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Art and Art History 1 ARTH:1025 Buyer Beware! Fakes, Thefts, and the Global Art Market 3 s.h. Art and Art History Examination of how manipulated artworks and outright forgeries have been accepted as genuine and sold on the Director art market to museums and private collectors alike; how the • Steve McGuire global art market is connected to the theft of art and the looting of archaeological sites; case studies (i.e., Parthenon Undergraduate majors: art (B.A., B.F.A.); art history (B.A.) marbles, Benin bronzes, widespread looting under ISIS in Syria Undergraduate minors: art; art history and Iraq) allow for discussions about the relationship between Graduate degrees: M.A. in art; M.A. in art history; M.F.A. in colonialism, geopolitical power, and artwork displayed in art; Ph.D. in art history museums. Faculty: https://art.uiowa.edu/people/faculty Website: https://art.uiowa.edu/ ARTH:1030 Themes in Global Art 3 s.h. Key themes in art from a global perspective; propaganda and power, social functions of art, word and image, ritual and body Courses decoration, artistic exchange, religion. GE: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts; Values and Culture. • Art History Courses [p. 1] • Studio Art Courses [p. 6] ARTH:1040 Arts of Africa 3 s.h. Arts, artists, and cultures of Africa; sculpture, paintings, • Animation Courses [p. 6] pottery, textiles, architecture, human adornment. GE: • General Art Courses [p. 6] International and Global Issues; Literary, Visual, and • Ceramics Courses [p. 8] Performing Arts. • Design Courses [p. 9] ARTH:1045 Race and Art in America 3 s.h. • Three-Dimensional Design Courses [p. 9] Chronological development and critical themes of African • Drawing Courses [p. 10] American visual culture; material culture of slave artists, • Intermedia Courses [p. 10] history of racist imagery in the U.S., most important African American fine artists; slave dwellings, quilts, paintings, • Jewelry and Metal Arts Courses [p. 11] sculpture, photography; W.E.B. Du Bois' claim to Egyptian • Painting Courses [p. 11] artistic patrimony, controversial work of Kara Walker, hip hop • Papermaking Courses [p. 12] aesthetic of Kehinde Wiley; previous art history experience • Photography Courses [p. 12] not required. GE: Values and Culture. • Printmaking Courses [p. 13] ARTH:1050 From Cave Paintings to Cathedrals: Survey • Sculpture Courses [p. 14] of Western Art I 3 s.h. • Art Education Courses [p. 14] Survey to foster development of critical skills in thinking and writing about visual culture, and to familiarize students Art History Courses with broad outlines of artistic development in the Western tradition, from prehistory through later Middle Ages; aesthetic An introductory course in the appropriate art history area qualities of artworks, relationship between style, function, or consent of instructor is prerequisite for some courses and meaning. GE: Historical Perspectives; Literary, Visual, and numbered above 3000. Courses titled "Themes in …" consider Performing Arts. topics of current interest in the field, organized thematically ARTH:1060 From Mona Lisa to Modernism: Survey of rather than chronologically. Western Art II 3 s.h. ARTH:1000 First-Year Seminar 1 s.h. Survey of the Western world's visual arts from Renaissance Small discussion class taught by a faculty member; topics (ca. 1400) to present; major movements and principal masters chosen by instructor; may include outside activities (e.g., of Western Europe and the United States in their social and films, lectures, performances, readings, visits to research historical contexts; focus on stimulation of visual literacy facilities). Requirements: first- or second-semester standing. and familiarity with outstanding cultural monuments. GE: ARTH:1010 Art and Visual Culture 3 s.h. Historical Perspectives; Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. Visual analysis, media and techniques, artistic subject matter ARTH:1070 Asian Art and Culture 3 s.h. and aesthetic issues; historical periods and movements Art from India, China, and Japan in many media and forms, from ancient times to present; provides strong orientation in their cultural and historical contexts; cultural distinctions to visual aspects of humanities, background for other art of these Asian civilizations as seen through the visual arts; history courses, and introduction to visual arts for personal chronology used to highlight historical processes and provide enrichment; for students new to art history. GE: Historical perspectives on continuity and change. Taught in English. GE: Perspectives; Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. Historical Perspectives; Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. ARTH:1020 Masterpieces: Art in Historical and Cultural ARTH:1080 How to Write About Art 3 s.h. Perspectives 3 s.h. Opportunity to develop understanding of and skill in using Masterpieces of Western art—how to look at, think about, visual-arts writing conventions and linguistic competencies and understand some of the worlds' most exciting works that are necessary for academic and professional success; of architecture, painting, and sculpture; their construction, formats such as exhibition reviews, art criticism, research hidden meanings, historical content, and their meanings writing, artist's statements; experience through exercises, today. GE: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. formal essays, revision, workshops. Requirements: fulfillment of GE CLAS Core Rhetoric. 