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Jan 02, 2025
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ARTH 299 - Art of World Religions 3 hours
In cultures across the globe, artists, laborers and artisans strive to bring important ideas and beliefs to life through their work in structures, images and objects used in religious practice. In this course, we will explore how in the past and present artists intersect the visual to the meaning of life. We will look at work about the major world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism; as well as the art of less well-known religions like the pantheon of the Yoruba and Vodoun and the religious practices of the Aztecs, Mixtec, and Inca. We will see how intersections of these practices often produced syncretic images in many cases, and identify differences as well. This course is an in depth examination of a theme. Students will be expected to think critically about the objects we examine and to establish a canon of 100 important religious artifacts-mirroring the British Museum’s History of the World in 100 Objects-from their own in-class research and discussions. We will whenever possible draw from primary source documents and important art historical and critical texts. The goal of the course is for students to have a broad understanding of the places and ways in which visual culture and religion intersect and for students to gain an understanding of how the world considers aesthetic objects as related to their functional purposes.
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