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ART H 201 Survey of Western Art--Ancient (5) VLPA
Major achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, from prehistoric times to the beginnings of Christianity.
Instructor Course Description:
Margaret L Laird
ART H 202 Survey of Western Art--Medieval and Renaissance (5) VLPA
The arts of the Byzantine Empire, Islam, and Western Christendom through 1520 AD.
Instructor Course Description:
Joanne Snow-Smith
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 203 Survey of Western Art--Modern (5) VLPA
Western art from 1520 to the present.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan P Casteras
Deborah Caplow
Jeffrey L. Collins
Kolya M. Rice
Marek K. Wieczorek
Martha Kingsbury
ART H 204 Survey of Asian Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Origins and interplay of major movements of South and East Asian art.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 205 Survey of Tribal Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania from prehistoric times to the present and to the pre-Columbian arts of the Americas.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene A. Bravmann
ART H 206 Survey of Native-North American Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Survey of the indigenous arts of North America north of Mexico from ancient through contemporary times. Focuses on the historical and cultural contexts of the arts and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists' styles.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Robin K Wright
ART H 230 The African-American Tradition: A Transatlantic View of Art and Culture (5) I&S/VLPA
Assesses the diversity of art by individuals of African descent in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States. Examines questions of form meaning, and symbolic and ritual behavior. Considers formal and conceptual relationships between art forms and their African sources; assesses their role in the construction of new African-American identities.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene A. Bravmann
ART H 250 Rome (5) I&S/VLPA
Focuses on Rome as an historical, intellectual, and artistic world center. Literary and historic documents, visual arts, architecture, film, and opera used to explore the changing paradigms of the Eternal City. In English. Offered: jointly with ITAL 250 and HSTEU 250.
ART H 290 History of Architecture (5) I&S/VLPA
Introduction to the history of architecture across a broad range of cultural contexts.
Instructor Course Description:
Meredith L Clausen
ART H 300 Ideas in Art (5) VLPA
Selected monuments of art and architecture in the Western tradition, from the Greeks to the twentieth century, studied in relation to the intellectual background of the ages and civilizations that produced them. Slide lectures accompanied by discussion of assigned readings in philosophical, religious, scientific, political, literary, and artistic texts. Offered: jointly with CHID 300.
Instructor Course Description:
Hal N Opperman
ART H 306 Indian Art of South Asia (5) VLPA
Development of Indian art from its origins to the medieval period. Spread of Indian religions and related art forms in Tibet and Southeast Asia are briefly introduced.
ART H 309 Topics in ART History (5, max. 15) VLPA
Topics vary.
Instructor Course Description:
Giuseppina A Testa
Kriszta Kotsis
Rene A. Bravmann
Susan P Casteras
Cynthea J. Bogel
Deborah Caplow
Dawn R Glinsmann
Gayle Clemans
Henry C Matthews
Kyle Griffith
Jennifer G. Germann
Anna D. Kartsonis
Karen R Mathews
Kolya Rice
Marek K. Wieczorek
Maria J. Feliciano
Steven E Bunn
Sudeshna Sen
Shih-Shan S Huang
Susan Noyes Platt
ART H 311 Chinese Painting (5) I&S/VLPA
An introduction to the role of painting in Chinese cultural history, with attention to regional geography, social structure, gender, traditional philosophies, twentieth-century socialism, and the patterns of Chinese history.
Instructor Course Description:
Giuseppina A Testa
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 312 Chinese Art and Visual Culture (5) I&S/VLPA
Introduction to Chinese art and visual culture from the ancient period to the present day. Examines the visual traits of important monuments of architecture, calligraphy, film, furniture, ceramics, bronze, painting, and sculpture. Emphasizes how different artistic styles are tied to different historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Instructor Course Description:
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 313 East Asian Art: Arts in China, Japan, and Korea (5) I&S/VLPA
East Asian art and visual culture introduced through examples of art in China, Japan, and Korea from ancient times to present day. Emphasizes how artistic styles were tied to different social and cultural contexts, and how arts were transformed and exchanged within the larger cultural geographical circle of East Asia.
