Intro to Global Art History II

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A survey of the visual arts and architecture from a global perspective. This is a continuation of "Introduction to a Global Art History I," but the two courses may be taken independently of one another. Students are introduced to a wide range of artistic practices, styles, and media, including painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art, film, video, and architecture, in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The class examines many major periods and movements in the history of art, including material such as Renaissance painting in Italy and northern Europe; ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Japan; power figures in Africa; Impressionism in nineteenth-century France and America; Cubism and Abstract Expressionism in the early twentieth century; and contemporary art worldwide.