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This course will explore feminist issues in western art from both historical and thematic perspectives. Critical consideration will be given to the representation of women in art, women's absence from art history, issues of gender identity, social class, race, and the changing role of women in...

This course will explore the history and complex issues surrounding one of the most controversial forms of art in our culture - art in public places. Beginning with an overview of the historical significance of public art, we will focus primarily on the diversity of movements as they emerge within...

The final years of the 15th century heralded a new imagining of the world. Direct contact between Europe, Asia, and the Americas ushered in a period of commercial, cultural, and technological exchange. But its result was far greater than the mere exchange of commodities and currencies. The...

Students will examine the history of photography from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present day. Students will explore through lecture and lab the aesthetic and technological developments of the medium from such early processes as the daguerreotype to contemporary digital approaches...

These numbers are reserved for art history courses that may be offered from time to time by: a) art history faculty who may wish to present a course in their speciality; or b) visiting art history lecturers.Announcements regarding AHIS 1295 offerings will be made in the Registration Guide and Course...

This course is a chronological survey of modern art and modernism and its development in the first half of the 20th century. The major art movements, artworks and theories will be considered within their historical context.

This course is a chronological survey of modernism in its later stages and international contemporary art to the present. The important issues, theories, and variety of forms visual art has taken in recent decades will be considered.

From its pre-modern roots in the Indus Valley Civilization to the contemporary works of Subodh Gupta, students in this course survey the development of South Asian visual and material culture. The remarkable artistic creations that emerge from the present-day nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh...

Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how aspects of a person's identity intertwine in relation to structures of power and privilege. These include aspects of intersectionality such as gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, physical and cognitive ability and appearance, etc. In this...

In recent times, objects of cultural heritage have become contested sites where power struggles play out around political, racial, religious, class, sexual, and gender issues etc. The destruction of cultural heritage has become a tool of war and cultural cleansing. It features in protests calling...