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Course Schedule—Fall 2006

History of Art

HISTORY OF ART

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010.101 (H)

(W)

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART-PART I (4) Maguire   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

010.121(H)

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART (3) Forgione  Limit 75 Course surveys artistic trends and innovations in 19th-century Europe, including artists associated with movements such as Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism.

Sec. 01

MTW 12

010.170 (H)

AMERICAN ART, 1607 - 1860 (3) Maynard     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.

Sec. 01

Th 12-3

010.218 (H)

EXPRESSIONISM IS DEAD! THE RETURN TO REALISM BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS (3) Roth   Limit 25 This course examines the artistic and political diversity of controversial realist painting, photography, and graphic art in 1920's Germany, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, August Sander, among others. Dean's Teaching Fellowship Course added 4/26/06 Course canceled 7/14/06

Sec. 01

MTW 2

010.305 (H)

ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA AND BRITIAN, 1600-1850 (3) Maynard    Limit 40   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.

Sec. 01

Th 4-7pm

010.354 (H)

PRINTS AND PRINT CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (3) Rodini   Limit 25   Printing revolutionized Renaissance visual culture, impacting how images were produced and consumed.  Regular visits to the BMA print room will enhance this survey of prints, printmakers, and print technology.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

010.358 (H)

DADA (3) Obler Limit 25   This course will examine Dada from its origins in early 20th century Zurich to its reincarnations in 1960s international Neo-Dada, in media ranging from film to cross-stitch embroidery. Course added 4/12/06

Sec. 01

MTW 1

010.366 (H)

NATIVE AMERICAN ART (3) Deleonardis   Limit 25   Survey of the principle visual arts of North America (1500 BC - AD 1600).  Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology. Collections study in local and regional museums.

Sec. 01

MTW 10

010.379 (H)

HELLENISTIC ART (3) Koortbojian Limit 25
Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

MTW 11

010.390 (H)

ART MUSEUM POLICY AND PRACTICE (3) Maguire, E.  Limit 12   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, Program in Museums and Society, and Near Eastern Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

010.411 (H)

ART COLLECTING AND THE RISE OF THE MUSEUM (3) Campbell   Limit 15   Case studies ranging from the Renaissance studiolo and kunstkammer, the Uffizi and the Roman College Museum in the 1600s, the formation of state museums in nineteenth century Europe. Can be taken as part of the Program in Museums and Society.
Cross listed with Program in Museums and Society

Sec. 01

F 12-3

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
Cross-listed with Program in Museums and Society

   

040.609

SEXUALITY IN EGYPTIAN AND ROMAN ART Bryan / Valladares    Limit 10 Cross-listed with Classics, Near Eastern Studies and Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01
M 1-3

010.618

TOPICS IN 19TH CENTURY ART Armstrong   Limit 15  Topics in 19th century French art and aesthetics.  Still life painting and photography from Chardin to Picasso.  This course will consider the genre of painting that was the lowest on the old hierarchy of genres as a site of contemplation of the following themes of modernity and modernism: materiality and commodification, medium-specificity, the gendering of the private sphere, fetishism, fantasy and displacement, subject/object relations, relations between the optical and the tactile, and the transformation of the artist’s studio.

Sec. 01

T Th 2-5

010.649

MANTEGNA AND THE RENAISSANCE COURT ARTIST Campbell   Limit 15    Mantegna’s work will be considered in the context of humanist and antiquarian culture of Padua and Mantua, and the cultural politics of Italian princely states.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

010.660

IMAGERY OF THE ROMAN DEAD Koortbojian   Limit 15 
Cross-listed with Classics

Sec. 01

M 3-5

010.661

THE TWELFTH-CENTURY COURTS AT CONSTANTINOPLE AND PALERMO Maguire, H.   Limit 15     This seminar will study the visual culture of two medieval courts, at Constantinople and Palermo, examining architecture, mosaics, paintings, textiles and ivory carvings in their social and political contexts.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

010.676

PROBLEMS IN ROMANESQUE ART: ASESSMENT OF INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES Kupfer   Limit 15   This seminar will consider the varieties of approaches to Romanesque imagery.

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

010.688

PSYCHOLANALYSIS AND ART HISTORY Fried / Leys A consideration of major art historical and interpretive texts that make use of psychoanalysis.  No prior knowledge of psychoanalysis is required.  Authors include: Freud, Laplanche and Pontalis, Melanie Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, Kristeva, Schapiro, Wollheim, Clark, Steinberg, Bersani, and Anne Wagner.

Sec. 01

T 1-4

040.603

CLASSICAL VASE-PAINTING IN THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM  Shapiro    Limit 10
Cross listed with Classics

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

010.801

SPECIAL RESEARCH AND PROBLEMS

   

010.803

INDIVIDUAL WORK

   

 

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