2 Art and Art History ARTH:1090 Earthly Paradises: A Global History of ARTH:2330 Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art3 s.h. Gardens 3 s.h. Art and architecture of Egypt and the Near East (ca. 3500 Fundamental and universal question—what is the relationship B.C.E.) to advent of Islam; Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, between humanity and nature; how ornamental garden has Babylonian, and Persian cultures; artistic responses to life functioned as a metaphor for paradise across time and among and death; impact of breakthroughs in technology and diverse cultures; basic tools to analyze any landscape design; engineering on visual culture; role of art in empire building; how artful manipulation of nature has served to express interrelationships of art, politics, and religion. Same as various political, religious, and social ideals across the globe; CLSA:2330. comprehensive and chronological survey of garden design ARTH:2340 The Power of Art in Greece and Rome 3 s.h. development. GE: Historical Perspectives. Art and architecture of Greece and Rome (ca. 3000 B.C.E.) ARTH:1095 Native American Art 3 s.h. to death of Constantine (337 C.E.); Cycladic, Minoan, Survey of the visual arts of Indigenous peoples in North Mycenaean, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cultures; artistic America with emphasis on regions that have become the responses to life and death; impact of breakthroughs in United States; exploration of painting, sculpture, ceramics, technology and engineering on visual culture; role of art in fiber arts, performance, and architecture as expressions of empire building; interrelationships of art, politics, and religion. identity, creativity, resistance, and resilience from ancestral Same as CLSA:2340. traditions through transformations prompted by non-Native ARTH:2420 Medieval Art from Constantine to contact to today's vibrant art scene. GE: Literary, Visual, and Columbus 3 s.h. Performing Arts; Values and Culture. Same as NAIS:1095. Comprehensive survey of artistic traditions of Western Europe ARTH:2020 Western Architecture from Prehistory to and Mediterranean Basin from roughly 300 to 1500; reign the Present 3 s.h. of Roman Emperor Constantine to lifetime of Christopher Overview of monuments, Neolithic period to present; aesthetic Columbus; complexity and diversity of cultural and artistic and structural principles, major styles, architects. traditions that flourished in these so-called Middle Ages, ARTH:2030 American Architecture: From Log Cabins to where blending of Roman and northern legacies created Skyscrapers 3 s.h. European cultures. Characteristics of American public, domestic, and industrial ARTH:2520 Italian Renaissance Art 3 s.h. architecture as evolved from Native American contact period Italian art, architecture from early Renaissance to 1600. to present; visual features of American-built environment ARTH:2530 High Renaissance Art and Mannerism: and social, political, and economic factors that shaped Michelangelo to Caravaggio 3 s.h. development; design contributions of individual architects, Most consequential works of High Renaissance and impact of new technology, and growth of architectural Mannerist art by late 15th-century and 16th-century Italian profession. artists; developments in painting, architecture, sculpture, ARTH:2120 Art and Architecture of the Islamic printmaking, and portable arts; Michelangelo, Leonardo da World 3 s.h. Vinci, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, Correggio, Lotto, Bronzino, Introduction to the artistic production of the Islamic world Sonfonisba Anguissola, Palladio, Cellini, Veronese, Carracci, from the 7th century to present day; broad geographical and Caravaggio receive close consideration; particular coverage; examination of contributions of Arabia and the attention given to materials and techniques employed, Middle East as well as those of Spain, North Africa, India, and creative approach of the artist, and multiple functions of the Asia; students consider a wide variety of media including image in government and statecraft, churches, public spaces, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and calligraphy; emphasis on and private homes; constructing