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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. GE credit: ArtHum.—I. (I.) Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Christian, Barbarian, Moslem, and Classical traditions in European Art from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries. GE credit: ArtHum.—II. (II.) Ruda
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Lecture—3 hours; lecture/discussion—1 hour. Survey of developments in western art and visual culture from 1600–present. Major artists and movements, theories of visuality, focused study on changing interpretations of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity from the Baroque period through modernism, to the present. May be repeated for credit. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—III. (III.) Strazdes
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 1DV. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—Burnett
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Web virtual lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour; lecture/discussion—1.5 hours. Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 1D. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.—II. (II.) Burnett
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the art and architecture of the Islamic world including the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, from the 7th century CE to the 20th. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div.—(I.) Watenpaugh
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Lecture—2 hours; film viewing—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Development of visual literacy for an increasingly visual world. Critical analyses focus on a wide variety of visual media—art, television, film, advertising, the Internet—intended for a diverse spectrum of audiences. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—Stimson
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Lecture—3 hours; film viewing—1.5 hours; lecture/discussion—0.5 hour. Art history through focused analyses of about 20 world-historical monuments and artistic ideas by all members of the Art History faculty. Slide lectures are complemented by a weekly program of influential films raising issues and controversies. GE credit: ArtHum.—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Formal and social history of architecture, examining design principles, major traditions, and concepts of architectural history with a focus on issues in Western architecture. Emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth centuries. GE credit: ArtHum.—(III.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Restricted to lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1A or 1B or 1C or 1D. Evolution of museums in the western world from the “cabinet of curiosities” of sixteenth-century Europe to the modern “art center.” The changing motives behind collecting, exhibiting, and interpretation of objects. Attention to museums’ historical legacies and their continuing philosophical dilemmas. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—I. Strazdes
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or gallery studies and review. Traditional arts and crafts of subsaharan Africa; particular attention to the relationships between sculpture and culture in West and Central Africa. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or gallery studies and review. Development of art in North America, emphasizing ancient Mexico. South American relationships and parallels. Recent and contemporary Indian arts and crafts from Alaska to Chile. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Traditional arts of aboriginal Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, as seen in their cultural contexts. Prehistoric art of Europe and the Near East. GE credit: ArtHum, Div.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Representation of the cultural identities of indigenous and migrant groups of the Pacific in visual arts and storytelling. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hour; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1E recommended. Introduction to the urban history of the Islamic world. Includes critical study of the historiography of the Islamic city, development of urban form, institutions and rituals, and analysis of selected themes. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(II.) Watenpaugh
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or gallery studies and review. A survey from the beginning to the twelfth century focusing on the major art forms that are traditionally known as well as newly discovered through archaeology in China. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(II.) Burnett
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or gallery studies and review. The unique form of ink painting, with or without colors, depicting human and animal figures, flowers-and-birds, and landscape—the favorite and enduring theme of the Chinese scholar-painter. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—Burnett
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1D or upper division standing. Analysis of the interaction between art and politics in the emergence of China into the modern world. Integration of Western influence, implementation of Mao Zedong’s thought on art, and the formation of contemporary Chinese painting. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—Burnett
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 163B or consent of instructor. Variable topics in Chinese art history during the 17th-19th centuries, considering artists’ statements (visual and textual) within their historical contexts, asking what was at stake in the creation of new art forms. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt, Div.—II. Burnett
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper and/or gallery studies and review (determined by instructor each quarter course offered). Study of the significant achievements in architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from prehistoric age to nineteenth century. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Transformation in architecture and urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying social, political, and economic systems as well as very different cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Examination of the origin and development of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture from the eighth century to the mid-fifth century B.C. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 154A. (Same course as Classics 172A.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Study of the art and architecture of later Classical and Hellenistic Greece, from the mid-fifth century to the first century B.C. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 154B. (Same course as Classics 172B.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. Roller
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