| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40A | HISTORY OF WESTERN ART | MILES, M. M. | The first quarter of a year-long course, \"History of Western Art,\" provides an overview of art in its various forms within the context of Western civilization, from the prehistoric period to the present. 40A surveys prehistoric art, the art of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome. We will consider how and why the peoples of antiquity created art and architecture, the significance of art within its social, religious and historical context, how the visual arts can illuminate cultural issues, and how ancient art takes on various meanings to us today. One midterm examination, one paper based on a visit to a museum, quizzes in discussion sections, final examination. No prerequisite. |
| ART HIS 42A | HISTORY OF ASIAN ART | WINTHER-TAMAKI, D.E. | Introduction to art historical methods and to the arts and cultures of Asia, from the Neolithic Era to the eighth century, with a particular emphasis on India, China, and Japan. The political, technological, spiritual, as well as aesthetic significance of works of pottery, tombs, paintings, and sculpture will be explored. There will be a midterm, writing assignment, and final examination. |
| ART HIS 114 | GOTHIC ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the flourishing of religious and secular art (painting, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts), in the European Middle Ages, in the 13th through the early 15th centuries, both in the context of the institutional use of art by the Church, royalty, and rising urban governments, and in the context of the private devotional and cultural use. Course requirements include midterm and final examinations, and two short papers. |
| ART HIS 120 | BRUEGEL TO RUBENS | BAUER, G. | This course explores the assimilation of Italian Renaissance art in Northern Europe and its transformation into the Baroque. It will focus on such artists as Albrecht Durer, Pieter Bruegel, and Peter Paul Rubens, and will examine their work in relation to such early modern issues as Renaissance and Reformation, popular and court art, class and gender. Course requirements will include midterm and final examinations, and a short written paper. |
| ART HIS 121 | RENAISSANCE VENICE | BAUER, L. | This course will examine the three-way relationship among the city of Venice, the artists and architects working there during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and developing forms of visual culture. It will consider the geography, history, and institutions of the city, such artists as Bellini, Titian, and Palladio, and topics ranging from pictorial identity and secular narrative to gender and the development of the nude. In addition to a midterm and final examination, two short papers will be required. |
| ART HIS 140A | POP ART | JOSEPH, B. | Although Pop is one of the most well known artistic movements - attaining an unprecedented level of popular recognition - it has also become one of the most codified and seemingly anodyne. By the 1980s, Pop had been all but reduced to the blank appropriation of Campbell\'s Soup cans, comic strips, and celebrities. This led to a dismissal of Pop, not only by critics, but by contemporary artists. Yet, such blank appropriation is not all that Pop art entailed in its time. This course will re-examine Pop\'s legacy, investigating the different meanings and modalities of appropriation, but also expanding the inquiry into Pop\'s engagement with modes of narrative and meaning generation. This will include the lesser-known activities of Pop artists in performance, happenings, writing, music, and other forms of media and multimedia. Course requirements include midterm and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 145B | ARCHITECTURE AFTER 1945 | SCOTT, F. | This course will address key developments in architecture during the period from World War II until the present. The class will cover both the continuation and transformation of mainstream modern architecture after the war - including corporate modernism, New Brutalism, regionalism, neo-rationalism, and minimalism - as well as the emergence of new and diverse practices that challenged the modernist legacy. These alternative practices include: the ethnographic, sociological, and cybernetic turns of the 1950s; the experimental and \"Pop\" architecture of the 1960s; the engagement with linguistic theory and the rise of post-modernism during the late \'60s and the 1970s; and contemporary experimentation with new programs, sites, materials, and media. Students will be expected to complete a midterm examination, short writing exercise, and a final examination. |
| ART HIS 152 | CHINESE ART/MYTH/RELIGION | HO, J. C. | Recent archaeological finds have uncovered previously unknown cultures, beliefs, and practices, thus opening a new chapter in the study of visual culture in ancient China. Based on some of the most significant material finds as well as textual sources, students will examine the intersections of art, myth, and religion in China, from the Neolithic cultures to the unified empires of the Qin and Han dynasties. There will be reading reports, one short 3-page paper, and a final examination. |
| ART HIS 183A | 19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY | STEIN, S. | This course provides an introduction to key questions and debates, as well as images, in the emergence and diffusion of photography through the 19th century. The course focuses upon major examples of the diverse uses of photography - as a medium of portraiture, informational records, form of political and commercial promotion - as well as the controversial reactions that the medium has provoked. We will consider how photography since its initial appearance in the 1830s, radically altered the way we see and the way we evaluate both vision and visual representation. Students from all fields of study are welcome. |
| ART HIS 185 | VISUAL POLITICS | STEIN, S. | Running concurrently with the 2004 presidential election, this course considers the use of mass media - combining words and images in the diverse forms of staged rallies, monuments, posters, photojournalism, film, and electronic media - to shape public opinion and direct it toward activities of consent and dissent. To consider the ways contemporary political appeals both extend beyond, and echo the tried and true successful methods of the past, we will track a variety of campaigns waged in the present by candidates for both parties, as well as campaigns waged on the local and international level. We will compare these contemporary efforts with historically effective media campaigns from the twentieth century, ranging from battles for women\'s suffrage and civil rights, to mass mobilizations during war in Europe and the U.S. The twice-weekly classes will be structured to move between unfolding campaigns in the present, and lectures on case studies from the past, based on assigned readings. Students are expected to do all the readings, deliver one presentation based on ongoing small group research, write short paper or prepare exhibition material based on that research, and take a final examination. This course wil be co-taught by Professor Lynn Mally (History) and Professor Sally Stein (Art History/Visual Studies) |