| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40C | MODERN ART EUR&AMER | 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 | STAFF | 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 prehistoric times to the present day. Focus is placed on artistic technologies, religious expression, 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 114 | APOCALYPSE | BETANCOURT, R. | Hell and high water, judgment, salvation, pain, and bliss are all terms associated with the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse happens at the end of terrestrial time and space, but it is also the gateway into eternal suffering or bliss after the Last Judgment. This course looks at how the medieval world thought about the end of time, the events that occurred in that moment, and afterwards for eternity. From the resurrection of the dead to the condemnation of sinners into a fiery chasm, we will pay particular attention to how art was used to produce visions and experience of these events in advance – and how such art changed the manner in which medieval people thought about the flow and progress of time. Students will be encouraged, through readings and writing assignments, to think critically about how these medieval notions of the Apocalypse and the Last Judgment have endured in contemporary culture. |
| ART HIS 120 | ITALIAN RENAISSANCE | MASSEY, L. | The Italian Renaissance was one of the most intense and exciting periods of artistic invention and production in the history of Western Europe. In this course we will examine the careers and works of a broad range of famous artists (Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Giorgione and Titian, etc) who contributed to this era of cultural revitalization. In addition, we will explore how the arts contributed to and interacted with the political, social and cultural life of the important urban centers of Italy (Florence, Rome, Venice). Throughout the course we will move between lectures and group activities/discussions: among other things, we'll try to recreate Brunelleschi's famous experiments with linear perspective (the geometrical technique used by artists to create the illusion of 3-D space on the flat picture plane); we'll discuss "contracts" between patrons and painters; come up with solutions to erecting the Duomo in Florence; we'll look at issues of gender and sexuality in Renaissance painting and sculpture; and discuss the newly emergent concept of genius in the Renaissance and how it was applied to artists such as Leonardo and Michelangelo. Course requirements: two midterms, one final paper, and participation in discussions. |
| ART HIS 128 | DUTCH GOLDEN AGE | POWELL, A. | In 1566, the Netherlands saw widespread iconoclastic events. Churches were purged of images, altars stripped, and walls whitewashed. Two years later the Dutch Revolt against the ruling Spanish Monarchy commenced. 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 | CUBISM TO SURREALSM | 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 145C | LEARNING KOREA ARCH | DIMENDBERG, E. | This class will focus on major issues shaping architecture and urbanism in the new millennium, such as globalization, the design of sustainable cities, architectural tourism, the creation of inclusive public spaces, new approaches to multi-unit housing, the rediscovery of landscape, and digital design and fabrication. It will concentrate on Korea, today a center of vibrant transformation of the built environment. Established and emerging Korean architects (Minsuk Cho, Unsandong Architects, Shinslab Architecture, ThEPLus Architects, Jungmin Nam, Ken Min, Hyunjoon Yoo, Polymur Studio, and Samoo Studio) will be studied in relation to the legacy of earlier Korean modernists, such as Swoo-Geun Kim, Seung H-sang, Ki-Hyung Bae, and Hee-Tai Lee. Buildings in Korea by contemporary global architects such as the late Zaha Hadid, UN Studio, Dominique Perrault, Jean Nouvel, and MVDRV will be approached as paradigmatic of trends in patronage and new configurations of museums and cultural institutions. Assignment structure: take-home midterm and final research paper. Instructor: Edward Dimendberg |
| ART HIS 165D | 19TH CENT AMER ART | WHITING, C | Spanning the period from the beginning of the Civil War until the end of the nineteenth century, this course covers artists such as Winslow Homer, who were closely associated with certain regions of the United States, and artists such as Mary Cassatt, who spent most of their careers abroad. We consider how artists were educated in the United States, why they traveled to Europe and/or chose to live permanently abroad, and how some of them became public celebrities. At the same time we will discuss patrons of the arts, including those who collected art and those who helped establish the first art museums in the United States. The emergence of art museums, galleries, auction houses, and critics, and their conflicting commercial and educational goals will also be analyzed. |
| ART HIS 198 | ANCT & MED SENSES | BETANCOURT, R. | Considering the interrelations between the senses and the imagination, this course surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the medieval world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. The class focuses on how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to contour the manner in which art and rhetoric communicate. This would similarly come to define how ancient and medieval religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the Divine. |
| ART HIS 298 | ANCT & MED SENSES | BETANCOURT, R. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | WUE, R. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | WINTHER, D. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | WHITING, C. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | POWELL, A. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | PATEL, A. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | NISBET, J. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | MILES, M. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | MASSEY, L. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | HERBERT, J. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | COOKS CUMBO, B. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | BETANCOURT, R. | |
| ART HIS 299 | MA THESIS RESEARCH | GLEBOVA, A. | |