| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ART HIS 40B | HISTORY OF WESTERN ART | BAUER, G. | The history of Western Art is a year-long introductory survey of art and culture in the West from pre-history to the present. In Winter Quarter, the course focuses on the long period that extends from the end of the Roman Empire through its revival in the Renaissance. By means of movements, monuments, and artists, it will examine the cultural identities of, and the interrelations between the Christian, Islamic, and Early Modern worlds. |
| ART HIS 42B | HISTORY OF ASIAN ART | HO, J. | This course surveys the traditions of architecture, ceramics, painting, and other media in relation to the social, political, and economic environment of China from the 4th through the 20th century. Written work includes a mid-term, final examination and short essays involving reading and visual analysis. Regular attendance of lectures and dicussion sessions are required. There are no prerequisites. |
| ART HIS 107 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE | MILES,M.M. | The Romans built gladiatorial arenas, aquaducts, enormous baths, theaters, elaborate temples and funerary monuments around the Mediterranean, and their versions of monumental architecture helped to shape much of subsequent architecture. Special attention will be given to the social and political context which stimulated the development of the buildings and their decoration, and made Rome a capital city to be admired and emulated. Although the emphasis will be on Roman architecture in Italy, we will also study important Roman construction elsewhere in the Mediterranean, and the modern impact of Roman types on the United States. One mid-term, one essay, one final examination. Recommended prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics. |
| ART HIS 112 | MEDIEVAL & LATE BYZANTINE ART | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the art in the service of the state and the church in the Medieval Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), from the defeat of iconoclasm in the 9th century, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Short class quizzes, papers, final examination are required. Same as Humanities 110. |
| ART HIS 134E | MODERN ARCHITECTURE 1750-1945 | SCOTT, F. | This course will cover the history of modern architecture from its emergence in Western Europe during the eighteenth century through periods of technological and avant-garde experimentation to its pre-eminence as a paradigm of architectural design at the end of World War II. Particular attention will be given to the way in which architects have responded to, and participated in, formal and aesthetic developments in other arts as well as to the broader technological, economic, social and political transformations of modernity, including the rise of the metropolis. One mid-term examination, one final examination, one essay. |
| ART HIS 140A | EXPANDED MINIMALISM | JOSEPH, B. | This course will examine the development of minimalism in the 1960\'s. Although its works may seem devoid of content, minimalism was actually one of the most significant aesthetic movements of the post-War period--a crucial cultural turning point that broached questions of art\'s political role that are fundamental to aesthetic practice today. Many of minimalism\'s practitioners were also important writers, and the movement\'s developments and debates within art criticism will also be examined. Rather than focusing on the visual arts exclusively, the class will consider equally minimalist art, music, dance, and structural film (as well as covering the movement\'s origins and related developments such as fluxus). Individuals to be covered include: Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Charlemagne Palestine, Yvonne Rainer, and La Monte Young. |
| ART HIS 140C | ARCHITECTURE & ELECTRONICS | SCOTT, F. | This course will address the impact of both electronic technology and the cybernetic revolution on the discipline of architecture from the immediate post-War period to the widespread use of computerization. Particular attention will be given to the manner in which architects addressed the formal and spatial ramifications of these new technologies, as well as the social, political and environmental implications of the historical transformation from the industrial to the information age. One mid-term examination, one final essay are required. |
| ART HIS 153 | ART OF 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 162C | JAPANESE ART: 1945-PRESENT | WINTHER- TAMAKI, D. | This course covers the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual arts in Japan from World War II surrender in 1945 to the present. Topics to be considered include artistic responses to the war, avant-garde groups, corporate advertising, academic exhibition salons, meanings of abstraction and neo-traditional art. Three frameworks of investigation are employed: individual artists\' careers; specific historical movements or groups; social systems or institutions of art. This course acquaints students with Japanese perspectives on international developments of modern art as well as art world perspectives on Japanese cultural history. Written assignment, mid-term and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 165B | AMERICAN ART: 1800-1900 | 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 even chose to live permanently abroad, and how some of them became public celebrities. At the same time, we will consider 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 discussed. A mid-term and final examination are required. |
| ART HIS 200 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE | MILES, M.M. | |
| ART HIS 210 | MEDIEVAL & LATE BYZ | GONOSOVA, A. | |
| ART HIS 234E | MODERN ARCHITECTURE | SCOTT, F. | |
| ART HIS 240A | EXPANDED MINIMALISM | JOSEPH, B. | |
| ART HIS 240C | ARCH & ELECTRONICS | SCOTT, F. | |
| ART HIS 250 | ART OF SONG DYNASTY | HO, J.C. | |
| ART HIS 262C | JAPNS ART:1945-PRES | WINTHER, D.E. | |
| ART HIS 265B | AMER ART:1800-1900 | WHITING, C. | |