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148. Theories of the Visual. This course examines theories for understanding
relationships between viewers and images through an exploration of the cultural,
political, and psychic mechanisms that accompany the act of looking. It engages these
issues through consideration of painting, photography, film, science, and public space.
Spring, J. Friedlander (Pomona).
150. Chinese Art. Survey of artistic traditions from Neolithic to Modern times.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics and metal work in their cultural
contexts. B. Coats (Scripps) [not offered 2007-08]
151. The Arts of Japan. The development of Japanese art and civilization from the
Prehistoric through the Meiji periods. Major art forms examined in their cultural context.
Fall, B. Coats (Scripps).
152. Arts of Late Imperial China. Ming and Qing Dynasty arts and literature will be
examined with special attention to literati and imperial court tastes. Student will help
prepare an exhibition using Chinese art objects from the Scripps College collections.
B. Coats (Scripps). [not offered 2007-08]
154. Seminar: Japanese Prints. Treats the subject matter and production techniques of
Japanese prints. Examines woodblock printing in Japan from 1600 to the present using
the Scripps College collection of Japanese prints. B. Coats (Scripps) [not offered 2007-08]
155. The History of Gardens, East and West. From sacred groves to national parks, this
survey focuses on the functions and meanings of gardens, on the techniques of landscape
architecture, and on the social significance or major parks and gardens in Asia, Europe
and North America. Prerequisite: 51A,B,C, or 52. B. Coats (Scripps). [not offered 2007-08]
159. History of Art History. Theories of art history in Modern times, from Hegel to
Schnaase, Semper, Riegl and Wolfflin, to Warburg and Panofsky, and to the Frankfurt
School (Benjamin and Adorno), Postmodern challenges to traditional art historiography.
Not open to first-year students. Spring, J. Emerick (Pomona).
Clas 161. Greek Art and Archaeology. [See Classics 161]. Fall, S. Glass.
163. Hellenistic and Roman Art. Treats art in the Ancient Mediterranean from the end of
the Periclean era in Athens (ca. 430 BC) to the reign of Augustus Caesar (27 BC-AD 14) in
Rome. Asks how the public art of the Ancient Greeks and Romans incorporated the
world views of its users. Charts the shifting meanings of standard forms or symbols over
time and place. Fall, J. Emerick (Pomona).
165. Holy Men, Holy Women, Relics and Icons. Art from the reign of Constantine (313-
337) to the end of the Carolingian empire (9thcentury). Treats the classical world in its
Christian phase, and its slow transformation under the pressure of invading Germans
and Arabs. Spring, J. Emerick (Pomona)
168. Tyrants and Communes in Italy. Art of the new mendicant orders, the Dominicans
and Franciscans, in central- and north-Italian communes of the later 13th and 14th
centuries. Focuses mainly on painting in Tuscany and Umbria—in Florence, Siena and
Assisi. J. Emerick (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
170. The Early Renaissance of Italy. Painting, sculpture and architecture in 15 th -century
Italy. Emphasis on Florence and the princely courts as artistic center of the new style.
Artist and major works considered in their historical context. G. Gorse (Pomona).
[not offered 2007-08]
171. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy. Art and architecture in Florence, Rome
and Venice during the 16th century. The invention of the High Renaissance style by
Bramante, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giogione and Titian. Major works of the
post-High Renaissance masters. The interaction of artists and patrons in historical
context. G. Gorse (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
172. Northern Renaissance Art. Painting, sculpture and architecture in northern Europe
in the 15th and 16th centuries. Developments in painting emphasized; special attention to
the Low Countries and Germany. G. Gorse (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
174. Italian Baroque Art. Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Rome
and the development of the Baroque style in the works of Caravaggio, the Caracci,
Gentileschi, Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Church and social history as
background. G. Gorse (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
177. Eighteenth-Century European Arts. The European Enlightenment will be explored,
with a focus on the visual and performing arts, and with concern for the popularization
of the arts through public displays and performances. Field trips to see original 18 th -
century works are planned. G. Gorse (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
178BK. Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation. Survey of the visual arts
produced by people of African descent in the U.S. from the colonial era to the present.
Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures. Examines
the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition that interrogates visual constructions
of “blackness” and “whiteness,” gender and sexuality as a means of revisioning
representational practices. P. Jackson (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
180. Seminar: Early 20th Century European Avant-Gardes. Examines major movements
of early 20 th -century European art, including cubism, dada, surrealism, futurism,
constructivism and productivism, to explore how the avant-garde irrevocably altered
traditional ideas of the definition and function of art. Prerequisite: one upper-division art
history course. J. Koss (Scripps) [not offered 2007-08]
181. Art Since 1945. Painting, sculpture, non-traditional art forms from Abstract
Expressionism to the present, emphasizing American art. Major artists (Pollock, Rothko,
Warhol, Stella), movements (Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Photorealism, Neo-
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