Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: VISITING RESEARCH

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 0

Description: Research conducted by visiting student scholars. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement Exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation, but does not count toward total credit hours required for the Art History Major.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ART I: ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A global survey of art and architecture from antiquity through the 12th century CE. Cross-list: CLAS 102, MDEM 111. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 101 if student has credit for HART 220.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II: RENAISSANCE TO PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

Long Title: MONUMENTS AND METHODS OF ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focusing on a range of topics--from Greek temples to Chinese painting, Michelangelo to Andy Warhol--this class introduces students to a selection of primary monuments and figures from art history, as well as to some of the questions art historians have asked about them. Guest lecturers and visits to local museums are planned.

Long Title: A GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE HISTORY I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is a historical survey of world architecture from the first urban settlements through around the year 1700 CE. Proceeding chronologically, each week we will discuss the broader global context followed by in-depth analysis of a number of case studies.

Long Title: GREAT ARTISTS AND FILMS ABOUT THEM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course will introduce the works of fourteen great artists from the Renaissance to modern times. We will learn about the artists through readings, images shown in class, trips to Houston's museums, and by viewing feature-length films that dramatize the lives of the artists.

Long Title: 14 FILMS YOU SHOULD SEE BEFORE YOU GRADUATE FROM RICE UNIVERSITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Featuring the important, but less familiar works of American and European directors from the 1930s - 1960s. This class represents an ideal mixture of modernist auteur cinema and shameless viewing pleasure. Cross-list: FILM 180.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT ROME

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course tracks Rome’s rise from a small village to a massive empire, through the lens of the art and architecture that the ancient Romans left behind. We’ll examine the physical remains of this remarkable civilization, looking at famous monuments like the Colosseum and the Pantheon as well as lesser-known temples, houses, mosaics, wall-paintings, and sculptures that revolutionized the ancient world and helped to shape our own. Some course meetings will be held at area museums.

Long Title: AVANT-GARDE AND AFTER: MODERN ART IN EUROPE, 1900-1945

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class surveys European art from roughly 1900-1945, paying particular attention to the social contexts in which this work emerged and the interpretive strategies that have been used to understand it. Among the topics to be considered are Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada, and Surrealism, as well as the reaction against these by emergent authoritarian regimes of the 1930s. Students cannot receive credit for HART 202 and HART 305.

Long Title: GLOBAL MODERNISM: TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MODERNISM FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Looking to a range of media and artistic/architectural forms—from video art, performance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, urban planning, cinema, and dance—this class will examine how different countries across the globe engage with the often conflicting intersections of tradition, history, and modernity. Spanning the entirety of the inhabited globe, this class will move from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Oceania, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and North America.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO BLACK ART IN AMERICA: 1900S TO TODAY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the history of Black art in America since the early 1900s. What is Black Art? Who are the artists, curators, scholars, and theorists who have asked and answered this question over the decades? Is a Black aesthetic inherently revolutionary and interested in the political lives of black people and their liberation? Or is a Black aesthetic best exemplified by the manipulation of materials, visual composition, and saturation? Or both? We will engage theories of black art and aesthetics that emerged in the 1920s through today to take seriously the question: how does the visual life of blackness matter? In this class we will break through the traditional rhetoric of diversity and representation and discuss how artists over the decades have insisted instead on redistributions of power, radical and speculative material practices, and structural change. It is my priority to make this course on black aesthetics joyous, safe, and accessible to students of all genders, sexualities, and disabilities. Cross-list: AAAS 204.

Long Title: ART SINCE 1945

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the major developments, figures, and works of late modernism beginning with the shift, during the 1940s, from Paris to New York as the cultural center of avant-garde. The class charts the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s and 50s and follows its divided legacies in the 1960s and 70s. We will examine the post-modern debates of the 1980s and the 90s and conclude with a look at trends in contemporary art.

Long Title: KEY ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE WESTERN TRADITION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth look at important moments in the history of European and American art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Rather than being a comprehensive survey, the course will focus on a limited number of works by leading artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, film, and architecture. Students cannot receive credit for HART 206 if student has received credit for HART 105.

Long Title: BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Studio

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to digital photography through exploration of light, camera, and computer. Assignments include looking, taking, discussing, adjusting, printing and writing about photographs. The class is a balance of visual awareness, technical skills and meaning in the context of photography’s continuing history. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: FOTO 210.

Long Title: CITIES, SANCTUARIES, CIVILIZATIONS: INTRODUCTION TO GREEK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the art and archaeology of the ancient Greek world. Artistic media, such as sculpture and vase painting will be examined in a broad range of the material culture ancient Greeks created and used. Consideration of these materials within their cultural, social and religious contexts will be discussed. Cross-list: CLAS 218.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF WESTERN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on art and architecture produced in Western Europe from the 4th to the 15th centuries. The broad survey of material will be covered chronologically and by geographic region Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 220 if student has credit for CLAS 102/HART 101/MDEM 111.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE: CITIES, MOSQUES, PALACES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is an introduction to the monuments and masterpieces of Islamic art and architecture. Proceeding chronologically, we will examine building types such as mosques, tombs, and palaces, along with examples of pottery, calligraphy, and contemporary art. Special emphasis will be placed on the global context and cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic art. The course will have some meetings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to architectural thought. Lectures and discussions focusing on practice and ideas that have exercised a significant influence on the discourse and production of architecture and urbanism. Cross-list: ARCH 225, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 545. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 225 if student has credit for HART 545.

Long Title: INTRO. TO A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE: IDEAL CITIES, CANONIC BUILDINGS, AND THEIR POLITICS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore cities, deemed ideal, and buildings, deemed canonic, that operate as imaginary objects and that, all too often, pass as exemplary models to be emulated, be it as social machines, technical accomplishments, or expressions of cultural, if not political, desires.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study, Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours may vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will provide an introductory overview of painting, architecture, sculpture and printmaking in Western Europe during the Renaissance period, roughly from 1300 until 1600. Major artists covered include Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, and Bruegel.

Long Title: ART AND ART HISTORY OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the histories and methodologies of art from the long nineteenth century. Students will be introduced to major movements and artistic styles including Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. Between a combination of lecture and discussion we will explore a variety of mediums across multiple countries. We will also consider these objects, artists, and periods within larger socio-political frameworks such as class, gender, and the rise of industrial modernity.

Long Title: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM INVENTION TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the history of both artistic and non-artistic uses of photography from its origins in the nineteenth century, across the 20th century and into the present. In so doing we will pay close attention to a number of specific thematics, from the medium's conception in the late eighteenth century, through avant-garde and institutional debates in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries concerning photography's relationship to artistic and social issues, to questions of gender, race, class, and global politics. Cross-list: FOTO 263. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 263 if student has credit for HART 363.

Long Title: A VISUAL CULTURE TRAVELOGUE: ART AND POLITICS IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Providing an alternative understanding of modernity and its artistic partner, modernism, this survey course traverses the political, social and cultural landscapes that informed and formed the art and architecture of Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 665. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 265 if student has credit for HART 665.

Long Title: HISTORY & AESTHETICS OF FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to the art and aesthetics of film as an artifact produced within certain social contexts. Includes style, narrative, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and ideology in classical Hollywood cinema, as well as in independent, alternative, nonfiction, and Third World cinemas. Cross-list: ARTS 280, FILM 280.

Long Title: NONFICTION FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to the history and aesthetics of nonfiction film as both a social artifact and as a work of art. Includes discussions of actualities, the city film, the social documentary, surrealist cinema, propaganda, ethnography, the essay film, and the contemporary nonfiction film from around the world. Cross-list: FILM 284.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A film course focusing on contexts such as movies and advertisements, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Cross-list: ENGL 286.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM CURATORIAL STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special Topics class taught by visiting Curators from the MFAH. FA 2016: Intro to Islamic Art at the MFAH: This course explores the dynamic, multifaceted character of Islamic art and architecture across the globe. Travel from Spain to India studying original art at the Museum of Fine Arts. Gain understanding of the historical, religious, social, craft, and visual contexts of the art. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 597. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 297 if student has credit for HART 597.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MUSEUM INTERNSHIP I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The aim of this course is to provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including the varieties of museums, their role in society and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MUSEUM INTERNSHIP II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: This internship provides select students with a practicum in museum work, in coordination with a Houston-area museum. A HART faculty member will supervise the internship. Students will work directly with the museum to gain hands-on experience in curatorial practice and collection, exhibition and archive management, while also learning about the role of museums in society and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE SUSTAINABLE: ART, ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers theories and narratives of nature in the crafting of modern and contemporary art and architecture in the Americas. Artists and architects will include Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Rogelio Salmona (Colombia); Ana Mendieta, Ricardo Porro (Cuba); Ana Maria Tavaraes, Lina Bo Bardi (Brazil); Mark Dion and Buckminster Fuller (USA). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 568. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 302 if student has credit for HART 568.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent Study in Art History. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: A REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY CUBAN CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research seminar will explore contemporary trends in Cuban culture through literary texts, films, music and works of art. We will examine the ways in which politics and the practices of artistic representation intersect in post-revolutionary Cuba. A research trip to Cuba has been organized as part of this seminar. Course taught in Spanish. Previously offered as SPPO 392. Credit cannot be earned for SPAN 392 if student has previously taken SPPO 392. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: FILM 339, SPAN 392, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 565. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 304 if student has credit for HART 565.

