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Thematic studies in Chinese film (Republic, People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong), 1930s to the present with emphasis on recent years, viewed in relation to traditional and modern Chinese visual arts and literature, colonialism and globalism, Communist politics, gender and family values, ethnicity and regionalism, melodrama and the avant-garde, the cinematic market, artistic censorship, and other social issues.
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An introduction to the history of art in the United States from the colonial period to 1900. Works of art will be examined in terms of their cultural, social, intellectual, and historical contexts. Students will consider artistic practices as they intersect with other fields, including science and literature. Topics include the visual culture of natural history, fashioning the self, race and representation, landscape and nation, art and the Civil War, gender politics, art and medicine, and realism and deception.
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In this course we will examine ancient Egyptian art and architecture (primarily from the pharaonic period, c. 3000 BCE to c. 1000 BCE) using the body as a visual and conceptual theme. Utilizing art historical and archaeological methods, we will analyze sculpture, relief, painting, drawing, and architecture, as well as objects used to adorn and encase bodies both living and dead, emphasizing the context and interrelationships of these materials as they relate to the body and the corporeality of Egyptian society and culture.
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An introduction to a range of art-historical approaches and to the writings of key figures in the history of the discipline. Attention is also given to research and writing skills specific to the history of art.
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The patrons of Chinese painting and many of its leading artists were politicians by profession, both royal and commoner-bureaucrats, and much of their art was designed to fulfill political functions: propaganda, moral self-cultivation, self-advertisement and self-consolation, expressions of support, resistance, and resignation. Much of this material is covert and subversive and requires a deep cultural reading. Half of the course covers premodern China, half covers the 20th-century.
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The seminar will investigate the culture of ancient and medieval Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, strategically situated in its center. Sicily has always been a crossroads-meeting place of different peoples, religions, and cultures. Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Normans successively inhabited it from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The seminar will explore cultural developments in Sicily during the time span from ca. 600 BCE to 1200 CE, focusing on artistic, architectural, and general cultural trends observable in the broader Mediterranean context, while emphasizing idiosyncratic aspects of the island.
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This course examines art between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the economic crisis of 2008. Among our topics are the place of historical memory in contemporary practice, the problem of art in an experience economy, artists concerned with the environment, the questions of political art and public art, the recent predominance of the art market, and the new possibility of a "recessional aesthetics". Among the strategies are the performative body, the found object, the mixed-media assemblage, the projected image, and the archival installation. There will also be artist lectures and studio, gallery, and museum visits.
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A study of the radical forms of urban renewal that altered the city of Paris during the heyday of Impressionism, including the violent redistribution of social classes across the urban territory, the creation of new forms of infrastructure, and the transformation of the city into spectacle. Urban mobility, modern patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as spatial segregation and class antagonisms helped pave the way for new cultures and counter-cultures, as traditional class and gender roles changed.
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This course explores the rich artistic and architectural legacy of the Mediterranean islands of Rhodes and Malta from classical antiquity through the 20th century, including the Byzantine, Ottoman and Italian colonial periods. Our particular focus will be the artistic patronage of the military order of the Knights of St. John, including urban planning, fortifications, painting, sculpture, architecture, and the art of Caravaggio. Following a trip to Athens and Rhodes during fall recess, students will participate in the construction of an inter-active website mapping the island and its monuments.
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A course designed to inform students in the theoretical foundations of the discipline as well as in the methodological innovations of the last few decades.
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THE ROMAN PORTRAIT- A seminar devoted to the historical and aesthetic development of this fundamental Roman sculptural form and its ability to signal both individuality and social roles. Special emphasis will be given to autopsy (visits to Princeton and Metropolitan Museum collections).
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Course discusses iconographical and theoretical preconditions for the development of a particularly challenging body of medieval images that range from the visions of Old Testament prophets, to John's Apocalypse, dreams, and visionary experiences in the context of female monasticism (Hildegard von Bingen, Gertrud von Helfta). Issues covered in this course are: patristic and medieval theories of vision, devotional practices, gender, and the scientific approach towards vision in the later Middle Ages.
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The course will be framed around a series of polarities, through which we explore the ways in which apparent opposites were reconciled in the architectural setting of medieval and Renaissance Venice. These will include: Republic and Empire; Church and State; East and West; Gothic and Classical; Military and Civil; Sound and Space; Architect and Proto; Tradition and Reform; Town and Country; Nobles and Citizens; Utopia and Reality. The architecture will be studied as a context for human activity, with special attention to its response to the amphibious site and its ideological meanings.
