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ARTH 5950 is also offered in Spring 2024
ARTH 5950 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2018 | ARTH 5950 Section 001: Topics: Art History -- Art, Diplomacy and Empire (69045)
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- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
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- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management L-118
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 30 seats filled)
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- Class Notes:
- Topic: Art, Diplomacy and Empire
- Class Description:
- This course examines the mobility and agency of objects and people in diplomatic practice. An emerging body of scholarship within Renaissance and early modern studies explores the exchange and global circulation of objects and their role in cultural encounters. The possibilities offered by this 'material turn' highlight the potential of objects to enable cultural contact, conversion and exchange across traditional political and cultural boundaries. At the same time, recent innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to exchange highlight cultural aspects of the diplomatic encounter. As a result, the roles of diplomats, interpreters, merchants as well as various types of objects and services continue to be interpreted in new ways. This course will introduce students to canonical texts associated with gift-exchange and reciprocity, and will explore their relevance to the disciplines of history and art history particularly with regard to imperial encounters and exchanges.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69045/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 November 2017
Spring 2018 | ARTH 5950 Section 002: Topics: Art History -- Painting Traditions of South Asia, Past to Present (68094)
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- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
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- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 30 seats filled)
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- Topic: South Asian Painting
- Class Description:
- This course surveys the rich diversity of painted media in South Asia, from the 5th-century murals that decorate the rock-cut Buddhist caves at Ajanta to contemporary canvases that travel the world. We will explore how the familiar categories with which we describe painting, such as Landscape, Portraiture, Narrative, and even Modern, might be productively reassessed in light of South Asian aesthetic traditions by locating the works in their physical, ritual, and intellectual contexts. The course culminates in the contested spaces of contemporary art, where questions of politics, identity, and intention come to the fore. Although mainly focusing on the painting traditions of India, the course will include painting from Pakistan, the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian diaspora.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68094/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 November 2017
Spring 2018 | ARTH 5950 Section 003: Topics: Art History -- The Rise of Participation in Postwar Art (69256)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankHubert H Humphrey Center 15
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
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- Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Topic: Participation in Postwar Art
- Class Description:
- Since the turn of the twentieth century, avant-garde artists working in a variety of media have eschewed passive spectatorship and aimed to activate viewers as participants and even collaborators in the creation of the work of art. In recent years, such practices have developed under a variety of names: participatory art, interactive art, relational aesthetics, and social practice art. This course is a historical survey and a thematic study of the emergence of the active participant - and its counterpart, the passive consumer - as a central concern of contemporary art theory and practice. The first half of the course focuses on several key postwar developments that set the terms of viewer/audience participation: the adoption of the musical score and John Cage's indeterminacy in Conceptual Art and performance, the influence of perceptual psychology on Minimalism, the reworking of cinema and television spectatorship in Pop Art, and the influence of new political movements of the 60s and 70s (participatory democracy, the civil rights movement, feminism). From there, the course turns to the recent development of relational aesthetics and its imbrication with new media, de-industrialization and immaterial labor, community development and gentrification, and processes of globalization (through the study of works by Suzanne Lacy, Theaster Gates, Thomas Hirschhorn). Readings by Rudolf Arnheim, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Rosenberg, Guy Debord, Umberto Eco, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Adrian Piper, Claire Bishop, Pamela Lee, Branden Joseph, Miwon Kwon, Irene Small, Jacques Rancière, and others.
- Learning Objectives:
- This course sets out to help students gain a nuanced, historical understanding of one of the most widespread modes of art practice today: interactive and social practice art. It provides them with extensive practice in the critical reading of theoretical texts and ample experience synthesizing diverse intellectual ideas and arguments in written form through short response papers and periodic in-class presentations. The course will also provide instruction in research techniques in modern/contemporary art history. To this end, students will be asked to write a research paper uncovering and interpreting one artistic practice that involves viewer/audience participation (8pp. for undergraduates, and 15 pp. for graduate students). They will formulate their topics early to allow enough time for exploring primary and archival documents in local libraries and archives.
- Exam Format:
- Writing assignments instead of exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69256/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2017
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