Undergraduate
6C Art Survey III: Modern - Contemporary - Monahan
6DW Survey: Arts of Japan and Korea - Wattles
6E Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America - Ogbechie
6L Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games - White
105O The Global Middle Ages: Visual and Cultural Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean - Badamo
105P Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture: Soaring Cathedrals and Stunning Visions - Badamo
107C Renaissance Kunst- and Wunderkammern: The First Museums - Travers
107D Puzzles and Vexations: Games in Early-Modern Art and Culture - Faust
117F Impressionism and Post-Impressionism - Garfinkle
121B Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art: 1860 - 1900 - Garfinkle
121E Three-Dimensional Arts of the United States: Meaning, Context, Reception - Garfinkle
130C The Arts of Spain and New Spain - Engel [CANCELLED]
130D Pre-Columbian Art of South America - Engel [CANCELLED]
132I Art of Empire - Khoury
134E The Art of the Chinese Landscape - Kim
136J Landscape of Colonialism - Chattopadhyay
136Q Deviant Domesticities - White
141D Birth of the Modern Museum - Paul
143F Exploring the Holdings of the ADC - Baciu
186E Seminar in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Northern European Art: Eccentric Image - Faust
186F Seminar in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Southern Renaissance: Body and Religion in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Gilmore
186Q Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture - Khoury
187W Coming Home: The House Museum as Cultural Encounter - White
Graduate
251B Topics in African Arts in Context - Ogbechie
265 Topics in Architectural History & Urbanism - Chattopadhyay
6C Art Survey III: Modern - Contemporary TR 1230-145 LOTTE LEHMANN CONCERT HALL Monahan
History of Western art from the eighteenth century to the present.
GE: AREA E, AREA F, EUROPEAN TRADITIONS, WRITING
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
HONORS SECTION: T 200-250 ARTS 1332
6DW Survey: Arts of Japan and Korea TR 200-315 HSSB 1174 Wattles
Surveys the arts of Japan and the Korean peninsula from pre-historic to contemporary times. The focus is on the evolving role of the artist within society.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES, WRITING
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
6E Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America MW 930-1045 HSSB 1174 Ogbechie
This course provides a general introduction to the indigenous and contemporary arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America. In these vast locales of human culture, we will study how art provides concrete conceptual and visual structures around which social, political, cultural aesthetic and ritual institutions are constructed. The art object, imbued with several meanings, is essential to the human lifecycle, charged with political, economic and spiritual connotations and instrumental to rituals of birth, death and all the stages of transition in between. In such contexts, art operates within spaces of performance and individual art objects are imbued with multiple meanings. We will investigate the historical nature of different art traditions in these cultures and evaluate specific art forms like painting, sculpture, mural painting, textiles and decorative arts, body adornment, masquerade performances, royal/leadership arts, and sacred, secular and vernacular architecture.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
6L Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games MW 1230-145 LBL 1001 White
This course introduces students to the history of games. It is organized chronologically as a global survey. We study games and the social, political,and economic conditions that support them, as well as the interface between the human player and the imagined world of the game. Taking as its premise that games are artifacts of culture, this course focuses on the visual and spatial practice of games in social context.
GE: AREA E, AREA F, WRITING
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
105O The Global Middle Ages: Visual and Cultural Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean MW 200-315 ARTS 1341 Badamo
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Focusing on the Mediterranean, this course considers visual manifestations of exchange. Its goal is to examine the complexity of religious, political, and visual interactions in the Middle Ages, a period that brought together diverse religious communities, generating both social frictions and new cultural forms. Students will study the dynamic interplay among Christian, Jewish, and Islamic visual cultures as they developed and coalesced through commerce, gift exchange, the reinterpretation of pre-existing forms, and the reuse of objects and spaces.
105P Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture MW 1100-1215 ARTS 1332 Badamo
Topic: Soaring Cathedrals and Stunning Visions
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
For Spring 2019, enrollment by department invitation only during Pass 1; remaining seats offered during Pass 2. Qualifies for Letters & Science Honors credit.
