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400 Series:
 
412 Indian Temple Architecture. Meister
The history of architecture in India from ca. 100 B.C. to 1400 A.D., concentrating on the means by which a "language" for a symbolic architecture was developed. The University's South Asia Art Archives acts as a resource.
 
413 20th-Century Art in China and Japan. Davis
 
414 Post War Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture. Davis
Three great directors of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema, Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kurosawa, acknowledge their debt to and utilization of traditional visual culture.  How they transform those "frames of tradition" as they also manipulate the medium for particular visual effects will be central in our discussion of several films by each director.  We will also consider how these directors had an impact on international cinema and upon other Japanese directors, such as Miyazaki, Kitano and Itami in the 1980s and 1990s.
 
416 Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture. Holod
An introduction to the major architectural monuments and trends, as well as to the best-known objects of the medieval (7-14th C.) Islamic world. Attention will be paid to such issues as the continuity of late antique themes, architecture as symbol of community and power, the importance of textiles and primacy of writing. Suitable for students of literature, history, anthropology as well as art history.
 
417 Later Islamic Art and Architecture. Holod
Istanbul, Samarkand, Isfahan, Cairo and Delhi as major centers of art production in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Attention will be given to urban and architectural achievement as well as to the key monuments of painting and metalwork. The visual environment of the "gunpowder
empires."
 
422 Art of the Ancient Near East. Pittman
Emphasis on monumental art work of the Ancient Near East as the products of cultural and historical factors. Major focus will be on Mesopotamia from the late Neolithic to the Neo-Assyrian period, with occasional attention to related surrounding areas such as Western Iran, Anatolia, and Syria.
 
423 Greek Vase Painting. Ann Brownlee
 
427 Roman Sculpture. Kuttner
Survey of the Republican origins and Imperial development of Roman sculpture--free-standing and portraits, relief, and architectural--to 350 A.D. We concentrate on sculpture in the capital city and on court and state arts, emphasizing commemorative sculpture and Roman habits of decorative display. Key themes include the evolution of styles, depiction of time and space, programmatic decoration, and the vocabulary of political art.
 
428 Late Antique Roman Art: Survival and Mutation, A.D. 200-700. Kuttner
Survey of commemorative, decorative, and panegyric art, from the period of the soldier emperors to the 6th century A.D. Genres include mosaic, painting, sculpture, relief, sarcophagi, numismatics, and such luxury arts as metalwork, book illustration, figured textiles, carved ivory, and gems. Special themes are: commemorative and mythological iconography, retrospective and "medieval" styles, and the relationships of "pagan" to "classical" culture in the Christianized Empire.

431 Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Maxwell
Architecture and its decoration from early Christian times in the East and West until the sixth century A.D., and in the Byzantine lands until the Turkish Conquest.
 
442 Medieval Art in Italy to 1400. Maxwell
A survey of sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy from c. 300 to 1400.
 
461 Netherlandish Painting. Silver
Painting in the Low Countries from van Eyck to Bruegel.
 
472 Rococo to Romanticism. Staff
Art and architecture in Europe and England from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
 
473 Baroque Painting in Northern Europe. Silver
Flemish and Dutch painting in the seventeenth century; special attention given to Rembrandt and his contemporaries.
 
492 Modern Sculpture. Poggi
Major artists and movements in twentieth-century sculpture and related media, including earthworks, architectural sculpture, assemblage, installations, and performance.