ART H 315 Buddhist Art and Material Culture of East Asia (5, max. 15) VLPA
Buddhist painting and sculpture of China, Korea, and Japan. Explores religious meaning, artistic development, and historical significance. Examples from the sixth to the seventeenth centuries, along with paintings and contemporary carvings.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 317 Chado-Japanese Esthetics (4) VLPA
History, theory, and practice of chado, or Way of Tea, a Zen-inspired art that has had notable effects on Japanese society. Lectures on esthetics and cultural history supplemented by participation in chado, with the goal of developing sufficient understanding and skill to continue chado as a discipline.
Instructor Course Description:
Bonnie M. Mitchell
Timothy P. Olson
ART H 318 Japanese Prints 1600-Present (5) VLPA Bogel
Introduction to Japanese printmaking practices, style, and themes. Examines concerns related to gender, issues of representation, explicit sexual imagery, cultural and artistic practice, and the function of prints.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 321 Arts of Japan (5, max. 15) I&S/VLPA
The spectrum of Japanese art from prehistory to modern times. Examines the interrelationship of the major media for each historical period. Central theme: the appreciation of the varied aesthetics active in the development of Japanese painting, architecture, sculpture, and ceramics.
Instructor Course Description:
Giuseppina A Testa
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 330 Tribal Art and Philosophy (5) I&S/VLPA
Philosophical inquiry and thought in African, Ameri-Indian, and Pacific island societies as expressed through the visual, musical, choreographic, and oral arts. Natural, moral, and ethical ideas as expressed in the arts.
ART H 331 Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast (5) I&S/VLPA
Survey of the indigenous arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north. Overview of ancient through contemporary times, focusing on the historical and cultural contexts of the arts and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists' styles. Offered: jointly with ANTH 331.
Instructor Course Description:
Dawn R Glinsmann
Steve Brown
Robin K Wright
ART H 337 African Art and Society (5) I&S/VLPA
Explores the ideas and notions expressed visually in sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, and architecture and describes their relationships to man and culture in Africa.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene A. Bravmann
ART H 340 Pre-Classical Art and Archaeology (3) VLPA
Art and the other material remains of the civilizations in the Aegean from the Neolithic period to the end of the Bronze Age, with special emphasis on Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean kingdoms of mainland Greece; illustrated by slides. The history, techniques, and results of significant excavations. Offered: jointly with CL AR 340.
ART H 341 Greek Art and Archaeology (3) VLPA
Material remains and the developing styles in sculpture, vase painting, architecture, and the minor arts from the Geometric to the Hellenistic periods; illustrated by slides. Principal sites and monuments, as well as techniques and methods of excavation, are examined in an attempt to reconstruct the material culture of antiquity. Offered: jointly with CL AR 341.
Instructor Course Description:
Lawrence J Bliquez
ART H 342 Roman Art and Archaeology (3) VLPA
Roman architecture and art, with emphasis on the innovations of the Romans; illustrated by slides. Offered: jointly with CL AR 342.
Instructor Course Description:
Margaret L Laird
ART H 343 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology (3) VLPA
Art of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean from the time of Alexander the Great to the Roman conquest. Principal sites with their sculpture, painting, mosaics, and minor arts examined in lectures with slides. Offered: jointly with CL AR 343.
ART H 350 The City of Cairo (3) I&S/VLPA
Development of Fustat and Cairo, 600-1800, with special emphasis on art and architecture. Economic, social, and geographic influences on the creation of the distinctive Egyptian styles of Islamic art. Offered: jointly with NEAR E 350.
ART H 351 Early Medieval and Byzantine Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Christian art and architecture of the Roman and Byzantine empires and of western Europe through the eighth century.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 352 High and Late Medieval Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Art and architecture of western Christendom from the time of Charlemagne to the Renaissance.
ART H 361 Italian Renaissance Art (5) VLPA
Sculpture, painting, and architecture from 1300 to 1600.
