Undergraduate Courses
ARTH 200, Art of the Western World to 1300
(Professor Spiro)
General resources for course
M/W 9-9:50 + section (ASY
2203)
ARTH201, Art of the Western World after
1300 (Professor Georgievska-Shine)
T/Th 11-11:50 + section (ASY 2203)
General resources for course
ARTH 250, Art and Archaeology of Ancient America (Professor
Bland)
M/W 11-11:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH 275, Art and Archaeology of Africa
(Professor Ater)
M/W 10-10:50 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH 290, Art of Asia (Professor Kita)
T/Th 9:30-10:20 + section (ASY 2203)
ARTH 303, Roman Art and Archaeology (Professor
Venit)
T/Th 11-12:15 (ASY 3215)
ARTH 310, Byzantine Art and Archaeology
(Professor Gerstel)
T/Th 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3215)
ARTH321, Sixteenth-Century Northern European
Painting (Professor Martinez)
W 3:00-5:30 (ASY 3221)
ARTH 323, Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance
Art (Georgievska-Shine)
M 3:00-5:30 (ASY 3211)
ARTH 350, Twentieth-Century Art to 1945
(Professor Mansbach)
T/Th 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3215)
ARTH 351, Twentieth-Century Art from 1945
(Professor Metcalf)
T/Th 2:00-3:15 (ASY 3215)
ARTH 360, History of American Art to 1876
(Staff)
T/Th 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3211)
ARTH 371, Latin American Art and Archaeology
after 1500 (Staff)
T/Th 11:00-12:15 (ASY 3211)
ARTH 376, Living Art of Africa (Professor
Eyo)
T/Th 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3211)
ARTH 386, Experiential Learning
ARTH 485, Chinese Painting (Professor Kuo)
T/Th 3:30-4:45 (ASY 3219)
ARTH 486, JapanesePainting (Professor Kita)
T/Th 2:00-3:15 (ASY 3211)
ARTH 488A, Colloquium in Art History(Professor
Eyo)
T/Th 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3217)
ARTH 496, Methods of Art History and Archaeology (Professor
Gerstel)
T 3:30-6:00 (ASY 4306)
ARTH 498, Directed Studies in Art History
I. Contact Instructor for Permission to Enroll.
ARTH 499, Honors Thesis. Contact Instructor
for Permission to Enroll.
Graduate Courses
Colloquia
ARTH639: Studies in Seventeenth-Century
Northern European Art
Gerard ter Borch and Dutch Genre Painting
Professor Arthur Wheelock
Monday 3-5:40
This course will examine the range and character of seventeenth-century
Dutch genre paintings, with special attention given to
Gerard ter Borch, an
artist who will be the focus of a monographic exhibition
to be held at the
National Gallery in the fall of 2004. Issues that will
be examined include
the types of narrative moments depicted by Ter Borch and
his contemporaries,
including Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. It will
look at the
relationship between such scenes and literary traditions.
It will also
examine the function of genre painting within Dutch society,
both in terms
of its moralizing character and its pictorial appeal.
Finally, it will
consider issues of autograph replicas, and the relationship
of portraiture
to genre painting.
ARTH678: Studies in Chinese Art
Orientalism, Scholarship, and Western Image of Chinese
Painting: Towards a
Critical Historiography of Chinese Painting
Professor Jason Kuo
Tuesday 6-8:40
The aim of this course is, through critical readings of
major texts written
by leading Western art historians of Chinese painting,
to examine critically
the historiography of the field of Chinese painting, to
assess what
achievements have been made, and to understand what and
how personal
backgrounds of scholars and institutional constraints
(academia, museums,
technology, for example)may have affected various practices
in the field.
There is no doubt that the study of Chinese painting has,
over the past five
decades, made tremendous progress in the U.S. where even
Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and European expatriate scholars in Chinese painting
have come to
study and work. Many important, world-class collections
of Chinese
paintings have been formed and many exhibitions of previously
unpublished
paintings have been held in the U.S. Furthermore, painting
has been the
most popular subject for people working on their doctorates
in Chinese art
in American graduate programs. The development of the
field of Chinese painting in the United States has been
shaped by a number of historical, cultural, and institutional
factors. It is important for us to know what these factors
were and how they have
shaped the study of Chinese painting as an academic discipline,
if the
field is to maintain its momentum. For comparative purposes,
scholarship in
other non-Chinese traditions in Europe and Japan could
also be taken into
consideration. This course is appropriate for students
in Asian art who can expect to gain a better understanding
of their field at the end of the semester. It should
be of interest to students in non-Asian art who are willing
to take the
challenge in order to enhance their scholarly experience
offered by this
course. The synergy of students with different backgrounds
will, it is
hoped, contribute to the intellectual richness of the
course. A reading
knowledge of Chinese is not required, because most of
the readings will be
on Western scholarship. Intellectual inquisitiveness and
open-mindedness,
however, are expected of all students. Students interested
in taking this
course are encouraged to contact the instructor if they
have any questions.
