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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ART 271L - Religion and the Arts

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | 
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course examines the interplay between religion and aesthetics, as expressed through the literary, visual, and performing arts. Structured thematically rather than by religious tradition, this course covers topics such as religious seeing, visual representation of the divine through icons and iconography, iconoclasm and the power of images, aniconism, calligraphy and geometric design, sacred space and religious architecture, religion and the book arts, religious music, dance, and drama, visual narrativization, and religious ritual as performance. ART 271L and ASIAN 271L  and RELSTY 271L  are the same course.

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