Instructor Course Description:
Joanne Snow-Smith
Stuart P Lingo
ART H 366 Northern Renaissance Art (5) VLPA
An overview of Netherlandish, French, and German art in the context of cultural developments circa 1400-1570.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine E. Goettler
ART H 372 Rococo to Romanticism (5) VLPA
Mainstream of European art and architecture from about 1710 to about 1830. Attention is also given to central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the colonial Americas.
ART H 373 Southern Baroque Art (5) VLPA
Art of Italy and Spain, circa 1590 to circa 1710.
Instructor Course Description:
Estelle C Lingo
Jeffrey L. Collins
Jesse M Locker
ART H 374 Northern Baroque Art (5) VLPA
The art of northern Europe, circa 1590 to circa 1710.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven E Bunn
ART H 380 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art (5) VLPA
Arts and architecture of Europe and America from Romanticism to the present.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Caplow
Marek K. Wieczorek
Martha Kingsbury
ART H 381 Art Since World War II (5) I&S/VLPA
Art of Europe and the United States in the decades since World War II: painting, sculpture, and architecture, multiplication of new forms (video, performance pieces, land and installation pieces), changing context of patronage, publicity, and marketing.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
Marek K. Wieczorek
ART H 382 Theory and Practice of Art Criticism (3) VLPA
Major issues in art and architectural criticism: nature of art criticism, aims of the critic, differences between art and architectural criticism. Works by major critics and artists, mostly twentieth century.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
ART H 384 American Art (5) I&S/VLPA
Achievements and issues in painting, architecture, sculpture, and other arts in the United States from the colonial era to the present.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan P Casteras
Deborah Caplow
ART H 397 Art in Rome: Augustus to Mussolini (10) VLPA
Survey of art in Rome; studies from original monuments. Offered in Italy as part of the Art History Seminar in Rome. Focuses on representative works from the most important periods of Italian art: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern. Site visits, field trips, individual research projects.
ART H 399 Study Abroad: Art History Individual Projects (3-10, max. 20) VLPA
For participants in Study Abroad programs.
ART H 400 ART History and Criticism (2-5, max. 15) VLPA
Courses on special topics, frequently by visiting faculty, which cannot be offered on a continuing basis. Consult art history office for subjects offered.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine E. Goettler
Shuishan Yu
Rene A. Bravmann
Susan P Casteras
Christopher P Heuer
Caroline Houser
Estelle C Lingo
Patricia A Failing
Christine E. Goettler
Henry Matthews
John A. Stevenson
Jeffrey L. Collins
Jennifer G. Germann
Jesse M Locker
Joanne Snow-Smith
Karen R Mathews
Kolya Rice
Stuart P Lingo
Marek K. Wieczorek
Martha Kingsbury
Margaret L Laird
Meredith L Clausen
Melissa J. Walt
Sudeshna Sen
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 411 Chinese Painting Experiences, 900-1800 (3) VLPA
Examines issues of style, theme, and function in Chinese pointing from the tenth to the nineteen century. Discusses painting practice, patronage, regional diversity, the relationship of word and image, amateurism vs. professionalism, and the introduction of foreign elements.
Instructor Course Description:
Shuishan Yu
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 413 Selected Topics in Chinese Art (3, max. 9) VLPA
Specific theme or area of Chinese art, such as the art of bronze age China or Chinese painting under Communist rule. Recommended: some background in Chinese art, history, language, or literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Giuseppina A Testa
Melissa J. Walt
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 414 Song China: Painting Production and Cultural Encounters (5) VLPA
Examines diverse regional development of painting production and cultural exchange by Song China (960-1279) and its neighbors, Japan, Korea, Khitan/Liao, Jurchen/Jin, Tangut/Xi Xia. Focuses on well-known masterpieces, newly excavated material from tombs and archaeological sites, and little-studied anonymous works preserved in Japan.
ART H 419 Japanese Architecture (3) VLPA
Survey of Japanese architecture from its origins to modern times. Although Shinto architecture, tea houses, gardens, and modern developments are discussed, the primary focus is on the development of Japanese Buddhist architecture. Recommended: some background in Japanese art, history, language, or literature. Offered: jointly with ARCH 453.