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Focus on the work of a single artist, �douard Manet, often considered the originator of modernist painting. Because of this privileged status he has been written about repeatedly and from a broad range of methodological perspectives, from Marxist to psychoanalytic, formalist to feminist, and beyond. This seminar will investigate those different approaches and their relationship to each other, as well as think about their adequacy and inadequacy to the art they try to understand. Course will include class trips to see the Manets in New York and Washington, DC.
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Appropriation - of style, iconography, and actual objects - contributed substantially to shaping the arts of Japan. Japanese artists borrowed from China and Korea, from the West, and from within Japan itself. Whether the thing borrowed was a mode of depiction or an object, the appropriation was an active engagement with the source and a response to it that involved conceptual transformation. A range of examples will be studied, including ink painting, chanoyu (tea ceremony), and Floating World prints, exploring appropriation as impediment or stimulus to innovation, assertion of cultural dominance, and mediation of the past.
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Einstein's theory of general relativity and its astrophysical implications, including black holes, cosmological expansion, and gravitational waves.
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Galactic structure, morphology and dynamics. Equilibrium and stability of stellar systems. The gravitational N-body problem, relaxation, dynamical friction, and the Fokker-Planck equation. Encounters and mergers of stellar systems. Spiral structure. Elements of planetary dynamics and celestial mechanics.
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Designed to stimulate students in the pursuit of research. Participants in this seminar discuss critically papers given by seminar members. Ordinarily, several staff members also participate. Often topics are drawn from published data that present unsolved puzzles of interpretation.
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An introductory course to plasma physics, with sample applications in fusion, space and astrophysics, semiconductor etching, microwave generation, plasma propulsion, high power laser propagation in plasma; characterization of the plasma state, Debye shielding, plasma and cyclotron frequencies, collision rates and mean-free paths, atomic processes, adiabatic invariance, orbit theory, magnetic confinement of single-charged particles, two-fluid description, magnetohydrodynamic waves and instabilities, heat flow, diffusion, kinetic description, and Landau damping. The course may be taken by undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
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Wave phenomena in a cold magnetized plasma, including resonances, cut-offs, mode conversion, drift waves, weak collisions, energy transport and finite temperature effects over a wide range of frequencies. Development of the full hot plasma model for waves in locally homogeneous plasmas, including collisionless damping mechanisms such as Landau, cyclotron and TTMP damping, velocity-space instabilities and Nyquist analysis, hot plasma mode conversion, and Bernstein waves. Applications to plasma diagnostics, radiofrequency plasma heating and noninductive current drive, and magnetospheric propagation.
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Introduction to experimental plasma physics, with emphasis on high-temperature plasmas for fusion. Requirements for fusion plasmas: confinement, beta, power and particle exhaust. Discussion of tokamak fusion and alternative magnetic and inertial confinement systems. Status of experimental understanding: what we know and how we know it. Key plasma diagnostic techniques: magnetic measurements, Langmuir probes, microwave techniques, spectroscopic techniques, electron cyclotron emission, Thomson scattering.
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Advances in experimental and theoretical studies or laboratory and naturally-occurring high-termperature plasmas, including stability and transport, nonlinear dynamics and turbulence, magnetic reconnection, selfheating of "burning" plasmas, and innovative concepts for advanced fusion systems. Advances in plasma applications, including laser-plasma interactions, nonneutral plasmas, high-intensity accelerators, plasma propulsion, plasma processing, and coherent electromagnetic wave generation.
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Is history a fixed story or a collaborative work of art constantly in flux? Join playwright Adriano Shaplin (Riot Group) and director Whit MacLaughlin (New Paradise Laboratories) for an experimental theater laboratory dedicated to re-writing and re-staging history. Emphasis will be placed on disobeying literary traditions, vandalizing familiar narratives, and forging potent theatrical images.
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Led by members of the international Wakka Wakka Productions company, students will collaborate as an ensemble with company members to develop a screenplay for the puppet film Juniper, an original comic book adaptation about U.S.-launched monkey space flights between 1948-1961. Students will be involved in every step of the creative process from developing scenes through designing and building sets, puppets, and props, to shooting test scenes for the film. This Atelier will culminate in a staged reading of the script, a presentation of test shoots and an exhibit of all visuals created during the semester.
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Intermediate-level class with emphasis on communication and comprehension skills. Advanced grammar topics, speaking, and reading texts of interest to students; films.
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