ARTH 491

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Topics in Art History

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Variable content; consult the Class Schedule for current topics.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.

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ARTH 491 class schedule data for spring 2010
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10383	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
46727	Lecture-Discussion	AO	6:00PM -8:00PM	T	ARR Washington DC	Lang, K Weissman, T	Date Range: 01/19/10-04/20/10 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $309.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $277.00 per Bill Hour, and OCE Fees $45.00 per Bill Hour. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: History of Photography Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. Class will not meet during the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign spring break. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
49336	Lecture-Discussion	PC2	1:00PM -4:00PM	W	Location Pending	Lang, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Avant-Garde New York 1910-1920. This seminar examines the burgeoning of avant-garde groups in New York during second decade of the twentieth century. Artists in the nation's largest, most diverse city banded together to construct shared identities and aesthetic agendas. They wrote manifestos, founded art journals, mounted international art exhibitions, and created networks that reached across national lines. In this course we will explore these creative missions by looking closely at a range of primary materials, including artworks at the Phillips Collection and other area museums, experimental journals, and popular newspaper criticism. This course situates the 1910s New York art world in its eventful historical era, considering important events, such as the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show, alongside national debates of the late progressive era, and the international impact of war in Europe. Theoretical analysis of avant-gardism, including texts by Peter B�rger and Renato Poggioli, also informs our critical study. Investigating specific circles?those around Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery, and Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray?s Society of Independent Artists, among others?we will consider why artists in New York during this tumultuous period formed such groups, how their aesthetic associations informed their artwork, and what this history can tell us about defining "avant-garde." Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Undergraduate section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
49420	Lecture-Discussion	PC5	5:00PM -8:00PM	M	Location Pending	Lang, K Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Contemporary Art and Politics Since 1990. This seminar will examine how contemporary art engages society, culture, and politics. Special attention will be paid to how art since 1990 has negotiated globalization, at times finding resources within its development, at others, contesting its structures and effects. However, our study will not be limited to an investigation of globalization, we will also examine related topics such as gender, the privatization of the public sphere, labor, the environment, and war and terrorism. We will examine these issues through select cases of artistic practice that parse these issues and raise new options for forms of resistance, as well as for new modes of being and belonging in the world. Readings are selected to pose strong critical positions and to raise experimental theoretical possibilities, with which we will engage and problematize through discussions and written work. Readings will include work by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, and Irit Rogoff. The course will emphasize, but not be limited to, an exploration of new media, photography and video, site specific installation, and the projected-image. Artists discussed will include Allan Sekula, Melanie Friend, Walid Raad, Francis Alys, Eyal Weitzman, Dara Birnbaum, Kim Soo Ja, Simon Starling. Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Undergraduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
49343	Lecture-Discussion	PU	6:00PM -8:00PM	T	Location Pending	Lang, K Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: History of Photography. Organized as a survey, this course seeks to provide students with a basic introduction to some of the major currents and practitioners in European and American photography from the mid-19th century to the present, as well as to a number of key historical texts that reflect photography's unstable status between technology and aesthetics, mass culture and the avant-garde, art and document. Beginning with an investigation of photography's scientific origins, the course will trace the complex social functions of the photographic image as it developed within and beyond the aesthetics of modernism. First, we will examine photography's relationship to traditional artistic genres, from still life and portraiture to landscape and history. In this section we will focus on photography?s relationship to social practice: How, for instance, was photography used by politicians, businesses, and social movements to reorganize the modern nation state? The course will then turn to a set of turn- of-the-century photographic practices that debated the medium's status as art. This investigation will set the stage for a discussion of the documentary practices of the 1920s and 1930s. The course?s final section will consider photographic practices in the late 20th and early 21st century. Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Graduate section. Discussion section: Wednesdays 4:15-5:15 (UI Students Only) Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.