ART H 420 Art of the Japanese Print (3) VLPA
Foundations of Ukiyo-e in Japanese genre from the twelfth through mid-seventeenth centuries; woodblock technique from the Heian period through the early Edo period. Emphasis on the changing styles and subject matter in Ukiyo-e Hanga from Moronobu through Kuniyoshi. Recommended: some background in Japanese art, history, language, or literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 430 Chinese Cinema (5) I&S/VLPA
Chinese film, 1930s to the present, studied as a visual art form, set in relation to traditional and modern Chinese arts and literature, modern history, gender, and other social issues. Recommended: some background in Chinese art, history, language, or literature.
ART H 432 Oceanic Art (3) I&S/VLPA
Arts of Oceania, studied through cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene A. Bravmann
ART H 433 Northern Northwest Coast Native-American Art: Methodologies in Stylistic Analysis (3) VLPA
Stylistic and historical analysis of northern Northwest Coast art (Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Northern Wakashan). Intensive analysis of formline rules; stylistic variation through time and between tribal and individual artists' styles. Recommended: some background in Native American art, history, languages, or literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Robin K Wright
ART H 434 Native-American Art and Ceremony of the Southern and Central Northwest Coast (3) I&S/VLPA
Examination of the role of the visual arts in the ceremonial life of the Native-American people of the central and southern Northwest Coast. Emphasis on the traditional social and religious aspects of ceremonialism, contrasts between tribal traditions, and continuing twentieth-century traditions. Recommended: some background in Native American art, history, languages, or literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Robin K Wright
ART H 435 Thematic Studies in Native-American Art (3, max. 9) I&S/VLPA Wright
Approach to Native-American art through themes and issues. Focus varies from year to year (e.g. Shamanism in Native-American art, gender identity in Native-American art, social and political aspects of Native-American art, issues in contemporary Native-American art). Recommended: some background in Native American art, history, languages, or literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Robin K Wright
ART H 436 Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa I (3) I&S/VLPA
Traditional arts of the Western Sudan and the Western Guinea coast with their archaeological antecedents. Recommended: some background in African art, history, languages, or literature.
ART H 437 Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa II (3) I&S/VLPA
Traditional arts of the Central Guinea coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon, from precontact times to the present. Recommended: some background in African art, history, languages, or literature.
ART H 438 Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa III (3) I&S/VLPA
Arts of Zaire, Angola, the Swahili coast, and southern Africa. Recommended: some background in African art, history, languages, or literature.
ART H 442 Greek Painting (3) VLPA
Study of painted decoration on Greek vases, with emphasis on stylistic developments and cultural and historical influences. Painting on other media also examined as evidence allows. Offered: jointly with CL AR 442.
ART H 443 Roman Painting (3) VLPA
Study of surviving painting from the Roman World, with emphasis on wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Principal topics for discussion: the four styles of Pompeian painting the dependence of Roman painters on Greek prototypes, and the significance of various kinds of painting as domestic decoration. Offered: jointly with CL AR 443.
ART H 444 Greek and Roman Sculpture (3) VLPA
History and development of Greek sculpture and sculptors, their Roman copyists, and Roman portraits and sarcophagi. Emphasis on Greek sculpture of the fifth century BC Offered: jointly with CL AR 444.
ART H 446 Greek Architecture (3) VLPA
Detailed study of Greek architecture from its beginnings, with special emphasis on the Periclean building program in fifth-century Athens. Offered: jointly with CL AR 446/ARCH 454.
ART H 447 The Archaeology of Early Italy (3) VLPA Harmon
Study of the principal archaeological sites of early Italy, including Etruria, Sicily, southern Italy, and archaic Rome up to the Republican period. Attention given to the material remains and their relationship to the Etruscan, ancient Sicilian, and early Roman civilizations. Offered: jointly with CL AR 447.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel P. Harmon
ART H 448 The Archaeology of Italy (3) VLPA Harmon
Study of the principal archaeological sites in Italy with special emphasis on ancient Rome. Sites include the Alban hills, Ostia, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Tarquinia, Paestum, Tivoli, and Praeneste. Attention given to the relationship between material remains and their purpose in ancient life. Illustrated by slides. Offered: jointly with CL AR 448.
