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370. Art of the Courts in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Europe. Examination of the major courts of Europe in
France, England, Germany, and Italy to study the development of court culture and the relationships and exchanges
between the different courts through marriage alliances, exchanges of presents, and shifts in taste and style. Focus on
the courts of Louis IX in France, Henry III and Edward II in England, and the court of Naples from 1266 onwards. Topics
include patterns of spirituality, family relationships, and the role of women and books. Instructor: Bruzelius. 3 units.
371. Art and Culture in the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. A seminar on the importation of French culture to Italy after
the conquest of Charles of Anjou in 1266. Focus on the shift within the Kingdom of Naples from models and styles
derived from northern Europe to a focus on the environment of Rome, Tuscany, and the Mediterranean basin by the end
of the thirteenth century. Topics include patterns of patronage, the production of books and manuscripts, the
construction of civic and religious monuments, tomb sculpture, and city planning. Instructor: Bruzelius. 3 units.
372. Western Monasticism and Its Buildings. The development of monastic planning and space within the western
tradition. The concept of the cloister and its position, the disposition of utilitarian buildings, and the relationships
between decoration (painting, sculpture) and spiritual life; the rejection of the enclosed monastic life as a result of the
founding of the mendicant orders. The monastic life and its spaces for men were reinforced for women with new types
of regulations on barriers, grills, and access to the lay public and the sacraments, a process that for the Middle Ages
culminates with the bull Pericoloso of Boniface VIII in 1297. Instructor: Bruzelius. 3 units.
373. The Paris Salon; Artists, Critics, and Institutions 1815-1900. Approaches the major exhibition of contemporary
French painting and sculpture from multiple perspectives, highlighting involvement of successive political regimes in
regulating the artistic economy. Analysis of artists' relationship with-and attempts to modify-the Salon structure, the
emergence of alternative exhibiting venues, and the growth of the commercial art market. Particular emphasis on
contemporary critical responses to artworks, viewed in the light of wider changes in journalism and the literary market
place. Crucial texts and controversies over particular works will be examined in depth. The implications of reception
theory for art history will be explored. Instructor: McWilliam. 3 units.
374. Jerusalem. Seminar assesses the contribution of Jerusalem's buildings to its contentiousness from Biblical to
modern times. Particular sites (Me'a She'rim, the Dome of the Rock, the Holy Sepulchre, the Kotel or Wailing Wall,
the souk, the Israeli Supreme Court, the Museum of the Seam, the Fence, etc.) considered in the context of the urban
history of the city from the time of Jesus through Arab, Crusader, Turkish and British rule to contemporary Israeli
control. How these places act upon the religious imagination and how they affect the ideological positions of their users
(and their abusers) discussed on the basis of photographs, archaeological reports, news reports, novels, sacred texts and
diaries. Instructor: Wharton. 3 units.
376. Through a Glass Diasporally: Photography, Film, and Video. This seminar examines photographic, cinematic, and
other mass media images of people of African descent as a means of exploring questions that have recently been asked
about racial and cultural identities in the ''black Atlantic,'' the ''burden'' of racial representations; and art produced during
this era of ''mechanical reproduction.'' Focus on images of blacks as seen in ethnographic, documentary, and fine art
photography; silent and sound film; and broadcast television and video art, past and present, by both black and nonblack
artists, along with assorted critical writings about mass media images of blacks. Instructor: Powell. 3 units.
377. Performing Gender/Exhibiting Race. Studying the intersections of race and gender in art since 1945 invites a host
of visual subjects and methodological strategies. This seminar examines works by artists like Barkely Hendricks, David
Hammons, Adrian Piper, Jean-Michel Basquist, Faith Ringgold, and Kara Walker, and traces the theorizing of gender
and race through historical documents and contemporary writings. Instructor: Powell. 3 units.
378. Outsiders and Insiders. An exploration of the phenomenon in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, when critics began to differentiate between art from learned, civilized communities and art from
an uneducated, barbaric population. From the Beaux-Arts and Völkerkunde, to the debates surrounding primitivism,
modernism, and popular culture. An examination of the idea of an art hierarchy and other concepts of artistic outsiders
and insiders from a variety of positions, taking into account nationality, class, literacy, economics, race, and gender in
the categorization and evaluation of art. Instructor: Powell. 3 units.
379. Fascism East and West: The Visual Culture of Japan, Germany, and Italy. Through a close analysis of cultural
production and aesthetics, this course examines the relationship between the politics of fascism and its symbolic
practices; how forms of rituals, myths, and images played a crucial role in the formation of the fascist regime's selfidentity,
and the formation of the national fascist subject. Materials include painting, sculpture, architecture,
photography, graphic design, mass media, film, and forms of public spectacle and pageantry. Instructor: Weisenfeld.
3 units.
380. Art and Markets. New research that negotiates various possibilities in reuniting ideas, theories, and reception
codes, different from those we currently identify. Various scenarios generated will focus on unexpected interplays
between images and audiences within their local, timely, and particular socioeconomic frame. Instructor: De Marchi
and Van Miegroet. 3 units.
381. Destinations. Consideration of architectures of play, escape, and healing. History and physical form of sites from
antiquity to the present (for example, the Roman and Byzantine spa at Hieropolis, the pilgrimage shrine at Lourdes;
Disney World) studied through primary sources and theoretical texts. Instructor: Wharton. 3 units. C-L: Religion 381
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