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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race through historical documents and contemporary writings.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 self-identity,
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
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