105. INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
Prerequisites: None Listed
Survey of the major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
Professor | Section | Index |
| CAC, W3F4, 11:3012:50, VH105, Shields | 01 | 66126 | CAC, TTH8, 7:40-9:00, VH105, Haakenson | 03 | 65307 |
106. INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
Prerequisites: None Listed
This class is a survey of the major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Early Renaissance to Contemporary.
Index | Section | Course Time/Place | Instructor |
| 60012 | 01 | MTH3,VH105 & M2 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60013 | 02 | MTH3, VH105 & M4 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60014 | 04 | MTH3, VH105 & T2 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60015 | 05 | MTH3, VH105 & W2 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60016 | 06 | MTH3, VH105 & W3 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60017 | 07 | MTH3, VH105 & TH2 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60018 | 08 | MTH3, VH105 & TH4 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60019 | 09 | MTH3, VH105 & TH4 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 60020 | 10 | TTH4, VH105 & M2 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 60022 | 11 | TTH4, VH105 & M5 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60023 | 12 | TTH4, VH105 & T2 VH 006E | Paul & Flores | 60024 | 13 | TTH4, VH105 & T3 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60025 | 14 | TTH4, VH105 & T3 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 60026 | 15 | TTH4, VH105 & T5 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 64497 | 16 | TTH4, VH105 & W2 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 64498 | 17 | TTH4, VH105 & W3 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 64499 | 18 | TTH4, VH105 & W4 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 60027 | 20 | TTH4, VH105 & TH2 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 60021 | 21 | TTH4, VH105 & TH3 VH006D | Paul & Flores | 65309 | 22 | TTH4, VH105 & TH3 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 66248 | 23 | TTH4, VH105 & TH5 VH006E | Paul & Flores | 65310 | 25 | MTH2, ARH 200, DOUGLASS | Estevez | 60028 | 30 | MW8, VH105, CAC | Estevez | 65734 | 31 | S900-1155, VH105, CAC | Sablove |
250. INTRO. AFRICAN, OCEANIC, PRE-COLUMBIAN
Index: 74233
CAC, TTH4, 1:10-2:30, ZAM-MPR, Brett-Smith
This course will provide a conceptual overview of the concepts necessary to understanding the arts of Non-Western cultures. Differing perceptions of time, space, the natural landscape, architecture, the nature of art and its ritual functions will be discussed. Materials will be drawn from Pre-Columbian, African, and Oceanic artistic traditions. It is recommended that undergraduates take this course before any other Non-Western courses.
294. TOPICS IN ART HISTORY: ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
Index: 71702
CAC, MW6, 4:30-5:50, HHA7, Kahlaoui
This is a survey course on the history of Islam from its beginning to the modern times. We will emphasize on the geographic area of the Middle East and North Africa and we will explore Islamic history through four major periods: first, the rise of Islam, the establishment of the Caliphate, and the early Islamic empires (600 – 1000 AD); second, the fragmentation of the early empires and the formation of the princely states (1000 – 1500 AD); third, the rise of the Non-Arab Islamic empires, the Ottomans and the Safawids (1500-1900 AD); and fourth, the Colonial challenge, the end of the Islamic Caliphate, and the postcolonial states (1900 - present-day). Within this wide chronological and geographical framework we will focus on the role of institutions, religious thought, and visual culture in shaping the historical events through a select number of references and translated texts from primary sources. The course will be using extensively various images including maps, architectural monuments, and artworks. Each week there will be readings and key images. Some weeks will include the reading of key texts
in translation.
305. WOMEN AND ART
Index: 68212
Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106
CAC, MTH3, 11:30-12:50, MU301, Marter
This course is primarily about contemporary women artists, with some background in women artists of the 19th and 20th century. Field trips will be included to galleries and museums in New York City.
308. THE AGE OF GIOTTO
Index: 74235
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106
CAC, TF2, 9:50-11:10, ZAM-EDR, McHam
Italian art and architecture from ca. 1250 to ca. 1400, with an emphasis on the stylistic and thematic innovations of Giotto and his successors and the development of the schools of Florence, Siena, and Venice.
310. THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
Index: 69611
Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106 or permission of the instructor
CAC, TTH5, 2:50-4:10, ZAM-MPR, Paul
Sixteenth-century art and architecture, emphasizing the achievements of the great central Italian masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo; the artistic cult of personality and rivalry with classical antiquity; the crisis of Mannerism.
312. BYZANTINE ART
Index: 74236
Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106 or permission of the instructor
CAC, MW5, 2:50-4:10, ZAM-MPR, Harvey
An examination of the art and architecture of the Roman and Byzantine empires from Late Antiquity until the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 A.D.
