ART HIS Course Descriptions for 2023-2024

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CourseTitleInstructorDescription
ART HIS 40AANCIENT GREECE ROMECANEPA, M.
ART HIS 44IMAGE COLLISIONSTAFF
ART HIS 125EARLY MOD LANDSCAPESTAFFThe investigation and transmission of knowledge about nature, environmental concerns and European territorial expansion are significant cultural developments in the early modern period producing complex images of the natural world. This course examines different types of sixteenth and seventeenth century landscapes produced in Italy and Spain. What might be the benefit of employing a more capacious definition of landscape? How do landscapes, in their conceptualization, construction, and consumption serve as repositories for shared social experiences and sites for the negotiation of individual and collective identities? We will explore how paintings, drawings, domestic architecture and villa park design, botanical gardens, chorography, and other map-like views function in a cultural environment where intellectual attitudes and practices of sociability shaped daily life.
ART HIS 140APOSTWAR AMER ARTNISBET, J.A topical and chronological survey of the major themes, artists, and critical terms of visual art in the United States from 1945 to 1989, this course begins with the rise of New York as an international art center following the Second World War and then proceeds to examine the claims of artistic production across the continent to the developing structures of globalization, from commodity culture to new media. Class sessions will be organized around a series of central artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Adrian Piper, and Barbara Kruger. Rather than privileging these individuals, this format will consider the range of aesthetic practices through which each artist’s work operates, including theories of abstraction, performance, feminism, and identity politics. Course readings will be drawn principally from primary sources, including art criticism and artists’ writings.
ART HIS 150ENTANGLED EURASIACANEPA, M.Art, archaeology of ancient Persia and the wider Iranian world from the rise of the Achaemenid empire in 550 BCE to the coming of Alexander in 330 BCE in Eurasian context. The course will examine the creation of a Persian imperial art and architecture under Cyrus the Great and its revision and expansion under Darius I and his successors. In addition, we will study the mutual influences of Persian visual culture and the broader Eurasian world, including subject lands like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and India, and regions beyond the imperial frontiers, like the Greek World and Central Asia. Topics include the development of the Persian palace, paradise gardens, urbanism, court culture, religion, seals and archives. We will consider sites of major dynastic importance and their development (e.g. Persepolis, Susa, Babylon); 'institutions' (e.g. palace, paradise, city, sacred spaces); media (rock reliefs/inscriptions, painting, coinage, seals and sealings etc.). The seminar will put the ancient material into dialog with select theoretical readings on such themes as power, time, memory, the body, although the focus will be on the ancient material/problems.
ART HIS 164AMODERN AFAM ARTCOOKS, B.This course is a study of art by African Americans with a particular focus on the politics of representation. Beginning chronologically with the arrival of Africans to the British colonies in the seventeenth century and ending with the cultural phenomenon of the New Negro Movement, students will discuss artworks created in a variety of forms including material culture, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, and photography. Course readings and class discussions are the primary means of investigating the topics discussed.
ART HIS 165AEARLY AMERICAN ARTSTAFF
ART HIS 165CMODERN AMERICAN ARTSTAFF
ART HIS 165DPOP ARTSTAFF
ART HIS 181THE ART MUSEUMCOOKS, B.This seminar focuses on the historical development of and cultural debates concerning art museums, diversity, and exhibition histories in the United States. We will critically analyze the complex relationship between the museum and its publics. Analysis of the roles of curators, audiences, and historical narratives are crucial to understanding the complexity of exhibition and reception systems discussed.
ART HIS 185EARTHWORKSSTAFF
ART HIS 190WART HISTORY METHODSSTAFF
ART HIS 198ART JAPAN ENVIRONMTWINTHER TAMAKI, B.How do artworks and other visual artifacts contribute to our experience of the environment? What insights, warnings, or potential solutions about precarious ecosystems and catastrophic disasters are communicated by artists’ projects? This seminar will address questions like these with a focus on Japanese art, the Tokyo environment, and the exhibition Our Ecology, opening in October 2023 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Readings include texts in art history, environmental history, Japanese studies, and ecology theory.
ART HIS 198CHINESE WORLDSWUE, R.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYNISBET, J.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYMASSEY, L.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYLAPIN DARDASHT, A.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYJUNG, G.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYCOOKS, B.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYCANEPA, M.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYBETANCOURT, R.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYPATEL, A.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYWUE, R.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYWINTHER TAMAKI, B.
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
ART HIS 199INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
ART HIS 298CHINESE WORLDSWUE, R.
ART HIS 298ART JAPAN ENVIRONMTWINTHER TAMAKI, B.How do artworks and other visual artifacts contribute to our experience of the environment? What insights, warnings, or potential solutions about precarious ecosystems and catastrophic disasters are communicated by artists’ projects? This seminar will address questions like these with a focus on Japanese art, the Tokyo environment, and the exhibition Our Ecology, opening in October 2023 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Readings include texts in art history, environmental history, Japanese studies, and ecology theory.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHSTAFF
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHSTAFF
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHSTAFF
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHWINTHER TAMAKI, B.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHWUE, R.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHPATEL, A.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHNISBET, J.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHMASSEY, L.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHLAPIN DARDASHT, A.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHJUNG, G.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHCOOKS, B.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHCANEPA, M.
ART HIS 299MA THESIS RESEARCHBETANCOURT, R.
ART HIS 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGCANEPA, M.
ART HIS 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGSTAFF