Development of art in North America, emphasizing ancient Mexico.
South American relationships and parallels. Recent and
contemporary Indian arts and crafts from Alaska to Chile. Offered
irregularly.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): RST 068: Hinduism or RST 069:
Hindu Mythology recommended, but not required. A historical
survey of the development of the language of symbolism and
iconography in Hinduism. (Same course as RST
181.) Effective: 2020 Spring Quarter.
Lecture/discussion–4 hours. Comparative history of
architecture and symbolism of the Hindu Temple in India,
Southeast Asia and the United States. Attention to the temple as
expression of religious knowledge, political authority, and
cultural heritage through the lens of colonialism and
postcolonialism. (Same course as RST 154).
Lecture—3 hour; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1E recommended.
Introduction to the urban history of the Islamic world. Includes
critical study of the historiography of the Islamic city,
development of urban form, institutions and rituals, and analysis
of selected themes.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1E recommended.
Critical study of the arts of the luxury book in the pre-modern
Islamic world. Representation in Islam, the relationship of word
and image, the discipline of
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). A historical survey
of Buddhist art in relation to the development of Buddhist
doctrine and philosophy. (Same course as RST
171.) Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Survey of Indian
popular religious art in prints, trade labels, comics and
photographs. (Same course as RST 180.) GE
credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2020
Spring Quarter.
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Thematic and chronological
examination of 3000 years of Chinese art and culture from
Neolithic through Tang Dynasty (10th c. CE). Study of
ceremonial and secular objects manifesting folk beliefs and
belief systems of ancestor worship, Buddhism, Daoism, and
Confucianism. Offered in alternate years.
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Thematic and chronological
examination of Chinese painting and culture from the Tang Dynasty
(7th c. CE) through the early 20th century. Issues
considered include political art (made to support or protest
regimes), art and the market, art and individual
expression. Offered in alternate years.
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Topics in Chinese Art History,
13th-19th century. Study of issues pertaining to self and
society; gender and and gendering; religion and philosophy;
political engagement and protest; economy and the market; the
effects created by periods of transition on visual
expression. Offered in alternate years.
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 163B or
consent of instructor. Forms of modern and avant-garde
expression form China’s industrialization to the 21st
century. Interactions of art and politics, individual and
state, art for the free market versus art for the state,
expressions of modernity; China on the world stage. Offered
in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper and/or gallery studies and review
(determined by instructor each quarter course offered). Study of
the significant achievements in architecture, painting,
sculpture, and decorative arts from prehistoric age to nineteenth
century.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Transformation in architecture and
urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying
social, political, and economic systems as well as very different
cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914.
Offered in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Examination of the origin and
development of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture
from the eighth century to the mid-fifth century B.C. (Same
course as Classics 172A). Offered in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Study of the art and architecture of
later Classical and Hellenistic Greece, from the mid-fifth
century to the first century B.C. Not open for credit to students
who have completed course 154B. (Same course as Classics 172B.)
Offered in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Art and architecture of Rome and the
Roman Empire, from the founding of Rome through the fourth
century C.E. (Same course as Classics 173.) Offered in
alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: a lower
division Classics course (except 30, 31); course 1A
recommended. Architecture and urban development in the
ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Special emphasis on
the social structure of the ancient city as expressed in its
architecture, and on the interaction between local traditions and
the impact of Greco-Roman urbanism. (Same course as
Classics 175.) Offered in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hour(s). Term paper or gallery studies and review.
Painting, sculpture and architecture of the early Christian era
and Byzantine Empire: through the later Roman Empire in the West
and to the final capture of Constantinople in the
East. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s). Term paper or gallery studies and review.
Painting, sculpture and architecture of western Europe in the
early medieval era: from the rise of the barbarian kingdoms
through the 12th century.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper or gallery studies and review.
Painting, sculpture and architecture in northern Europe from the
twelfth through the fifteenth centuries.