323. BUDDHIST ART OF ASIA
Index: 74238
Prerequisites: None Listed
CAC, MW4, 1:10-2:30, VH104, Howard
Buddhist Art of Asia introduces the growth and diffusion of Buddhism in India, Central Asia, and early China. We shall study the birth of this religion in India about 500 BCE when first preached by its founder Gautama Siddhartha, the future Buddha, and will follow its continuous development and adaptation as it reached out of India to East Asia. Art is examined within its historic and religious framework with particular attention paid to the different ways each culture built sacred spaces and made devotional images at variance with tradition set by India. This course will appeal and is beneficial also to students of religion.
324. JAPANESE PAINTING
Index: 74239
CAC, MW5, 2:50-4:10, VH104, Howard
Secular paintings in different formats – hand-scrolls, hanging scrolls, screens, and prints – are considered through the lenses of literature. During a thousand years, from the Heian to the Tokugawa period (794-1868), artists transformed into visual images both the emotions and the events described in poetry, courtly narratives, military epics, and theatrical plays. Adapted to different formats, literature became an integral, indivisible aspect of the arts and expressed the aesthetic taste of different social groups – aristocrats, shoguns, and urban bourgeoisie. This course is structured to appeal to art history and Asian studies majors.
328. Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture in the Islamic World
Index: 76652
Prerequisites:
CAC, TTH5, 2:50-4:10, MU-301, Kahlaoui
This course will examine the contemporary histories of visual culture including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and cinema in the Islamic world with a special focus on the Arabic, Turkish, and Persian spheres. Beginning from the 19th century we will overview how the visual culture became increasingly present and reflective of the general debates defining the contemporary Islamic world.
The recent Danish cartoons crisis and the destruction of Bamiyan’s Little Buddha are only the most known examples of the public debates shaping the Islamic visual culture. With the wide and fast spread of modern media in the Islamic world beginning from photography in the 19th century to the information revolution by the end of the 20th century visual culture has been constantly changing in this part of the world. Images are an integral part of contemporary Islam political and cultural discourses. Yet the same issues seem to be debated. Visual self-representation is at the heart of visual production. The conflict over cultural identity and reaction to modernity are the main themes of artistic production.
This course also fills the requirements for an elective course within the Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS).
342. EARLY GREEK ART
Index: 71216
Prerequisites: 01:082:105, or permission of instructor
CAC, MW5, 2:50-4:10, MU-301, Kenfield
Survey of art in the Aegean from the early Bronze Age through the Archaic period (ca. 2500-500 B.C.).
347. EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN PAINTING
Index: 74696
Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106 or permission of instructor
CAC, MW4, 1:10-2:30, ZAM-EDR, Weigert
This course focuses on art produced from ca. 1420-1530 in northern Europe. Our goal will be to determine what is distinctive about this period of artistic production. Can we define this period as a "renaissance," and if so, how does it differ from the contemporary phenomenon in Italy? In what ways is art-making in the fifteenth century related to medieval artistic production and how is it new? Focusing on individual artists from Van Eyck to Bruegel, we will discuss the changing status of the artist, patron, audience and the form, function, and subject matter of art from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century. We will discuss key themes in art historical literature: symbolism, realism, portraiture, and the idea of the "Renaissance" in northern Europe in relation to specific works of art. Throughout the course we will evaluate different interpretations of individual works of art and of the period as a whole in art historical literature.
350. REMBRANDT AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION
Index: 75622
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106 or permission of instructor
CAC, TF3, 11:30-12:50, MU-301, Schmid
This lecture course will provide an in-depth survey of Rembrandt’s work and life. The course will have three goals: to situate Rembrandt’s work within the context of Dutch art of the period, to consider what was new and innovative in Rembrandt’s narrative content and artistic technique, and to analyze specific recurring and developing themes in his art. Readings for the course will be focused on the most recent research, in particular the literature timed for the Rembrandt Year of 2006 (the 400th anniversary of his birth). We will evaluate this literature together to consider its merits and overarching trends, and to arrive at our own conclusions about the state of Rembrandt studies.
A guided visit to the Metropolitan Museum with the Curator of Dutch Paintings is planned.
374. ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART
Index: 74241
Prerequisites: 01:082:105, 106 or permission of instructor
CAC, MTH2, 9:50-11:10, ZAM-MPR, Thuno
Art and architecture of Western Europe from AD 1000 to 1400.
376. ARTS OF CENTRAL AFRICA
Index: 71007
Prerequisites: Prerequisite 01:082:250 or 371, or permission of instructor
CAC, TTH5, 2:50-4:10, ZAM-EDR, Brett-Smith
This course surveys the arts of Central Africa. It will begin with the art of Benin and progress south and eastwards moving through the highlands of Cameroon, to the Fang of Gabon and then south to the Kongo of the Central African Republic. We will also cover the art of the Kuba, the Pende, the Tshokwe, and the Luba in the Central African Republic. Thematically the course will focus on the role of art objects as mediators between the dead and the living. We will also examine the role of art in politics and in constructing ideas of gender. The course will have a midterm and a final.
383. HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 1900-TODAY
Index: 68337
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106 or permission of instructor
CAC, MW4, 1:10-2:30, ZAM-MPR, Zervigon
This course provides an in-depth survey of photography’s history from the turn of the last century to today. Our goal will be to tease out trends in the medium’s use across a number of overlapping fields including art, journalism, science, and vernacular practices such as family portraiture. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which photography often operates as a bridge linking these various fields. Why, for example, are photographs of America’s depression-era dustbowl both government documents and works of art? How is the development of digital photography both a new means of disseminated images over the internet and a new aesthetic tool? Throughout the course we will propose answers to these questions by carefully analyzing widely recognized photographs and others that have rarely received attention.
390. MODERN ART: TWENTIETH CENTURY
Index: 74242
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106
CAC, MTH3, 11:30-12:50, VH104, Sharp
European painting and sculpture to World War II; emphasis on American and European art from 1945 to the present. Field trips to museums.
392. 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
Index: 74243
Prerequisites: 01:082:105&106
CAC, TF2, 9:50-11:10, ZAM-MPR, Yanni
This course will cover the history of architecture and urban planning in Europe and the United States from 1900 to the present. The lectures will analyze the development of architecture in relation to political, economic, and social history. We will study architects‘ persistent reinterpretation of the past and their visions of the future. Other topics will include the many ways architecture manifests differing views of nature, the idea of the city as a totality, the ideals and practice of modernism, and the historical context of postmodernism. A range of theoretical concerns--organic architecture, the role of ornament, women as producers and consumers of architecture, the question of technological progress, and the myth of the heroic genius--will be analyzed. The books to be purchased at the bookstore are: Curtis, Modern Architecture since 1900; Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture; and Venturi and Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas. Course requirements include class participation (attendance will be taken), reserve reading, two hourly exams, a lengthy research paper, and a final exam.
396. IMPRESSIONISM
Index: 68336
Prerequisites: 01:082:105,106 or permission of instructor
CAC, MTH2, 9:50-11:10, ZAM-EDR , Taube
This course explores the meanings and myths of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Artists discussed will include Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, Sargent, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cézanne. Representative works will be considered in the context of their social, historical, and artistic conditions. Among the topics to be addressed are the contested concepts of modernism and primitivism, the politics of the female body, and the representation of Paris and its café society.
403. APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY
Index: 74244
Prerequisites: Open to Art History Majors & Minors
CAC, T67, 4:30-7:30, VH104, Flores
This course presents an overview of the literature and methods of art history from the Renaissance to the present day. Through close readings of relevant theoretical and analytical texts, students are introduced to the history of the discipline and also learn about contemporary approaches to the study of art objects. The course builds on knowledge obtained in prior art history courses and will prepare students for advanced work in art history, whether for writing an honors thesis or for graduate study.
428. THE MODERN CITY
Index: 75521
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106 or permission of instructor
CAC, W67, 4:30-7:30, VH104, Meredith and Michael Bzdak
This course will explore the tension between architectural progress and tradition, which has defined modern Italy from Reunification in 1860 to the present. A range of late 19th and 20th century architectural movements will be studied, with a focus on the design capitals of Rome and Milan, and attention paid as well to Turin, Florence, and Naples. The mutually beneficial relationship of industrial and architectural design, the use of architecture as a tool to create civic identity, and the influence of design journals on the architectural profession will be highlighted. The course will conclude with a discussion of the pressures of globalization on Italy‘s major civic centers, as well as the role of Italian architects on the international stage.
442. TOPICS IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Prerequisites: Cross-listed with 16:082:594:01, 16:082:594:02 and 16:082:594%
Section 01: NATIONALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND CONTESTED CULTURAL HERITAGE
T67, 4:30-7:30, VH001, Index 76196, Daniels
This course examines how nationalism and cosmopolitanism frame debates about ownership, universalism, and the display of cultural heritage. Contemporary debates about cultural heritage are often divided into competing “national” or “cosmopolitan” perspectives. What do these terms mean? How are they employed? What are their political and ethical consequences? What import do they have upon the future of museums and collections? This seminar will give students the opportunity to understand how museum practitioners, art historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists have conceived of their professional and moral responsibilities to local constituencies, political structures, and universal ideals. Our aim is to understand how ideas like “nationalism” and “cosmopolitanism” are related to each other, and the stakes they represent in a global debate that touches upon every dimension of museum policy and curation. Students will engage a series of critical readings that frame the contemporary arguments about the disposition of art, heritage, and cultural property. Seminar participants will have the opportunity to apply seminar discussions to their own area of interest and expertise.
