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  • ARTH 3450: Land Art/Use in ContArt

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course introduces the discipline of art history through a variety of cultural and geographic perspectives. Rather than offering a comprehensive narrative that attempts to document centuries of artistic production, we instead focus on key histories, sites, and objects that allow us to explore significant themes and concepts that have challenged cultures over time. We will explore defining issues such as the respective roles of tradition and innovation in the production and appreciation of art; the relation of art and visual culture to its broader intellectual and historical contexts; the role of display and exchange in creating meaning in art; and the changing concepts of the artist, style, and art itself.
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  • ARTH 3460: Feminism & Art History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course introduces students to the complex ways in which artists and art historians have engaged with the politics of gender and representation in the 20th and 21st centuries. The first part of the course explores pre-modern artworks through the lens of feminist art history, and the second part considers how feminist theory and practice have transformed practices of representation in the modern and contemporary world.
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  • ARTH 3510: Modern Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class will explore how modernity was absorbed and reflected in the visual arts of Latin America during the 19th and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Within this genealogy we will address how art sustains real and imagined narratives of a Latin American identity with particular attention to class, gender, race and ethnic representations.
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  • ARTH 3520: Brazilian Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class will investigate Brazilian artistic production from the 1600s to the present. The course is oriented around the role of different institutions such as the church, slavery, the art academy, the state, and museums/galleries in the construction of a national identity within Brazilian Art.
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  • ARTH 3540: Border Visual Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class will investigate different manifestations of the U.S./Mexican border in the visual arts. Examining different perspectives through a variety of media, this class will complicate and expand the more one-dimensional treatment of the border in mass media as a linear and fixed entity. Throughout the class we will explore how representations of the border correspond to shifting social, political and economic circumstances as well as discourses surrounding multiculturalism and globalization.
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  • ARTH 3550: Latin Amer Avant-Gardes

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The course will focus on the growth of institutions such as the museum and the biennale in championing a Latin American avant-garde. The course will address both international influences as well as specific local conditions in circumscribing the category of the avant-garde art in Latin America.
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  • ARTH 3600: History of Photography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course traces the different directions photography has taken since its inception. Using the social and cultural environment as a context and focus, the ever-increasing use by artists of photography from the camera obscura to the present will be examined. Photography's invention would change the role of the artists from the 19th- through 21st-centuries. Course lectures will cover the many uses of photography including its rise as a separate art form and how it has changed our perceptions of the world. In the 21st-century, photographs have become a discreet language of signs, symbols, and metaphors with implied narratives.
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  • ARTH 3700: Study Abroad

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This lecture course provides for the study of art and architecture in a country outside of the United States Prerequisites: Full Major or Minor status in Art History.
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  • ARTH 3820: Topics Ren/Baroque Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores different topics and themes in the study of European art, c. 1400-1700. Course content varies by semester.
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  • ARTH 4000: Good Looking

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The course introduces students to reading, looking, and writing about art and visual culture. In addition, it will introduce students to seminal theoretical texts that address the issues of visual perspectives on race, class, gender, the body, art and culture. The assigned texts raise relevant questions: What is an image? How does one acquire visual literacy? What is the relationship between word and image? How does one approach and write about images effectively? Where does meaning reside? How has the emergence of the Internet and the digital camera changed our notions of an image and its replications? The course is structured around different media and thematic issues. One of the goals of the course is to teach students to write about all facets of art and visual images; more importantly, students will walk away from this course with the knowledge of, and polished skills in, different writing styles (descriptive, analytical, theoretical, creative/poetic, and research). Prerequisites: "C-" or better in ARTH 2500 AND Instructor Consent AND Full Major or Minor status in Art History.
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