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.

1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.

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ARTH 491 class schedule data for fall 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10383	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
47738	Seminar	2	9:00AM -11:40AM	W	316 Art and Design Building	Burge, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Babylon: Myth and Reality Section Info: This course satisfies the seminar requirement for art history majors and minors. Topic: Babylon: Myth and Reality. Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East in the 19th century, generations of scholars (and artists) have attempted to reconstruct the “real Babylon.” Fascination with the city likely stems from the fact that so much of its history is steeped in myth, from the biblical account of the Tower of Babel to the city’s fabled hanging gardens. The first part of this course explores the archaeological reality behind the myths of ancient Babylon and looks at the city’s artistic and architectural achievements within the larger context of Mesopotamian history. The second part looks at how this iconic city has figured in the cultural imagination of later periods, from biblical and Classical authors, to European and Iraqi artists, Hollywood filmmakers, science fiction writers, and modern political movements. Restriction(s): Restricted to History of Art or Art History or Art and Art History major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
12454	Online Lecture	LR	2:00PM -4:40PM	T	n.a.	Rosenthal, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Seminar in Art History Section Info: This course satisfies the seminar requirement for art history majors and minors. Synchronous online. Topic: Art and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe images gained new value and status as tools for describing, analyzing, and understanding the natural world and human societies. This seminar will consider how images came to be trusted as forms of knowledge, and will engage with a diverse body of scholarship investigating the kinds of cultural work that these images performed. Topics will include: early modern theories of visual realism; art and the new sciences of “natural knowledge”; global trade and the visual construction of the exotic; collecting visual knowledge in the marketplaces of early capitalism; displays of knowledge and social status. Students should be prepared to undertake a substantial amount of reading and writing. Restriction(s): Restricted to History of Art or Art History or Art and Art History major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.