ART H 451 Topics in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture (3, max. 9) VLPA
Specific theme or area of early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture, such as early Christian and Byzantine mosaics or the art of Constantinople.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 452 Art, Religion, and Politics in the Early Christian Period, 300-700 AD (3) I&S/VLPA Kartsonis
Evolution of the art of the early Christian period (300-700 AD) in the context of contemporary religious, political, and cultural developments. Recommended: some background in Byzantine art or history. Offered: jointly with RELIG 442.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 453 Art, Religion, and Politics in Byzantium, 700-1453 AD (3) I&S/VLPA Kartsonis
Evolution of the art of Byzantium (700-1453 AD) in the context of contemporary religious, political, and cultural developments. Recommended: some background in Byzantine art or history. Offered: jointly with RELIG 443.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 455 Special Studies in Gothic Art and Architecture (3) VLPA
Detailed study of Gothic architecture and its accompanying sculpture and stained glass, with special emphasis on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in France and England. Offered: jointly with ARCH 455.
Instructor Course Description:
Catherine Jean Barrett
ART H 457 Flemish Art 1585-1700 (3) VLPA Goettler
History of art in the southern Netherlands during the so-called Counter-Reformation period. Discusses works by Antwerp's major painters (Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens); new specializations in the various genres (portraiture, genre, landscape, and still-life painting); and developments of northern Baroque sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts.
ART H 458 The Imagery of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory (1300-1800) (3) VLPA Goettler
Interdisciplinary approach to the aspects of devotional and visionary art that links art history with religious studies, literary history, and gender studies. Focuses on the media and pictorial genres created for different social groups of worshippers and viewers, from humble devotional objects to sophisticated artifacts of aesthetic and intellectual delight.
ART H 460 Topics in Northern European Art (3-5, max. 9) VLPA Goettler
Approaches to the art of northern Europe through particular themes, genres, contexts, or other issues. Focus varies from year to year.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine E. Gottler
ART H 461 Early Renaissance Painting in Italy (3) VLPA
Painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in central and northern Italy. Recommended: some background in Italian Renaissance art or history.
Instructor Course Description:
Joanne Snow-Smith
ART H 462 High Renaissance Painting in Italy (3) VLPA
Painting in central and northern Italy, from about 1480 to about 1530: Leonardo, Raphael, the early Michelangelo, Sarto, Correggio, Bellini, Giorgione, and the early Titian. Recommended: some background in Italian Renaissance art or history.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven E Bunn
ART H 463 Italian Renaissance Sculpture (3) VLPA
From Nicola Pisano to Giambologna. Recommended: some background in Italian Renaissance art or history.
Instructor Course Description:
Joanne Snow-Smith
ART H 464 Late Renaissance Painting in Italy (3) VLPA
Painting in central and northern Italy, from about 1515 to about 1580: Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Beccafumi, the later Michelangelo, Vasari, Bronzino, Salviati, the later Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Recommended: some background in Italian Renaissance art or history.
Instructor Course Description:
Stuart P Lingo
ART H 466 High Renaissance Painting in Venice (3) VLPA
Painting in Venice, circa 1480 to circa 1580: Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Lotto, del Piombo, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Recommended: some background in Italian Renaissance art or history.
ART H 470 English Art: 1500-1800 (3) VLPA
English art, principally painting, and, to a lesser extent, architecture. Emphasis on patronage, on the conditions that produced the decided peculiarities of English art, and on the final triumph of the native tradition. Recommended: some background in English history.
ART H 471 Rome in the Seventeenth Century (3) VLPA
Painting, sculpture, and architecture; concentration on Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, and Borromini. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Estelle C Lingo
ART H 476 French Art: Eighteenth Century (3) VLPA
Painting, sculpture, and prints; emphasis on the successive phases of Rococo style and iconography and the emergence of Neoclassicism.
