| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (002) |
Artie Foster |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
1096
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (003) |
Zack Martin |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
1097
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (004) |
Zack Martin |
Fri
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
1098
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (005) |
Joana Konova |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
1100
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (007) |
Rhoda Rosen |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
1125
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (008) |
Rhoda Rosen |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
2320
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (009) |
Rhoda Rosen |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
2321
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (010) |
Anneliese Hardman |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.
The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.
There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.
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Class Number
2446
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Adv Hist World Art:Prehst-1850 |
1001 (01S) |
James Elkins |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This is an advanced section of the survey of world art and culture, prehistory to 1850. It is intended for BAAH students, Scholars Program students, and students interested in the history of writing about art (and teaching the survey). We will begin at 500,000 BC, and cover approximately 50 cultures; the list is at ow.ly/Y902K. In each case we will also question the ways historians describe the culture; we will study the ways art history textbooks promote certain senses of art and national identity; and we will consider how other institutions have tried to teach the global survey. The class is difficult, and requires a lot of memorization. Concurrent Registration in one ARTHI 1101: Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 is required.
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Class Number
1095
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (001) |
Hannah Gadbois |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys developments in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues, as well as the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes that are reflected or addressed in the works of artists and architects. Note: ARTHI 1001 (or its equivalent) is recommended as a prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1102
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (002) |
Mikolaj Czerwiński |
Mon
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys developments in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues, as well as the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes that are reflected or addressed in the works of artists and architects. Note: ARTHI 1001 (or its equivalent) is recommended as a prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1103
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (003) |
Siamack Hajimohammad |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys developments in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues, as well as the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes that are reflected or addressed in the works of artists and architects. Note: ARTHI 1001 (or its equivalent) is recommended as a prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1104
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (004) |
Mikolaj Czerwiński |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys developments in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues, as well as the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes that are reflected or addressed in the works of artists and architects. Note: ARTHI 1001 (or its equivalent) is recommended as a prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1105
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (005) |
Hannah Gadbois |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys developments in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical and critical issues, as well as the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes that are reflected or addressed in the works of artists and architects. Note: ARTHI 1001 (or its equivalent) is recommended as a prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
2447
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Design History: Between Object and Ephemera |
1015 (001) |
Lara Allison |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This lecture course grounds students in basic critical themes in the history of design and design objects. Through lectures, demonstrations, and readings students study the material and discursive conditions of the history of design.
Through lecture, readings, discussions, and museum visits, the class highlights a broad range of objects and formats in graphic design, object design, fashion design, and architectural design.
Course works includes object analysis assignments, short research paper, and mid-term and final exams.
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Class Number
1133
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Modern and Contemporary Moving Image |
1016 (001) |
Jason Nebergall |
Wed
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, students will learn the basics of film language, cover the evolution of various stylistic and ideological trends throughout the medium, and gain a core understanding of how to critically analyze film and other media forms from formal, historical, and cultural theoretical perspectives.
While the specific films screened may vary, course screenings and readings generally cover the development of Hollywood and studio-based filmmaking practices, diasporic and exilic models of filmmaking, European New Waves, televisual practices of media making, and topics in new media.
Students will complete quizzes and a comprehensive final exam to demonstrate their understanding of course terminology, concepts, and themes, as well as a number of short written analyses to exhibit their competency and skill in constructing original scholarly argumentation.
