History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

ARTH 1148

This FWS capitalizes on the extraordinary loan of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings to the Johnson Museum for academic year 2014-15. Constructed around the physical artifact, we will incorporate methods ... view course details

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17442 ARTH 1148   SEM 101

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ARTH 1149

This course will introduce students to objects of Asian art and visual culture that have been produced in tandem with political agendas or have themselves engendered contentious debate.  The social and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17436 ARTH 1149   SEM 101

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ARTH 1150

The Cathedral of Palermo (built 1185) has a complex history, built on the site of the Great Mosque, which reused elements of a former Byzantine church. Recycling and layering will present two large themes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17437 ARTH 1150   SEM 101

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ARTH 2400

A survey of European art from 1400-1750, including all arts but emphasizing painting and analysis of the works of such major artists as Jan van Eyck, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Velazquez, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: VISST 2645

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8010 ARTH 2400   LEC 001

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  •  8011 ARTH 2400   DIS 201

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  •  8574 ARTH 2400   DIS 202

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  •  8012 ARTH 2400   DIS 203

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  •  8013 ARTH 2400   DIS 204

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ARTH 3010

Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits Grade(GRV)

  • 16615 ARTH 3010   SEM 101

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ARTH 3250

Introduction and training in dendrochronology and its application to archaeology, art history, and environment through participation in a research project dating ancient to modern tree-ring samples especially ... view course details

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  •  6467 ARTH 3250   LEC 001

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  •  6724 ARTH 3250   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Manning, S

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ARTH 3505

Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details

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  • 16347 ARTH 3505   LEC 001

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ARTH 3605

Considers the contextual features of American art from the 1930s through the late 1980s. Examines art in relation to contemporary politics, society and literature. A few of the developments on which the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3605

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8427 ARTH 3605   LEC 001

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ARTH 3650

In this course students will examine the role of mechanical, electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and early 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 3660VISST 3650

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16322 ARTH 3650   LEC 001

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ARTH 3670

Visualizing El Barrio immerses students in a semester-long contemplation and class project that integrates artistic praxis with art history and literary studies to document the historical murals of East ... view course details

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  • 16460 ARTH 3670   LEC 001

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ARTH 3800

This course offers a survey of the art and culture of China, from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. We begin with an inquiry into the meaning of national boundaries and the controversy of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARKEO 3800ASIAN 3383

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8564 ARTH 3800   LEC 001

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ARTH 4100

Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 4200

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9248 ARTH 4100   SEM 101

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ARTH 4154

In this seminar students will investigate the emergence of feminism in art and theory and subsequent reactions of relevant artists and theorists to that movement. These developments will be discussed in ... view course details

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  • 16395 ARTH 4154   SEM 101

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ARTH 4161

This seminar focuses on visual and performative cultures of the Andes from the Inca empire (ca. 1438-1534) to the present day. It traces the modalities of culture, power, and representation in the framing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16542 ARTH 4161   SEM 101

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ARTH 4233

Topic for fall 2014: Reproducing Greek and Roman Art view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Reproducing Greek & Roman Art

  •  9250 ARTH 4233   SEM 101

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ARTH 4350

The installation and dissemination of portraits of living political leaders ("rulers") is frequently perceived as a hallmark of twentieth-century regimes, especially those labeled as "totalitarian" or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16383 ARTH 4350   SEM 101

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ARTH 4445

This seminar will examine cultural understandings of nature in early modern Europe, especially Italy, including the notions of "second nature," "cultural landscape," and "pastoral." While agricultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6445VISST 4445VISST 6445

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16339 ARTH 4445   SEM 101

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ARTH 4610

This seminar examines both feminist art criticism and the work of women artists from antiquity to the present. We consider the works of the most prominent women artists from each period in relation to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4040

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7157 ARTH 4610   SEM 101

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ARTH 4840

Contemporary Taiwanese Art is defined in this course as the art of Taiwan since the 1980s. The 1980s was a crucial transformative period in Taiwan's history when the island underwent major social and political ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16354 ARTH 4840   SEM 101

