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 spring 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10383	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
12454	Lecture-Discussion	KB	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	312 Art and Design Building	Burge, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: A Palace without Rival Section Info: Topic: A Palace without Rival: Art and Empire in the Ancient Near East. Mesopotamian history after the formation of the city vacillated between periods of centralization and competing city-states. At certain moments power was consolidated under a supreme authority who annexed large swaths of territory forming the world’s first empires. The leaders of these empires commissioned monumental visual programs, carving large-scale reliefs depicting military battles, religious rituals, imperial building activities, and other historical events into the walls of palaces erected at their capitals and into the sides of mountains at the fringes of their imperial territory. This course surveys the visual programs and built space produced by/under the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires. In addition to conducting visual and formal analyses of these works, we will consider questions of ideology, identity, production, viewing contexts, and more.
48821	Seminar	KRU	9:30AM -12:10PM	R	131 Flagg Hall	Romberg, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Art and the End of the World Section Info: Art and the End of the World What are the aesthetics of the end times, and of the futures that extend beyond? What forms and conventions recur in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic visions? Whose world is centered in their framing, and what strategies have artists devised to bend or escape from those frames? In this seminar, we will consider these questions, among others, by examining episodes in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, including work surrounding the Whole Earth/back to the land movement of the 1970s, Afrofuturisms, the AIDS crisis, and post-Soviet Ukraine. This course satisfies the seminar requirement for art history majors and minors. Students should be prepared to undertake a substantial amount of reading and writing and to attend and participate in class discussion every week. Restricted to Art History majors and minors, or other majors with permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the art history seminar requirement. Restriction(s): Restricted to Art and Art History or History of Art or Art History major(s) or minor(s).