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Class Number
1106
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (01S) |
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Tues
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1121
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 206
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (02S) |
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Thurs
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1122
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 206
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (03S) |
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Fri
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
2330
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
280 Building Rm 120
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (04S) |
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Wed
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
2331
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 206
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| Issues in Visual Critical Studies |
2001 (001) |
Joshua Rios |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course plunges students into content and ideas that universities often leave until graduate school, as we consider the role played by the 'critical' in 'visual and critical studies.' For the past ten years, it has been referred to as 'a primer for the art world.' It will still, mostly, provide you with a working vocabulary and crash course as to bodies of knowledge integral to the study of visual culture. At the same time, to productively engage in a reflective critique of society and culture, it will consider 'texts' from as diverse and contemporaneous a group of scholars, theorists, critics, and cultural producers as possible, from both inside and outside the academic institution.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1107
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| Issues in Visual Critical Studies |
2001 (002) |
Patrick Durgin |
Mon
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course plunges students into content and ideas that universities often leave until graduate school, as we consider the role played by the 'critical' in 'visual and critical studies.' For the past ten years, it has been referred to as 'a primer for the art world.' It will still, mostly, provide you with a working vocabulary and crash course as to bodies of knowledge integral to the study of visual culture. At the same time, to productively engage in a reflective critique of society and culture, it will consider 'texts' from as diverse and contemporaneous a group of scholars, theorists, critics, and cultural producers as possible, from both inside and outside the academic institution.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1142
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| Surveying the Shadows |
2014 (001) |
Simon Anderson |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Since the Exposition des arts incoherents in 1882, the orthodox story of art has been pre-figured, parodied, or echoed by ideas and activities which are less well-known but nevertheless informative about the state of the arts through modernism to today. Including Hydropaths, `pataphysicians and members of groups called Lettrisme or Neoism, propagating ideas ranging from transmental to pandrogenic, this course identifies and contextualizes some of the salient adventures of those who ignore convention to create and play before the vanguard and behind the canon.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2258
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| 20,000 Years of Clay |
2022 (001) |
Emily Schroeder Willis |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys the history and production of clay and ceramics, from one of the earliest ceramic objects known, dating back some 20,000 years, to the present use of clay in contemporary art, design and craft. The course will take us through every continent and be looking at the use of ceramic in different cultures at different times though history. Attention will be given to the role clay and ceramic plays in our human development both as ritualistic, artistic and functional handmade and mass-produced objects. From ceramic in an ancient caves to NASA and the use of ceramic in space and everything in between.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1187
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
280 Building Rm 120
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| Introduction to African American Art |
2065 (001) |
Melanie Herzog |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Is it possible to have, or should we even want, an African American Art Historical canon?This class argues that the history of African American Art offers us, in practice and theory, resistant histories of 'high' and 'low' art, everyday objects, and ways of seeing. By conducting a chronological approach to African American Art, we will trace moments of historical continuity as well as emerging practices in order to better understand how the methods, materials, and meanings bracketed under the category of African American Art have been a site of innovation, experimentation, and avant-garde practice. We will spend this semester juxtaposing conventional approaches to art (painting, sculpting, line drawing, installation) with innovative approaches to visual culture (found objects, everyday materials, contemporary performance).
Artists of inquiry include Augusta Savage, Aaron Douglass, Hale Woodruff, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Sam Gilliam, Alma Thomas, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Marlon Riggs, Arthur Jafa, Rashid Johnson, Sadie Barnette. We will also discuss author-less works, collectives, and collaborate projects.
Students are required to complete an annotated bibliography, weekly in-class assignments, and a 3 hour final examination.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1181
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Economic Inequality & Class
Location
MacLean 620
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| Beautiful Books: Architectural Prints, Drawings, and Paintings |
2146 (001) |
Shiben Banerji |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This seminar examines inter-related practices of bookmaking, drawing, painting, and printmaking from Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Renaissance Venice, Safavid Isfahan, Mughal Delhi, Ottoman Jerusalem, colonial Ireland, Baroque Rome, Qing Wutaishan, and Tokugawa Edo. We scrutinize octavos, folios, codices, and albums. We look at how graphite, ink, watercolor, and engraving tools were used to embellish images, and alter the boundaries separating prints, drawings, and paintings. Writing assignments emphasize close looking, close reading, and careful revision. Class discussions focus on representations of architecture, paying particular attention to innovations in visual form and their cultural and political meanings. Students are expected to write and revise short essays responding to texts and images produced by architects.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2278
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Books and Publishing
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| History Of Architecture & Design I |
2191 (001) |
Joseph Socki |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys the history of architecture and design, including furnishings, decorative arts and interiors, from the earliest settlements of the Neolithic Era until the onset of Neoclassicism in the late Eighteenth Century. Special attention is given to the developments that have remained most influential within the architecture and design of today, with particular emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christian, Byzantine and early Islam, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo cultures.
Through extensive lectures and readings, special focus in this class is devoted to the art of the Greek temple, Roman civil engineering, the rise of monasticism in the early Middle Ages, early Byzantine and early Islamic religious design, pilgrimage and Romanesque church building, Gothic Europe and the age of cathedrals, Italian Renaissance architecture and the rise of Humanism, Baroque churches and papal patronage, French chateaux and absolute monarchy, and the origins of Modernism during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
Students will complete a combination of in-class and take-home exams along with a final research paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1108
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art |
2206 (001) |
Deanna Ledezma |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This is an undergraduate survey of modernism and postmodernism in Latin America from the 1920s through the present. Topics will include national identity and 'anthropophagy' in the first wave of modernism in the region, debates over Surrealism and realism in the 1930s, the transition from 'concrete to 'neo-concrete' form and the link between architecture and developmentalism in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, conceptual art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent sculptural, photographic, performance, and relational practices.
Specific topics include the cosmopolitan avant-garde that appeared in Mexico at the start of the 1920s, the theorization of anthropofagia in Brazil and indigenismo in Peru, Cuba?s Grupo Minorista, Mexican muralism and surrealism, Joaquin Torres-Garcia?s introduction of abstraction to Uruguay and Argentina, links between art and architecture in Venezuelan and Brazilian developmentalism, the rise of kinetic and participatory approaches in the 1950s and 1960s, conceptual art as a response to the dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, Latinx and Chicanx actions and performance in the United States, the politics of memory in post-dictatorship/violence art in Chile and Colombia, persistent questions of borders and internationalism in contemporary approaches to ?relational aesthetics? in Central America and the Caribbean, and many other examples.
This course requires weekly reading responses, two papers, and a final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1134
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| Beyond Oriental: 20th Century Asian American Art |
2385 (001) |
Larry Lee |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines the emergence, growth and evolution of art by Asian Pacific Islander Americans throughout the twentieth century especially in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement that also spawned a genesis of Asian American identity, culture and activism to the late 1980?s during the apex of multiculturalism and the politics of representation to the transnationalism of the new millennium and beyond.
Through readings, field trips, and film screenings, our class will consider the ongoing debate of what constitutes Asian American art by looking at artists including Isamu Noguchi, Roger Shimomura, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Maya Lin, Tseng Kwong Chi and others within these historical, cultural and political contexts to discuss how questions related to stereotype, cultural difference, gender politics, and identity construction affected and shaped its development and meaning.
Course work will include in-class presentation, two research papers as well as a mid-term and final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1162
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
MacLean 707
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| History of Korean Art |
2460 (001) |
Yeonsoo Chee |
Fri
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces Korean visual culture by examining images and objects in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. It covers key examples of paintings, ceramics and Buddhist art from the Three Kingdoms period to the Choson dynasty, through Modern Korean art, This course helps students gain a comprehensive understanding of traditional Korean visual culture and its modern legacy.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1164
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 608
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| Origins of Modern Architecture |
2500 (001) |
Timothy Wittman |
Tues
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines significant developments in European architecture, with regard to structure, function, and style, from the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century through the outbreak of World War I. Major architects and their works are dealt with in the context of pertinent practical, theoretical, and social issues, to assess the overall prominence of architecture in the period of emergent modernism in Europe.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1109
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| History of Dress |
2566 (001) |
Sandra Adams |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
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Description
This course is a chronological history of human dress from pre-history to the 20th century, and from archaeological remains of ancient cultures, through diverse global material technologies and markets influencing dress, through European monarchical and social class attire, to global exploration and colonialist effects upon worldwide human dress and ways of life. Portraiture, artistic dress and reform dress will be seen to evolve and transform long-standing gender binaries in human dress. Historic styles will be seen to continue to influence contemporary dress and fashions. The sartorial contributions of diverse historical and global human cultures also be appreciated for their innovations and ongoing influences. All students may become conversant with the anatomy, language and literature of dress.
Learning experiences include lectures, readings, library and museum visits, observational sketching and noting from documents of dress, film viewing and spoken illustrated presentations in class. Focus on primary, secondary and tertiary sources of clothing information will be essential. Historical accuracy, creative anachronisms and research of period clothing will be expressed in film viewing and Ryerson Library antique costume books. Visits to Art Institute curatorial departments to view period armor, textiles and garments will provide essential experiences of historic dress.
Assignments will include: self-introductory observations on a museum exhibition visit, a spoken presentation from a group of diverse Documents of Dress sketched and noted by each student on visits to about 6 libraries, museum installations and curatorial departments, and a final presentation/research paper of 10 pages on a Personification of Style, an individual whose attire and accomplishments made important cultural contribution in their time. Citations and bibliography are essential for credit. Knowing your sources is essential.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1110
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Costume Design
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| Film Analysis |
2583 (001) |
Jason Nebergall |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
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Description
This course is designed to serve as an introduction to film analysis, in which students learn the basic concepts and vocabulary of film aesthetics and criticism. We examine different trajectories of film, studying mainstream film practices next to alternative ones. By studying the basics of film form and film style, through examples from different national cinemas, genres, and directorial oeuvres, students learn to analyze and write about films as both formal and cultural constructs. Along with questions of film technique and style, we study cinema's relationship to popular culture and fine art. The films discussed include works by Griffith, Eisenstein, Welles, Hitchcock, and Godard. This course does not assume any prior exposure to film studies.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2280
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 1307
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| Propaganda&Counterculture-Cinema from Eur to Asia |
2588 (001) |
Mechtild Widrich, Jennifer Dorothy Lee |
Tues
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Description
This seminar is part of the 'Global Cinema Histories' film series at the Gene Siskel Film Centre, where we will meet to watch films and discuss them.
The term propaganda, originally used for religious purposes to ¿propagate¿ faith, has historically been seen as a neutral or even positive tool to disseminate information, and is characterized by forceful messages and aesthetics. For both politicians and activists, propaganda has practical uses. More often than not, today the term elicits strong responses of wariness and dubious denial.
