Classical Art and Archaeology
This course is an introductory survey of classical art and archaeology from the Bronze Age in Greece to the height of the Roman Empire.
We offer fascinating courses that address general theories of visual communication, as well as the history of particular cultures. The variety of our course topics interest students from many backgrounds and a wide variety of disciplines. We offer courses in African, American, Ancient Greek and Roman, Contemporary, East Asian, Islamic, Late Antique and Byzantine, Medieval, Modern European, and Renaissance and Baroque art of Europe.
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This course is an introductory survey of classical art and archaeology from the Bronze Age in Greece to the height of the Roman Empire.
This course studies how the evolving, entangled roles of curators, artists, art critics, and scholars have changed the display and making of contemporary art and examine how art museums and exhibitions have long been important and controversial sites of activism, surveillance, and institutional critique.
American architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and graphics from seventeenth century to the Armory Show of 1913.
In this course, we will explore the history of calligraphy in China, from the birth of writing in the Shang dynasty (c. 1300 BCE) through the development of different script types and the rise of the famous calligraphers to the invention of nonsense characters in the 20th century.