participation in the weekly meetings, will constitute the final grade.
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Explores the interrelations of modernism and politics from 1880-1945, a period of rapid social and technological change that saw the rise of mass social movements, with political reaction on both left and right: from anarchism, to socialism, republicanism, and fascism; new media in the form of prints, photography and film reflect these changes, as do radical developments in painting and sculpture. Considers how artists expressed dissent from the status quo in response to a variety of social and cultural movements and political positions through a large range of media, styles, subjects, and exhibition venues addressed to a variety of audiences.
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Athens was one of the great cities of antiquity and the cradle of democracy, philosophy, and the theater. From lavishly decorated marble temples and statues on the Acropolis and public office buildings and inscriptions in the Agora or civic center to the houses of the living and the monuments to the dead, the city has left an exceptionally rich record of her material culture. These buildings and objects, together with an unusually large number of literary and historical texts, make it possible to paint a vivid picture of life in this ancient city. This course concentrates on the physical setting and monuments of Athens from the Archaic to the Roman periods, as revealed by both archaeology and texts, and how they functioned within the context of Athenian civic and religious life. We will examine the physical remains of the city and countryside to trace the development of one of the most important city-states in the Greek world and to understand Athens impact on western art and civilization.
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Experimental Art and its Ethics Since 1945 covers all major avant-garde movements of the post World War II era, and concentrates on the conceptual and theoretical impact they have had on the social, political, and cultural conditions of this period. In the aftermath of the atomic bomb and the Holocaust, the capacities of art to express the ethical dilemmas of humankind were questioned. Nevertheless, artists responded to those unprecedented events with coherent and powerful works, and again after September 11th 2001. We will examine the moral, ethical, political, and social exigencies of art, from the existential aftermath of World War II to identity politics, from HIV/AIDS, rape, incest and child abuse to pornography and scatology, from the stateÂs destruction of art to the dilemmas of the post-biological age of genetic engineering; and we shall accomplish this goal through the systematic study of the stylistic development, changes in media, and conceptual orientation of the avant-garde from 1945 to the present. The ethical dimension of this course will consider how the discipline of art confronts cultural concepts of good/bad and right/wrong, how principles of conduct governing aesthetics are carried out in art and its institutions, how standards of behavior, character, or the ideals of character are portrayed in art, and how all of the answers to these questions effect society and culture.
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The study of Chinese art including painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and installation art, and cinema from 1900 to the present. The course will emphasize the visual analysis of objects as well as their social and historical context. Topics include the function of calligraphy and painting under the pressure of imperialism and political crisis at the end of the Qing dynasty (1644Â1912), modernist art movements during the Republican period (1912Â1949), art production after the Communist revolution and during the Maoist era, new forms of art during the opening up of China to the outside world in the 1980s, and the growing influence of China art and cinema on the global stage.
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Painting and sculpture in Britain from Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites; developments in narrative painting, portraiture and history painting; funerary sculpture and the emergence of the public movement; the role of institutions and art collectors; writing on art from Hogarth and Reynolds to Hazlitt and Ruskin.
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Development of Cubism from its origins in Paris in 1907 to the movement's decline in the 1920's. Cubist aesthetics is contextualized in light of the cultural politics of the period. Topics may include tradition, primitivisim and anti-colonialism, anarchism and politics, approaches to collage, contemporary philosophy and science, and the role of gender in Cubist aesthetics.
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"The World in Venice and Venice in the World"
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This is a cross-disciplinary art history-economics seminar. It offers an analytical, applied, and historical exploration of cultural production and how reception, fashion, and price are related to local markets. Attention is not only paid to the behaviors of producer and dealers, but also to consumers. Theoretical issues will include how and why imagery is valued, the nature of "fancy" or what makes goods desirable and fashionable in a specific point in time. Empirical applications will also draw from studies that challenge the notion that art is exceptional. Historical studies will be examined showing how art markets have evolved from the 16th and 17th century Netherlands, to 18th century England, and 17th-19th century France. We will further reassess lesser known aspects of how dealers intervened personally in the large-scale production and export of Netherlandish paintings to Spain and the Americas (Brazil, Nueva Espana/Mexico), influenced artist's representational strategies based on local audience response(s), and even controlled workshop processes in timely, particular, and specific terms. Though critical discussions ranging from taste formation, consumer behavior to the role of dealers as cultural negotiants (not commonly part of any art historical discussion), one may find in this seminar many ingredients for a lively discussion and a creative exploration of visual culture in the early modern period.
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Museum theory and the operation of museums, especially art museums, and how the gap between theory and practice is negotiated in the real world setting. Issues involving collection practices, exhibition practices, and didactic techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues.
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Inspired by a major shift in recent times towards modern and contemporary art historical studies in African art, this seminar enters this discourse via the notion of international cultural exchange, and critical and cultural responses to assorted colonial projects. Through examinations of official (or "royal") arts, religious expressions, visual semiotics, propaganda, and postmodernism, this seminar strives to make sense of the modern and contemporary in African art beyond explanations that largely hinge on "mimicry" and/or technical/aesthetic failure. Rather, the approach here is one which allows for artistic and visual trajectories in Africa that encompass universal, cosmopolitan, as well as more unconventional, introspective viewpoints.
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This seminar will use the exhibit, ÂEscultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City (Nasher Museum, Spring 2008) as a point of departure for an investigation into recent theories and practices of politically and socially engaged art from the Americas. Given the topic of the exhibition and the explosion of urban demographics in Latin America in the last fifty years, we will focus on how artists have engaged the city as a special kind of social space, and how they have participated in and been influenced by urban visual culture more broadly. The seminar will be a mixture of close examination of the works included in the exhibit, visits by several artists included in the show, and research in contemporary art and visual culture from across the Americas.
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