| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40C | HISTORY OF WESTERN ART | HERBERT, J. | Less a comprehensive survey than a collection of historical vignettes, this segment of the Art History 40 series explores the meaning and function of works of art--painting, sculpture, architecture--in Europe and America at various moments in time, from the mid-seventeeth century to the late-twentieth century. In each case study, we will examine the mechanisms through which works of art formulated, preserved and propagated certain ideas, social and political as well as artistic. The series-long textbook will be supplemented by a course packet of additional readings. In addition to mid-term and final examinations, students will write a paper based on a visit to a local museum. |
| ART HIS 42C | HISTORY OF ASIAN ART | WINTHER-TAMAKI, D. E. | This course presents an overview of developments in the plastic arts in the Japanese archipelago from prehistoric times to the present day. Focus will be placed on religious expression, artistic technologies, urban design, painting formats, political functions of art, and art historical methodology. Topics include ancient shrine architecture, the transmission of continental culture to Japan, castles, and other monuments of the age of the warrior, mass print culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, and modern developments of visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. There will be a mid-term, written assignment, and final examination. |
| ART HIS 103 | GREEK SANCTUARIES | MILES, M. M. | A study of the art and architecture of the sanctuaries of ancient Greece, with special attention to how archaeology helps illustrate the history of Greek religion. The sanctuaries served as centers of worship of the gods, and were focal points for Greek politics, athletics, medicine, art and architecture. This course covers the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia; selected city sanctuaries; Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and Epidauros, the primary center for the healing god Asklepios. One mid-term examination, one paper, and final examination. Recommended prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics. |
| ART HIS 118 | ISLAMIC ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the art and architecture of Islam as they evolved in the Mediterranean and the Near East between the late 7th and early 14th centuries. Course requirements will include class quizzes, two short papers, a mid-term, and a final examiniation. |
| ART HIS 140A | MODERNISM & THE (NEO) AVANT-GARDE | 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-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. Mid-term examination, paper, and final examination. |
| ART HIS 140B | ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY ART: NEO-DADA | JOSEPH, B. | After a period dominated by Abstract Expressionism, the United States and Europe in the 1950\'s and 60\'s saw a resurgence of provocative and multifaceted avant-garde movements. These challenged the hegemony of the formalist and medium-specific criticism of the time for a sometimes motley heterogeneity of practices and techniques, including collage, montage, photography, environments, performances, happenings, and expanded cinema. Central to these developments was the revival and renewed understanding of the radical legacy of European Dada. This course will examine a number of important artists from this time, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Carolee Schneeman, and John Cage. Particular attention will be paid to the social and political implications of their works and the manner in which they continued and differed from their artistic predecessors. Mid-term examination, paper, and final examination. |
| ART HIS 153 | ART OF THE SONG DYNASTY | HO, J.C. | The Song Dynasty (960-1279) marks a high point in Chinese painting and calligraphy. The variety of subjects and formal innovations are unparalleled in Chinese art history while a market economy stimulated the flourishing of urban, literati, court, and women\'s cultures. This course examines the major achievements of Song painting in the social, political, and cultural context of this pivotal era. Weekly reading reports, two short essays, and a final examination are required. There are no prerequisites. |
| ART HIS 165C | AMERICAN ART: 1900-1950 | WHITING, C. | Focusing on the period from 1900 until 1945, this course considers the emergence and institutionalization of modern art in the United States. We will look at the transformation of New York City into an international art capital with new galleries, museums, and little magazines devoted to modern art as well as the visual representation of the modern city by both abstract and realist artists. The relationship between New York City as a new art capital and various regional outposts where artists rediscovered native and folk arts will be discussed. Finally, we will also analyze the transatlantic exchange between New York City and European capitals of art, with particular attention to those American artists such as Marsden Hartley who participated in the European avant-garde and those European artists such as Marcel Duchamp who spent time in New York. Midterm and Final Exam. |
| ART HIS 175 | MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART | CANEJO, C. | This course will focus on the strength and diversity of artworks produced in Latin America roughly between 1890 and 1980. Emphasis is placed on considering each work in its artistic, social, and political context. Among issues to be discussed are: preconceptions of Latin American art, the political role of art, appropriation and adaptation, the formation of national identity, the question of modernity, and the intersection of national and international movements in Modern art. There will be a mid-term examination, a final examination, and one 6-8 page paper. |
| ART HIS 190W | PRACTCUM FOR MAJORS | STEIN, S. | As a required course for junior and senior art history majors, the practicum cultivates basic skills and knowledge necessary for specialized study in art history. We shall concentrate on basic bibliographic research skills and analytic reading skills in the field, while constantly honing skills in writing about art, and writing about the writing on art. Accordingly, students should expect to write, edit, and revise numerous descriptive, technically-oriented, and analytically-oriented reading and research assignments. |
| ART HIS 200 | GREEK SANCTUARIES | MILES, M.M. | |
| ART HIS 210 | ISLAMIC ART | GONOSOVA, A. | |
| ART HIS 240A | MODRNSM/AVANT-GARDE | JOSEPH, B. | |
| ART HIS 240B | NEO-DADA | JOSEPH, B. | |
| ART HIS 250 | ART OF SONG DYNASTY | HO, J.C. | |
| ART HIS 265C | AMER ART:1900-1950 | WHITING, C. | |