Long Title: POST WAR: ART IN EUROPE, 1945-2000

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the heterodox individual artistic practices and movements in post-World-War Two Europe. Focusing on the countries of France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, and the Soviet Union, particular attention will be given to the post-war reconstruction of the Marshall Plan, economic austerity and recovery, the French colonial war in Algeria, the legacy of the German occupation, the rise of the student movement and the protests of May ’68, Stalinism and the cold war, and the national guilt of the Holocaust. In addition to weekly readings, each student will be responsible for a 20-minute presentation and a 10-15 page final paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 305 if student has credit for HART 505.

Long Title: WHAT ARTISTS CITE: CORE TEACHINGS IN BLACK STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course asks “who and what are black contemporary artists citing and why does it matter?” This class will tackle key readings in the field of black studies through investigating the theoretical attentions of contemporary artists. Why are the readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Frantz Fanon, Hortense Spillers, W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Saidiya Hartman, Claudia Rankine, and Fred Moten, to name a few, necessary for the critical analysis of black visual and performance art? This art history course will expose students to the interdisciplinary field of black studies, feminist studies, visual culture, queer theory, disabilities studies, and performance studies. The course ends with the creative development of an analytical essay on an art object of the student’s choice. This assignment is methodically organized over the semester to encourage each student to develop an argument that arises from their own close reading, application of theory, and lived experiences. It is priority to make this course on black aesthetics joyous, safe, and accessible to students of all genders, sexualities, and disabilities.

Long Title: WOMEN IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course traces representations of women in ancient art, with case studies drawn from across the globe. We will analyze and compare images of women as goddesses, rulers, priestesses, sex objects, and slaves, and will ask what it means to have power (or not) over one’s own image. Careful consideration will be given to historical and cultural contexts, including mythological and religious traditions, intercultural connections, and changing artistic standards and practices. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 307 if student has credit for HART 549.

Long Title: BRAZIL BUILDS: THE CLINIC, THE TROPICAL AND THE AESTHETIC

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From Brazil Builds, MOMA's 1943 celebrated exhibition, to the construction of supermodern Brasilia, to today’s contrasting forms of urban development, this seminar examines the built environment—natural and architectural—as the main transmitter of modernism in Brazil. This is a seminar on Brazilian modernism and its discontents. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 526. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 310 if student has credit for HART 526.

Long Title: ADVANCED STUDY IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: ARTS OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AT THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to advanced ethical, legal and practical issues facing museums as they acquire and maintain collections from areas prone to looting and destruction, especially the Ancient Mediterranean. We will examine the civic engagement and operation of the Menil Collection through close, on-site archival and object study. Cross-list: MUCH 308, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 540. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 312 if student has credit for HART 540/MUCH 508.

Long Title: THE ART OF DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the visual and material culture of death in Medieval Europe. From burying ships beneath the ground to gilding the bones of deceased saints, medieval people went to great lengths to memorialize the dead. Represented in manuscripts, wall-painting, sculpture, and more, death pervaded the visual landscape of the Middle Ages. With threats of illness, war, invasion, and violence looming large throughout Europe in the period between 500 and 1500 CE, beliefs, superstitions, and fears around death governed medieval life. This course explores how those beliefs and fears became the basis of a rich, at times luxurious visual culture. From lavish textiles that adorned the recently deceased to elegant marble plaques affixed to tombs, the dead were often recipients of precious works of art. We will consider objects such as these, as well as representations of death itself. This is a discussion-based seminar in which we will investigate medieval attitudes around death, burial, and memorialization; students will conduct their own research on objects related to death in the Middle Ages. Students will develop the conceptual tools to analyze visual and material culture in historical context and through the lens of death.

Long Title: POLITICS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, 1800 TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the history of the concept of "cultural heritage" in the modern Middle East. We will explore the emergence of concerns for archaeological sites and architectural monuments, and the ability of cultural heritage to shore up contested claims of identity, ideology, and political legitimacy.

Long Title: ART AND ACTIVISM: CREATIVE PROTESTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY AMERICAS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How have art and activism in the Americas from the early 20th century to today informed and fed one another? Moving between South and North America, this seminar study artists and collectives that have confronted, in isolation or with intersectionality in mind, indigenous rights, gender equality, LGBT+ rights, and systemic racism. The course is organized around artwork and activism grouped within three loose themes: race and disenfranchisement; gender and sexuality; and ecology and capitalism. From graphic art employed by the Black Panthers to photographic essays in defense of ways of life in the Amazon Basin of northern Brazil, “Art and Activism” will offer a chance to contemplate, study, and debate visual and performative projects that have endeavored (or continue to try) to effect social change. Some class meetings may be held at area cultural spaces. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 514.

Long Title: ART OF THE OBJECT: CRAFT, SENSORY EXPERIENCE, AND MATERIALITY IN ISLAMICATE LANDS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Turning an object of everyday life into a dazzling artwork is a salient feature of the arts produced in premodern Islamic lands. Drawing on the exquisite collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, newly reinstalled in expanded galleries, this course explores the art of the object, focusing specifically on the metal wares produced in the Persianate lands, ca. 1000-1700 CE. Students will gain hands-on experience in analyzing and researching art objects. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 516.

Long Title: MODERN ART AND MONSTROSITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why is it that in the modern era, beginning around the middle of the eighteenth century, artists begin to see various forms of monstrosity in aesthetic terms, as something beautiful? What is it about the modern period that accounts for this shift in how monstrosity is represented and understood and how does it differ from earlier historical images of the monster. This class will examine the modernist fascination with monstrosity, asking not only why it became a topic of such particular and widespread interest to artists, writers, and filmmakers during this time, but also what it can tell us about modernist aesthetics more broadly. Examining a range of representations from the 18th century on, we will look at a variety of visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists who depict various forms of monsters, be they human (Jack the Ripper) or non-human (the Golem). From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the myth of the vampire, to Picasso’s monstrous images of 1920s, to the distinctly modern phenomenon of serial killing, this course will chart the dark monstrous underside to modern art. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 517. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 317 if student has credit for HART 517.

Long Title: AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES: IMAGE & THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How are transnational black communities creating, imagining and reimagining the African Diaspora? African Diaspora Studies offers a framework and set of theoretical interventions for understanding the lives of black people across the globe. As a field of study, it asks what is the historical effect and after-life of several centuries of forced displacement, dispossession and expatriation of millions of Africans. This cross-oceanic transfer of people, labor, capital, ideas, and goods has given rise to a way of thinking about and imaging identity, belonging, and movement that shift away from national identity and frameworks that hinge on the centrality of the nation-state.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE, TRADE, AND POWER IN EARLY MODERN ISLAMIC EMPIRES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: During the early modern period, ca. 1500-1800, around one-third of the earth’s human population inhabited territories that were ruled by three empires: the Ottomans in the eastern Mediterranean, the Safavids in the Iranian plateau, and the Mughals in South Asia. This period saw a surge in production of architectural monuments (such as the Taj Mahal), the emergence of cosmopolitan cities (such as Istanbul and Isfahan), and the expansion of the public sphere in gardens, promenades, and coffeehouses. This course examines the architecture, urbanism, and material culture of these three empires in the context of global trade, representations of power, and urban life in the capital cities of Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 519.

Long Title: ART, SCIENCE, AND MAGIC IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What did “science” and “magic” look like in the medieval world? This course surveys images and objects made between the fifth and the fifteenth century to investigate how they explained, questioned, and theorized the natural and supernatural. With special attention to the inseparability of concepts of science, magic, and religion in premodernity, this discussion-based course will examine how art helped to mediate and substantiate medieval understandings of the world. From textual amulets to saints’ shrines, objects had the power to heal, perform miracles, and affect change beyond the explanation of earthly phenomena. We will look at a wide variety of objects and images related to scientific and para-scientific disciplines; geometry, astrology, cosmology, medicine, anatomy, botany, physiognomy, and geomancy all relied on and produced visual materials to aid in practice. How did the concepts of art, science, magic, and religion overlap, and how do modern definitions fall short in helping us understand premodern ideas about the natural world? Students will develop the conceptual tools necessary to confront these questions using visual evidence. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 520. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 320 if student has credit for HART 550.

Long Title: AMERICAN ART, 1800-1920

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will cover art and architecture in the United States from the early national period to the advent of modernism. Major artists studied will include Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Richard Morris Hunt, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 521. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 321 if student has credit for HART 521.

Long Title: BUDDHIST AND DAOIST ART AND RITUAL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines key themes of art and ritual in Daoism and Buddhism. From southern Asia to China, commonalities and contrasts appear in cosmology, art, ritual, and soteriology. This team-taught course combines expertise in Daoist art, Chinese art history, and Buddhist traditions of India, Nepal, and Tibet. Distribution 1 credit effective Fall 2022. Cross-list: ASIA 323, MDEM 323. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 323 if student has credit for HART 623.

Long Title: PERSIANATE ARTS OF THE BOOK

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores figural painting and arts of the book in the Persianate cultural sphere, ca. 1300s-1800s. We will study concepts of the book in Islamic civilization, illustrated narratives of Persian literature, word/image relationship, albums, and single-page portraits. The class also examines artistic interactions with East Asia and Europe, and concludes with the advent of lithography in the nineteenth century. Some course meetings will take place at Houston-area museums. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 524. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 324 if student has credit for HART 524.

