HISTORY OF ART

010.102 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART-PART II (4) Gage   Limit 25 per section A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.

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TTh 9-10:15

M 12-12:50 1-1:50

M 1:30 2-2:50

T 12-12:50

T 1:30 1-1:50

010.171 (H)

AMERICAN ART, 1860-PRESENT (3) Maynard  Limit 25  The course explores the development of American art from the Civil War era to today, from nineteenth-century artists such as Eakins and  Homer to twentieth-century innovators Pollock and Warhol.

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Th 12-2:30

010.214 (H)

THE POWER OF A PLACE ART FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL (3) Bauer   Limit 25  This course examines works of art from the land of Israel, beginning with the Neolithic period and moving forward to the present day. The course intends to raise unorthodox questions concerning the importance of a place and the power it encompasses for artistic production. Works of art in mediums (e.g. dance and film) and from periods that are not usually festured in art history courses will form an important part of the discussion. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies
Course added 10/31/07
Course canceled 12/03/07

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W 1:30-4

010.220 (H)

ARTISTS AND WARFARE IN THE RENAISSANCE: A MEETING OF ART AND SCIENCE (3) Gregg   Limit 25   Covers fortifications, military maps, artists as soldiers and spies, and battle images. Themes will include the debate between art and science, and what art can reveal about war in society.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

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F 12-2:30

010.315 (H)

ARCHITECTURE ON THE UNITED STATES (3) Maynard   Limit 25 65  The course explores stylistic and technological changes in American architecture with emphasis on the contributions of great architects, including Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Th 3-5:30pm

010.317 (H)
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THE FACE OF GOD (AND OTHER BODY PARTS) (3) Kessler   Limit  25  Examines how the belief that God had assumed flesh was fundamental to the development of Christian art.  Works of art remain the focus, but the course also considers manuscripts, relics, the Eucharist, and other manifestations.

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TTh 12-1:15

010.333 (H)

THE MAKING OF RENAISSANCE ROME (3) Campbell   Limit 25 The multiple identities of the ancient city as these are understood and represented through the work of artists such as Giotto, Filarete, Raphael, Bramante, and Caravaggio; the writings of Petrarch, Pius II, Alberti, and Montaigne; the statecraft and patronage of the Renaissance popes.

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TTh 1:30-2:45

010.342 (H)

PREACHING THE AVANT-GRADE: MENDICANT ART IN RENIASSANCE ITALY (3) Vusich   Limit 25  Preaching friars – particularly the Dominicans and Franciscans – produced or commissioned some of the most cutting edge art of the Italian Renaissance. By examining the friars’ contributions to the Renaissance, both as patrons and as painters, this course problematizes the notion that piousness and artistic innovation are mutually exclusive categories. Readings include contemporary sermons as well as secondary literature from art history, philosophy, cultural studies, and theology.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

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MF 10:30-11:45

010.365 (H)

ART OF THE ANCIENT ANDES (3) DeLeonardis   Limit 25    Surveys art and architecture of pre-Hispanic Andean South America. 
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

010.374 (H)

PRIMITIVISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS (3) Obler/Meier Limit 15 This course examines the appropriation and counter-appropriation of non-Western visual culture since the late-nineteenth century. How have Western and non-Western artists respectively constructed the “primitive” as an oppositional strategy? Cross-listed with Africana Studies

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Th 3-5:30pm

010.380 323 (H)

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM: DE KOONING, POLLOCK, ROTHKO, NEWMAN (3) Tuma Limit 25  The course explores Abstract Expressionism through an in-depth examination of the careers of these key figures.

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MW 12-1:15

010.412 (H)
(W)

THE ART OF DESCRIBING (3) TumaLimit 8  Seniors only  This writing-intensive course explores the complex role of description in the analysis and interpretation of works of art.

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M 1:30-4

362.302 (H)

AFRICAN VISIONS: UNDERSTANDING ART, CONTEXT, AND THE IMAGES OF A CONTINENT (3) Milbourne  Limit 15  Earns Practicum Credit in Museums & Society A hands-on class that addresses the relationship between art and its contexts by focusing upon the histories and inventions of African art objects. Film, print media and museums will all be considered. Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Museums & Society, and Sociology Course added 10/31/07

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M 1:30-3:50

POMPEII: LIFE AND ART IN A ROMAN CITY (3) Valladares   Limit 12 Prereq: Background in classics and/or art history     This course will introduce students to scholarship on the city of Pompeii.  We will study key houses and monuments, approaching them from an interdisciplinary lens. Cross-listed with Classics

389.340 (H)

CRITICAL ISSUES IN ART CONSERVATION (3)  Balachandran Limit 20   The course examines recent controversies in the conservation of major global art works and sites, raising questions concerning the basic theoretical assumptions, practical methods and ethical implications of art conservation.
Cross-listed with Museums & Society and Anthropology

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Th 1:30-4:30

389.440 (H,S)

WHO OWNS CULTURE? (3) Rodini    Limit 12   This seminar-style course explores the complicated, often explosive concept of cultural property, including questions surrounding the ownership, preservation, and interpretation of artifacts, monuments, heritage sites, and living traditions.
Cross-listed with Museums & Society and Anthropology

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T 1:30-4:30

010.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff  

010.522 (W)

HONORS THESIS Tuma

010.616

MONUMENTAL NARRATIVE Kessler   Limit 15 Investigates the depictions of Old and New Testament themes on the walls of early medieval buildings.  The programs and sources of early Christian cycles, the adjustments made to address the public, and such technical issues as the role of model books are studied.

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T  3-5pm

010.648

MATTER OF FAITH: RELICS, RELIQUARIES, AND THE CULT OF SAINS IN THE MIDDLE AGES  Mann/Bagnoli  Limit 25  Explores the genesis, development, and eventual crisis of the Christian cult of relics from Late Antiquity to the end of the Reformation. Cross-listed with Anthropology   Course held at the Walters Art Museum.

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T M 4:30-6:30pm

010.650

REFORM ART IN ITALY Campbell   Limit 15 This course is a consideration of initiatives to reform religious art in Italy before and after the Council of Trent.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

040.621

PROSEMINAR TO CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Shapiro   Limit 15     Cross-listed with Classics

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W 2-4:20

010.802

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

010.804

INDIVIDUAL WORK     Kessler/Staff Students preparing dissertations will enroll in this course with the permission of their doctoral advisers.