{"id":1237,"date":"2011-08-12T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2011-08-12T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:44:27","slug":"new-art-history-course-offering-fall-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"New Art History Course Offering Fall 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ArtH 264 Islam from Spain to Russia and China: Art, Philosophy, and Politics in the Medieval World <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1239\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/08\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1239 \" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/08\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mosque, Cordoba, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ali Humayun Akhtar<br \/>\nT Th 4:40-6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>This course examines the encounter of Islam with cultures and civilizations from Spain to Russia and China 800-1750 by exploring the\u00a0 history of art, architecture, and material culture. The course examines specifically the political and philosophical dimensions of Islamic art in the pre-modern world in order to analyze more closely\u00a0 categories like the &#8220;West,&#8221; the &#8220;Middle East,&#8221; and the &#8220;Far East.&#8221; To what extent does the art and politics of the pre-modern world allow us to define these geographic categories as distinct cultural regions with clear intellectual borders? Can we consider additional models of historiography that extend beyond paradigms like &#8220;The West and the Islamic World\u201d or &#8220;Imperial Russia and the Islamic World&#8221;? How does our understanding of these paradigms change when we think in terms of \u00a0&#8220;trans-Mediterranean&#8221; and &#8220;trans-Caspian&#8221; artistic and political exchange?<\/p>\n<p>This course fulfills the Ancient through Medieval requirement or the non-Western requirement. Art History students who are interested should contact Professor Akhtar immediately by e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArtH 264 Islam from Spain to Russia and China: Art, Philosophy, and Politics in the Medieval World Ali Humayun Akhtar T Th 4:40-6:00 PM This course examines the encounter of Islam with cultures and civilizations from Spain to Russia and China 800-1750 by exploring the\u00a0 history of art, architecture, and material culture. The course examines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-chair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}