Long Title: COFFEEHOUSES AND TEAHOUSES: A GLOBAL HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From Ottoman coffeehouses to Japanese teahouses to Parisian cafes, the collective consumption of substances such as coffee, tea, and tobacco has long created distinctive material cultures, artworks, and architectural spaces. In this course, we trace the dissemination of these stimulants across the globe from the sixteenth century onward. We will examine the material context of the substances in different scales, ranging from utensils to interior spaces and broader urban landscapes. Routes of transfer will be explored along with the development of new forms of sociability, material objects, and architectural types such as coffeehouses, teahouses, and smoking rooms. This course occasionally meets at an area museum during the semester.

Long Title: MAKING MODERNITY IN THE STREETS OF PARIS: ART, FILM, ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 6

Description: This course will study the central role of Paris—as place, instigator, and site of contestation—in the development of modern art, film, and architecture since 1870. Working through a selection of key films, works of art, built structures, and cultural debates, we will explore defining issues in the development of modern culture by utilizing the city of Paris as our primary focus and site of inquiry. The seminar will be split between classroom sessions in which readings and central themes will be discussed and subsequent visits to museums, neighborhoods, architectural sites, and artists’ studios. The class will consist of three primary sections, organized chronologically. We will begin with “Industrial Modernity and the Rise of the Modern City”; next will be “Avant-Gardes in the Shadow of War”; closing the course will be “Colonial Reckonings.” These three sections will span diverse topics across 150 years of modern European culture, united by their common unfolding in the streets of the French capital. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 327 if student has credit for HART 627.

Long Title: EPIPHANIES: SEEING IN A NEW LIGHT AND RECOGNIZING THE RADIANCE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Epiphanies are events or objects that can note a striking appearance or manifestation, just as an epiphanic experience contains a significant moment of revelation. This course examines expressions of epiphanies in modernist art, literature, film, sacred experience, and in the mundane details of life itself. Cross-list: RELI 375.

Long Title: RACE AND ART IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore discourses on race and their influence on artistic endeavors in modern Latin America. Examining texts from various disciplines (biomedical sciences, education, law, sociology, anthropology, and criminology) we will discuss how dominant ideas on race that defined national identities shaped the production and reception of art, and how artists illustrated or contested these discourses in their works. Students will learn about key theories of race, Black and indigenous artistic productions, and the role of museums in this history. This class will include field trips to local museums and galleries. This course counts towards the electives requirement (Geographical Areas or Cultural Traditions Breadth - Latin America/the Caribbean Courses) in the HART major; the electives requirement in the Art History and the History of Architecture specializations (Geographical Areas or Cultural Traditions Breadth) in the HART major; the electives requirement (Geographical Areas or Cultural Traditions Breadth) in the HRTM minor; and the electives requirement (Cultural Heritage) for the MUCH minor. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 529. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 329 if student has credit for HART 529.

Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Early Medieval Art from the 5th Century to the Romanesque period. This course begins with a study of the art and architecture of the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombards, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Merovingians, and the transformation of the Roman World through new Germanic, Barbarian, and Christian forces. The second part of the course considers the cultural Renaissance of the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods under rulers such as Charlemagne and Otto III. The last third of the course focuses on themes of pilgrimage, relics, crusades and the emergence of new monumental tradition in art and architecture during the Romanesque Period. Cross-list: MDEM 330, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 530. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 330 if student has credit for HART 530.

Long Title: BRITISH ART AND AESTHETICS, 1700-1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will introduce students to British art and aesthetic theory from roughly 1700-1900. Although the primary focus of the class will be on artists, writers, philosophers, and critics based in the metropole, the larger scope of the British Empire and the impact of British imperialism and colonialism on aesthetic production and debates will be an active concern for this class. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, this course will pay particular attention to the ways in which artists, philosophers, and critics responded to a wide array of social debates that were transforming British cultural production including: copyright and the controversy of artistic property; various monetary and financial crises; changes in the law; and the decline in a model of civic humanism premised on land holding and property. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 531. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 331 if student has credit for HART 531.

Long Title: ART OF THE COURTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within three distinct settings--the court, the city, and the church. Includes private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture, and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, the city hall and hospital, and the chapel and parish church. Cross-list: MDEM 332, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 532. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 332 if student has credit for HART 532.

Long Title: LOOKING AT EUROPEAN PRINTS 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The class has several goals: to gain a thorough historical understanding of prints by major masters as Schongauer, Mantegna, Düer, and Rembrandt as well as more popular prints, explore key issues in the study of prints, such as how they revolutionized European culture, their patronage, markets, functions, and techniques; and to examine the prints first-hand. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 525. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 333 if student has credit for HART 525.

Long Title: PICASSO, POLLOCK, WARHOL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will look in detail at three of the twentieth century's most important artists: Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. Our central focus in doing so will be painting, in particular, the means by which these three artists tested, expanded or even "destroyed" the medium. What did it mean to make (or reject) painting in 1910, 1950, and 1965? Special attention will be paid to recent scholarly literature and close looking at works in local collections. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 546. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 334 if student has credit for HART 546.

Long Title: CINEMA AND THE CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class explores representations of the city in 20th and 21st century world cinema. Central concerns will include the city as cinematic protagonist, parallels between urban and cinematic space and the intertwined histories of both film and urban design over the last century. Cross-list: ASIA 355, FILM 336, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 536. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 336 if student has credit for HART 536.

Long Title: RADICAL BODIES IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Saints, mystics, monsters, and demons: in the Middle Ages, these figures were defined both by their actions and by the distinct and diverse bodies that marked them as radical. This course investigates the representation and perception of bodies, human and otherwise, in medieval visual culture by focusing on bodies that were thought to be “different.” Bodies carried with them hidden anatomical structures, marks of social and cultural status, and, in the eyes of the Church, the sin that came with human sexuality. How did artists and craftsmen make the body’s multiple meanings and messages intelligible in images? From diagrams in medical manuscripts to sculptures adorning cathedral façades to body-part-shaped liturgical vessels, bodies are everywhere in medieval visual culture. We will pair these images and objects with medieval texts offering period insights into the nature and meanings of bodies, and consider them through a contemporary theoretical lens. By focusing on approaches to representing bodily differences and attitudes toward perceived difference, this course will place special emphasis on how medieval ideas about gender, sexuality, and race found expression in art objects. In addition to smaller assignments throughout the semester, this course will include a final paper / project. A prior HART course is recommended, but not required.

Long Title: HART IN THE WORLD SPRING SEMINAR

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar serves as required preparation for the planned “HART in the World” research travel course (HART 397) offered in the immediately following summer session. Students will study a range of materials—including works of art, literature, films, and historical studies—related to the planned destination city. To be offered every other year. More information available at: https://arthistory.rice.edu/opportunities/hart-world Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 638. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 338 if student has credit for HART 638. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE I: 1620-1800

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Painting, architecture, urban design, and the decorative arts in the colonies and early United States. Highlights will include design at Monticello and Mount Vernon; the portraiture of John Singleton Copley; Georgian and Federal-period architecture in Boston, New York, Williamsburg, and Philadelphia; and Spanish and Dutch colonial art and architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 539. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 339 if student has credit for HART 539.

Long Title: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. Cross-list: MDEM 340, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 553. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 340 if student has credit for HART 553.

Long Title: EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture, with emphasis on the fourteenth through the early sixteenth century, including such artists as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, and Botticelli. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 541. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 341 if student has credit for HART 541.

Long Title: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the High Renaissance, with emphasis on its leading masters (e.g., Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Titian). Includes a study of mannerism, the stylish art produced after the first quarter of the 16th century. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 542. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 342 if student has credit for HART 542.

Long Title: MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, and Velazquez. Cross-list: MDEM 343, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 543. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 343 if student has credit for HART 543.

Long Title: CAPITALISM AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the way European culture, especially art, was shaped by the rise of the monetary economy and capitalism, beginning in the late Middle Ages and continuing into modern times. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 544. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 344 if student has credit for HART 544.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE I (1450-1850)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated before 1850. Cross-list: ARCH 345.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON LOVE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the themes of love, sex, and spirit from the classical era through the postmodern age. We will examine literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions in painting, sculpture, cinema, novels, poetry, psychoanalysis, religion, and culture. Cross-list: RELI 343.

Long Title: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will map the terrain of contemporary art as it has developed in the wake of political and theoretical engagements of the 1990's. For many critics, Contemporary Art practice has given way to the worst aspects of spectacular culture losing sight of the political, theoretical, and artistic rigor that characterized the historical and neo-avant-garde. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 570. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 349 if student has credit for HART 570.

Long Title: BLACK CONTEMPORARY ART : SPECULATIVE (UN)MAKINGS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to the speculative and dynamic field of black contemporary visual and performance art by joining visual analysis with the critical application of race, gender, sexuality, and disability theory. This class centers application over memorization. By the end of the semester, students will demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of contemporary trends in black art production and circulation, be able to identify the work of formative black modern and contemporary artists and contextualize art objects across theories of blackness and the social process of representation. This course occasionally meets at an area museum during the semester. By the end of the semester, students will be equipped with a set of skills--reading, writing, and analysis--that will set a foundation for the creative development of a 10-to-12-page analytical essay on an art object of their choice. This assignment is methodically organized over the course of the semester to encourage each student to develop an argument that arises from their own close reading, application of theory, and lived experiences. Distribution 1 credit effective Fall 2021.