This course explores the soaring cathedrals, monstrous sculptures, and marvelous images that inspired The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and tales of King Arthur. Beginning with the fourth-century rise of Christian images and ending with the advent of print, it traces how images and architecture developed new roles—and reinvented old ones—over the course of the Middle Ages. Investigating architecture, sculpture, and manuscripts in their historical contexts, it asks why medieval objects look the way they do and how viewers saw them. We will also devote significant time to the continuities left to us from the Middle Ages that inform our own cultural production. Through our examination of medieval and contemporary cultural production, we will develop a critical approach to the way we think about—and use—the medieval past.
107C Renaissance Kunst- and Wunderkammern: The First Museums MW 330-445 ARTS 1341 Travers
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
In the sixteenth century, wealthy merchants and powerful princes in Europe began assembling vast collections that aspired to contain all possible knowledge of all possible things. From these remarkably diverse collections—called Kunst- and Wunderkammern (German), studioli (Italian), and curiosity cabinets (English)—arose our modern museums of art, science, history and technology, as well as modern research collections in universities. This course explores these fascinating collections, the purposes that they served and the circumstances in which they were created.
107D Puzzles and Vexations: Games in Early-Modern Art and Culture MW 1230-145 ARTS 1341 Faust
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Explores the fascinating profusion of games in early-modern Europe, ca. 1400-1700, including card games, board games, and visual, mechanical and mathematical puzzles. Topics include the role of fate and chance; the phenomenon of puzzle pictures; illusionism and other eccentric images; and the social and moral implications of games.
117F Impressionism and Post-Impressionism MW 200-315 HSSB 1174 Garfinkle
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movement in France from 1863 through the first decade of the twentieth century and the advent of Cubism. Includes the work of Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Seurat.
GE: AREA F
121B Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art: 1860 - 1900 TR 330-445 ARTS 1341 Garfinkle
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Painting within the context of the human-made environment, from the onset of the Civil War to just before World War I, tracing the role of art in the rise of modern, corporate and industrial America.
GE: AREA F
121E Three-Dimensional Arts of the United States: Meaning, Context, Reception TR 1230-145 ARTS 1341 Garfinkle
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
From Puritan gravestones to park fountains to war memorials, American sculpture has been a barometer of the political, cultural, religious and artistic trends of our society. This course covers the carvings of the first settlements, figural sculpture of colonial America, various art movements and sculptural forms from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries as well as the current controversies surrounding public art.
GE: AREA F
130C The Arts of Spain and New Spain TR 200-315 ARTS 1341 Engel
[CANCELLED]
130D Pre-Columbian Art of South America TR 330-445 ARTS 1341 Engel
[CANCELLED]
132I Art of Empire TR 1100-1215 ARTS 1341 Khoury
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Studies the visual culture of different empires, alone or in a comparative fashion. For example, Ottoman and Hapsburg; Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal; Mughal and British India; or the earlier empire of the Fatimids, Abbasids, and Umayyads of Syria and Spain.
GE: AREA F
134E The Art of the Chinese Landscape TR 500-615 ARTS 1341 Kim
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Chinese approaches to landscape as subject matter in art, with a focus on painting and garden architecture. The course begins with the immortality cult in the Han dynasty (206 BCE - CE 221) and ends with contemporary artists of the twentieth century.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES
136J Landscape of Colonialism TR 930-1045 ARTS 1341 Chattopadhyay
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Examination of architecture, urbanism and the land scape of British and French colonialism between 1600 and 1950. Introduction to the different forms of colonialism, colonial ideology and the architecture of colonial encounter in North America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES
136Q Deviant Domesticities TR 200-315 ARTS 1341 White
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
We take the suburban landscape and its module of the single-family detached house for granted, as though it was somehow a "natural" landscape form, unmindful of its laborious two hundred year invention. It is a landscape pattern that now poses an acute challenge to ecological and economic sustainability. This course is premised on the notion that we can't hope to unravel this complex problem without both a historical and an architectural analysis.
