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The seminar addresses the major texts of aesthetic theory as they were formulated by Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse between 1919 and 1968.
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An introduction to developments in American art between the Civil War and the Cold War. Thematically focused lectures concentrate on such issues as the shifting status of the art object within an environment of proliferating consumer products, the incorporation of scientific and industrial processes into artistic practice, the continually renegotiated relationship between nationalism and abstraction, and new methods of understanding history and subjectivity in the face of urbanization, mechanized reproduction, and the mass media.
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This course will examine artistic production in the US and Europe between 1945 and 1975 to clarify some of the most crucial questions of this thirty year period: How did post war visual culture repress or acknowledge the recent 'caesura of civilization' brought about by World War II?; how did the neo-avantgarde position itself with regard to the legacies of the avantgardes of the 1920s?; how did artistic production situate itself in relation to the newly emerging apparatus of Mass Media culture?
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Examines exchanges between literature and architecture in terms of content (subject matter, social critique, historical awareness), and form (narrative structures, vocabulary, tropes) from Vasari through Goethe to Borges, and from Alberti through Labrouste to Archigram.
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Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology, architectural practice, ornament, urban design, military, religious and domestic architecture.
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Between 1430 and 1600, Italian art theorists provided the framework of the Western discourse on art. Each week, we will discuss one major trreatise; readings will be based on the Italian texts.
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Pompeii is more than the victim city of 79 A.D. The Seminar course focuses on the different cultural stages of Hellenistic and Roman Pompeii (600 BC-79 AD). We will study the most important spaces of public and domestic life- the Forum, the main sanctuaries, the necropoleis, the town houses - in a diachronic perspective and interpret them as indicators of changing cultural, political and social affiliation.
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Critical examination of the arts of the book, portable arts, and architecture sponsored by the Timurids (1370-1507), a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given to primary written sources in translation.
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Examines the architecture and urbanism of the United States and Europe during the Roaring Twenties, or "crazy years," between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression, when the modern city came under pressures for development unlike any before. Subjects to be investigated include the dominance and often extravagance of the skyscraper, impact of the automobile, problem of congestion, concept of regionalism, and growth of the suburb and sprawl.
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Functions and meanings of the body as privileged visual signifier in French visual arts (painting, sculpture, printed imagery, photography). Body image seen as both instrument of different discourses of modernity and a site of resistance to them. Among the issues addressed: the king's body, republican corporeality; the problem of the nude, bodily spectacles; race; otherness; androgyny; monstrosity; pornography; representations of hysteria; images of desire; fetishism; body and/in space; body and the self.
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Examines visual and textual evidence related to Buddhist relics and mandalas to reconstruct the culture of body across China, Japan, and Korea from the seventh through thirteenth centuries. Covers related sites, crypts, shrines, caves, ritual manuals, sutras, and treatises: Kamonsa, Horyuji, Famensi, Chaoyang-ta, etc.
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German monumental sculpture from the 11th through 13th centuries in its broader European context using the cast collection in Adolphus Busch Hall.
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Writers and practitioners from William Henry Fox Talbot to Jeff Wall have acknowledged and interpreted the strange traffic between photography and chance. This seminar will ponder and discuss this traffic's history.
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Focus is on art as instead of in ritual. Explores how ritual processes or procedural thinking governs the organization of images. Close examination of visual programs in early tombs, Buddhist caves, and Daoist temples.
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Investigation of US artistic production and discourse from the early 1970s, with emphasis on the rubric of the "politicization of the avant-garde" and the periodization of the 60s and 70s. Comparative looks at Europe and Latin America.
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This course will consider the intersection of photography and social history from 1945-1989 through an examination of key photographic practices, publications, exhibitions, and critical texts.
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Art and Architecture of the 16th/17th c. in the Spanish New World.
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Major art movements in 20th-century Africa as well as critical issues which have framed related discussions will be treated. Painting, sculpture, photography, graphic arts, architecture, and performance traditions will be explored with an eye toward both their unique African contexts and the relationship of these traditions to contemporary art movements in a more global perspective.
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The seminar explores artistic exchanges between Islamic and European courts, 14th through 18th centuries, and representations of the East in Western images. Particular focus on visual hybridity in Spain, Turkey, Iran and India.
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Examines the works of important European and American women artists from the 1950s to the present . Explores the ways of thinking about their art as a representation of difference understood as historically contingent cultural value rather than a natural or innate quality. Seeks less to pit male vs. female artist than to open up a discussion of the woman artist herself as a locus of difference(s) and of the diversity and difference among women's aesthetic productions.
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