Long Title: AGE OF ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the emergence and flourishing of Romanticism in the visual arts in Europe. We will consider artists from France, Germany and Britain, including Eugene Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich. We will combine study of paintings with readings of contemporaneous philosophers and writers, including Hegel and Byron. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 554. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 354 if student has credit for HART 554.

Long Title: VESSELS AND VASE-PAINTING: ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY IN THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Ceramics represent one of the most numerous classes of surviving ancient materials and their painted decoration can provide insights into social and cultural histories. This course provides an overview of pottery of the ancient Mediterranean world spanning from the Bronze Age to Roman period (ca. 3300 BCE – 400 CE), with a primary focus on ancient Greece. We will examine a broad history of ceramic production through the vases at the Menil Collection, including production techniques, decoration and subject matter. We will consider archaeological contexts, major themes, and debates in the field as well as modern museum settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 555. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 355 if student has credit for HART 555.

Long Title: SEX AND MONEY: THE SPECIES DIVIDE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore the visual representations of lust and greed, both human and non-human. It will introduce students to such theories as feminism and posthumanism as well as medieval beliefs about the Seven Deadly Sins and demons. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 556.

Long Title: IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will explore painting in France from approximately 1865 to 1900. Mixing lectures and classroom discussion, we will focus on individual artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Czanne. We will also consider and discuss a set of critical issues surrounding these painters, including the politics of gender and class within the changing urban setting of Paris. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 558. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 358 if student has credit for HART 558.

Long Title: CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This seminar examines cinematic engagements with urban spaces and experiences around the world spanning the last two centuries. Particular attention will be paid to issues of migration, marginality, colonialism, war and post-war, nostalgia and memory, race and gender. Cities of focus include Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, Algiers, Beirut and Paris. Our weekly discussions of individual films will be grounded in critical writings of the cities' histories and theories of space and film. Cross-list: ARCH 359, FILM 359, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 659. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 359 if student has credit for HART 659.

Long Title: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE: INVENTING ROMAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Rome’s rise entailed the conquest and absorption of countless indigenous populations. In the heterogeneous landscape of Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy, is it possible to distinguish a “Roman” visual culture? This course traces the spread of Roman power from the 5th century BCE to the 1st century CE, asking how colonization, cross-cultural interaction, and aristocratic competition shaped what we now call “Roman” art and architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 550. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 360 if student has credit for HART 560.

Long Title: WHAT IS CINEMA? CLASSIC READINGS OF CLASSIC FILMS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Using a variety of readings now considered classics as our guide, this class will look closely at a broad range of films and film movements discussed by critics and theorists such as Rudolf Amheim, Jean Epstein, Sergei Fisenstein, Walter Benjamin and Andre Bazin. Cross-list: FILM 361, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 561. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 361 if student has credit for HART 561.

Long Title: UPCYCLING: MEANINGFUL REUSE IN ART AND MONUMENTS FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this seminar, we will explore the phenomenon of upcycling - intentionally meaningful reuse - by investigating the intersection of reuse and memory in the art and monuments of many different times, places, and people, from prehistory to the modern art that surrounds us on the Rice campus. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 562. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 362 if student has credit for HART 562.

Long Title: SENSORIAL QUEERNESS : QUEERING THE SENSORIAL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to key concepts in the interrelated fields of queer studies, visual culture and art history. We will consider the slippages and contours of non-visual sensory registers (senses other than sight) and queer aesthetic practices and theories in contemporary art. What does it mean to queer the visual realm? What does it mean to center an expanded sensorial queerness? In this class, we will look at how artists engage the sensory modalities of sound, touch, proprioception, and interoception as both method and material within their work. We will consider the use of spit, bodily fluids, blood, sweat, vibrations, visceral inclinations, indigestion, balance, and other sensory things to ask: How do senses evoke dissident feelings? As Kyle Wazanna Tompkins writes in the 2015 winter issue of A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, “To aim for the visceral, we have found, is to come at feeling, at sex, at sensation, at theory itself, from a queer place.” It is my priority to make this course on contemporary art joyous, safe, and accessible to students of all genders, sexualities, and disabilities. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 363 if student has credit for FOTO 263/HART 263.

Long Title: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines how cinema has reflected, shaped and critiqued cultural understandings of gender and sexuality over the last 100 years. By pairing film analysis with critical readings in gender and sexuality studies, we will explore the development of sexual and gender conventions--as well as their transgressions--on screen across diverse historical periods and cultures. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 564. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 364 if student has credit for HART 584.

Long Title: ART BETWEEN THE WARS: EUROPEAN MODERNISM, 1918-1940

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Beginning in the aftermath of the First World War, a conflict that devastated the physical and psychological landscape of Europe, and ending with the rise of various totalitarian regimes (Fascism, Stalinism) this seminar will examine European art of the interwar period, from 1918-1940. Potential topics will include Surrealism, The Russian avant-garde, the return to order, Esprit-Nouveau, the machine aesthetic, De Stijl, avant-garde cinema, etc. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 575. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 365 if student has credit for HART 575.

Long Title: RADICAL BLACK THOUGHT IN THE STUDIO: ARTISTS CITING BLACK STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Citations can be a radical form of collective activism and liberation. Who we cite builds archives and informs the way we tell histories. In this class, we will look at moments when radical Black thought slip into an artist’s studio space and informs their work. In this class, students will have the opportunity to interact with visual and performance artists. We will take field trips into the studio spaces of Houston-based artists in order to ask questions about who they cite and why. Additionally, we will discuss how those citations of radical Black thought are visible within their art-making. Over the course of the semester, we will pair black contemporary artists with core readings in black studies and underline citational practices between the fields of Black studies and art history. Through this unique case-study-based pairing, students will learn about the methods, materials, and theoretical throughlines within the work of formative visual and performance artists while also becoming familiar with different concepts within the interdisciplinary field of black studies.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURES OF POWER, RESISTANCE, AND COEXISTENCE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar adopts a global approach to examine architecture and the built environment as sites of power, resistance, and coexistence. Through a series of case studies spanning the globe, from Central Asia to the Mediterranean to the Americas, we will explore how architectural works--monuments, buildings, urban plans, indigenous settlements, refugee camps--exercised authority, resisted domination, and/or created settings for coexistence. Topics to discuss include cross-cultural interactions in medieval Iberia (Spain/Portugal); Nineteenth-century Orientalist architecture and its discontents; the interwoven complexity of infrastructures, race, and gender in early twentieth century South America; the spaces and politics of U.S. assistance programs during the era of “development” across the Global South; and environmental diasporas and indigenous reclamations from the Amazon to Sub-Saharan Africa in present days. This course occasionally meets at an area museum during the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 567.

Long Title: UN-LEARNING PARIS: SITES OF REBELLION & SITES OF EMPIRE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 6

Description: Borrowing the term “unlearning” from the title of Swati Chattopadhyay 2012 book “Unlearning The City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field,” which has inspired recent publications and workshops in the fields of art history, architecture, and radical pedagogies, this intensive program deconstructs the city of Paris as a site of contentious memories. The city is to be read as a composite environment built upon the control of land, resources, and bodies enacting a struggle over what is to be remembered and honored, and what is to be erased and forgotten. The course provides a rigorous immersion in the city of Paris while revealing its transnational and multicultural nature. "Unlearning Paris" was conceived and taught as a pilot course for the opening of Rice Global Paris Center during the summer of 2023. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: STATE OF THE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is the current state of the art historical field? Looking at contemporary scholarship across a range of historical periods, the class will introduce students to a selection of some of the most important, ground-breaking, and / or influential writings in art history produced in the last 25 years or so. Paying particular attention to an array of recent trends, methodologies, and political interventions, this class will examine some of the most pressing questions, debates, and advanced interdisciplinary theories within current art historical practice. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 569. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 369 if student has credit for HART 569.

Long Title: HOW TO READ CHINESE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines Chinese painting from ancient times to the early twentieth century. Issues of examination include themes, styles, and functions of Chinese painting; the interrelationship between paintings and the intended viewers; regionalism; images and words; foreign elements in Chinese painting. Cross-list: ASIA 371. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 371 if student has credit for HART 571.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND THE WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is an introductory seminar studying the history of traditional Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the nineteenth century. This course draws upon masterpieces and monuments from both archaeological finds and museum collections, including bronze vessels, funeral objects, painting, calligraphy, sculptures, architecture, ceramics, and so on. Designed for students who have no background in Chinese art, Chinese history, or art history, the seminar uses diverse teaching materials in multiple media beyond traditional textbook-based readings to achieve four main goals: 1) Develop visual literacy through a direct encounter with objects. The development of specialized vocabulary to describe, analyze, and communicate function, composition, and meaning in art. 2) Understand major artistic movements of art and architecture within historical, social, political contexts. 3) Develop specialized knowledge in art from specific geographical locations (e.g. China), time periods, artists or artistic movements. 4) Evaluate and use primary and secondary source materials. Cross-list: ASIA 372, MDEM 373. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 372 if student has credit for HART 572.

Long Title: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will address the central role that art and visual culture played in the French Revolution. While engaging in a detailed study of the causes, progress and outcome of the Revolution we will pay attention to painting, prints, festivals and the wide range of visual culture that not only reflected the Revolution but helped fuel it. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 574. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 374 if student has credit for HART 574.

