The religious and political context of the images and their social role. This course will be concerned only marginally with such vital issues of the late twentieth century as urban planning and mass housing. Philosophical constructs of the period that impinge only indirectly on the making of architecture will, likewise, command little attention. Instead, a handful of buildings that have focused the concerns and energies of those architects in whom leadership might be thought to be vested will be described and fully analyzed, for it is these buildings that have determined the patterns of change of late twentieth century architecture and have defined its form and nature. The Pre-Columbian artistic traditions of the central Andean region.
Graduate students are welcome.
Text to come. The discovery, illustration, aesthetic appreciation and scientific study of the ruins of various ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Greek, and Maya, and their role in the creation of art history as a discipline. The course will be based on the reading of eighteenth century and early nineteenth century texts that explored the notion of the picturesque in relation to landscape studies and served thus to formulate a theory of picturesque composition. This course sets out to examine critically the social, political, and aesthetic role of the museum in history, and contemporary culture. A review of the museum's history, the transformation of princely into national collections following the French Revolution, will offer us insight into the way in which the museum's function as both a repository and a source of knowledge, has been inflected by historical considerations.