Section 02: STUDIO IN PRESERVATION: THE CEMETERY AT FIRST REFORMED CHURCH, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
M67, 4:30-7:30, VH001, Index 76195, Cruicess
This studio focuses on four major concepts: background research, writing historical narratives, inventory of significant elements in the cemetery, and a conditions assessment of the grave markers in the cemeteries. The goal of the course is to provide students with real-world experience in utilizing archives and local repositories for background research and writing background histories for sites and individuals. The students will research the design (including carvers/artists) and iconography of the grave markers in the cemetery. For the final focus area, lectures will focus on architectural conservation as it pertains to the materials found within the cemetery. Finally, the studio will culminate in the design and implementation of a survey of the cemetery. The survey will record current photography, art historical information, biographical information, conditions of grave markers, and treatment recommendations.
The studio course will be followed by a summer field school. The field school will be divided into two sections. The first will focus on creating a database for the cemetery that incorporates the photography and data collected during the studio. The second will focus on a pilot program to implement sample treatment recommendations within the cemetery.
Section 03: NATIVE AMERICAN ART, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION
W2,3/9:50a-12:40p Zimmerli Ed. Rm, Index 77443, Woodhouse-Beyer
This course employs an art historical and anthropological approach to the study of Native American visual art and the way in which indigenous material culture creatively, and actively, functions within the context of cultural heritage and cultural preservation. Coursework will include such topics as representations of and by Native Americans from the late 15th century to the modern time, the social, religious and political contexts of Native American art and visual culture in selected regions and critical points in history, the appropriation and commoditization of Native American art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Native American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and the role of archaeology and visual art in cultural heritage preservation.
448. INTERNSHIP IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Index: 47897
NA, NA
Supervised internship in the field of cultural heritage conservation and preservation at an approved institution.
Permission required.
492. JUNIOR/SENIOR SEMINAR IN ART HISTORY
Prerequisites: Required of Majors/Permission to Add Dept. Staff
Section 01: THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY
CAC, W23, 9:50-12:50, AL SEM, Index 60029, Harvey
This seminar examines the art and architecture of the new religion of Christianity within the context of the late empire in Rome and the Mediterranean area (3rd-6th c). Emphasis will be on issues of public vs. private devotion, pagan antecedents, and the impact of state sponsored and mystery religions on the development of Christian art and architecture. Students will present an oral and written report as well as short reports on specific readings.
Section 02: ANCIENT MOSAICS
CAC, W23, 9:50-12:50, VH108, Index 63521, Kenfield
An examination of the development of the medium from its beginnings in Iron Age Phrygia to the end of antiquity in the 8th century A.D.
Section 03: THE ART OF THE 21ST CENTURY
CAC, W23, 9:50-12:50, VH001, Index 68731, Boersma
What defines contemporary visual art in Europe and the U.S.? If we wander through art galleries, browse through art survey texts, and art magazines, can we distinguish specific tendencies that are shaping – and framing – the visual art of today? In this course, we will focus on the most noteworthy issues in contemporary art. We’ll be searching for so called ‘key works’ and will analyze the impact of (among other things) different sorts of art publications, art fairs, and art exhibitions, on the formation of a canon of contemporary art. For this course, several field trips are required.
494. INDIVIDUAL STUDY ART HISTORY
Index: 60030
Prerequisites: For special permission number see dept. staff.
Guided independent research in a particular area of interest.
496. INTERNSHIP ART HISTORY
Index: 67220
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106 (Open Only to Majors)
By Arrangement, NA
For each three credits the student must put in 14 days of work at the chosen institution. The student keeps a journal – a brief account, day by day, or work done, etc., and also submits a two- to three-page summary of his/her activities. These should be handed in to the Art History Undergraduate Advisor by the last day of classes – preferably a week or so before. (Those enrolled in the course retroactively, in the fall semester, for a summer internship may hand in the journal & report close to the end of the fall semester).
The intern is not paid by the host institution, which may offer money only for transport and meals. Most host institutions will consider commuting time as part of the day, but the student must negotiate this individually.
The student’s supervisor at the host institution will be requested to provide an evaluation on a standard form, which will be sent out shortly before the end of the semester. For a student doing an internship in the summer, requirements are the same except that as there are no provisions for 495, 496 in the summer, the student will do the internship and then register for the relevant course(s) the following autumn.
The student is responsible for identifying internship opportunities and negotiating with the host institution. A list of available internships is available in the lobby of the Art History Department; but the student is also free to locate and arrange his/her own internship, subject to approval by the Undergraduate Director.
498. HONORS IN ART HISTORY
Index: 60031
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 & 106; Art History majors only. For special permission
499. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ART HISTORY
Index: 68334
Prerequisites: SENIOR MAJORS with 3.0 GPA or 3.5 Art History GPA need perm. of instructor
TBA, TBA
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