Long Title: LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF MODERN CITIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course challenges our pre-conceived maps of the world, highlighting Latin America's place within our understanding of modernity as a product of transnational interconnections. Transversing the Atlantic, this course traces the interactions of capitalism and culture, science and aesthetics, and the ideologies that informed and formed the urban fabric and spatial politics of important cities in the modern Latin world - Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Havana, and Brasilia. Cross-list: ARCH 375, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 675. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 375 if student has credit for HART 675.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores illuminated European manuscripts from late antiquity through the early sixteenth century. It examines manuscripts’ functions, patrons, makers, and materials and technique, as well as such issues as the relationship between text and image and the manuscript’s ideological stance. Students have the opportunity to study original medieval illuminations. Cross-list: MDEM 377, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 577. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 377 if student has credit for HART 577.

Long Title: THE AESTHETICS OF REALISM: FROM COURBET TO THE WIRE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will consider both the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of an aesthetics of realism. As a form of art concerned with the world as it is, in all its imperfection, realism is often assumed to ignore ideas of beauty, and even to court harsh, rough or ugly appearances. But as we will see there is both theoretical basis for an aesthetics of realism and a long history of its visual development. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 579. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 379 if student has credit for HART 579.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that explores the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. This course will examine the development of narrative, sound, the classical Hollywood form and style; film genres; the emergence of television; the influence of postwar “art cinemas”; the origins of the blockbuster; and the status of Hollywood as “global cinema.” Cross-list: ENGL 373, FILM 373.

Long Title: COLLAGE AND ITS HISTORIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will explore the centrality of collage to the development of the 20th century art and film. Beginning with the seminal achievements of Picasso and Braque, we will examine works across geographical and medium boundaries, including Dada photomontage, early avant-garde film, 1960s happenings, and the reformulation of collage aesthetics in 1980s postmodernism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 581. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 381 if student has credit for HART 581.

Long Title: GLOBAL CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course introduces students to cinema as a global enterprise. It explores the relationship between nations, identities, races, concepts, and genres. It inquires into the question of globalization as it relates to the motion picture audience, corporations, and the commerce of ideas. Cross-list: FILM 383.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURE IN ISLAMIC CULTURES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Buildings, objects, and texts are all cultural artifacts. When they intersect—when a building is inscribed with a poem or a literary text engages with a spatial reality—the result is a sophisticated product that combines visual and verbal modes of communication. Visual cultures of the Islamic lands abound with such examples, ranging from poetic epigraphy on buildings (as in the Alhambra) to versified descriptions of cities and monuments. This seminar will examine select works of Islamic art and architecture in relation to literary texts that engage with their aesthetic and functional aspects. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 587. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 385 if student has credit for HART 587.

Long Title: JUSTICE AND CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why have film directors been drawn to criminal investigations and the search for justice since cinema's early years? This course examines films that represent court trials, investigate crimes and seek truth across different cultures over the last 100 years. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 589. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 389 if student has credit for HART 589.

Long Title: THINKING MODERN DRAWING: ON SITE AT THE MENIL DRAWING INSTITUTE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How has drawing been practiced, understood, tested, and re-thought in the modern period? This course will explore these questions through in-depth readings and close study of works of art in the Menil Drawing Institute, which houses one of the world's best collections of the medium. Meetings will frequently take place on site at the Menil, and involve curators, conservators, and other museum staff. Part of students' work will be to prepare a joint exhibition, emerging from class discussions, that utilizes and explores Menil Drawing Institute resources. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 591.

Long Title: ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY: FIELD SCHOOL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is a traditional archaeological field course, taught in the Roman Forum. Techniques and advanced technologies for processing, conserving, and recording archeological materials are emphasized. Students will become familiar with procedures for ceramics, metals, plant and animal remains and building materials. Course work include lectures, hands-on excavation, and informal discussion. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended Prerequisite(s): HART 201 or ANTH 205 or ANTH 303. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 395 if student has credit for HART 695.

Long Title: HART IN THE WORLD FIELD STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through on-site lectures, seminar discussions, museum visits, architectural itineraries, and field trips, this course will explore the complex political, social, and cultural histories of a major international metropolis. The city visited changes each time the course is offered; past locations have included Istanbul, Rome, and Rio de Janeiro. More information on upcoming locations is available at https://arthistory.rice.edu/opportunities/hart-world. Graduating students are not eligible. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 697. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 397 if student has credit for HART 697. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FROM EXPRESSIONISM TO FASCISM: ART AND FILM IN GERMANY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focusing on the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, this class will examine art and film in Germany from the birth of Expressionism through the end of the Nazi dictatorship. Topics covered will include Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, and Fascist aesthetics. Particular attention will be paid to the relations between aesthetics and politics and art and everyday life, all central concerns of the art and criticism of the period. Cross-list: GERM 339, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 596. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 398 if student has credit for HART 596.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Undergraduate Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 603. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 400 if student has credit for HART 603.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Undergraduate Internship at Bayou Bend and The American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 604. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 401 if student has credit for HART 604.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Honors thesis project in art history. Students must receive permission of the department faculty prior to enrolling. For additional information, please see Honors Program in the Rice University General Announcements. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Honors thesis project in art history. Students must receive permission of the department faculty prior to enrolling. For additional information, please see Honors Program in the Rice University General Announcements. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: EXTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Considering extractivism—from highly toxic practices such as mining to less maligned enterprises such as monoculture agriculture—this seminar explores the multiple ways in which architecture and urbanism have performed as instruments of extractive capitalism in Latin America, from the colonial search for El Dorado, to the neocolonial infrastructures of modern developmentalism, to the commodity boom and planetary urbanization of today. Engaging with critical theory and groundbreaking architectural history, students will interrogate the environmental and racialized social injustices supported by extractive architectures, as well as alternate forms of inhabiting the planet that have been left out of historical accounts. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 608.

Long Title: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Small, focused, advanced discussion, workshop and/or design based courses on topics of recent research in architecture, delivered by RSA full time or visiting faculty. This seminar is open to RSA undergraduate students junior-level and above, and RSA graduate students. Students from other departments may enroll in the course with instructor permission. See the RSA website for more information: arch.rice.edu/courses. Cross-list: ARCH 412, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 612. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 412 if student has credit for HART 612. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VISUAL CULATURE OF MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the rich visual culture associated with Medieval pilgrimage between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. The experience of pilgrimage was shaped by symbols, images, and places encountered along the routes to sites of sacred significance, especially the roads to Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago, and Canterbury. We will examine the theological, practical, visual, and experiential aspects of pilgrimage in Western Europe and the Holy Land as understood through visual culture and contemporary texts. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 527. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 427 if student has credit for HART 527.

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the middle ages--a 230-foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. We will consider the relationship between the textual and visual narratives of the historical events; the tapestry as an artifact and its history; its origin, date, purpose and patronage of the tapestry; the artistic context of the tapestry in the eleventh century; issues of narratology; and reception and visuality in the century. Several eleventh- and twelfth-century texts such as the "Chanson de Roland," the "Lais" and the "Fables" of Marie de France, "Le Jeu d'Adam" and "La Vie de Saint Alexis" will be examined with particular attention to the authors' desire to create a visual experience for the audience. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 533. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 433 if student has credit for HART 533.

Long Title: SEEING SEX IN EUROPEAN ART, 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the visual history of sexuality from 1400-1700. It will explore how imagery structured sexual desire; the role of erotic sacred art; the rise of pornography; the intersection of spatial topography and sexuality; the linkage of licit and illicit sexualities; and the sexuality of artist and patrons. Cross-list: MDEM 434, SWGS 434, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 534. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 434 if student has credit for HART 534.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE, 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Distribution 1 removed effective Fall 2022. Cross-list: HIST 443, MDEM 435, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 535. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 435 if student has credit for HART 535.

Long Title: MAPPING PLACES IN TIME: THE TEMPORAL CARTOGRAPHY OF CITIES, SITES, AND EVENTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on the evolution of urban form, or the art of living together, in light of existing and emerging communication and representation tools and techniques that make it possible to represent change over time and space. These same tools and techniques prompt a new range of art-historical and cultural questions that bring up new disciplinary questions to be covered during the semester: What does it mean to visualize a city, a site, or an event and their cultural record? Why should we look at changing spaces over time to understand art history? How does the development of larger typologies of historical and visual evidence help us think through cultural questions? Can we use an analysis of historical and contemporary viewership to understand both real and imagined spatial ideologies in art history and visual culture? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 670. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 450 if student has credit for HART 670.

Long Title: MODELS OF ABSTRACTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of different models of abstract painting and sculpture as they appear throughout the twentieth century. Looking closely at the historical contexts that gave rise to abstraction particular attention will be paid to how apparently similar forms of abstraction can denote very different kinds of meaning. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 551. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 451 if student has credit for HART 551.

Long Title: MANET(S) AND MODERNISM(S)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers the pivotal figure of Edouard Manet. Combining a study of paintings from throughout his career, with close readings of primary sources, we will assess the key aspects of his style and subject matter. We will also consider art historical to his work and relationship to modernity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 552. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 452 if student has credit for HART 552.

