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| ART HIS 40C | HIST OF WESTERN ART | HERBERT, J. | Comments: Less a comprehensive survey than a collection of historical vignettes, this segment of the course explores the meaning and function of works of art--painting, sculpture, architecture--in Europe and America at various moments in time from the dawn of the seventeenth century to the beginning of twenty-first 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. |
| ART HIS 42C | HIST OF ASIAN ART | WINTHER, D. | This course presents an overview of developments in art in Japan from the medieval period 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 the transformations of Buddhist art in Japan, castles and other monuments of the age of the warrior, mass print culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, modern developments of visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and new media of the present day. Quiz, Midterm exam, writing assignment, final exam.
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| ART HIS 100 | ANCIENT AFRICA | KENNEDY-QUIGLE, S. | This course will examine the indigenous art of Africa from the earliest appearance of visual culture in the prehistoric age until the influx of Islam, beginning in the 7th century C.E. The course will proceed both chronologically and geographically, providing students with an appreciation for the richly diverse art forms produced by the early cultures of the African continent, as well as the challenges and limitations inherent to African archaeology. In conjunction with the religious, political, and/or historical circumstances in which art was produced, the course will investigate the probable function(s) of early works of art. In this way, students will attain both an understanding of the early cultures of Africa and the ability to distinguish varied artistic styles according to culture and/or historical period. Course requirements include participation in class discussions relative to required readings, a research paper, and midterm and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 107 | ROMAN ART & ARCH | KENNEDY-QUIGLE, S. | This course will survey the art and architecture of the Roman civilization from its 8th century B.C.E. inception through the age of Constantine. The course will be structured chronologically, examining monuments within the context of Roman religion, history, and politics, with particular attention to the function of visual art, whether public or private, as an expression of the patron’s loyalties, ideals, ambitions, and identity. Prior exposure to the Classical tradition is helpful, but not required or presumed. Course requirements include participation in class discussions relative to required readings, a research paper, and midterm and final examinations.
Note: Art His 107 ROMAN ART & ARCH Spring 2010 CASSIBRY, K. (20310) is the same as Art His 107 ROMAN ART & ARCH Spring 2011 KENNEDY-QUIGLE, S. (20310) and cannot be repeated for credit between these two quarters. |
| ART HIS 110 | MEDIEVAL CITY | GONOSOVA, A. | The subject of this course will be the study of the relationship between the built environment of medieval cities and medieval urban society and its institutions between ca. 900 and 1400 in Western Europe. History and theory of medieval urbanism will be applied to the investigation of major categories of urban formation, such as royal cities, cathedral cities, free cities and city-republics. Furthermore, the course will also examine the interaction between medieval urban society and the major categories of urban architecture and structures (walls and gates, squares and streets, castles, religious buildings, town houses and urban palaces, town halls, etc.). Short class quizzes, two short papers, mid-term and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 112 | BYZANTINE ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the art and the architecture of the Medieval Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) between the 8th and the end of the 13th century, a period of tremendous artistic importance often referred to as the Golden Age of Byzantium. Short class quizzes, three short papers, final examination. |
| ART HIS 120 | PALACE, VILLA AND GARDEN IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE | DAVIS, BLAIR | This course will focus on the palace, villa and garden in early modern Europe, using examples from Paris, Rome, Venice and Florence. We will examine the ways in which the building and landscape design, and the decoration of these types of buildings, related to their functions as residences, museums, and theaters of power, and reflected particular ideologies. |
| ART HIS 121 | BERNINI: SCULPTOR, ARCHITECT, CAVALIERE | DAVIS, BLAIR | This course will examine the life and work of Gianlorenzo Bernini in their historical context. We will focus on the ways in which his work shaped Baroque Rome as well as the international influence it exerted on seventeenth- and eighteenth- century art. |
| ART HIS 140A | CNTP ART 1980-2000S | WOODS, N. | This course is an exploratory survey of the major debates and discussions that have framed contemporary art since 1980 with a focus on the developments in North America and Western Europe. Because this period of study is very much coincident with our own time, the course is less a historical (diachronic) overview and more a sectional (synchronic) cut across various artistic and cultural phenomena. The course is organized thematically (e.g., appropriation, commodity, sexuality, postcolonial, public art, relational aesthetics, globalism, etc.) rather than by artistic genre or movements. These themes are informed by key theoretical questions that have emerged around and through the art of the past two decades or so. As such, the course will serve as an introduction to both the art of recent past and postmodern critical theory. Artists and architects to be studied will include: Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, David Hammons, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Byron Kim, Coco Fusco, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Gerhard Richter, Guerilla Girls, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shirin Neshat, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Michael Graves, among others.
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| ART HIS 152 | CHINA & SILK ROAD | WOLFGRAM, J. | When the Han Chinese Emperor Wudi “officially” opened the northwest corridor in the second century BCE, little did he realize that his diplomatic outreach would become a major conduit for commercial trade, religious proselytization, military occupation, and artistic revolution for over a thousand years after his death. Called the “Silk Road,” the network of routes between East and West acted as the meeting ground for travelers who inevitably transmitted and transformed their arts and cultures. How and what was transmitted? Why did it transform? What was the impact of such cultural interaction? Using China from the Han through the Yuan Dynasties as a focal point, students will explore the various artistic traditions associated with the Silk Road from Changan to Rome and from the subcontinent to the Siberian Steppes. |
| ART HIS 162A | ARTS OF EDO PERIOD | WOLFGRAM, J. | The Edo Period (1615-1868) in Japan was marked by 250 years of peace and prosperity during which the sociopolitical and economic foundations for Modern Japan were established. While the Emperors sat on their palatial thrones in Kyoto, the militaristic Shoguns ruled the nation from their castle in a vast swampland known as Edo (modern day Tokyo). Both groups patronized the arts as visual venues of power, authority, and cultural sophistication, but it was the general populace, the townspeople, who eventually dictated the aesthetic tastes of an emerging world power. Learn how artists developed distinct styles within a Confucian based society overlaid with Buddhist practices, permeated by Shinto ideology, and engulfed in witty humor. |
| ART HIS 164B | AFAM ART:1930-PRES | COOKS CUMBO, B. | In this course students will study artworks created by African Americans beginning chronologically with government sponsored art programs in the 1930's and ending with contemporary art of the twenty-first century. |
| ART HIS 165C | AMER ART:1900-1950 | WHITING, C. | Focusing on the period from 1900 until 1965, 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. |