| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
1001 (003) |
Rhoda Rosen
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Mon
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
1006
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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 (005) |
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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
1009
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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 (006) |
Rhoda Rosen
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Mon
6:45 PM - 9:30 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
1010
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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) |
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Thurs
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
1011
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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) |
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Tues
6:45 PM - 9:30 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
1013
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
1002 (004) |
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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
1014
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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) |
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Wed
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
1037
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Modern and Contemporary Moving Image |
1016 (001) |
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Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 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
1015
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Issues in Visual Critical Studies |
2001 (01S) |
Joshua Rios
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Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
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
1016
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
MacLean 920
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| Issues in Visual Critical Studies |
2001 (02S) |
Patrick Durgin
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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
1064
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
MacLean 920
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| 20,000 Years of Clay |
2022 (001) |
Emily Schroeder Willis
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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
2348
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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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| Medieval Manuscripts and the Arts of Medieval Paris |
2131 (001) |
Nancy Feldman
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Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course studies the medieval book in Europe and the visual arts crafted in medieval Paris as well as their connections to the global medieval world through exchange and gifting. The medieval cosmos in Islamic and European cultures, humans? relationship with the natural world, and artist?s practices of making will be studied as well as manuscripts, textiles, metal work, and more. Books in the medieval world include narratives of heroes, saints, love, magic, scientific knowledge, and documentation of artistic techniques. This course is Eurocentric however includes arts of Middle East and North Africa for a broader understanding of the medieval world. Coursework includes field trips to view Chicago's medieval manuscript and art collections at the Newberry and the Art Institute. Readings include works by Sharon Farmer, ?Surviving Poverty in Paris,? Edson and Savage-Smith, ?Medieval Views of the Cosmos,? Michael Camille, ?Nature of Gothic,? Madeline Caviness, ?Patron or Matron?,? Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, ?Islamic Penmen and Painters,? and more. Coursework will vary but typically includes discussions, reading responses, in-class quizzes, short presentations and a research paper.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2353
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Books and Publishing
Location
Lakeview - 206
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| History Of Architecture & Design I |
2191 (001) |
Joseph Socki
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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
1017
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 920
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| Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art |
2206 (001) |
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Mon
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
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
1055
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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
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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
2033
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| History of Korean Art |
2460 (01S) |
Yeonsoo Chee
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Mon
6:45 PM - 9:30 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
2037
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| The Arts of Edo Japan |
2462 (001) |
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Sat
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces Japanese Art between the 17th to the 19th century, also known as the Edo period (1603-1868), when a variety of art forms and styles emerged. We will examine a selection of major styles and artistic practices, and their social and historical backgrounds, providing an introduction to Japanese aesthetics, techniques, and artists. Students will be able to become familiar with many key works and also gain some understanding on changing currents during the 250 years period. Examples of the art forms we will examine include those from the official painting schools, such as the Kano school, to the vibrant popular culture ukiyo-e (floating world pictures). Influences from China and the West that were absorbed by artists in a variety of ways will be considered. To give foundation, the first few classes will provide a broad overview of pictorial art in Japan from ancient times to the 16th century and study major artistic traditions. Course work will vary but typically includes two writing assignments and a final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1823
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 620
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| Origins of Modern Architecture |
2500 (001) |
Timothy Wittman
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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
1018
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| Photography: History, Theory, and Practice |
2620 (001) |
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Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course examines the photographs made in response to the shaping influences of 19th and 20th century global cultures. Our understanding of the issues guiding visual history has been sensitized by iconic as well as lesser known photographs and it is those meaningful images that are addressed across the semester. Because photography has been transformed across its history as technology altered practice and practice altered how the medium was conceptualized, the study of social and intellectual history along side the making of imagery is central if the larger purposes of photography are to be grasped and shared.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2159
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| 19th Century Photography |
2621 (001) |
Giovanni Aloi
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Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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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
1043
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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