Instructor Course Description:
Hal N Opperman
ART H 481 Romanticism (3) VLPA
Romantic tendencies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with emphasis on stylistic and iconographic study of painting in Spain, England, Germany, France, and the United States to about 1830. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Kingsbury
ART H 482 Realism and Impressionism (3) VLPA
Art and the world, 1830-80: high Romanticism through Realism and Impressionism, with emphasis on painting in France. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Kingsbury
ART H 483 Post-Impressionism to 1918 (3) VLPA
Post-Impressionism and the great revolution of early twentieth-century art, with emphasis on painting. From the first revisions of Impressionism around 1880 to Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, the Blaue Reiter, and Dadaism. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
ART H 484 Topics in Modern Art (3, max. 9) VLPA
Approach to art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through particular themes, genres, contexts, or other issues. Focus varies from year to year. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan P Casteras
Marek K. Wieczorek
Martha Kingsbury
ART H 485 Italian Futurism, Dada, Surrealism (5) VLPA Failing
Survey of three European early modern art movements whose ultimate objective was the collapse of bourgeois culture. Central issues: the role of art and artists in catalyzing social change, strategies for destroying public faith in logic, integration of verbal and visual signs and nonaesthetic conceptions of art. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
ART H 486 Abstract Expressionism: History and Myth (5) VLPA
Thematic and chronological survey of abstract expressionism, including major genres of critical interpretation, revisionist scholarship, and the relationship of artistic production to a larger context of visual production. Recommended: some background in the art or history of the period.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
ART H 488 American Architecture (3) VLPA
American architecture from indigenous native American traditions to the present. Recommended: some background in the art, architecture, or history of the period. Offered: jointly with ARCH 488.
Instructor Course Description:
Meredith L Clausen
ART H 490 Nineteenth-Century Architecture (3) VLPA
From late eighteenth-century French rationalists, Neoclassicists, to fin de siecle Vienna and Paris. Includes theorists such as Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and Semper; major movements, such as the Arts and Crafts, and the French Ecole des Beaux-Arts method of design. Recommended: some background in the art, architecture, or history of the period. Offered: jointly with ARCH 456.
ART H 491 Twentieth-Century Architecture (3) VLPA
Architecture in the twentieth century, mainly in Europe and the United States. Traces roots of Modernism in Europe in the 1920s, its demise (largely in the United States) in the 1960s and recent trends such as Post-Modernism and Deconstructivism. Recommended: some background in the art, architecture, or history of the period. Offered: jointly with ARCH 457.
Instructor Course Description:
Meredith L Clausen
ART H 492 Alternative Art Forms Since 1960 (5) VLPA
Survey of “post-studio” art forms developed in the 1960s by artists who did not equate artmaking with painting, sculpture, or other traditional forms. Topics include: happenings, Fluxus, land projects, artists’ video, artists, books, performance, site works, and art made for distribution on CD-ROM and on the World Wide Web.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
ART H 493 Architecture Since 1945 (3) VLPA
Theories and forms in architecture from the end of World War II to present. Includes new wave Japanese architects, recent Native-American developments, and non-Western as well as Western trends. Recommended: some background in the art, architecture, or history of the period. Offered: jointly with ARCH 459.
ART H 494 Paris: Architecture and Urbanism (3/5) I&S/VLPA
Spans the architectural history of Paris, from its Gallic, pre-roman origins in the 2nd century BCE through the work of 21st century architects. Focuses on changing patterns of the physical fabric of the city and its buildings, as seen within the context of the broader political, social, economic, and cultural history. Offered: jointly with EURO 496.
ART H 495 Italian Fascism: Architecture and Power (5) I&S/VLPA Clausen, Sbragia
Fascism in Italy as studied within the broader European context of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization, with particular emphasis on the arts -- literature, film, architecture, and urbanism. Offered: jointly with ITAL 475; A.
ART H 497 Special Topics in Art in Rome (5, max. 10) VLPA
Topics in art and architecture in Rome and environs, studied from original works. Offered in Italy as part of the art history Seminar in Rome. Topics vary. Site visits, field trips, and individual research projects.
