Art Across Cultures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ARTS1-CE9066
/ $470
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education:
Arts Programs
All world cultures are related--sometimes by history, sometimes by practice. What does classical Greek sculpture owe to Africa? What is the connection between Islamic art and Islam? Or Buddhist sculpture to classical Greece? How does the perspective of a Chinese landscape differ from European perspective and why? In a series of wide-ranging lectures, discuss these cultures, drawing out the stylistic and cultural similarities, raising questions, and testing various critical approaches. In doing so, gain an introduction to the museum that reveals it to be not a mausoleum of individual dead things but a dynamic, ever-growing whole.
Tuition includes museum fees.
Related Subject Areas:
Art History,
World Cultures and Civilizations
Section 1
Tuesday 11:30am-1:10pm
February 14 - May 8
Meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No class Mar. 13.
12 Sessions
Instructor:
Paul Werner
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
