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This class explores queer art, photography and politics in the United States since 1930. Our approach will be grounded in close attention to the history and visual representation of sexual minorities in particular historical moments and social contexts. We will consider the cultural and political effects of World War II, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, psychedelics, hippie culture and sexual liberation, lesbian separatism, the AIDS crisis, and marriage equality.

Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shape this arts activism. This course takes up black art production that responds to the HIV/AIDS crisis to provide a longer, fuller, and more vital cultural narrative. By centering blackness in this story, we can ask how does dis-ease,referencing both infection and an aesthetically and structurally anxious relation to death,shape black art practices and lives? How have race and gender been used to conceptualize disease? And how do filmmakers, abstract painters, photographers, and poets help us to better comprehend blackness, gender, and sexuality under the threat of disease? After providing an overview of the relation between blackness, sexuality, and dis-ease and the emergence of the AIDS crisis, we will consider canonical works from the height of the crisis produced by filmmaker Marlon Riggs and poet Essex Hemphill. From there, we will move to themes of black art and mourning, black women's under cited activism, the controversial use of documentary photography in the crisis, black masculinity, diasporic responses, and the urgency and erasure of the ongoing crisis. Each week we will focus on a cultural text (film, painting, photograph, poem), a reading to provide historical context, and critical theories that will illuminate the art works' formal qualities and importance for our now.

The Song dynasty (mid-10th to late 13th c.) was a period of extraordinary diversity and technical accomplishment in Chinese painting, ceramics, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture. Artistic developments emerged within a context of economic dynamism, urban growth, and competition in dynastic, political, cultural and social arenas - as between Chinese and formerly nomadic neighboring regimes, or between reformers and conservatives. This course will consider major themes and topics in Song art history, including innovations in architectural and ceramic technologies; developments in landscape painting and theory; the rise of educated artists; official arts and ideologies of Song, Liao and Jin court regimes; new roles for women as patrons and cultural participants; and Chan and popular Buddhist imagery.

The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated books, garden designs and systems of perspectival representation. Topics will include Innovations in urban centers of painting and print culture, politically inflected painting, and cultural syncretism in court painting and garden design.

This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of racialization and migration. Key themes include the history of immigration and displacement; diasporic geographies; art, activism, and community; feminist/queer perspectives; and interethnic conflict and solidarity. The course is structured around the Asian American Art Initiative's Fall exhibition Spirit House: Haunting and the Asian Diaspora at the Cantor Arts Center; sections will be held in the museum and at Stanford Special Collections.

Explores how the imperial courts collected and censored art in China and Japan ca. 1000-1800. The imperial control over art collecting activities shaped the way in which court painters represented the world. The imperial court dictated art creations and occasionally threatened the lives of art collectors through violent art confiscations. Students learn how institutional mechanisms form the underlying force behind art creation and circulation in imperial China and Japan. Students also discover the confluence of art, politics, and cultural transmission as imperial patronage shaped transnational networks.

Chinese artistic developments in an era of revolution and modernization, from Shanghai Modern and New National Painting though the politicized art of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao era re-entry into international arenas.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the Danish philosopher and theologian, espoused the importance of the individual's relation to God, the need to forsake different forms of group-think ("the crowd is untruth"), and the necessity of overcoming despair as a means to finding one's own spirit or "infinitization." In dense but accessible prose, dedicating his books always to his readers (of whom he had almost none during his lifetime), he wrote beautiful and tormented texts psychoanalyzing himself as a first patient, a first agent, of the truth he saw for others. Reading famous Kierkegaard texts such as Fear and Trembling, The Seducer's Diary, The Concept of Anxiety, The Sickness unto Death, and The Point of View for My Work as an Author, we will consider the challenging and open question of the philosopher's relation to works of visual art. In our own moment of artistic norms and conventions, profound personal seeking is as shunned and forbidden as it was in Kierkegaard time. Considering art from then and now, each student will write on a work of art of their own choosing, exploring it in a Kierkegaardian fashion.

Water features and water engineering are central in the medieval and early modern architecture of the Islamic world. Indoor and outdoor fountains in residence and mosques, bathhouses, basins and channels in gardens, and cisterns to store water are only some of the ways in which water is integrated into architectural contexts. This seminar examines water features within an eco-critical framework, analyzing how water in architecture serves to regulate temperature, make cities livable, and reflects and shapes attitudes towards the environment.