Course Code
ARTH 2052
Credits
3
Department
Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
Associate Professor
Survey of Egyptian art and architecture (Predynastic to the end of the New Kingdom, ca. 4000-1100 BC). The course introduces students to the great monuments and works of art of ancient Egypt, elucidates the system of beliefs that brought them about, and explains the existence and symbolic meaning of pharaonic visual culture. Moreover, the neglected ‘others’ of Egyptian society (e.g. women, cross-gendered persons, foreigners, commoners) and their material culture are brought into focus to gain a nuanced and complex understanding of ancient Egypt. The course combines art historical and archaeological perspectives.