Department of Art History Course Offerings Fall / 2015 106 Jefferson Hall 929 W. Harrison MC 201 AH 100 Introduction to Art and Art History Visiting Instructor | TBA Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays 9-9:50am Room BH 317 or Assistant Professor | Elise Archias Professor | Blake Stimson Tuesdays/Thursdays 11-12:15pm or 2-3:15pm Room BH 317 This course will investigate various forms, meanings, and purposes of art. Techniques, styles, media, and content will be addressed in different cultural, historical and social contexts. These questions will be considered through four distinct ways of seeing that we will call the “believing eye,” the “analytic eye,” the “alienated eye,” and the “market eye.” Readings will be drawn from the work of renowned art historians, philosophers, artists, and critics writing about major monuments and artistic movements. Students will learn how to make sense of artworks and their place in history. More importantly, they will develop and enhance their visual literacy to better prepare them for the increasingly complex, cross-cultural world we find ourselves in today, a world that, more and more, relies on images rather than written or spoken words as its primary medium of communication. AH 110 Art History I World History of Art and the Built Environment I Associate Professor | Ömür Harmanşah Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays 12-12:50pm Please see the UIC schedule for discussion days/times. Room HH 107 Comprehensive overview of world art, architecture, and visual culture of ancient and medieval societies from prehistory to 1400 BCE. Introduces students basic analytical tools of art history in studying pre-modern art and architecture in their cultural, political and historical context. Creative Arts Course AH 130 Photography in History Visiting Instructor | TBA Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays 2-2:50pm Room SH 319 Developments in the history of photography including cultural, social, commercial, scientific, political and artistic applications, and its transformation of the related social meanings of art and subjectivity. Field trips required at a nominal fee. Recommended background: Any art history course; any photography studio course. Past course. AH 160 Trends in International Contemporary Art Since 1960 Assistant Professor | Elise Archias Mondays 2-5pm Room JH 209 This course is an introduction to contemporary art. In it we explore some themes, questions, and formal strategies that have occupied different people in different zones of the global contemporary art world since 1960. The course groups artists according to different types of strategy for responding critically to contemporary conditions with the aim of transforming them through art’s limited but extraordinary means. What have people thought art should do and be during the last 50 years? We will look at some of the concrete arguments artists have put forward for why art should be political or autonomous, critical or spectacular, aggressive or nurturing, and then some, keeping it always in mind that we are trying to figure out what we want art to do and be today. AH 180 Introduction to Museum and Exhibition Studies Visiting Instructor | TBA Wednesdays 3-6pm Room HH 303 This course engages students with museum and exhibition histories, frameworks and experiences through key readings, films, visits to campus and area museums and exhibits, and guest lectures by cultural sector professionals and faculty in affiliated areas including anthropology, art, and history. This course is open to all undergraduate students. It is a core course for the new Museum and Exhibition Studies Minor. AH 204 Greek Art and Archaeology Associate Professor | Jennifer Tobin Tuesdays / Thursdays 9:30-10:45am Room LCA A003 From the mysterious palaces of the Minoans to the architectural triumph of the Parthenon, the ancient Greeks created monuments that were to form the corner stone for the art and architecture of Western Europe. Come learn about the rise and fall of this vibrant society, as it colonized the Mediterranean and Black Seas, defended against Persian invasion,conquered the East under Alexander the Great, and fell to Rome with the defeat of Cleopatra. See how throughout these turbulent times, the Greeks continued to create statues and buildings that celebrated their specific society but also honored humanity as a whole. Creative Arts and Past Course AH 210 The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Associate Professor | Jennifer Tobin Tuesdays/Thursdays 8-9:15am Room SH 319 Ancient Egypt from 6000 BC-400 AD. Architecture, sculpture and painting in their social and historical contexts. Same as AAST 210, and ARST 210. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.Creative Arts, and Past course. AH 232 History of Film I: 1890 to World War II Lecturer | Martin Rubin Teaching Assistant | Aaron Hammes Mondays/Wednesdays 3-4:50pm Room BH B6 History of film from its beginnings in the 1890s up to World War II. Same as ENGL 232 and MOVI 232. AH 235 History of Design I: 1760-1925 Assistant Professor | Jonathan Mekinda Tuesdays / Thursdays 11-12:15pm Room - Please see the UIC schedule for location This lecture course surveys the history of design in Europe and the United States from about 1760 to 1925 from various historical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives. Covering a range of fields, including industrial design, graphic design, architecture, interior architecture, and fashion, this course will explore the evolution of the role of the designer in modern society and examine a wide range of objects as both products and agents of social, cultural, and political transformation. Ultimately, this course aims to introduce students to the myriad ways in which design interacts with culture and society. Same as DES 235 AH 264 African American Art Visiting Instructor | TBA Tuesdays/Thursdays 2-3:15pm Room HH 107 Interdisciplinary survey of the artistic production of African American artists from the nineteenth century to the present. Same as AAST 264. Creative Arts, and World Cultures course. AH 271 Native American Art Visiting Instructor | TBA Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays 11-11:50am Room SH 319 Survey of the arts of the indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. Same as NAST 271. Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of art history at the 100 level or consent of the instructor. World Cultures course. AH 301 Theories and Methods in Art History Visiting Instructor | TBA Wednesday 9-11:45am Room JH 209 The methodologies and theories of the discipline and their application to selected problems. Previously listed as AH 200. Required for majors in art history. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and major in art history, or consent of the instructor. AH 422 Topics in the Literature of Architecture Professor | Martha Pollak Tuesdays 2-4:50pm Room HH 303 This seminar will take up selected readings in the theory and criticism of architecture. The readings will focus on works authored by architects,and will range from Vitruvius to Louis Sullivan, and beyond. AH 460 Topics in Modern and Contemporary Art Eros and Enlightenment Associate Professor | Nina Dubin Mondays 3-5:50pm Room HH 303 What would it mean to consider eighteenthcentury art through the lens of the period’s evolving discourse on love? The explosion of a novel-reading public; the Enlightenment’s often nervous inquiry into the sentiment of love and its status in relation to the equally unstable category of friendship; the expansion of epistolary culture and the attendant vogue for love letter pictures; the ubiquitous presence of Cupid, even in such unexpected contexts as financial literature: these and other phenomena suggest that eros played a central yet complicated role in eighteenth-century self-imaginings. Moreover, love was considered indissociable from such equally fraught domains as trust and risk. Examining a broad range of cultural objects, this seminar seeks to expand, challenge and enliven our understanding of art and eros in the eighteenth century. AH 510 Historiography of the Visual Arts: 1750-1960 Professor | Martha Pollak Thursdays 10-12:45pm Room HH 303 In this seminar we will examine the intellectual underpinnings of art history as a discipline, theories of art, and art criticism. The readings will range from the early modern to c.1960. The purpose of the seminar is also to explore research and interpretive methods internal to art history. AH 532 Cultural Collections Assistant Professor: Lori B. Batista Thursdays 2-5pm Room JH 209 What makes a collection? How are collections cared for, preserved, catalogued and conserved? What circulates from a collection? How do organizations and institutions define areas for collecting? In this course, we will examine the theories, practices, and interpretations that inform how objects, images and ephemera make their way into the collections of libraries, cultural centers and museums. Students will become more knowledgeable about collections processes through field trips, lecture-demonstrations, tours, discussions, and collectionsrelated projects coordinated with local arts organizations and cultural institutions. AH 543 Writing for Exhibitions Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor | Claudine Isé Mondays 5:30-8:30pm Room JH 209 This course is a practicum on writing for a variety of art-related contexts, with a particular emphasis on museums and art galleries. Most class meetings are divided as follows: first half, discussion of reading assignments and/or group discussion with guest speakers; second half, group critiques of our weekly writing assignments. The course covers the following areas: museum wall labels and didactic panels (traditional and experimental forms); press releases; art reviews (short and long format); short and long brochure and catalogue essays; and grant narratives for fundraising and grant applications. In addition, we’ll explore emerging writing forms as they occur in a variety of social media contexts(Twitter, museum blogs and the social media landscape in general) and will critically examine how social media can be used not only as exhibition marketing and public relations tools, but as a way to extend the reach of an art exhibition. This class will also feature numerous guest speakers AH 545 Museum Genres, Practices, and Institutions Associate Professor | Therese Quinn Wednesdays 6-9pm Room HH 303 This seminar examines the history and evolving frameworks of museums through critical inquiry and close readings of literary, theoretical, and other kinds of media and “texts” produced about and by museums. Students will gain perspectives on the institutional contexts, social practices and political potentials of museums in dialog with a diversity of museum workers and other practitioners at Chicago’s cultural institutions. AH 561 Seminar in Contemporary Architecture and Art: ADORNO: Now and Forever Associate Professor | Lisa Lee Professor | Blake Stimson Wednesdays 9-12pm Room HH 303 This seminar will take up the work, the reception and continuing relevance of Theodor Adorno, one of the most important critical theorists of the past century. Spanning questions of aesthetics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, readings will be drawn from all of Adorno’s works and from selected examples of his reception in more recent theory and criticism (e.g. Lisa Lee, Dialectics of the Body, Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Adorno as the Devil”) and artistic practice (e.g. Allan Sekula, Andrea Fraser, and Doug Ischar). For more information: [email protected] or [email protected].
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