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ARTH 4860

The sizzling hiss of white-hot iron plunged in water, the slap and punch required to put a hole in a solid wad of clay on a kick-wheel, the whirring of a drop spindle in motion. Can we capture or theorize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6860VISST 4860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16565 ARTH 4860   SEM 101

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ARTH 4991

Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5824 ARTH 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7249 ARTH 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7251 ARTH 4991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7252 ARTH 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7253 ARTH 4991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7254 ARTH 4991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7255 ARTH 4991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7256 ARTH 4991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7257 ARTH 4991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7258 ARTH 4991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7259 ARTH 4991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7315 ARTH 4991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8627 ARTH 4991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8628 ARTH 4991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  9261 ARTH 4991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  9262 ARTH 4991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  9768 ARTH 4991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

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ARTH 4997

The prospective honors student does rigorous independent readings supervised by a selected thesis advisor. By the end of the semester, an annotated bibliography and detailed outline of the thesis should ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  5825 ARTH 4997   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 4998

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7156 ARTH 4998   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

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ARTH 4999

The student under faculty direction prepares a senior thesis. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5826 ARTH 4999   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 5991

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5827 ARTH 5991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7278 ARTH 5991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7279 ARTH 5991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7280 ARTH 5991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7281 ARTH 5991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7282 ARTH 5991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7283 ARTH 5991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7284 ARTH 5991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7285 ARTH 5991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7286 ARTH 5991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7287 ARTH 5991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7316 ARTH 5991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8629 ARTH 5991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8630 ARTH 5991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9263 ARTH 5991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9264 ARTH 5991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 5993

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5828 ARTH 5993   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7288 ARTH 5993   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7289 ARTH 5993   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7290 ARTH 5993   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7291 ARTH 5993   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7292 ARTH 5993   IND 606

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7293 ARTH 5993   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7294 ARTH 5993   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7295 ARTH 5993   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7296 ARTH 5993   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7297 ARTH 5993   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7317 ARTH 5993   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8405 ARTH 5993   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9265 ARTH 5993   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode:

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9266 ARTH 5993   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6000

This seminar introduces graduate students to a range of methodologies and approaches to teaching and researching topics in art history and visual studies. Each week, a member of the faculty will present ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9296 ARTH 6000   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6015

This graduate seminar explores the making of photographic archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6015

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16558 ARTH 6015   SEM 101

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ARTH 6154

In this seminar students will investigate the emergence of feminism in art and theory and subsequent reactions of relevant artists and theorists to that movement. These developments will be discussed in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16398 ARTH 6154   SEM 101

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ARTH 6161

This seminar focuses on visual and performative cultures of the Andes from the Inca empire (ca. 1438-1534) to the present day. It traces the modalities of culture, power, and representation in the framing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16545 ARTH 6161   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6233

Topic for fall 2014: Reproducing Greek and Roman Art Since its inception in classical antiquity the creation of art has been intricately linked to practices of copying and reproduction. This class will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Reproducing Greek & Roman Art

  •  9252 ARTH 6233   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6350

The installation and dissemination of portraits of living political leaders ("rulers") is frequently perceived as a hallmark of twentieth-century regimes, especially those labeled as "totalitarian" or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16389 ARTH 6350   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6445

This seminar will examine cultural understandings of nature in early modern Europe, especially Italy, including the notions of "second nature," "cultural landscape," and "pastoral." While agricultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4445VISST 4445VISST 6445

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16341 ARTH 6445   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6510

After having been reduced to a mere ideological formation of bourgeois origin, aesthetics has recently made a strong comeback in the field of theory. This course probes the reasons for this historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6370GERST 6510VISST 6500

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16215 ARTH 6510   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6840

Contemporary Taiwanese Art is defined in this course as the art of Taiwan since the 1980s. The 1980s was a crucial transformative period in Taiwan's history when the island underwent major social and political ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16530 ARTH 6840   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode:

ARTH 6860

The sizzling hiss of white-hot iron plunged in water, the slap and punch required to put a hole in a solid wad of clay on a kick-wheel, the whirring of a drop spindle in motion. Can we capture or theorize ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4860VISST 4860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16564 ARTH 6860   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: