Spring 2007 | Courses | Art History and Archaeology

ARTH320 Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Northern European Art (Professor Martinez)
TuTh 11-12:15 (ASY 3215)

ARTH321 Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art (Professor Pilaski)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3211)

ARTH324 Sixteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art (Professor Gill)
TuTh 11-12:15 (ASY 3211)

ARTH335 Seventeenth-Century Art in the Netherlands (Professor Wheelock)
M 3-5:30 (ASY 3215)

ARTH345 Nineteenth-Century Art to 1850 (Professor Childs)
TuTh 3:30-4:45 (ASY 3211)

ARTH350 Twentieth-Century Art to 1945 (Professor Mansbach)
TuTh 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3215)

ARTH351 Twentieth-Century Art from 1945 (Professor Metcalf)
Tu 5-7:30 (ASY 3203)

ARTH360 History of American Art to 1876 (Professor Jordan)
TuTh 2-3:15 (ASY 3211)

ARTH370 Latin American Art and Archaeology before 1500 (Professor Bernier)
TuTh 2-3:15 (ASY 3215)

ARTH385 Art of China (Professor Kuo)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3215)

ARTH386 (PermReq) Experiential Learning; Individual Instruction Course
TBD

ARTH488A Colloquium in Art History: Arts of Korea (Professor Shin)
TuTh 9:30-10:45 (ASY 3217)

ARTH488B Colloquium in Art History: Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art (Professor Mansbach)
TuTh 12:30-1:45 (ASY 3217)

ARTH488C Special Topics in Art History: Art and Nature in Chinese Culture (Professor Kuo)
TuTh 11-12:15 (ASY 3217)

ARTH489A Special Topics in Art History: Paul Gauguin and Symbolism (Professor Hargrove)
W 3-5:40 (ASY 4304)

ARTH496 Methods of Art History and Archaeology (Professor Georgievska-Shine)
M 4-6:30 (ASY 3217)

ARTH498 (PermReq) Directed Studies in Art History I. Individual Instruction Course
TBD

ARTH499 (PermReq) Honors Thesis. Individual Instruction Course
TBD

HONR289W The Sacred, the Profane, and the Quest for Beauty in 17th Century Europe (Professor Colantuono)
Th 2-4:30 (ASY 3217)

Graduate Courses

ARTH 638: Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Art
Theoretical and Interpretative Problems in 17th-Century European Art
Professor Anthony Colantuono
Tuesday 3-5:40 (ASY 4304)
This seminar will begin with a series of lectures and readings covering introductory through advanced sources and methods for the interpretation of 17th-century European imagery in painting, sculpture and the graphic media, also including some fundamental background in the relevant 15th- and 16th-century sources. Issues to be discussed will include the early modern creative process, the art-theoretical conundrum of 'painting-as-poetry,' assumptions about the nature and function of images, structures of beholding and contemporary methods of 'reading' and 'receiving' images, and the role of advisers and patrons in the invention of commissioned images. Students will be asked to present some of their readings to the seminar, and will also be asked to deliver a one-hour seminar paper and lead a discussion based upon its topic, to be developed in consultation with the professor. Readings include recent publications by: Victor Stoichita, Richard Spear, Philip Sohm, Tomaso Montanari, Pamela Jones, Marc Fumaroli, Walter Melion, Karen-edis Barzman, Lorenzo Pericolo, Louise Rice and others.

ARTH 658: Studies in American Art
Race and Visual Representation
Professor Renée Ater
Monday 3-5:40 (ASY 4304)
In this colloquium, we will examine broadly the issue of race and visual representation as it relates to African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course will look at how U.S. artists depicted African Americans and will consider how African Americans fashioned an image of themselves.

Topics for possible discussion include but are not limited to the following: the impact of scientific racism on the image of the black; the delineation of the black slave body in sculpture; the presence of African Americans in American genre and landscape painting; the development of stereotypes in the post-Civil War period; the move towards self definition in the early twentieth century; the celebration of race in the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s; the quest for identity and multiculturalism as represented in the Whitney Museum of American Art's 1990 The Decade Show ; the image of the black homosexual nude in Robert Mapplethorpe's photography; and the "unrepresentable in presentation" by artists such as Kara Walker.

ARTH 708: Seminar in Ancient Art and Archaeology
Public Monuments in Ancient Rome : Recent Theoretical Approaches
Professor Elizabeth Marlowe
Tuesday 12-2:40 (ASY 4304)
This course will examine the major imperial monuments in the ancient capital from roughly 200 BCE to 200 CE. The material will be organized chronologically, but our reading and discussions will focus on themes such as civic euergetism and the physical transformation of the cityscape to reflect (and construct) Rome's role as an imperial capital; portraiture and ideals of class, gender and imperial power; and the role of monuments such as the Column of Trajan and the triumphal arches in conveying both the “Otherness” of Rome's enemies and their potential for “Romanization.” Our focus will be on large-scale monuments and relief sculpture, but attention will also be paid to texts, coins, public maps and colored architectural marble.

ARTH 759: Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art
Models of History in Contemporary Art
Professor Joshua Shannon
Monday 6-8:40 (ASY 4304)
This course considers how artworks of the last four decades have represented the past. We will look closely at works by North American and European artists, asking what models or philosophies of history the works embody or propose. To what extent have artists represented history as progressive or continuous, and to what extent have they shown it to be fractured, ruined, or lost? Have they, as some writers suggest, imagined the past as a shallow pool of images to be recycled, and have they indulged the notion that history has somehow recently ended? Do artists still have faith in narrative modes of storytelling, and how is their practice inherently different from history in written form? Throughout the semester, we will compare written philosophies of history against those at work in the art. Most of the course will be
devoted to seminar discussion, with student presentations (of essays in progress) in the last several weeks. Students may be required to prepare formal questions or short presentations for discussion.

ARTH 779: Seminar in Japanese Art
Sacred Sites of Japan
Professor Yui Suzuki
Monday 12-2:40 (ASY 4304)
Throughout history and cultures, people have demarcated special areas as “sacred sites”, associating them as places of mysterium tremendum where divinities are made manifest, and miracles are performed. They are also understood as being the “centers of the universe,” as places charged with numinous power and centers of heightened ritual activities. In these ways, the subject of “sacred geography” and “sacred space” offers a fascinating topic of inquiry. This course will explore various Japanese sacred sites, monuments, structures and associated objects to learn how such “real” and “imagined” spaces are defined, created and expressed in Japanese visual and material culture.