The focus of this course is on the filmic output related to propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries, when new technologies and the use of reproductive media met mass movements and big political shifts. We will cover Italian Fascism and German National Socialism¿s ¿aestheticization of politics¿, as Walter Benjamin described it. We will address Eastern European Socialist Aesthetics, revolutionary cinema in China and Hong Kong, the White Terror years in Taiwan, the pop culture of a divided Korea, and the revolutions in South America. We will explore the relationship of propaganda to colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. We will consider official politics, grassroots movements, and the blurred lines distinguishing these realms. Writing short reflections and reviews, some reading, and lots of time for discussion will structure the course.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2272
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Gene Siskel Film Center 203
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| Propaganda&Counterculture-Cinema from Eur to Asia |
2588 (001) |
Mechtild Widrich, Jennifer Dorothy Lee |
Tues
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar is part of the 'Global Cinema Histories' film series at the Gene Siskel Film Centre, where we will meet to watch films and discuss them.
The term propaganda, originally used for religious purposes to ¿propagate¿ faith, has historically been seen as a neutral or even positive tool to disseminate information, and is characterized by forceful messages and aesthetics. For both politicians and activists, propaganda has practical uses. More often than not, today the term elicits strong responses of wariness and dubious denial.
The focus of this course is on the filmic output related to propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries, when new technologies and the use of reproductive media met mass movements and big political shifts. We will cover Italian Fascism and German National Socialism¿s ¿aestheticization of politics¿, as Walter Benjamin described it. We will address Eastern European Socialist Aesthetics, revolutionary cinema in China and Hong Kong, the White Terror years in Taiwan, the pop culture of a divided Korea, and the revolutions in South America. We will explore the relationship of propaganda to colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. We will consider official politics, grassroots movements, and the blurred lines distinguishing these realms. Writing short reflections and reviews, some reading, and lots of time for discussion will structure the course.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2272
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Gene Siskel Film Center 203
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| 19th Century Photography |
2621 (001) |
Alice Maggie Hazard |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
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Description
This course discusses the development of photography as both an art and a tool, including its invention, the initial social reaction to the photograph, the careers of major photographers, movements, and commercial publishers. The interrelationships between photography, art, science, and society are emphasized.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1128
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| 20th Century Photography |
2622 (001) |
Giovanni Aloi |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
In 1839 a new means of visual representation was announced to a startled world: photography. Although the medium was immediately and enthusiastically embraced by the public at large, photographers spent decades experimenting with techniques and debating the representational nature of this new invention. This course focuses on the more recent history of this revolutionary medium. From the technological advancements that characterized the rise of photography in the commercial world during the 20th century, and the acknowledgement of photography as an artistic medium in its own right, to the digital revolution and its social media applications, we will consider the technological, economic, political, and artistic histories of photography through selected works of art and seminal critical texts.
This course considers photography in a global context. We focus on seminal texts and images in order to explore ethical, commercial, artistic, and political issues that make photography essentially important to our contemporary visual culture. The course explores broad range of photographic practices, techniques, and approaches including the work of Hannah Hoch, Martha Rosler, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dawoud Bey, Gordon Parks, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Shirin Neshat, Wolfgang Tillmans and many more. We regularly visit the collections of AIC and MCoP to enrich our class discussions with private print viewings and exhibition critiques.
Students are expected to share an image of their choice in response to the assigned weekly reading. These images are used in class discussion. There also is a final paper, a final presentation, and an in-class test.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2334
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
280 Building Rm 120
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| History Of Sonic Art |
2660 (001) |
Seth Kim-Cohen |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course offers an historical survey of music as a sonic art form from the Futurists to the present day. Emphasis is placed on works that tune the performance environment, explore sound as sculpture, interact with the listener/viewer, and employ intermedia. Class discussions include topics such as basic psycho-acoustics, sound manipulation, conceptual art, installation techniques, and constructivist aesthetics.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1192
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Introduction to Video Art |
2670 (001) |
Emily Faith Martin |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of video art from its emergence in the late 1960s through our present moment. Students will examine key works and the major historical, cultural, and aesthetic influences on the form.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1129
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Digital Communication
Location
MacLean 1307
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| History of Modern Graphic Design |
2730 (002) |
Michael Golec |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This general survey of graphic design between the 19th and 20th centuries maps the relationships between graphic design and various commercial and cultural institutions under the broad category of the modern. Students study the issues and problems that faced designers, their clients, and their audiences, in the negotiation of commercial and social changes.
Through lectures, readings, discussions, and museum visits, the course examines the cultural, social, economic, political, industrial, and technological forces that have influenced the history of graphic design.
Course work includes object analysis assignments, research paper, and mid-term and final exams.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1157
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Graphic Design
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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