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  • ARTH 3160: Islamic Art and Arch

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course surveys the art and architecture from the premodern Islamic world, roughly the seventh to sixteenth centuries. We will follow the patronage of major polities and art produced in the central Islamic lands, while at the same time highlighting new methodological approaches in an expanded field. We will be interested in theorizing relationships between centers and peripheries; in the significance of materials and facture; in networks of trade, conflict, and exchange; and in formal continuity and change. Case studies will include works of architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and the arts of the book. The course consists of in-person lectures and discussions of readings.
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  • ARTH 3170: Medieval Byzantium

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Course content focuses on the power of artistic forms molded for a Roman Empire, Christianized and reseated in Constantinople. Through lecture, discussions, oral reports, and written essays, images and structures reveal a co-mingling of religious and political spheres. We will explore Byzantine perceptions of experimentation, innovation, and maturation. Students will also analyze the effect of iconoclasm, a cataclysmic period of theological controversy, on models of patronage, visual expression and viewership.
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  • ARTH 3180: Islamic Art of the Book

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course serves as an introduction to Islamic arts of the book: from the earliest Qur'ans to the lavish narratives of the Timurids and manuscripts of the early modern Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals. Although the course is organized roughly according to chronology, we will pay particular attention to questions about materials and facture, reading and performance, copying and originality, the relationship between text and image, and the exchange of knowledge. In-person lectures and discussions of readings (including primary sources in translation) will be supplemented with visits to Marriott Library Special Collections.
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  • ARTH 3200: Renaissance Europe

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Examines 15th- and 16th-century art in Europe. The goal is to understand what is meant by the cultural movement of the Renaissance and to explore its relationship to the works of the leading artists of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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  • ARTH 3210: Italian Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class investigates the visual arts of the Italian peninsula, c. 1400-1580. Students will examine the social conditions of art production and patronage, as well as the various roles for images in religious, urban and domestic settings.
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  • ARTH 3250: Baroque Art Europe

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The 17th century was a time of dynamic political, social, and religious changes calling for a re-examination of tradition and the purposes of art. Many artists in Italy, Flanders, Holland, Spain, France, and England experimented with ways of involving the viewer in their art for persuasion and more engagement in the issues of the day.
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  • ARTH 3260: Reformation Europe

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course examines European visual and material culture in the context of the religious, social and political transformations of the Protestant Reformation and its aftermath. The late medieval context will form an initial background to our exploration of the intensive critique and physical destruction of religious imagery by Reformers in Northern Europe. While the emphasis is on religious artifacts, we will be concerned with the changing functions, concepts, and uses of a range of images over the course of the sixteenth century.
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  • ARTH 3270: Dutch Golden Age

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class examines the visual and material culture of the Dutch Republic, c. 1580-1700. Major themes include: mercantile culture and the art market, relationship between art and science, global trade, and gender and domesticity.
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  • ARTH 3280: Artful Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In the early modern cabinet of wonders, objects, and devices drawn from intersecting realms of art, science, and technology offered a new model of learning, one founded in the embodied acquisition of knowledge. This course explores how such collections gave impetus to the development of experimental science and related forms of multi-sensory inquiry in Europe, ca. 1500-1800. Through a series of focused case studies, we will examine the rich interplay between making, collecting, perceiving, and knowing that developed around early modern artworks, artifacts, scientific instruments, and technological devices.
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  • ARTH 3310: Arts of Enlightenment

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    A study of transformations in the art and culture of Europe and America during the age of Enlightenment, viewed in relation to key scientific, social, and cultural developments. Students examine the role of visual experience in the rise of empiricism, the development of the public sphere, humanitarian reform, and the culture of sensibility.
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