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department History of Art and Visual Culture (X) |
Why did the cult of the Virgin Mary become so important in Byzantine culture? Examines historical, cultural, theological, political, and social reasons for this development, seen through the interaction of Byzantine visual culture and literature. Prerequisite(s): course 104A, or juniors and seniors may enroll with permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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An introduction to the history of art and visual culture. Need not be taken in sequence.
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Introduction to elements, technology, concepts, and semiotics of architecture in its buildings, functions, environments, societies, and history. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A.)
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Explores the history of collecting and displaying art (museums, galleries, fairs) since the mid-19th century and the effect of institutional changes on aesthetic conventions. Follows the history from the origins of museums and collections to contemporary critiques of institutional exclusion and misrepresentation. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A.)
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The role that ancient art and visual culture play in constructing social identities, sustaining political agendas, and representing various cultural, ritual, and mythological practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, including the sociology of ancient cultures, mythology, religious studies, gender studies and history. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A.)
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Introduction to the study of religious currents and practices in China and their visual expression. In addition to "religious art," topics include such pivotal matters as body concepts and practices, representations of the natural world, and logics of the built environment. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A, E.)
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Selected aspects of art and architecture of the first peoples of the Americas, north, central, and south, from ca. 2000 B.C.E. to present. Societies to be considered may include Anasazi, Aztec, Inca, Northwest Coast, Maya, Navajo, Plains, and others. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A, E.)
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Examination of the ways social, religious, and political patronage have affected the production and reception of art in the Indian subcontinent. The course is designed as a series of case studies from different periods of Indian history. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A, E.)
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Survey of critical themes and theoretical topics central to historical situations and visual character of Western culture from Early Modern period to present. Addresses issues of particular concern to the visual tradition in Europe and the U.S.: the beginning and end of art, visual regimes of looking and seeing, the idea of the artist, the art market, media and technologies, the role of
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Explores "art of the body," defined broadly, from various perspectives. Examines colonial representations of Oceanic bodies, self-representation through bodily adornment and display (including tattoo, scarification, body painting, ornament, and dress), and bodily metaphors in Oceanic visual cultures. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A, E.)
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Examines the social, economic, and political significance of European and U.S. modernist art and architecture, moving from French realism to American minimalism. Provides the historical background and theoretical frameworks needed to make sense of modernist art and culture. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A.)
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The role of visual communication in ancient Greek civilization. The construction of cultural, social, political, religious, and gender identities through material objects and rituals. Images of the public and private sphere, athletic and theatrical performances, mythology, pilgrimage, and magic. (General Education Code(s): T5-Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences, A.)
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Supervised study for undergraduates. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Introduction to major issues of method and critique in study of art and visual culture. Focuses on understanding disciplinary and critical modes of scholarly inquiry in the visual arts, including role of historical research. Emphasizes intensive reading, discussion, and writing. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior history of art and visual culture majors. Enrollment limited to 18. (General Education Code(s): W,A.)
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A comparative study of the arts of selected cultures which developed outside the spheres of influence of the major European and Asian civilizations. Emphasis on the function of the arts in these disparate geographic regions. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 10E. Designed for selected students who need upper-division credit to complete certain majors; contact the History of Art and Visual Culture office for information. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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Examines the power of the visual in the empire of Constantinople (330-1453 A. D.); the transition from ancient Rome to medieval Byzantium; politics and religion in courts and church ceremonial; visual expressions of Christian faith; and cultural interactions with Western Europe, Islam, and the Slavic world. Recommended: course on ancient Greek/Roman or medieval art and visual culture. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Introduction to the study of Buddhist visual traditions, from their beginnings to the present day. Case studies examined with careful attention to historical, social and cultural contexts; particular emphasis on the relation of visual traditions to Buddhist practices. Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior students. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Lives of Italian Renaissance people from birth to death, examining the nature and roles of the institutions which defined human existence in this period. Uses visual arts both illustratively and to study how institutions fashioned their images through art and architecture. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Examination of practitioners, projects, issues, and theories in contemporary architecture circa 1968 to the present. Topics include the architecture of aftermath, the ethics of memory and memorialization, the corporatization of museums, the role of criticism and exhibitions, and the cult of the brand-name architect. (Formerly Contemporary Architecture, 1968-Present) (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Introduction to American visual arts: architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, and performance art, from the 19th through the 21st century. Explore social and political meanings of art and what art reveals about our nation's values and beliefs, in particular, gender and race. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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An introductory examination of the writing about the issue of "medium" and media theory in visual culture. Technologies, discourses, and practices from all periods that use the comparison of media as a major approach to understanding the problems of the visual are highlighted. New media, film, television, video, traditional arts are also treated. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Expressionism, agitprop, the Bauhaus, New Objectivity, attacks on modernism, National Socialist realism. Painting, sculpture, graphic art, and some architecture and film, studied in the context of political events from the eve of World War I to the end of World War II. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Critical reading of modernism as a high art tradition. Emphasis on context: culture of capitalism, shift in power from Europe to the U.S., role of gender and race, and the aesthetic as either apolitical refuge or site of disruption and critique. Third in a sequence of three courses on French art and its historical context; see courses 176 and 177. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Examines the rise of international modernism in the 20th Century and the complex political/social motivations behind its ideologies/movements. Topics include the legacy of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Expressionism, Constructivism, the primacy of Le Corbusier, Weimar Germany, Fascist architecture, Corporate Modernism, Socialist Realism, Post-Modernism, among others. (General Education Code(s): A.)
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Study of Islam as a religious and political entity and analysis of how the Islamic world has defined itself in the realm of cultural production. Presentation of a variety of Islamic artistic media from different historical periods and geographic areas provides a general overview of artistic production in diverse Islamic lands. (General Education Code(s): A, E.)
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