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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 prehistory 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 indentities of and the interrelations between the Christian, Islamic, and Eartly Modern worlds. |
| ART HIS 42B | HISTORY OF ASIAN ART | HO, J.C. | This course surveys the traditions of architecture, ceramics, painting, and other media in relation to the social, political, and economic environments of China from the 7th through 20th centuries. Written work includes a midterm, final examination, and short essays with emphasis on both reading and visual analysis. Regular attendance of lectures and discussion sessions are required. |
| ART HIS 103 | ANCIENT ATHENS | MILES, M.M. | The development of Athens, from a small village beneath the Akropolis into the seat of a far-flung empire, and the intellectual center of the Mediterranean world for many centuries. Special attention to the historical, social, political, literary and religious context of the monuments, art and artifacts. Also includes the history of the “rediscovery” of Greece and the ethics of collecting of Greek art during the past two centuries. Two essays, mid-term examination, final examination. Suggested prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics. |
| ART HIS 112 | LATE ROMAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE | GONOSOVA, A. | This course will examine the effects of art and architecture of political, religious, and social changes that took place within the confines of the late Roman and Early Byzantine Empires in the period between ca. 270 and 600. Course requirements include two short papers, class quizzes, mid-term and final examinations. |
| ART HIS 121 | AGE OF MICHELANGELO | BAUER, L. | The course will focus on artistic production in Florence and Rome during the period framed by the birth and death of Michelangelo. It will examine the new Renaissance conception of art and artist in the context of political, religious, and social change. Close examination of individual works—David, the newly restored Sistine Chapel—will be combined with general topics, such as portraiture and the Renaissance construction of woman. In addition to the midterm and final examinations, one short paper will be required. |
| ART HIS 140C | MINIMALISM/POSTMINIMALISM | JOSEPH, B. | This course will examine the development of minimalism in the 1960s. 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 still 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 minimal art, music, dance, and structural film. Individuals to be covered include: Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Anthony McCall, Yvonne Rainer, and La Monte Young. (Note: this course was taught in Winter 2004 and cannot be repeated for credit.) Assignments include paper and exams. |
| ART HIS 150 | CHINA AND THE WEST (200-800) | HO, J.C. | Early medieval China between the Han (202BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-907) dynasties was a period of intense interchanges with regions to the west, including the Roman Empire, Persia, Sogdiana, Afghanistan, India, and other communities in Central Asia; it was also a period of nomadic (Turkic) invasions in north China. Intercultural communication was also facilitated by the Silk Road--overland trade routes that extended from Constantinople to Changan, the capital of China at the time. Parallel to the "Dark Ages" in Europe, this remarkably outward-looking and cosmopolitan era promoted artistic, religious and social interchanges in continental Asia. This course will examine the flowering of visual and material cultures on the basis of recent archaeological finds.
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| ART HIS 152 | MODERN ART OF JAPAN/INDIA/MEXICO | WINTHER, D.E. | This course is a comparative study of accomplishments in the modern art of India, Japan, and Mexico. Topics to be considered include the reception of European oil painting, national movements of painting, national capitol architecture, the diffusion of Cubism, and women artists¹ expression of national identity. Focus will be placed on the politics of the expression of indigenous modernity. There will be a midterm exam, writing assignment, and final exam for this course. |
| ART HIS 183B | 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY | STEIN, S.A. | After a quick review of major developments of photography in its 19th century infancy, this course surveys the history of photography from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The period represents one of dynamic change for the medium, covering photography’s rise as a medium of mass communication and private documentation, as well as its legitimation as a form of artistic expression. Furthermore, only in the second quarter of this century was there any conscious effort to formulate a sustained history of medium, and only in the third quarter of the century did this medium and its history begin to be considered as a form of academic field of study. Thus, this course will consider whether academic institutionalization is a response to photography’s central role in the culture’s modern mass media, or whether it is a response to the medium’s “museumization.” A final concern of this survey is to consider the ways that photography is both like and unlike traditional arts of painting and drawing and newer visual modes of film and electronic media. |
| ART HIS 190W | PRACTICUM FOR MAJORS | WILSON, J.A. | The purpose of this seminar is to develop basic proficiencies in your field of major study. For art history majors, this means refining the skills of looking, reading, research & writing. In the process, you will become familiar with techniques of provenance research, the vocabulary of formal analysis, along with other interpretive strategies including biography, social analysis, assessment of reception and of changing standards of interpretive
discourse, as well as the ideological role of art and art museums in the maintenance of aesthetic norms.
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| ART HIS 190W | PRACTICUM FOR MAJORS | JOSEPH, B. | The practicum is a required course for junior and senior art history majors. It also fulfills the upper-division writing requirement. This section of the course will focus on the sources and approaches to modern art, helping to develop analytic and critical skills necessary for thinking and writing about art. There will be a number of writing assignments, including, for example, papers on individual works, approaches, and exhibitions. |