Mar 28, 2024  
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ARH 3200:Ancient American Art and Architecture

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARH 2750  and ENGL 1102 
This course surveys the arts of select Mesoamerica and Andean cultures up to the colonial period. Monuments are studied in a chronological framework with emphasis on the principles and concepts that underlie the art. Style, technique, and media are considered, as well as the varied contexts of art production and reception and the interrelation of art with religion, statecraft, gender, and nature. Sculpture, architecture, textiles, earthworks, metals, and ceramics are the principal art media under consideration.



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