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AHVS349 - Islam and the West: Artistic Contacts, 1500-1900

Description

An examination of the different modes of artistic contact between the Islamic world and the West from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. The developing artistic dialogue is examined in the context of the political and cultural history of this period. Traces the changing representations of the Islamic world in European painting and book illustration, the growth of Orientalist aesthetics in Europe and the introduction of Western themes into the arts of Turkey, Syria, Iran and India.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Formerly

HA 349

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of AHVS 349, HA 349.

Course offered by

Department of Art History and Visual Studies

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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