ART H 498 Individual Projects, Undergraduate Practicum (2-5, max. 10)
Fieldwork or internships in art-related areas in the community. Practical experience in areas such as arts administration, gallery and museum operations, collection cataloguing, curatorial responsibilities, and art education. Credit/no credit only.
ART H 499 Individual Projects (2-5, max. 10)
ART H 500 Methods of ART History (5)
Introduction to the specialized bibliography of art historical research and to the wide variety of approaches to art historical problems of all periods and regions.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
ART H 501 Seminar in the General Field of Art (5, max. 15)
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Kingsbury
Margaret L Laird
Robin K Wright
ART H 504 Methods of Art History: Faculty Research (2)
Discussion and analysis of methodological issues posed in faculty research. Credit/no credit only. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Patricia A Failing
Jeffrey L. Collins
Anna D. Kartsonis
Marek K. Wieczorek
ART H 509 Seminar in Special Topics in ART History (5, max. 15)
Specific focus changes from quarter to quarter.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan P Casteras
Patricia A Failing
Christine E. Goettler
Helen Nagy
Jeffrey L. Collins
ART H 511 Seminar in Chinese Art (5, max. 15)
Critical appraisal of the principal research methods, theories, and types of literature dealing with the art of China.
Instructor Course Description:
Shih-Shan S Huang
ART H 515 Seminar in Japanese Art (5, max. 15)
Critical appraisal of the principal research methods, theories, and types of literature dealing with the art of Japan.
Instructor Course Description:
Giuseppina A Testa
Cynthea J. Bogel
ART H 531 Seminar in Tribal Art (5, max. 15)
Methodological and cross-disciplinary problems in the visual arts of precolonial Africa, Oceania, and America. Specific content varies.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene A. Bravmann
ART H 533 Seminar in North American Indian Art (5, max. 15)
Problems in North American Indian visual arts. Content varies.
Instructor Course Description:
Robin K Wright
ART H 541 Seminar in Greek and Roman Art (5)
In-depth study of selected topics and problems of the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Offered: jointly with CL AR 541.
Instructor Course Description:
Margaret L Laird
ART H 551 Seminar in Early Christian, Byzantine, and/or Medieval Art and Architecture (5, max. 15)
Problems in early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval art and architecture. Content varies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Anna D. Kartsonis
ART H 561 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art (5, max. 15)
Problems and in-depth study of selected topics of the art of the Italian Renaissance.
Instructor Course Description:
Joanne Snow-Smith
ART H 566 Seminar in North European Art (5, max. 15)
Deals with problems of style and iconography of the northern European masters of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine E. Gottler
ART H 577 Seminar in Baroque Art (5, max. 15)
Iconographic and stylistic problems of the art of the Baroque period, with emphasis on the principal research methods, theories, and types of literature dealing with the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe.
Instructor Course Description:
Estelle C Lingo
Hal N Opperman
ART H 581 Seminar in Modern Art (5, max. 15)
Art historical problems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan P Casteras
Marek K. Wieczorek
ART H 590 Seminar in Criticism of Contemporary Art (5, max. 15)
Contemporary art and appropriate critical methodology.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan Rosenberg
ART H 591 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Architecture (3/5)
Specific focus changes from quarter to quarter. Prerequisite: graduate standing with background in art history, architecture, architectural history, or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with ARCH 558.
Instructor Course Description:
Meredith L Clausen
ART H 592 Seminar in American Architecture (5) Clausen
Topics vary. Offered: jointly with ARCH 529.
ART H 597 Graduate Internship (2-5, max. 5)
Internship in the field of art history with a museum, gallery, or other faculty-approved art or architectural institution that can offer the student substantial research or curatorial experience. Credit/no credit only.
ART H 598 Master's Practicum (*, max. 15)
Credit/no credit only.
ART H 599 Reading and Writing Projects (2)
Art historical issues, methods, and materials. Required of all graduate majors registered in 400-level art history courses. Open also to graduate nonmajors.
Instructor Course Description:
Robin K Wright
ART H 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
ART H 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Credit/no credit only.
ART H 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
Credit/no credit only.