Seminars
ARTH709: Seminar in Late Roman, Early Christian
and Byzantine Art
Calendrical, Seasonal and Other Cosmographic Cycles
Professor Marie Spiro
Monday 12-2:40
This seminar will examine the form, function, and meaning
of calendrical,
seasonal, and other cosmographic programs in religious
and secular contexts
in the Roman through the Early Byzantine periods (2nd
century A.C. through
the 8th century). The cycles were popular during the periods
under
consideration and appear in manuscripts, sarcophagi, churches,
synagogues,
baths, villas, and palaces. Their selection by emperors,
lay and
ecclesiastical officials, and aristocrats will be considered,
especially in
regard to the patron's influence on individual programs
and scenes. Programs
in buildings will also be analyzed in regard to their
architectural contexts
and vistas. It will become evident that there are parallels
beyond the chronological
scope of this seminar. For this reason, and only with
the approval of the
advisor, it may be possible for a student to present an
oral report and a
paper on a topic in his/her field of interest. This seminar
satisfies
both an Ancient and Medieval Art requirement.
ARTH738: Studies in Seventeenth-Century
Southern European Art
Genre Painting and Generic Criticism in 18th-Century France
Professor Anthony Colantuono
Tuesday 12-2:40
The exhibition The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard:
Masterpieces of
French Genre Painting, opening at the National Gallery
of Art in October,
2003, provides an important new opportunity to reexamine
the remarkable
efflorescence of genre painting and the invention of new
pictorial genres in
early eighteenth-century France. The principal course
text is the
exhibition catalogue, edited by Colin Bailey. The seminar
examines the
origins and development of genre painting in a pan-European
perspective,
considering such issues as new patterns of art collecting
and display, the
role of art dealers, the use of seventeenth- and early
eighteenth-century
Italian, Netherlandish and Spanish models in pictorial
invention, and
related developments in early eighteenth-century art theory
and criticism.
ARTH758: Seminar in American Art
Studies in American Painting, 1865-1925
Professor Frank Kelly
Thursday 3-5:40
This seminar will consider a number of major figures such
as Inness, Homer,
Eakins, La Farge, and Bellows and topics such as American
Impressionism and
early twentieth-century developments in modernism.
ARTH 759: Seminar in Twentieth-Century
Art
Abstraction and the Avant-Garde
Professor Steven Mansbach
Tuesday 3-5:40
In the first decades of the twentieth century, avant-garde
artists were
often skeptical of abstraction and what it might represent
politically,
socially, and especially aesthetically. Other modern artists,
however,
embraced abstraction (geometrical or "organic",
but rarely both) as a
necessary progressive step in moving art to the center
of modern life. This
seminar will explore the nature, assigned or understood
meanings, and
reception of abstraction within the avant-garde from France,
Holland,
Germany, and the United States to Poland, Hungary, the
Balkans, the Baltic,
Russia, and Japan. Among the formal requirements, in addition
to participation in class
discussion and weekly readings, will be one short, in-class
(progress)
report; a substantial in-class presentation; and a written
paper.
ARTH789A: Special Topics in Art History
and Archaeology
The Art of Romare Bearden
Professor Renee Ater
Wednesday 3-5:40
This seminar will consider the work of Romare Bearden,
beginning with his
early figurative painting to his experimentation with
abstraction to his
development of collage as his principal medium. On September
14, 2003, The
National Gallery will open a comprehensive retrospective
exhibition of
Bearden's paintings, drawings and watercolors, monotypes,
and collages.
Students will select an image or group of images from
the exhibition for
their presentation and final paper.
ARTH 798, Directed Graduate Studies. Contact
Instructor for Permission to Enroll.
ARTH 799, Master's Thesis Research. Contact
Instructor for Permission to Enroll.
ARTH 899, Doctoral Dissertation Research. Contact Instructor
for Permission to Enroll.
