| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40A | HISTORY 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. Course requirements include on mid-term examination, one paper based on a visit to a museum, quizzes in discussion sections, and final examination. No prerequisite required. |
| ART HIS 42A | HIST OF ASIAN ART | HO, J.C. | The first quarter of a one year survey 42A introduces Neolithic and Bronze Age arts and cultures of India, China, Korea, and Japan; Buddhist art from its birth in India and its dissemination in Central and East Asia via the Silk Road, culminating in the International Style of the 8th century. Written requirement includes a midterm, final examination and 2 short essays. |
| ART HIS 114 | ROMANESQUE ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course explored the art of Medieval Europe between ca 1000 and 1200 as seen in illuminated manuscripts, wall painting, and large and small scale sculpture. Romanesque art is primarily an official art created for a society dominated by the Christian faith. Although in content mainly religious, its forms are varied and imaginative, revealing both their different artistic sources and the independent creativity of medieval artists. Midterm, two short papers, final examination. Same as Humanities 110, Lec. B |
| ART HIS 140A | CONTEMPORARY ART | JOSEPH, B. | This course will study Western art in the period after World War II to the present. Providing a general art historical and thematic overview, it will examine a wide variety of figures, movements, and practices within the arts from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art to Minimalism to Performance Art to Installations and more situating them within the social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they arose. The history of these artistic developments will be traced through the development and mutual interaction of two predominant strains of artistic culture: the modernist and the avant-garde, examining in particular their social and political presuppositions (from the old Left to the New Left to the development of identity politics), and discussing their relation to pre-War counterparts and models. |
| ART HIS 145A | MODERN ARCHITECTURE | SCOTT, F. | This course will cover the history of modern architecture from its emergence in Western Europe during the eighteenth century through periods of technological and avant-garde experimentation to its pre-eminence as a paradigm of architectural design at the end of World War II. Particular attention will be given to the way in which architects have responded to, and participated in, formal and aesthetic developments in other arts as well as to the broader technological, economic, social and political transformations of modernity, including the rise of the metropolis. One mid-term examination, one final examination. |
| ART HIS 164A | AFAM ART: 1650-1900 | WILSON, J.A. | Architecture, crafts, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, and photography by North Americans of African descent, from colonial times through the later 10th century. Processes of cultural adjustment, exchange, and resistance; problems of patronage and aesthetic evaluation, as well as the effects of gender, class, color, and regional differences among African Americans, will be examined. |
| ART HIS 165A | AMER ART:1620-1800 | WHITING, C. | This course examines American visual culture from the era of European exploration and colonization of the New World to the beginning of the Civil War. We pay special attention to image making and the production of knowledge about the New World in the early modern period, the training and status of the artist, the role of visual culture in fashioning national identity after the American Revolution, and the emergence of different audiences for the arts. |
| ART HIS 165D | RACE&VISUAL REP | WILSON, J.A. | Why is it good to be color blind about race? How do race and vision interpret in our increasingly visual culture? These are some of the questions to be explored via theories of representation and histories of art, fashion, film, and photography. Principle topics include: race as an ideological construct and its visual codes; colonialism, nationalism, and the history of modern Western art; the role of race in contemporary popular (visual) culture. |