printer friendly pageARTHIST 126: Post-Naturalist Painting (ARTHIST 326)
How conceptual models from language, literature, new technologies, and scientific theory affected picture making following the collapse of the radical naturalism of the 1860s and 1870s. Bracketed in France by the first Impressionist exhibition (1874) and the first public acclamation of major canvases by Matisse and Picasso (1905), the related developments in England, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. Additional weekly discussion for graduate students. Recommended: some prior experience with 19th-century art.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 173: Issues in Contemporary Art (ARTHIST 373)
Major figures, themes, and movements of contemporary art from the 80s to the present. Readings on the neo-avant garde; postmodernism; art and identity politics; new media and technology; globalization and participatory aesthetics. Prerequisite:
ARTHIST 155, or equivalent with consent of instructor.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 184: Aristocrats, Warriors, Sex Workers, and Barbarians: Lived Life in Early Modern Japanese Painting (ARTHIST 384, JAPANGEN 184, JAPANGEN 384)
Changes marking the transition from medieval to early modern Japanese society that generated a revolution in visual culture, as exemplified in subjects deemed fit for representation; how commoners joined elites in pictorializing their world, catalyzed by interactions with the Dutch.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 188A: The History of Modern and Contemporary Japanese and Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (ARTHIST 388A)
The recent rapid urbanization and architectural transformation of Asia; focus is on the architecture of Japan and China since the mid-19th century. History of forms, theories, and styles that serve as the foundation for today's buildings and cityscapes. How Eastern and Western ideas of modernism have merged or diverged and how these forces continue to shape the future of Japanese and Chinese architecture and urban form.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 205: Cairo: Architecture and Urbanism from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
This undergraduate seminar introduces students to the architectural and urban history of Cairo (Egypt) one of the major political, cultural, and economic centers of the Islamic world. Beginning with the conquest of Egypt by Arab Muslims in the early seventh century CE, the seminar will show how the newly founded city was established, and subsequently became a crucial urban center in the Middle East. Discussing the history of the city from the initial conquest, to the breakup of central Abbasid power, the establishment of the Fatimid Shi`i caliphate in the 10th to 12th centuries, the return of Sunni rule under the Ayyubids in the late 12th century, and the rule of the Mamluks from the 1260s to the early sixteenth century based on existing monuments as well as medieval Arabic sources will provide a double perspective on this development. The final weeks will focus on the urban development of Cairo under Ottoman rule from 1517 until the 19th century, colonialism, and issues of preservation of the historical city since the mid-19th century.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 205A: Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power
This seminar focuses on the production of paintings, mostly but not exclusively miniatures in books, in the Islamic world. A particular focus lies on the Muslim Empires of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, namely the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal realms, together stretching from the Balkans to India. During this period, illustrated books were popular objects of high-level patronage, and numerous examples have survived that allow a detailed study of the implications of these images. Themes discussed include: figural representation in Islam, patronage and court culture; gender and the body; illustrations of literature and history; images of Sufis ceremonies; portraiture; images of animals and nature; the impact of European prints and paintings; space and landscape. A field-trip to the Museum of Asian Art in San Francisco to view Mughal paintings from India is planned.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 212: Renaissance Florence, 1440-1540
Notions of cultural superiority in light of changes in Florentine society as it went from being a republic to a duchy ruled by the Medici. Artists and architects such as Donatello, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Pontormo praised as having revived the arts and returned them to a level of ancient splendor. The role of the sacred in daily life and uses of the pagan past for poetic and scholarly expressions and as vehicles for contemporary experience.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 244: The Visual Culture of the American Home Front, 1941-1945 (AMSTUD 244)
How does home front of WWII look now? What sort of meanings appear with the vantage of more than sixty years' distance? Examining Hollywood films from those years -films made during the war but mostly not directly about the war - the seminar focuses on developing students' abilities to write emotion-based criticism and history. Weekly short papers, each one in response to a film screening, are required. Among the films screened: Shadow of a Doubt, Gaslight, I Walked with a Zombie, The Best Years of Our Lives.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 246A: California Dreaming: West Coast Art and Visual Culture, 1848 - present
This seminar examines art, photography, and other forms of cultural production (e.g. film, advertisements, postcards) in and about California from the middle of the 19th century to the present. It approaches California as a contested political, historical and geographical site and as a series of images and alternative "lifestyles." How have artists pictured the state's diverse landscapes, both natural and commercial, as well as its complex history of labor, immigration, ethnicity, tourism, and social division?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTSTUDI 131: Sound Art I (MUSIC 154A)
Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
Instructors:
DeMarinis, P. (PI)
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