Long Title: CHINESE BUDDHIST WOODCUTS 850-1450

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will study woodblock print illustrations in the context of cultural change. Buddhism and printing have been closely related since the dawn of the age of print. Many scriptures reproduced by woodblock printing were imbedded with illustrations, which themselves offer an effective tool to study cultural transformation. The seminar draws sources from both images and texts. Its cross-cultural perspective highlights nomads and non-Chinese peoples as agents of cultural transformation, with additional visual comparisons from Korean, Japanese, and Islamic traditions. In addition to weekly discussions, the final evaluation includes a research paper and a 30-minute presentation. Students should have an advanced background in Chinese art to take this seminar. Readings will include both Chinese and English sources. Some classes will meet at area museums. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended Prerequisite(s): HART 372 or ASIA 372; students should have Chinese reading skills Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 460 if student has credit for HART 564/HART 661.

Long Title: THE WHITENESS OF GREEN: A HISTORY OF RACIALIZED LANDSCAPES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: By exploring a sequence of sites extending from urban parks in Rio de Janeiro to Rice University’s academic quadrangular in Houston, this course examines how green spaces have been socially constructed through laws, policies, design and institutional practices and how race and science have inflected in the politics and practices through which humankind interacts with non-human nature/the natural world. This course also explores acts of resistance and practices of space-taking and place-(remaking) by disenfranchised communities in urban and non urban settings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 662.

Long Title: EVOLUTION CUSTOM BUILT: ARCHITECTURE, GENETICS, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the twentieth century, architects, scientists, engineers and technocrats attempted to free humanity from the constraints of nature ...and were met with developments in science and technology sufficient to do so. Tracking the late nineteenth and twentieth century techno-scientific impetus to re/design the shape of the future, from the level of genes to the scale of the built environment, this seminar combines investigations and theories of landscape, object oriented ontology, architecture and ecocriticism. In the first part of the course, we’ll unpack the history of modern agrilogistic thought, which projected empty, unoccupied space for opportunity and development onto otherwise occupied chromosomes, cultures and landscapes. The second section of this seminar traces the drive to order the biological world, using logics of efficiency and accountability, by rereading developments in energy, industry and resource development through the lens of object oriented ontology. Finally, we’ll reconsider developments in the plant, animal and human sciences which bolstered humanity’s twentieth century hubris, from the birth of genetics to the role radiation played in liberating plant breeding from the confines of Mendelian crosses. Graduate students will have six additional readings and extra presentations of the landscape and architecture projects for two given weeks, per student. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 573. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 473 if student has credit for HART 573.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This seminar covers the concept of authorship in Hollywood cinema since 1968. Topics include: the auteur theory, biography, voice, the implied author, intention, and others. Cross-list: ARTS 435, FILM 435.

Long Title: READINGS IN MEDIA HISTORY AND THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Understanding "media" broadly, this class explores a range of historical and theoretical readings around the term. Typewriters, photography and television will be among our topics, guided by two primary questions: how have developments in media affected, even determined, human perception and communication, and how have artists and critics responded to such changes? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 595. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 495 if student has credit for HART 595.

Long Title: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Graduate credit for work as museum intern at a variety of museums. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE RESEARCH PAPER

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate research paper.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description: Graduate independent study, reading and research on variable topics. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POST WAR: ART IN EUROPE, 1945-2000

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the heterodox individual artistic practices and movements in post-World-War Two Europe. Focusing on the countries of France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, and the Soviet Union, particular attention will be given to the post-war reconstruction of the Marshall Plan, economic austerity and recovery, the French colonial war in Algeria, the legacy of the German occupation, the rise of the student movement and the protests of May ’68, Stalinism and the cold war, and the national guilt of the Holocaust. In addition to weekly readings, each graduate student will be responsible for an 18-25 page paper and a 30 minute presentation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 305. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 505 if student has credit for HART 305.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE II (1850-1950)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645 OR HART 345 OR HART 645

Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated be 1850 and 1950. Cross-list: ARCH 646.

Long Title: LIVING IN THE CITY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar combines primary and secondary sources to explore the urban experiences of Ottoman men and women in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Looking at several cities including Istanbul, Izmir, Salonika, Damascus, Aleppo and Alexandria, we will discuss such issues as neighborhood and community life, public spaces and recreational culture perceptions of space, urban institutions, Muslim and non-Muslim relations, migration and marginality, violence and death. Reading knowledge of French and /or Turkish helpful but not necessary. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: ARCH 518. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 508 if student has credit for HART 308.

Long Title: PLATFORMS OF KNOWLEDGE IN A WIDE WEB OF WORLDS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The goal of this seminar is to explore, critique, and experience online platforms in the field of Digital Art History (e.g., image repositories, e-learning, publishing, collaborative research, crowd-sourced, etc.) that uphold the academic mission to disseminate knowledge by enabling teachers, students and researchers to discover, analyze, share information without regard to barriers of space and time, and publish work widely. Advanced digital technologies, after all, do allow researchers to handle large volumes of digitized images and texts, trace patterns and connections formerly hidden from view, recover the past in virtual environments, and bring the complex intricacies of works of art to light as never before. The latest tools and techniques, however, raise questions about what counts as expertise, who controls access to information, what gets lost in translation, what power is likely to shift from educational institutions to profit-seeking companies, how the privileging of quantification and metrics affects humanistic wisdom, and how academic autonomy and diversity can ultimately be disrupted. A final presentation is required.

Long Title: WRITING ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus exclusively on writing skills for art history graduate and (by permission) undergraduate students. The class will primarily take the form of a workshop, in which students submit writing samples and are guided through the editorial process. Texts will be read, discussed, evaluated, and edited, with the input of the instructors, in real time, so that the students actively learn the steps to evaluate and improve their own work. All levels of editing—developmental, line, and copy—will be covered. Each week will also address different areas of concern, including topics such as object/material description, developing an argument, and reducing repetition and/or extraneous text. Special attention will be paid to the nuances of language created through syntax, word choice, pace, and tone. Undergraduates can enroll with permission from the instructor.

Long Title: ART AND ACTIVISM: CREATIVE PROTESTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY AMERICAS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How have art and activism in the Americas from the early 20th century to today informed and fed one another? Moving between South and North America, this seminar study artists and collectives that have confronted, in isolation or with intersectionality in mind, indigenous rights, gender equality, LGBT+ rights, and systemic racism. The course is organized around artwork and activism grouped within three loose themes: race and disenfranchisement; gender and sexuality; and ecology and capitalism. From graphic art employed by the Black Panthers to photographic essays in defense of ways of life in the Amazon Basin of northern Brazil, “Art and Activism” will offer a chance to contemplate, study, and debate visual and performative projects that have endeavored (or continue to try) to effect social change. Graduate Students will write a 20-25 page (not counting bibliography and illustrations) final research paper; undergraduate students will submit a paper 10-12 pages in length. Some class meetings may be held at area cultural spaces. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 315.

Long Title: ART OF THE OBJECT: CRAFT, SENSORY EXPERIENCE, AND MATERIALITY IN ISLAMICATE LANDS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Turning an object of everyday life into a dazzling artwork is a salient feature of the arts produced in premodern Islamic lands. Drawing on the exquisite collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, newly reinstalled in expanded galleries, this course explores the art of the object, focusing specifically on the metal wares produced in the Persianate lands, ca. 1000-1700 CE. Students will gain hands-on experience in analyzing and researching art objects. In addition to participating in the course activities, graduate students will submit a research paper (18-20 pages) Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 316.

Long Title: MODERN ART AND MONSTROSITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why is it that in the modern era, beginning around the middle of the eighteenth century, artists begin to see various forms of monstrosity in aesthetic terms -- as something beautiful? What is it about the modern period that accounts for this shift in how monstrosity is represented and understood and how does it differ from earlier historical images of the monster? This class will examine the modernist fascination with monstrosity, asking why it became a topic of such interest to artists, writers, and filmmakers during this time, and what it can tell us about modernist aesthetics more broadly. Examining a range of representations from the 18th century on, we will look at visual artists, filmmakers, and novelists who depict various forms of monsters, be they human (Jack the Ripper) or non-human (the Golem). From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the myth of the vampire, to Picasso’s monstrous images of 1920s, to the distinctly modern phenomenon of serial killing, this course will chart the dark monstrous underside to modern art. Graduate students will be required to give two twenty-minute presentations in class, and write two papers, one short (10-12 pages) and one long (20-30 pages). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 317. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 517 if student has credit for HART 317.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE, TRADE, AND POWER IN EARLY MODERN ISLAMIC EMPIRES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: During the early modern period, ca. 1500-1800, around one-third of the earth’s human population inhabited territories that were ruled by three empires: the Ottomans in the eastern Mediterranean, the Safavids in the Iranian plateau, and the Mughals in South Asia. This period saw a surge in production of architectural monuments (such as the Taj Mahal), the emergence of cosmopolitan cities (such as Istanbul and Isfahan), and the expansion of the public sphere in gardens, promenades, and coffeehouses. This course examines the architecture, urbanism, and material culture of these three empires in the context of global trade, representations of power, and urban life in the capital cities of Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi. Graduate students will be expected to write short paper during the semester as well as a 20-page research paper at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 319.

