| source University of Toronto, Mississauga (X) |
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department Fine Art History (FAH) (53) |
An overview of western art from the ancient world through the 20th century, as well as an introduction to the discipline of art history and its methodologies. Emphasis on representative monuments and key approaches to interpretation. [
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The art and architecture of the ancient Greek world are surveyed from their origins in the 8th century B.C. city states through the period of Macedonian expansion and imposition of unity under Philip and Alexander. Stress is placed on the major arts (sculpture, painting, and architecture), but reference is also made to luxury metalwork, gems, and the decorative arts. Various genres are introduced. [
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Surveys the visual arts of the Mediterranean, ca. 300 B.C. to ca. 300 A.D., moving from early Republican Rome and Empire down to the age of Constantine. The course observes the inheritance of Hellenistic forms of art and patronage by Rome, and the formation of Roman visual culture. Emphasis is on the figural arts, especially sculpture and painting, and on the basic vocabulary of monumental architecture and design. [
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Examines the art and architecture of the Mediterranean basin from ca. 200 to 1400 AD. Begins with the rise of Christianity and the challenges it posed to the Roman Empire, and then examines the Byzantine Empire and the lands of Islam. In all three contexts, art and architecture played prominent roles in articulating the spiritual aspirations and political goals of the new religions and empires that embraced them. All three also bear markings of their common Roman cultural inheritance. Considers art in a variety of media, from architecture to ceramics, along with medieval documents and modern art historical texts. [
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Examines the art and architecture of Northern Europe from ca. 400 to 1400 AD. Establishes the importance of Celtic and "Barbarian" visual culture as distinct from Roman and Mediterranean, and examines various moments when these cultures clashed or were aligned. Assesses early medieval, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic art, including architecture, sculpture, metalwork, and manuscripts, along with medieval documents and modern art historical texts. [
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A selective survey of the major art centres, types of artistic production, personalities, and trends in Italy and the North, from the early fifteenth century to the mid-sixteenth. The creation and diffusion of art are addressed through an understanding of historical techniques (media), cultural determinants such as patronage, and significant works of art. [
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An introduction to art and society in Europe, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800 AD. Tensions between the Catholic Church and Protestantism, the rise of powerful, competing courts, the growth of increasingly complex urban centres, and the entry of the "wider public" into the art market all create new roles for representation in Europe. Developments in painting, prints, sculpture, architecture, urban planning and festivals considered. [
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Surveys major developments in European art and architecture from the late eighteenth through the end of the nineteenth century, including Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Orientalism, Realism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism. Artistic responses to political change, urbanisation, capitalism, colonialism, the Academy and the Salon will be explored as well as changing constructions of gender, race, class and national identities through visual media. [
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Surveys principal developments in modern art and architecture from the late 19th century through 1945. Topics covered include key movements, such as Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, de Stijl, Dada and Surrealism, and key concepts, such as the avant-garde, abstraction, the readymade, the unconscious and the primitive. Readings include manifestos and other writings by artists as well as art historical texts.
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Examines many divergent international art movements and controversies in painting, sculpture, video, installation art, performance, and other new forms, from 1945 to the present. [
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This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See
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This course investigates the theoretical and philosophical bases and practical realities of digitizing the visual arts in the context of scholarly research, collection development, publishing, information studies and education in the global environment. Students will examine the historical development of and impact of digitization on image collecting as well as current practices and issues facing professionals. A practical, hands-on approach will be an essential part of the course.
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An introduction to the problematics of exhibition spaces. The course will survey curatorial strategies tailored for the white cube as well as the multifarious sites invested by curators beyond the conventional (for example: streets, newspapers, broadcast media, domestic spaces). Students will read key texts and analyze a range of projects/sites (i.e. emerging artist-run centers, museum blockbusters, biennials). Students will visit exhibitions and analyze them critically.
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A study of architectural sculpture in 11th and 12th-century France and neighbouring countries: origins, sources of form and style, social, religious and functional contexts of selected monuments, also historiography. [
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Thematically organized treatment of major figures (Caravaggio, Carracci, Poussin) in the context of art theory and viewer response. [
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Art and architecture of royal and imperial families from ca. 800 to 1400 in western Europe, including Norman, Capetian, Plantagenet and Hohenstaufen dynasties. Topics include role of courts in development and diffusion of new styles, and monuments as expressions of piety, chivalry, and political propaganda. [
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Experience of pilgrimage from an interdisciplinary perspective, with focus on major Christian and Islamic shrines in the Middle Ages. Monuments associated with sites such as Santiago, Jerusalem, and Mecca, as well as objects collected by pilgrims. [
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Study of origins, architecture and decoration of the Gothic Cathedral in the Ile-de-France, function and symbolism, intellectual and social contexts, and initial diffusion of the style to other countries. Considers post-medieval Gothic as well. [
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Architecture, urbanism and multi-media ensembles of Baroque Rome under Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Innocent X. With particular emphasis on the work of Borromini and Bernini in palace architecture, churches, piazzas, fountains and at the Vatican. [
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This course examines European painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, print culture, decorative arts, exhibition strategies, and art criticism of the eighteenth century. Key artists and writers to be studied from the age of enlightenment and revolution include Blake, Burke, David, Diderot, Fragonard, Girodet, Goya, Hogarth, Reynolds, Vigée-Lebrun, Watteau, Winckelmann, Boullee, Ledoux and Wright of Derby.
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Examines the reception of different and developing modern sciences in the fields of art production, exhibition, history and criticism. Topics include examples from anthropology, criminology, geology, natural history, neurology, psychoanalysis, sexology and thermodynamics. Authors studied may include Crary, Freud, Laqueur, Leja, Serres, Silverman and Zemon-Davis. [
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A study of artistic genres in contemporary art, that include: video, performance, installation, site-specificity, digital media, and relational aesthetics. Such new genres will be studied as alternative modes of artistic practice collaborative, ephemeral, institutionally critical, and discursive, and as a means to address questions and issues such as: public space, community, networks of information, and global capitalism and activism. [
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This course traces a chronology of South Asian art from its genealogies in late colonial image-making traditions from the 1850s-present, situating modernist 'high' art in terms of its conversation with the broader field of cultural practice in modern India: cinema, vernacular bazaar prints, rural and tribal craft traditions, and practices of popular devotion, and 'classical' artistic traditions. It investigates the theoretical and political concerns animating South Asian cultural practices and their criticism (nationalism, Marxism, secularism, anti-fundamentalism, Islam, feminism, postcolonialism, issues of diaspora and globalization), and addresses the key question of how to approach practices of modernism and postmodernism in the postcolony.
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Investigates the historical development of the Western discipline of art history through the theories that have shaped it; topics covered include formalism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, the social history of art, feminism, post-colonialism, queer studies and deconstruction. [
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Examines the history of photography in Euro-American visual culture and explores how this medium of mass communication has transformed our perceptions and conceptions of art, society, and culture over the past two centuries. Reviews key imagemakers and areas of production concluding with impact of digital imaging. [
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