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HISTORY OF ART |
010.101 (H)
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART-PART I (4) Kessler Limit 25 per section A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
Secs. 03 & 06 canceled 5/16/07 |
Lec.
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ThF 10:30-12
M 1
M 2
T 12
T 1
W 12
W 1 |
010.105 (H) |
ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS (3) Deleonardis Limit 25 per section Surveys the art of Olmec, West Mexico, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec.
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 10 |
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. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-3 |
010.300 (H) |
ART IN THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS (3) Koortbojian Limit 60 This course will survey the transformation of the Rome and the Roman world that was produced by the new works of art and architecture that celebrated the rise to power of the first emperor and the advent of the Imperial era.
Gilman Course in the Humanities
Cross-listed with Classics |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 11 |
010.305 (H) |
ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, 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 |
010.344 (H)
(W) |
FROM VIRGIN TO VENUS: VENETIAN PAINTING AND THE INVENTION OF ART (3) Nygren Limit 25 This course will introduce students to a variety of methods for interpreting Venetian Renaissance art. Traditional art historical approaches will be supplemented by speculative readings in philosophy, politics, gender theory and other disciplines. Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 10:30-12 |
010.367 (H) |
CEZANNE, MATISSE, PICASSO (3) Tuma Limit 25 Completion of 010.102 strongly recommended Addresses the development of modernist painting in France between 1890 and 1918 through an examination of the work of these three essential figures. |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 12 |
010.376 (H) |
ISSUES AND PROBLEMS IN AFRICAN ART: ISLAM AND THE VISUAL ARTS OF AFRICA (3) Meier Limit 25 The interconnections between Islam and other modes of religious practice and their attendant expressions in the realm of African arts. Important questions regarding the practice of Islam in Africa will also be addressed, with case studies from Mali, Morocco, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania. Cross-listed with Africana Studies
Course added 3/22/07 |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 1 |
010.385 (H) |
BYZANTINE ART (3) Maguire Limit 25This course will cover the arts of Byzantium in the medieval period, from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries. |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 12 |
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. Earns "Museum & Society" practicum credit
Cross-listed with Classics, Museum Studies, and Near Eastern Studies |
Sec. 01 |
Th 2-5 |
010.501 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY Tuma
Course added 917/07 |
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010.521 (H)
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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. |
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010.611 |
FLORENCE 1490-1530 Campbell Limit 25 Art, politics, and society during a period of political and religious turmoil, culminating in the Last Republic. |
Sec. 01 |
W 4-6 |
010.612 |
MEDIEVAL IMAGE THEORY Kessler Limit 25 Prereq: French and German From a careful reading of significant works of art, contemporary texts bearing on images, and modern theoretic writings, the seminar investigates the function of narratives, icons, physical matter, and accompanying texts in the production of meaning. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 2-4 |
010.621 |
ROME’S HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHY: THE CITY AS SYMBOL Koortbojian Limit 25 The seminar will be devoted to those artistic and architectural monuments that commemorated significant events, that came to mark and to define the city's fabric as permanent memorials those past events, and that insinuated those memories in the present, in the daily lives of Rome's inhabitants.
Cross-listed with Classics |
Sec. 01 |
M 4-6pm |
010.636 |
CEZANNE AND INTERPRETATION Tuma Limit 25 Examines the career of Paul Cézanne, with special focus on the various interpretive strategies that have been brought to bear on his art. |
Sec. 01 |
M 2-4 |
010.639 |
WRITING ART HISTORY Obler/Struhal Limit 15 This course will consider various modes of writing art history from the origins of the discipline in 19th-century Germany and Austria (Woelfflin, Riegl, etc.) through approaches that continue to be practiced in the present, such as psychoanalysis, feminism, and semiotics (Kris and Kurz, Nochlin, Bal, etc.). |
Sec. 01 |
F 2-4 5pm |
010.682 |
MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF VENICE Maguire Limit 25 This course will study the art and architecture of Venice and its colonies from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, including architecture, sculpture, wall and floor mosaics, painting, ivories and metalwork. |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-4 |
| 389.201 (H) |
INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSEUM: PAST AND PRESENT (3) Rodini Limit 25 This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, and Museum & Society Programs |
Sec. 01 |
MT 2-3:30 |
| 389.362 (H) |
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM (3) Rodini Limit 10 Work with Walters and STSci staff to learn about the workings of a professional art museum while developing an exhibition of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. M&S practicum course. Cross-listed with Museum & Society Programs |
Sec. 01 |
Th 2-5pm |
040.611 |
CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE IN THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM Shapiro Limit 15
Cross-listed with Classics |
Sec. 01 |
T 2-4:30 |
133.750 |
SEMINAR: EGYPTIAN ART Bryan Limit 15 Cross-listed with Near Eastern Studies |
Sec. 01 |
W 10-1 |
010.801 |
SPECIAL RESEARCH AND PROBLEMS |
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010.803 |
INDIVIDUAL WORK |
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010.821 |
FALL PRACTICUM Course added 7/23/07 |
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