Long Title: ART, SCIENCE, AND MAGIC IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What did “science” and “magic” look like in the medieval world? This course surveys images and objects made between the fifth and the fifteenth century to investigate how they explained, questioned, and theorized the natural and supernatural. With special attention to the inseparability of concepts of science, magic, and religion in premodernity, this discussion-based course will examine how art helped to mediate and substantiate medieval understandings of the world. From textual amulets to saints’ shrines, objects had the power to heal, perform miracles, and affect change beyond the explanation of earthly phenomena. We will look at a wide variety of objects and images related to scientific and para-scientific disciplines; geometry, astrology, cosmology, medicine, anatomy, botany, physiognomy, and geomancy all relied on and produced visual materials to aid in practice. How did the concepts of art, science, magic, and religion overlap, and how do modern definitions fall short in helping us understand premodern ideas about the natural world? Students will develop the conceptual tools necessary to confront these questions using visual evidence. Graduate students will write a 20 page research paper, lead one class session, and prepare a "lit review" assignment. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 320. Recommended Prerequisite(s): At least one course in medieval art history is recommended

Long Title: AMERICAN ART, 1800-1920

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will cover art and architecture in the United States from the early national period to the advent of modernism. Major artists studied will include Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Richard Morris Hunt, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. There are weekly readings. Graduate students have more readings and occasional meetings to discuss those readings. During the first week of class, the professor and graduate students will work out a schedule to discuss the extra graduate readings, which will include the books listed in the syllabus and some supplementary articles. Graduate students will also write a research paper 13-16 pages in length. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 321. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 521 if student has credit for HART 321.

Long Title: JERUSALEM TO ISFAHAN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A seminar on key topics of the study of visual cultures in the medieval and early modern Muslim world focused on specific works of art. Politics of architectural patronage, dissemination of visual languages, calligraphy, "ornament" and figural representation in Islam, cross-cultural exchanges and trans-religious iconographies are among the topics discussed. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these reading to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: ARCH 522. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 522 if student has credit for HART 322.

Long Title: PERSIANATE ARTS OF THE BOOK

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores figural painting and arts of the book in the Persianate cultural sphere, ca. 1300s-1800s. We will study concepts of the book in Islamic civilization, illustrated narratives of Persian literature, word/image relationship, albums, and single-page portraits. The class also examines artistic interactions with East Asia and Europe, and concludes with the advent of lithography in the nineteenth century. Some course meetings will take place at Houston-area museums. Graduate students are required to submit a research paper (15-20 pages). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 324. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 524 if student has credit for HART 324.

Long Title: LOOKING AT PRINTS 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The class has several goals: to gain a thorough historical understanding of prints by major masters as Schongauer, Mantegna, Durer, and Rembrandt as well as more popular prints, explore key issues in the study of prints, such as how they revolutionized European culture, their patronage, markets, functions, and techniques; and to examine the prints first-hand. Graduate students are expected to complete all the requirements in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 333. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 525 if student has credit for HART 333.

Long Title: BRAZIL BUILDS: THE CLINIC, THE TROPICAL AND THE AESTHETIC

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From Brazil Builds, MOMA's 1943 celebrated exhibition, to the construction of supermodern Brasilia, to today’s contrasting forms of urban development, this seminar examines the built environment—natural and architectural—as the main transmitter of modernism in Brazil. This is a seminar on Brazilian modernism and its discontents. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 310. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 526 if student has credit for HART 310.

Long Title: VISUAL CULATURE OF MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the rich visual culture associated with Medieval pilgrimage between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. The experience of pilgrimage was shaped by symbols, images, and places encountered along the routes to sites of sacred significance, especially the roads to Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago, and Canterbury. We will examine the theological, practical, visual, and experiential aspects of pilgrimage in Western Europe and the Holy Land as understood through visual culture and contemporary texts. Graduate students will meet with the professor every other week to discuss 16 additional recommended readings - beyond those assigned to the undergraduates - and to discuss the progress of their 20-25 page research paper. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 427. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 527 if student has credit for HART 427.

Long Title: TEACHING PRACTICUM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: As an integral part of the department's apprenticeship program, this is a semester-long practicum through which a graduate student apprentices with a faculty member teaching an undergraduate course in order to be trained in all aspects of course design, lecturing, advising, and grading. Required of all graduate students. Graduate student teaching assistant will be evaluated by the faculty supervisor on all aspects of the teaching experience, including contributions to class discussion, attendance, student support, and grading. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RACE AND ART IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore discourses on race and their influence on artistic endeavors in modern Latin America. Examining texts from various disciplines, we will discuss how dominant ideas on race that defined national identities shaped the production and reception of art, and how artists illustrated or contested these discourses in their works. Students will learn about key theories of race, Black and indigenous artistic productions, and the role of museums in this history. This class will include field trips to local museums and galleries. Graduate students will complete two in-class presentations and a 20-25p research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 329. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 529 if student has credit for HART 329.

Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 330. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 530 if student has credit for HART 330.

Long Title: BRITISH ART AND AESTHETICS, 1700-1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will introduce students to British art and aesthetic theory from roughly 1700-1900. Although the primary focus of the class will be on artists, writers, philosophers, and critics based in the metropole, the larger scope of the British Empire and the impact of British imperialism and colonialism on aesthetic production and debates will be an active concern for this class. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, this course will pay particular attention to the ways in which artists, philosophers, and critics responded to a wide array of social debates that were transforming British cultural production including: copyright and the controversy of artistic property; various monetary and financial crises ; changes in the law; and the decline in a model of civic humanism premised on land holding and property. Graduate students are required to give two 30-40 minute presentations and a final 20-25 page paper, and they will have roughly 3-4 hours of reading per week. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 331. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 531 if student has credit for HART 331.

Long Title: ART OF THE COURTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 332. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 532 if student has credit for HART 332.

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the Middle Ages--a 230-foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. We will consider the relationship between the textual and visual narratives of the historical events; the tapestry as an artifact and its history; its origin, date, purpose and patronage; the artistic context of the tapestry in the eleventh century; issues of narratology; and reception and visuality. Several eleventh- and twelfth-century texts such as the "Chanson de Roland," the "Lais" and the "Fables" of Marie de France, "Le Jeu d'Adam" and "La Vie de Saint Alexis" will be examined with particular attention to the authors' desire to create a visual experience for the audience. Graduate students will work on a more advanced level than undergraduate students with higher expectations and additional readings. They will meet on a regular basis outside of the weekly class to advance discussion of issues brought up in the class. Research projects undertaken by graduate students are expected to be done in multiple languages (especially French and German), and in addition to demonstrating a knowledge of the subject matter as it appears in the scholarship, they will be expected to critically evaluate this scholarship and begin to draw their own conclusions. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 433. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 533 if student has credit for HART 433.

Long Title: SEEING SEX IN EUROPEAN ART, 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: SWGS 534, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 434. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 534 if student has credit for HART 434.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE, 1400-1700

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all the readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional two or three weeks to discuss the interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 435. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 535 if student has credit for HART 435.

Long Title: CINEMA AND THE CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 336. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 536 if student has credit for HART 336.

Long Title: AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE I: 1620-1800

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Painting, architecture, urban design, and the decorative arts in the colonies and early United States. Highlights will include design at Monticello and Mount Vernon; the portraiture of John Singleton Copley; Georgian and Federal-period architecture in Boston, New York, Williamsburg, and Philadelphia; and Spanish and Dutch colonial art and architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 339. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 539 if student has credit for HART 339.

Long Title: ADVANCED STUDY IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: ARTS OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AT THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to advanced ethical, legal and practical issues facing museums as they acquire and maintain collections from areas prone to looting and destruction, especially the Ancient Mediterranean. We will examine the civic engagement and operation of the Menil Collection through close, on-site archival and object study. Cross-list: MUCH 508, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 312. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 540 if student has credit for HART 312/HART 335.

Long Title: EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture, with emphasis on the fourteenth through the early sixteenth century, including such artists as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, and Botticelli. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 341. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 541 if student has credit for HART 341.

Long Title: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the High Renaissance, with emphasis on its leading masters (e.g., Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Titian). Includes a study of mannerism, the stylish art produced after the first quarter of the 16th century. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in additional to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 342. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 542 if student has credit for HART 342.

Long Title: MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, and Velazquez. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideals associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 343. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 543 if student has credit for HART 343.

Long Title: CAPITALISM AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the way European culture, especially art, was shaped by the rise of the monetary economy and capitalism, beginning in the late Middle Ages and continuing into modern times. Faculty will meet separately on a bi-weekly basis with graduate students in the class who will also be assigned extra readings. Graduate work will be evaluated on a more challenging scale, with particular attention to methodological and interpretive rigor. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 344. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 544 if student has credit for HART 344.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to architectural thought. Lectures and discussions focusing on practice and ideas that have exercised a significant influence on the discourse and production of architecture and urbanism. Cross-list: ARCH 525, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 225. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 545 if student has credit for HART 225.

Long Title: PICASSO, POLLOCK, WARHOL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will look in detail at three of the twentieth century's most important artists: Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol. Our central focus in doing so will be painting, in particular, the means by which these three artists tested, expanded or even "destroyed" the medium. What did it mean to make (or reject) painting in 1910, 1950, and 1965? Special attention will be paid to recent scholarly literature and close looking at works in local collections. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 334. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 546 if student has credit for HART 334.

