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Moving across South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Silk Road, and East Asia, the spread of Buddhist art might be understood as one of the earliest forms of a truly global art. The course surveys momuments of architecture, sculpture, and painting associated with major Buddhist practices and sects. Topics include narratives of the historical Buddha; iconographic programs of ritual sites and sacred spaces such as caves, temples, and monasteries; cosmographic and sacred geographies; and the material cultures of ceremonial and ritual implements.

Moving across South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Silk Road, and East Asia, the spread of Buddhist art might be understood as one of the earliest forms of a truly global art. The course surveys momuments of architecture, sculpture, and painting associated with major Buddhist practices and sects. Topics include narratives of the historical Buddha; iconographic programs of ritual sites and sacred spaces such as caves, temples, and monasteries; cosmographic and sacred geographies; and the material cultures of ceremonial and ritual implements.

Development of Christian art in Western Europe from early Middle Ages to beginning of Romanesque period. Focus on Early Christian Byzantine, Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian and Ottonian periods and related political, intellectual and cultural developments. (Planned for Fall)

Development of Christian art in Western Europe from early Middle Ages to beginning of Romanesque period. Focus on Early Christian Byzantine, Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian and Ottonian periods and related political, intellectual and cultural developments. (Planned for Fall)

History of the discipline, methodological orientations, and the conceptual and technical framework for art-historical research. Required of all M.A. candidates in Art History during first year of study.

First half of a survey of art history from prehistoric times to the 20th century. Chronological and systematic approach; either a basis for more detailed study of individual periods in upper-level art history courses, or a solid general foundation for a heightened appreciation of the heritage of art. More professionally oriented than ART-HIST 115. Background for upper-level art history courses; required of majors. (Gen.Ed. AT, G)

This course takes a new and interactive look at 20th Century art, from the move toward total abstraction around 1913 to the development of Postmodernism in the 1980s. We examine the impact on art of social and political events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Fascism, the Mexican Revolution, the New Woman in the 1920s, World War II, the Cold War, and the rise of consumer culture. We will investigate the origins and complex meanings of movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Mexican Muralism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.

This course takes a new and interactive look at 20th Century art, from the move toward total abstraction around 1913 to the development of Postmodernism in the 1980s. We examine the impact on art of social and political events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Fascism, the Mexican Revolution, the New Woman in the 1920s, World War II, the Cold War, and the rise of consumer culture. We will investigate the origins and complex meanings of movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Mexican Muralism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.

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