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ARTH 101-920 PREHISTORY - RENAISSANCE GROLLEMOND, LARISA JAFFE BUILDING 113 TR 0900AM-1250PM This is a double introduction: to looking at the visual arts; and, to the ancient and medieval cities and empires of three continents - ancient Egypt, the Middle East and Iran, the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age, the Greek and Roman Mediterranean, and the early Islamic, early Byzantine and western Medieval world. Using images, contemporary texts, and art in our city, we examine the changing forms of art, architecture and landscape architecture, and the roles of visual culture for political, social and religious activity.
    Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)

    ARTS & LETTERS SECTOR

    ARTH 102-910 RENAISSANCE-CONTEMPORARY TRENCH, CAROLYN JAFFE BUILDING 113 TR 0115PM-0505PM This course is an introduction to the visual arts including painting, sculpture, print culture, and new media such as photography, film, performance and installation art in Europe and the United States from 1400 to the present. It offers a broad historical overview of the key movements and artists of the period, as well as an investigation into the crucial themes and contexts that mark visual art production after the middle ages. Such themes include the secularization of art; the (gendered) role of the artist in society; the sites of art production and consumption such as the artist's studio, the royal courts and the art exhibition; the materials of art; the import of technology and science to art's making, content and distribution; the rise of art criticism; and the socio-political contexts of patronage and audience; among others.
      Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)

      ARTS & LETTERS SECTOR

      ARTH 108-910 WORLD FILM HIST TO 1945 CONSOLATI, CLAUDIA FISHER-BENNETT HALL 323 MW 0100PM-0410PM This course surveys the history of world film from cinema's precursors to 1945. We will develop methods for analyzing film while examining the growth of film as an art, an industry, a technology, and a political instrument. Topics include the emergence of film technology and early film audiences, the rise of narrative film and birth of Hollywood, national film industries and movements, African-American independent film, the emergence of the genre film (the western, film noir, and romantic comedies), ethnographic and documentary film, animated films, censorship, the MPPDA and Hays Code, and the introduction of sound. We will conclude with the transformation of several film industries into propaganda tools during World War II (including the Nazi, Soviet, and US film industries). In addition to contemporary theories that investigate the development of cinema and visual culture during the first half of the 20th century, we will read key texts that contributed to the emergence of film theory. There are no prerequisites. Students are required to attend screenings or watch films on their own.
      • CINE101910
      • COML123910
      • ENGL091910
      Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)

      ARTS & LETTERS SECTOR

      ARTH 109-910 WORLD FILM HIST '45-PRES CORTEZ, CESAR FISHER-BENNETT HALL 139 TR 0530PM-0840PM Focusing on movies made after 1945, this course allows students to learn and to sharpen methods, terminologies, and tools needed for the critical analysis of film. Beginning with the cinematic revolution signaled by the Italian Neo-Realism (of Rossellini and De Sica), we will follow the evolution of postwar cinema through the French New Wave (of Godard, Resnais, and Varda), American movies of the 1950s and 1960s (including the New Hollywood cinema of Coppola and Scorsese), and the various other new wave movements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (such as the New German Cinema). We will then selectively examine some of the most important films of the last two decades, including those of U.S. independent film movement and movies from Iran, China, and elsewhere in an expanding global cinema culture. There will be precise attention paid to formal and stylistic techniques in editing, mise-en-scene, and sound, as well as to the narrative, non-narrative, and generic organizations of film. At the same time, those formal features will be closely linked to historical and cultural distinctions and changes, ranging from the Paramount Decision of 1948 to the digital convergences that are defining screen culture today. There are no perquisites. Requirements will include readings in film history and film analysis, an analytical essay, a research paper, a final exam, and active participation. Fulfills the Arts and Letters Sector (All Classes).
      • CINE102910
      • COML124910
      • ENGL092910
      Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)

      ARTS & LETTERS SECTOR

      ARTH 203-920 INTRODUCTION TO MUSEUMS SANECKI, JAMIE JAFFE BUILDING 104 TR 0115PM-0505PM Graphic art in Europe and America from its origins about A.D. 1400 through Durer, Rembrandt, and the modern world.
        ARTH 296-910 CONTEMPORARY ART ISGRO, MARINA JAFFE BUILDING 113 MWF 1200PM-0230PM Many people experience the art of our time as bewildering, shocking, too ordinary (my kid could do that), too intellectual (elitist), or simply not as art. Yet what makes this art engaging is that it raises the question of what art is or can be, employs a range of new materials and technologies, and addresses previously excluded audiences. It invades non-art spaces, blurs the boundaries between text and image, document and performance, asks questions about institutional frames (the museum, gallery, and art journal), and generates new forms of criticism. Much of the "canon" of what counts as important is still in flux, especially for the last twenty years. And the stage is no longer centered only on the United States and Europe, but is becoming increasingly global. The course will introduce students to the major movements and artists of the post-war period, with emphasis on social and historical context, critical debates, new media, and the changing role of the spectator/participant.
          ARTH 301-950 On-Site: Art in Venice, Past and Present POGGI, CHRISTINE Topic varies.
          • ITAL300950

          CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; ONLY OPEN TO LPS STUDENTS; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS

          ARTH 384-950 CUBAN ART & ARCHITECTURE LEVY, AARON
          SHAW, GWENDOLYN
          This course will focus on the urban history and cultural politics of contemporary Cuba with an emphasis on contemporary art and contemporary developments in the city of Havana. Students will learn about the Spanish influence on early colonial art, the development of formal academic art training and the changes to art instruction and the form and content of art created since the Revolution. This intensive summer travel course begins immediately following the conclusion of Spring 2016 final exams and requires that students maintain a Philadelphia residence through the end of May, 2016. Students will be expected to read several articles and book chapters, view films, and participate in two day-long meetings in advance of the May 13, 2016, departure for Havana, Cuba. While in Havana, students will continue to read and participate in daily discussions as we visit various artists' studios, collections, architectural monuments, and historical sites. Students will be asked to document these travel experiences digitally in a written journal and on Instagram (#penninhavana), and upon their return to the United States, they will be required to complete two written projects (a daily journal from the trip and a longer research essay). Several short online quizzes will be administered through the course Canvas site in advance and upon conclusion of the trip.

            CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; STUDY ABROAD COURSE; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS

            ARTH 393-910 TOPICS IN ANIMATION PINAR, EKIN FISHER-BENNETT HALL 140 TR 0100PM-0410PM Topic varies.
            • CINE320910
            • FNAR320910