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ARTH 394 - Seminar in Art History


FDR: HA
Credits: 3-4


Prerequisites: Three credits in art history and instructor consent. Research in selected topics in art history with written and oral reports. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2018, ARTH 394-01:Owning the Past: Monuments, Sites, and Memory in Islamic India (3). Islam is a minority religion in India, but Muslim dynasties ruled large swathes of the country for centuries. How did these rulers legitimate and define themselves in a majority Hindu society? This course explores how art and architecture were used by the Sultanates and Mughals to mediate between past sources of authority and contemporary identities. Case studies and key issues shed light on practices of artistic appropriation and translation. Students investigate the complexity of how Muslims in India have found ways to communicate both their Islamic and Indian identities, roughly from the 7th to the 18th centuries. (HA) Gustafson.




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