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AHI 001B: Medieval to Renaissance Art (4)

Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Christian, Barbarian, Moslem, and Classical traditions in European Art from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries.

GE credit: ArtHum | AH, VL, WC.

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AHI 102: Exhibition Practicum (4)

Discussion/Laboratory—3 hour(s); Project (Term Project). Pass One restricted to Art History and Art Studio majors. Curate an exhibition. Development of exhibition proposal, object selection and installation, design, lighting, creation of exhibition text and promotional material. Production of a public display for a campus museum or elsewhere. Effective: 2020 Fall Quarter.

GE credit: AH. 

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AHI 120A: Art, Architecture, and Human Rights (4)

Lecture/discussion–4 hours.  Study of human rights as they relate to art, architecture, and cultural heritage.  Examines museums, art collections, and cultural-heritage management, their relation to the cultural prerogatives of communities and indigenous groups, and protection of cultural heritage during war and conflict. 

GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci|AH or SS, DD, VL, WC, WE.

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AHI 130: Landscape, Nature, and Art (4)

Lecture-3 hours; term paper.  Interpretation of the natural world in the western world 1600-1900, with perspectives on the present; landscape painting, ideology of picturesque and sublime, landscape art and travel, reshaping the land as art. 

GE credit: ArtHum|AH, VL, WC, WE.

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AHI 157: Buddhist Art (4)

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.

GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. 

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AHI 179B: Baroque Art (4)

Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Seventeenth-century paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, including such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez in their political and social context.

GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt | AH, VL, WE.

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AHI 186: Contemporary Art (4)
1960–Present

Lecture/discussion—4 hours; term paper. Development of new media and aesthetics in the context of such cultural and political phenomena as the New Left, feminism, and globalization; investigation of the critical-theoretical questions of neoavantgardism, postmodernism, and postmodernity.

GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt | ACGH, AH, VL, WE.

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AHI 189: Photography in History (4)

Lecture/Discussion—4 hours. Social, cultural, aesthetic and technical developments in the history of photography including patronage and reception, commercial, scientific, political and artistic applications, and a critical-theoretical inquiry into photography’s impact on the social category “art” and the history of subjectivity.

GE credit: AH, VL.

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AHI 190F/290: Seminar in Chinese Art (4)

Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students.  Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Instructors: Katharine Burnett

GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for credit when topic differs.

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AHI 190H/290: Seminar in Modern-Contemporary Art (4)

Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students.  Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for credit when topic differs.

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AHI 190L/290: Seminar in Architecture and Heritage

Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students.  Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for credit when topic differs.

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