Courses

Summer 2014

Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: The Body in Avant-Garde Art, 1850-1940 Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 14620

Caty Telfair

The art world in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth was a tumult of controversy, debate, wild invention and stubborn reactionism that resulted in the radical transformation of centuries-long conventions of artistic...

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Histories of Photography Course Number: HA N182 | CCN: 14645

Camille Mathieu

This course is an introduction to the history of photography from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the present. While this course is structured chronologically, we will be thinking about photography thematically and conceptually, asking questions and raising...

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Cities and the Arts : Beijing Course Number: HA 108.2 | CCN: 14635

William Ma

 This course focuses on the visual and material cultures produced in and around the Chinese capital Beijing from the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) to the present. While Beijing has served as the political center of China for much of the last...

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Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Fifteen Views of Manet’s “Bar” Course Number: R1B Section 1 | CCN: 14605

This course, a case study of sorts, is about a single painting, Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), and the multiple, often contradictory ways in which art historians have sought to describe and interpret it. It is...

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