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Course Schedule—Fall 2005

History of Art

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HISTORY OF ART

010.101 (H)

             (W)

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART-PART I (4) Kupfer   Limit 25 per section

A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture. the Renaissance to the present.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

ThF 10:30-12

M 1

M 2

T 12

T 1

W 12

W 1

010.105 (H)

ANCIENT ART OF THE AMERICAS (3) DeLeonardis Course surveys the visual arts of Andean South America and includes discussion of royal Inka tunics, Nasca death imagery and the gold sculptural traditions of Colombia.

Sec. 01

MTW 10

010.171 (H)

AMERICAN ART, 1860-PRESENT (3) Maynard     The course explores the development of American painting, sculpture, and photography from the Civil War era to today, with reference to important American art collectors (as at Hopkins’ Evergreen House)

Sec. 01

Th 12-3

010.228 (H)

MAJOR BAROQUE ARTISTS: NORTH AND SOUTH (3) Struhal    Limit 25    An introduction to the field of Baroque painting by focusing on the artistic exchange between Northern and Southern artists from around 1600 to 1640.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

MTW 11

010.304 5 (H)

ARCHITECTURE IN THE U.S., 1860-1930 (3) Maynard   
Limit 35 40 Tracing social, cultural, and technological changes that shaped US architecture from the Civil War to the Great Depression.    

Sec. 01

Th 4-7pm

010.322 (H)
              (W)

PICTURING THE BIBLE (3) Kessler  Limit 25     The course examines the ways in which theology, politics, and other cultural interests were mapped onto biblical narratives in manuscripts, murals, and small objects during the Middle Ages.  Research paper and final exam.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

010.356 (H)

POUSSIN AND THE ORIGINS OF CLASSICISM (3) Dempsey   Limit 25    Poussin, was the founder of a permanent idea of classicism in French art, an idea that continued to engage artists as late as Cezanne.  We will be examining the formation of that style in 17th-century Rome.

Sec. 01

ThF 12-1:30

010.367

CEZANNE, MATISSE, PICASSO Tuma Addresses the development of modernist painting in France between 1890 and 1918 through an examination of the work of these three essential figures. Course added 03/31/05

Sec. 01

MTW 1

010.378 (H)

ROMAN HISTORICAL ART (3) Koortbojian   Limit 25     The tradition of historical representation (and its mythic parallel) from its Greek and Etruscan precedents to its apogee in Imperial Rome.

Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

MTW 12

010.390 (H)

ART MUSEUM POLICY AND PRACTICE (3) Maguire, E. Limit 12  Perm. Req’d.
Hands-on seminar looks behind the scenes at displays and exhibitions, museum operations and programs, as signs of current thinking about what art, past and present, may be.

Cross-listed with Classics and Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-5

010.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

010.521 (H)

             (W)

HONORS THESIS Staff Open to students by arrangement with a faculty advisor in the History of Art Department.  Interested students should review the program description available in the department office.

   

010.599

INTERNSHIPS-HISTORY OF ART

Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

   

010.612

THE MEDIEVAL IMAGE Kessler
Drawing on the work of Belting, Biernoff, Camille, Carruthers, Didi-Huberman, Elsner, Hahn, Hamburger, Krueger, Lentes, Nelson, Rudolph, Schmitt, Wolf, Wirth, and others, the seminar will examine theories of images and vision in Byzantium and the Latin West.

Sec. 01

Th 2-4pm

010.623

TOPICS IN MODERN ART Fried
Co-taught by the professor with 3 successive visitors - Stephen Melville, Elizabeth Legger, and Eric Michaud on topics of the visitors' choosing.

Sec. 01

W T 2-5pm 1-4

010.625

PROBLEMS IN DESCRIPTION Tuma Examines the role of description in the analysis and interpretation of works of art. Emphasis will be placed on 20th century writers and subject matter, though not exclusively. Course added 03/31/05

Sec. 01

W 2-4

010.633

RENAISSANCE ART BEFORE RAPHAEL: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VERNACULAR STYLE Dempsey     An examination of the importance to the early Renaissance of the conventions of naturalistic representation in the context of a concept of vernacular expression.

Sec. 01

F 3-5

010.664

TRIUMPHAL FORMS Koortbojian     The republican triumph provides the background for a focus on the new “triumphalist” ethos of the imperial period and its innovative monumental forms.

Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

M 3-5

010.685

EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE WALL MOSAICS Maguire, H.     Focuses on the techniques and iconographic programs of wall and vault mosaics and on problems of their interpretation. The alteration of mosaics by medieval and modern restorers is also considered.

Cross-listed with Romance Languages

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

010.801

SPECIAL RESEARCH AND PROBLEMS

   

010.803

INDIVIDUAL WORK

   

 

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