| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40C | BAROQUE & MODERN | HERBERT, J. | 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 | ARTS OF JAPAN | WINTHER-TAMAKI, D. | This course examines compelling images and objects of spirit and power created in Japan over many centuries, presenting an overview of developments in art in the Japanese archipelago from the prehistoric 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 Buddhist icons, narrative illustration, popular prints, architecture, manga, and the avant-garde. Japanese interactions with Korean, Chinese, and European culture are emphasized. This course fulfills General Education Requirements IV (Arts and Humanities) and VIII (International/ Global Issues). |
| ART HIS 103 | CLASSICAL GREEK ART | KENNEDY-QUIGLEY, S. | This course will examine the art and architecture of the Greek civilization from the end of the Persian War to the death of Alexander “the Great” of Macedon (ca. 480-323 B.C.E.). Particular attention will be directed to how religion, politics, and historical events inform visual culture during the Classical Age. Organized chronologically, this investigation of art in context will trace the development and evolution of style, iconography, the human figure, propaganda in art, and viewer response. 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. |
| ART HIS 128 | NETHERLANDS BAROQUE | POWELL, A. | Art After Iconoclasm: In 1566, the Netherlands saw widespread iconoclastic events. Churches were purged of their images, altars stripped, and walls whitewashed. In this course, we will begin by asking what iconoclasm is and why it happened in the Netherlands. We then turn to the lasting impact iconoclasm had on sixteenth and seventeenth-century art production. We will consider its effects on patronage and art markets, and we will look at the more and less obvious marks it left on the work of key artists: from the motif of blindness in Rembrandt’s work to the painting of purified church interiors by Pieter Saenredam to the "domestication" of painting in the works of Vermeer. Finally, we will consider the secular genres that flourished in the wake of iconoclasm. |
| ART HIS 134D | EUROP ART:1907-1940 | HERBERT, J. | The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed major shifts in the cultural hierarchies of Europe inherited from the nineteenth century. The status of Paris as the cultural capital of Europe began to face serious challenges from other European artistic centers. The privileged standing of painting--and even of high art--came under question. The upheavals of the First World War and the Russian Revolution opened new possibilities for art overtly engaged in social engineering. This lecture course will trace these developments in painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts from the turn of the century to the beginning of the Second World War. |
| ART HIS 140A | GLOBAL ART 1989-NOW | NISBET, J. | |
| ART HIS 155B | MEDIEVAL INDIA | PATEL, A. | This course will explore some of the world’s great religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Islam) and their artistic traditions, challenging modern notions of religious and national identities. Beginning with the Guptas’ aesthetic legacies in the architecture, sculpture and painting of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (South Asia), we will continue with the dissemination of religious ideas and artistic practices in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (Southeast Asia) in the 8th-10th centuries. The course will also examine the dispersal of Islam in South Asia, beginning with the settlement of early Muslim commercial communities in the 8th century, continuing with the Islamic Sultanates of the 12th-15th centuries, and culminating in the magnificence of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). |
| ART HIS 164B | CONTEMP AFAM ART | 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. |