FALL 2015 ART HISTORY COURSES ARTH 105 History of Western Art I A. House, MWF 1:10-‐2:00, MM 214 This course explores major monuments in art history from the Paleolithic era to the Middle Ages, including everything from cave paintings—the first known images made by humans—to the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome, to the soaring cathedrals of the Middle Ages. We will study the interplay of works of art and architecture with their various physical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. ARTH 105E History of Western Art I E. Petit, W 4:40-‐7:25 PM, MM 214 From cave paintings to Gothic cathedrals, History of Western Art I will explore and analyze at the major periods and movements in Western Art from Prehistoric through Medieval times. This course will cover roughly 25,000 years of history, culture and art, and will serve as an introduction to the study of art history. Cultures and periods to be covered in this course include, but are not limited to: Prehistoric Europeans, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Aegeans, Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Byzantines, and the Middle Ages. ARTH 106 History of Western Art II P. Chametzky, MWF 10:50-‐11:40, Close-‐Hipp 005 This survey course studies art from the Renaissance to the present in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Major works of art, artists, and art movements are examined in historical and cultural context, and fundamental art historical techniques and concepts are taught as a basis for future study and life experiences. ARTH 320 History of Italian Renaissance Art A. House, MW 2:20-‐3:35, MM 239 In this course we will investigate monuments of Italian Renaissance art and architecture in their historical, political, devotional, and social contexts. Key issues will include the revival of classical antiquity; the rise of the status of the artist; the kinds of art produced in different centers, both geographic and governmental; the encounter with nature; and the production of new bodies of artistic and architectural theory. ARTH 327 History of 18th Century European Art Sec 001 A. Graciano, TR 11:40-‐12:55, MM 239 Sec 002 A. Graciano, TR 2:50-‐4:05, MM 239 A survey of European art from c. 1700 to 1815, covering the artistic periods of Rococo, Neoclassicism and early Romanticism. ARTH 335 History of 20th Century Art B. Collins, TR 1:15-‐2:30, Sloan 112 This course traces the major developments in western European art and sculpture from Manet in the mid-‐nineteenth century through Surrealism and the outbreak of WW II in 1939. Although the focus is on works produced in Paris, developments in Britain, Germany, Austria and Spain are also discussed. Methodologically, works are analyzed in terms of their function in context—social, artistic and/or biographical. ARTH 340 History of American Art I L. Brandt, TR 10:05-‐11:20, MM 239 This course will explore the wide array of artworks, buildings, and everyday objects that were made within or inspired by the heterogeneous spaces and communities of North America during the colonial period. Along the way, we consider how artists, builders, and craftsmen creatively reworked European cultural traditions, developed new art forms keyed to local demands, and navigated the political conflicts and commercial networks that shaped colonial life. ARTH 345 History of Asian Art Sec 001 A. Wright, MWF 9:40-‐10:30, MM 310 Sec 002 A. Wright, MWF 10:50-‐11:40, MM 310 This course introduces South Asian and East Asian paintings, sculptures, and architectural monuments and explores their cultural and historical contexts. Students learn about the differences between the arts of various religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. ARTH 390 History of Photography S. Felleman. TR 2:50 -‐ 4:05, MM 214 An introduction to the history, theory and culture of photography from its origins in the 19th century to the present. ARTH 501/701 Methodologies of Art History A. Graciano, W 2:20-‐5:05, MM 329 A seminar course devoted to the study of the discipline of art history itself, focused on developing an understanding of its scholarly methods, including formalism, iconography/iconology, connoisseurship, feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis and post-‐colonialism ARTH 535/735 Abstract Expressionism B. Collins, TR 10:05-‐11:20, MM 329 ARTH 544 American Art and Memory L. Brandt, T 4:25-‐7:10, MM 329 From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to American Girl dolls, memory in American visual culture remains a hotly debated topic. What do we choose to remember? How do we choose to remember it? Who makes these decisions? How do memories change over time? Through the study of a variety of mediums -‐ from sculpture to popular culture to the planning of cities, paintings of historical events to the federal government’s commission of monuments -‐ we will look at the ways in which Americans have remembered their past through visual culture. ARTH 545/745 Politics and Propaganda in 20th Century Chinese Art A. Wright, MW 2:20-‐3:35, MM 341 The turbulent 20th century, with its cycles of war and political upheaval, bred powerful ideological developments in China’s art world. This course examines several major examples of political expression in the Chinese visual arts, from Lu Xun’s left-‐wing Woodcut Movement and Mao Zedong’s Yan’an talks on the Arts to the subversive actions of the dissident art group the Stars and perennial scourge of the Chinese government Ai Weiwei. ARTH 569 History of Experimental Film S. Felleman. TR 4:25 -‐ 6:25 pm (screenings included), MM 314 Surveys a parallel history of cinema: that of film art created by painters, sculptors, poets, and others who explored possibilities other than the dominant (illusionistic narrative) in the medium, including cubism and other avant-‐gardes of the 1920s, Dada and Surrealism, Pop, Structural film and more.