HISTORY OF ART

010.101 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART-PART I (4) Kessler Limit 25 per section A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

MW 12-1:15

F 10-10:50

F 11-11:50

F 12-12:50

F 1:30-2:20

010.147 (H)

SOUTH ASIAN ART (3) Brown   Limit 25   This course explores the visual culture of South Asia from archaeology to installation art. Themes will include: the patron, the text and image, ritual/ political space, nationalism, modernity, and postcoloniality.

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15 9-10:15

010.170 (H)

AMERICAN ART, 1607 - 1860 (3) Maynard   Limit 25   American painting and sculpture have undergone many transformations from the time of settlement to the present. Reference will be made to outstanding holdings at area museums plus Homewood and Evergreen. Course canceled 4/09/08

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

010.202 (H)

SACRED ARTS OF AFRICA (3) Meier   Limit 25   This course will focus on how the visual arts are vital conduits of belief, communicating and enacting changing concepts of the divine in sub-Saharan Africa from the early modern period (16th century) to the present.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

010.290 (H)

AT THE VERY EDGE: THE ART OF ISLAMIC SPAIN AS A FURTIVE INTRODUCTION TO ‘ISLAMIC ART’ (3) Bauer   Limit 25 The course aims at introducing the problematics of Islamic art by focusing on the art of Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), where intensive encounters with numerous cultures shaped the formation of a unique and indigenous Islamic art.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies and Near Eastern Studies
Dean Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15

010.305 (H)

ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, 1600-1850 (3) Maynard    Limit 25   As Americans forged their cultural identity, their architecture developed as well, following patterns in Britain, from late-medieval to Georgian, Gothic, and Greek Revival. Attention will be given to Homewood House. Course canceled 4/09/08

Sec. 01

Th 4:30-7

010.366 (H)

NATIVE AMERICAN ART (3) DeLeonardis   Limit 25   Survey of the principle visual arts of North America (1500 B.C. – A.D. 1600) including discussion of Adena-Hopewell, Mogollon, Punuk, and Taino.  Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology. Collections study in local and regional museums.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

010.387 (H)

ROMAN IMPERIAL SCULPTURE (3) Koortbojian   Limit 25 The course will examine the imperial monuments, chiefly in the city of Rome, from the mid-first century to the reign of Constantine. Emphasis will be on the constancy (and conventionality) of messages despite changing styles and changing times.
Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

010.396 (H)

ART AFTER 1945 (3) Tuma Limit 50 25
This course surveys the major artistic movements in the United States and Europe following World War II. Beginning with Abstract Expressionism, we will explore the European Informel, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Neo-Dada, New Realism, Pop, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Land Art, Arte Povera, Conceptualism, Neo-Expressionism, Postmodernism, and key developments in contemporary art.

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

389.202 (H,S)

INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSEUM: ISSUES AND IDEAS (3) Rodini  Limit 25   Perm. Req.
Cross-listed with Programs in Museum and Society

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

130.317 (H)

AKHENATEN, NEFERTITI AND THE AMARNA PERIOD (3) Bryan    Limit 10   Meets with 133.717
Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

Th 3-5:30

010.604

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION Kessler   The seminar considers the sources, meaning, and function of medieval book illumination during the early Middle Ages.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

010.640

VAN EYCK AND HIS LEGACY Brine
Limit 25 Open to upper-level undergraduates Explores the life, work and reputation of Jan van Eyck and his place within the history of Western art; considers the intended audience, function and meaning of van Eyck’s paintings and the later history of their reception.

Sec. 01

F 1-3

010.675

THE QUESTION OF PROGRAMMES (TOMB AND DOMUS) Koortbojian   Limit 25 The seminar will be devoted to the possible relationship(s) between imagery displayed in Roman tombs and in the rooms of Roman houses, and will examine the historiography devoted to the nature of such reputed relationships. The topic will take advantage of the famous group of sarcophagi at the Walters, and the upcoming Pompeii exhibition at the National Gallery.
Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

M 2-5pm

010.696

SERRA, HESSE, NAUMAN Tuma  Limit 8  This seminar investigates the careers of three American artists who emerged in the 1960s: Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, and Bruce Nauman.  We will be examining work in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, performance, film and video.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

010.697 648

TOPICS IN VENETIAN ART (3) Campbell   Limit 25  This seminar examines artistic exchanges between Venice and its territorial state.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

040.627

SANCTUARIES OF ATHENS AND ATTIKA   Shapiro  Limit 20 Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

133.717

AKHENATEN, NEFERTITI AND THE AMARNA PERIOD Bryan    Limit 5   Meets with 130.317
Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

Th 3-5:30

133.750

SEMINAR: EGYPTIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY Bryan  Limit 15  Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies Course canceled 3/18/08

010.801

SPECIAL RESEARCH AND PROBLEMS
Sec. 01- Campbell
This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered courses. 

010.803

INDIVIDUAL WORK
Sec. 01- Campbell
Sec. 04 - Kessler
Sec. 08 - Campbell
Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.