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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 identities of and the interrelations between the Christian, Islamic, and Early 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 written assignments with an emphasis on reading and visual analysis. Regular attendance of lectures and discussion sessions are required. |
| ART HIS 103 | GREEK SANCTUARIES | MILES, M.M. | A study of the art and architecture of the sanctuaries of ancient Greece, with special attention to how archaeology helps illustrate the history of Greek religion. The sanctuaries served as centers of worship of the gods, and were focal points for Greek politics, athletics, medicine, art and architecture. This course covers the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia; selected city sanctuaries; Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and Epidauros, the primary center for the healing god Asklepios. One mid-term examination, one paper, final examination. Recommended prerequisite: Art History 40A or background in Classics. |
| ART HIS 121 | RENAISSANCE VENICE | BAUER, L. | This course will examine the three-way relationship among the city of Venice, the artists and architects working there during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and developing forms of visual culture. It will consider the geography, history, and institutions of the city, such artists as the Bellini, Titian, and Palladio, and topics ranging from pictorial identity and secular narrative to gender and the development of the nude. In addition to a midterm and a final examination, two short papers will be required. |
| ART HIS 140B | ART & POLITICS: 1965 - 1975 | DAWSEY, J. | Avoiding the perhaps too-simplistic tendency to speak of “the sixties” and the “seventies” as cleanly discrete periods of time, this course will examine intersections of art and politics between the years 1965 and 1975. From the civil rights movement to the anti-war and women’s and gay liberation movements, that decade saw multitudes take to the streets in attempts to create political change. How did artists respond (or not) to this climate of dissent and activism? Examining a wide spectrum of post-minimalist artwork, this class will look at the ways in which artists grappled with finding artistic vocabularies and modes of address adequate to the aims of a politically partisan art practice. We will think, additionally, about the models of politicized artistic production offered by pre-war avant-gardes, and will consider the role played by new media technologies in art of the time. |
| ART HIS 145C | THE QUESTION OF PUBLIC SPACE | DAWSEY, J. | What counts as a public space? A neighborhood park? A corporate plaza? A civic building? A museum? Can “publicness” be located in a particular place? This course will investigate the notion of public space, engaging contemporary debates across the fields of art, architecture, and urban geography. With the rise in public art commissions over the past twenty-five years, issues of “community,” “accessibility,” urban beautification and the privatization of space have become increasingly contested. We will also consider how recent public art practices have been enlisted to address broader struggles over the nature of democracy. Topics include: the Situationist International, Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Krzysztof Wodiczko, “new genre public art”, Critical Art Ensemble. Readings by: Michel de Certeau, Rosalyn Deutsche, Nancy Fraser, Jurgen Habermas, David Harvey, Frederic Jameson, Miwon Kwon, Henri Lefebvre, Bruce Robbins, Michael Warner, Mark Wigley. |
| ART HIS 154 | THE CHINESE GARDEN AND ITS REPRESENTATION | HO, J.C. | This course introduces Chinese garden culture and aesthetics and the visual representation of the garden as a major theme in Chinese painting. The impact of Chinese gardens in European aesthetics and the renewed interest in Chinese gardens in North America, including the installation of the Huntington Chinese garden will also be examined. Regular attendance and class participation, midterm, short written assignments and a final examination are required. |
| ART HIS 164A | AFRICAN AMERICAN ART: 1650-1900 | COOKS, B. | This course investigates the history and aesthetics of African American art with an emphasis on the politics of cultural representation. Students will use course readings and class discussions as the primary means of investigating the ideas discussed. |
| ART HIS 190W | PRACTICUM FOR MAJORS | STEIN, S. | A required course for junior and senior art history majors, the practicum cultivates basic skills and knowledge necessary for specialized study in art history. We shall concentrate on basic bibliographic research skills and analytic reading skills in the field, while constantly honing skills in writing about art, and writing about writing on art. Accordingly, students should expect to write, edit, and revise numerous descriptive, technically oriented, and analytically oriented reading and research assignments.
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