The architecture profession in the United States has embraced the need for a "green," or sustainable, architecture, but its concern has mainly been technological. Can the concept of "green" apply to family and community structure, and not just to the construction of buildings? The suburban low-density landscape has long been cited as un-green, but what are the dense alternatives? In this course we shall ponder "green" implications at the scale of home and community, and our primary subject of study will be the suburban landscape and its many deviations, including Isla Vista.
141D Birth of the Modern Museum MW 1100-1215 ARTS 1341 Paul
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Course examines the emergence and development of museums of art in eighteenth-century Europe, tracing their origins to the private collections from which they evolved and studying the practices, such as tourism, that stimulated their growth.
GE: AREA F
143F Exploring the Holdings of the ADC MW 200-315 ARTS 1332 Baciu
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
The course is developed in co-operation with the Architecture & Design Collection (ADC) and marks the inauguration of HAA’s new vault for archival studies. As such, it is not only designed to give an introduction to archival research, but also highlight the differences between the physical and the virtual. The museum holdings dedicated to the work of the architects R.M. Schindler and Cliff May will accompany us on the quest of understanding the difference between the material qualities of the architect’s work and their impact on culture at large.
186E Seminar in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Northern European Art M 300-550 ARTS 2622 Faust
Topic: Eccentric Image
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units with different topic. Open only to History of Art & Architecture majors during Pass 1.
Anthropomorphic landscapes, anamorphic and composite portraits, pictorial stones, and trompe l’œil paintings of early-modern Europe (ca. 1400–1800) present perceptual and conceptual challenges. Some images are not what they appear to be; others appear to be what they are not or change before the eyes. Approaching such eccentric images according to their historical reception and the tasks they offer to viewing subjects, this seminar explores questions concerning cognition, artifice, and human and divine creativity. Confronting labels such as curiosities, caprices, and optical toys, we will examine these images’ engagement with contemporary notions of paradox and mutable forms. Course readings emphasize early-modern objects, but students are welcome to address images produced in other cultures and eras.
GE: WRITING
186F Seminar in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Southern Renaissance TR 1100-1215 ARTS 1332 Gilmore
Topic: Body and Religion in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units with different topic. Open only to History of Art & Architecture majors during Pass 1.
Bleeding crucifixes. Weeping and sweating paintings. Sweet-smelling saintly bones. This course will examine these intersections and others that occurred between the body, material culture, and religious practices in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Students will study the performances and forms of sensory engagement that surrounded religious objects and enlivened sacred spaces. They will also consider the representation and marginalization of the bodies of the disenfranchised. The course surveys a wide range of objects and monuments that people encountered on an intimate level: miraculous images, reliquaries, votive offerings, dioramas, pilgrimage sites, and painted panels used to comfort prisoners.
GE: WRITING
186Q Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture R 200-450 ARTS 2622 Khoury
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units with different topic. Open only to History of Art & Architecture majors during Pass 1.
Advanced studies in Islamic art and architecture. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.
GE: WRITING
187W Coming Home: The House Museum as Cultural Encounter M 800-1050 ARTS 1332 White
Prerequisite: upper-division standing; designed for majors.
Open only to History of Art & Architecture majors during Pass 1.
This seminar studies the political and cultural history of the house museum in the United States, from its antebellum beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present. Explores a variety of issues related to the house museum, including curatorial and design choices, visitor experiences, and the House Museum Movement.
251B Topics in African Arts in Context T 300-550 ARTS 2622 Ogbechie
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Special research in the contextual history of African art.
265 Topics in Architectural History & Urbanism W 900-1150 ARTS 2622 Chattopadhyay
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Special research in the history of architecture.