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Telephone ID #: 40714233
The artistic achievements of Greece and Rome.
This course is basic to the study of all subsequent periods of Western Art. It examines Greek architectural design with its concerns for ideal proportion and balance, best exemplified in the well known columnar temples. Next it deals with Roman technical inventiveness, which among other changes made it possible to create large interior spaces and to introduce new types of urban buildings. The course will also show how Classical painting and sculpture affected later culture, through its depiction of myth and legend, and through techniques intended to create for the first time an illusion of the real world.
Exclusion: FAH203, FAH204, (FARA10F)
Session: Winter Day
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Telephone ID #: 40720153
An investigation of representations of the body produced in the last two centuries in both "high culture" and mass culture, using contemporary theories, in particular theories about gender and sexuality.
What makes some representations of the body propaganda, some advertising, some pornography and some art? Are these categories mutually exclusive? Students will learn to apply a variety of theories to images, in ways that challenge received notions about the body as purely natural.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: VPAA41Y (FARA01Y) or VPAB49Y (FARB66Y) or WSTA01Y or permission of the instructor.
Session: Winter Day
TBA
Not offered: 1997/98
Offered: 1998/99
Telephone ID #: 40724233
A survey of the art and architecture of Europe from 800 to 1150, considered in light of the varied artistic developments of the contemporary Mediterranean world. The course will consider the major artistic and architectural monuments of Europe from the Carolingian renaissance to the renaissance of the twelfth century. Works will be considered in their geographical context and in relation to the art and architecture of the later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Armenia, Islam, and to the art of the invasion period. The importance of monasticism and pilgrimage will also be discussed. Texts: E. Kitzinger, Early Medieval Art; G. Zarnecki, Romanesque Art; K.J. Conant, Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture.
Exclusion: FAH321, FAH322, (FARB10F)
Prerequisite: VPAA43S highly recommended
Session: Winter Day
Not offered: 1997/98
Telephone ID #: 40724353
The Northern Renaissance, with emphasis on the Netherlands.
The course concentrates on the development of painting from Jan van Eyck's brilliantly coloured works to the imaginative subjects of Hieronymus Bosch. The works selected will also illustrate some of the problems faced by students of art, such as the Identification of artists on the basis of documents and the analysis of style and subject matter. The text is Ch. Cuttler, Northern Painting, New York, 1968 (soft cover edition).
Exclusion: FAH307Y, (FARB16F/S)
Session: Winter Day
Offered: 1997/98
Telephone ID #: 40724553
European painting, sculpture and architecture between 1750 and 1830.
The course focuses on Paris, which was not only the centre of the French Revolution, but also the location of the great studios of Boucher, David, Ingres, and Delacroix.
Exclusion: FAH282, (FARB37F/S)
Session: Winter Day
Not offered: 1997/98
Telephone ID #: 40724763
A survey of twentieth-century painters and sculptors, primarily European, with an emphasis on their interactions with modern technology.
The course introduces artists like Picasso and Matisse, whose work is now history, as well as contemporary painters and sculptors. The focus throughout will be on the ways that photography, the movies, television and other technologies have changed the nature of art.
Exclusion: (FARB49Y)
Session: Winter Day
Not offered: 1997/98
Telephone ID #: 40724963
The influence of feminism on making and understanding art in the last 150 years.
Using informal lectures, the course discusses women artists and their relationship to "mainstream" art. It also studies the impact of feminist theories on art movements and the changes they have engendered.
Exclusion: (FARB66Y)
Prerequisite: WSTA01Y or VPAA41Y (FARA01Y) or (FARA13F/S) or VPAA61F/S, (FARA91F/S) or permission of instructor.
Session: Winter Day
Not offered: 1997/98
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A study of paintings in tempera and fresco in two ancient cradles of human civilization.
In ancient Egypt the tombs of rulers and nobility held most of the culture's pictorial art, created to perpetuate life after death through the recreation of scenes of nature and of daily life. These paintings are detailed, informative, colourful and have an inimitable beauty of pattern. In Greece and the Aegean islands, in contrast, paintings decorate palaces and houses. They often glorify nature and are rendered in a lively and impressionistic style. Fascinating in themselves, the paintings of these two contemporary but different societies provide material for illuminating comparisons and for detecting possible artistic interaction.
Exclusion: (FARB02), (FARC05F/S)
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent in art history at the B-level or permission of instructor
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
Offered: 1997/98
Telephone ID #: 40734333
The principal masters of seventeenth-century Holland.
This study makes extensive reference to the cities of Haarlem, Amsterdam, and Delft as the centres in which these artists worked. Their paintings will be analysed from the point of view of subject matter, technique, and outside influences. The text is Rosenberg, Slive, Ter Kuile, Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800 (Pelican History of Art, paperback edition).
Exclusion: FAH308, (FARC11F/S)
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent in art history at the B-level, preferably (FARB29) or VPAB44F/S
Session: Winter Day
Not offered: 1997/98
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