Long Title: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE: INVENTING ROMAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Rome’s rise entailed the conquest and absorption of countless indigenous populations. In the heterogeneous landscape of Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy, is it possible to distinguish a “Roman” visual culture? This course traces the spread of Roman power from the 5th century BCE to the 1st century CE, asking how colonization, cross-cultural interaction, and aristocratic competition shaped what we now call “Roman” art and architecture. Students will be assigned readings for each class, and part of their final grade will be based on in-class discussion of these readings. Each student will also write a research paper and give an in-class presentation. Graduate students will give an in-class presentation of c. 30 minutes and will write a research paper (about 15-20 pages in length) arguing an original thesis. Graduate students will read six additional scholarly articles (of a more theoretical and methodological nature) that will be assigned to them over the course of the semester, and will write an annotated bibliography of these readings. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 360. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 550 if student has credit for HART 320.

Long Title: MODELS OF ABSTRACTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of different models of abstract painting and sculpture as they appear throughout the twentieth century. Looking closely at the historical contexts that gave rise to abstraction particular attention will be paid to how apparently similar forms of abstraction can denote very different kinds of meaning. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 451. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 551 if student has credit for HART 451.

Long Title: MANET(S) AND MODERNISM(S)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers the pivotal figure of Edouard Manet. Combining a study of paintings from throughout his career, with close readings of primary sources, we will assess the key aspects of his style and subject matter. We will also consider art historical to his work and relationship to modernity. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideals associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 452. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 552 if student has credit for HART 452.

Long Title: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 340. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 553 if student has credit for HART 340.

Long Title: AGE OF ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the emergence and flourishing of Romanticism in the visual arts in Europe. We will consider artists from France, Germany and Britain, including Eugene Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich. We will combine study of paintings with readings of contemporaneous philosophers and writers, including Hegel and Byron. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 354. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 554 if student has credit for HART 354.

Long Title: VESSELS AND VASE-PAINTING: ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN POTTERY IN THE MENIL COLLECTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Ceramics represent one of the most numerous classes of surviving ancient materials and their painted decoration can provide insights into social and cultural histories. This course provides an overview of pottery of the ancient Mediterranean world spanning from the Bronze Age to Roman period (ca. 3300 BCE – 400 CE), with a primary focus on ancient Greece. We will examine a broad history of ceramic production through the vases at the Menil Collection, including production techniques, decoration and subject matter. Graduate students will submit regular weekly reading responses, have two short presentations, lead an assigned discussion, and have a longer final project. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 355. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 555 if student has credit for HART 355.

Long Title: SEX AND MONEY: THE SPECIES DIVIDE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore issues surrounding sex and money in medieval and early modern Europe and their impact on visual representations of both humans and non-humans. It will introduce students to such theories as feminism, Marxism, and posthumanism as well as medieval beliefs about the Seven Deadly Sins. Some course meetings will take place at Houston-area museums where students will engage with artworks in person. Graduate students will work on a more advanced level than undergraduate students with higher expectations and additional readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all requirements of the class and will meet an additional seven times to discuss the interpretive and methodological ideas associated with the readings and their research papers. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 356.

Long Title: IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will explore painting in France from approximately 1865 to 1900. Mixing lectures and classroom discussion, we will focus on individual artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Czanne. We will also consider and discuss a set of critical issues surrounding these painters, including the politics of gender and class within the changing urban setting of Paris. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in additional to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 358. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 558 if student has credit for HART 358.

Long Title: WHAT IS CINEMA? CLASSIC READINGS OF CLASSIC FILMS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Using a variety of readings now considered classics as our guide, this class will look closely at a broad range of films and film movements discussed by critics and theorists such as Rudolf Amheim, Jean Epstein, Sergei Fisenstein, Walter Benjamin and Andre Bazin. Graduate students will be assigned additional readings and will be required to write a substantial research paper (20-25 pages). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 361. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 561 if student has credit for HART 361.

Long Title: UPCYCLING: MEANINGFUL REUSE IN ART AND MONUMENTS FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this seminar, we will explore the phenomenon of upcycling - intentionally meaningful reuse - by investigating the intersection of reuse and memory in the art and monuments of many different times, places, and people, from prehistory to the modern art that surrounds us on the Rice campus. Graduate students will be assigned up to 10 additional readings over the semester and complete a 15-20 page final paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 362. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 562 if student has credit for HART 362.

Long Title: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines how cinema has reflected, shaped and critiqued cultural understandings of gender and sexuality over the last 100 years. By pairing film analysis with critical readings in gender and sexuality studies, we will explore the development of sexual and gender conventions--as well as their transgressions--on screen across diverse historical periods and cultures. Each graduate student will be required to submit a final 20-25 pp. paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 364. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 564 if student has credit for HART 460.

Long Title: A REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY CUBAN CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction:Taught in Spanish

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research seminar will explore contemporary trends in Cuban culture through literary texts, films, music and works of art. We will examine the ways in which politics and the practices of artistic representation intersect in post-revolutionary Cuba. A research trip to Cuba has been organized as part of this seminar. Course taught in Spanish. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the course in addition to writing a research paper at the end of the semester. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 304. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 565 if student has credit for HART 304.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURES OF POWER, RESISTANCE, AND COEXISTENCE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar adopts a global approach to examine architecture and the built environment as sites of power, resistance, and coexistence. Through a series of case studies spanning the globe, from Central Asia to the Mediterranean to the Americas, we will explore how architectural works--monuments, buildings, urban plans, indigenous settlements, refugee camps--exercised authority, resisted domination, and/or created settings for coexistence. Topics to discuss include cross-cultural interactions in medieval Iberia (Spain/Portugal); Nineteenth-century Orientalist architecture and its discontents; the interwoven complexity of infrastructures, race, and gender in early twentieth century South America; the spaces and politics of U.S. assistance programs during the era of “development” across the Global South; and environmental diasporas and indigenous reclamations from the Amazon to Sub-Saharan Africa in present days. Graduate students will submit an in-depth research proposal and paper and will give a formal presentation on their research paper in the seminar. This course occasionally meets at an area museum during the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 367. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 567 if student has credit for HART 467.

Long Title: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE SUSTAINABLE: ART, ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers theories and narratives of nature in the crafting of modern and contemporary art and architecture in the Americas. Artists and architects will include Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Rogelio Salmona (Colombia); Ana Mendieta, Ricardo Porro (Cuba); Ana Maria Tavaraes, Lina Bo Bardi (Brazil); Mark Dion and Buckminster Fuller (USA). For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 302. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 568 if student has credit for HART 302.

Long Title: STATE OF THE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is the current state of the art historical field? Looking at contemporary scholarship across a range of historical periods, the class will introduce students to a selection of some of the most important, ground-breaking, and / or influential writings in art history produced in the last 25 years or so. Paying particular attention to an array of recent trends, methodologies, and political interventions, this class will examine some of the most pressing questions, debates, and advanced interdisciplinary theories within current art historical practice. In addition to the presentations and short-analysis paper (4-5 pages) required for the undergraduate-level course, the graduate-level course requires a final paper of 20-25 pages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 369. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 569 if student has credit for HART 369. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will map the terrain of contemporary art as it has developed in the wake of political and theoretical engagements of the 1990's. For many critics, Contemporary Art practice has given way to the worst aspects of spectacular culture losing sight of the political, theoretical, and artistic rigor that characterized the historical and neo-avant-garde. Graduate students will be assigned 1-2 additional readings each week and prepare a final seminar paper of 20-30 pages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 349. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 570 if student has credit for HART 349.

Long Title: EVOLUTION CUSTOM BUILT: ARCHITECTURE, GENETICS, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the twentieth century, architects, scientists, engineers and technocrats attempted to free humanity from the constraints of nature…and were met with developments in science and technology sufficient to do so. Tracking the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century techno-scientific impetus to re/design the shape of the future, from the level of genes to the scale of the built environment, this seminar combines investigations and theories of landscape, object-oriented ontology, architecture and ecocriticism. In the first part of the course, we’ll unpack the history of modern agrilogistic thought, which projected empty, unoccupied space for opportunity and development onto otherwise occupied chromosomes, cultures and landscapes. The second section of this seminar traces the drive to order the biological world, using logics of efficiency and accountability, by rereading developments in energy, industry and resource development through the lens of object oriented ontology. Finally, we’ll reconsider developments in the plant, animal and human sciences that bolstered humanity’s twentieth-century hubris, from the birth of genetics to the role radiation played in liberating plant breeding from the confines of Mendelian crosses. Graduate students will have six additional readings and extra presentations of the landscape and architecture projects. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 473. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 573 if student has credit for HART 473.

Long Title: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will address the central role that art and visual culture played in the French Revolution. While engaging in a detailed study of the causes, progress and outcome of the Revolution we will pay attention to painting, prints, festivals and the wide range of visual culture that not only reflected the Revolution but helped fuel it. Graduate students will have extensive readings, a graduate discussion section in addition to the usual class meeting times. Three short reaction papers and a final original research seminar paper (15-20 pages) will also be required. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 374. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 574 if student has credit for HART 374.

Long Title: ART BETWEEN THE WARS: EUROPEAN MODERNISM, 1918-1940

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Beginning in the aftermath of the First World War, a conflict that devastated the physical and psychological landscape of Europe, and ending with the rise of various totalitarian regimes (Fascism, Stalinism) this seminar will examine European art of the interwar period, from 1918-1940. Potential topics will include Surrealism, The Russian avant-garde, the return to order, Esprit-Nouveau, the machine aesthetic, De Stijl, avant-garde cinema, etc. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 365. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 575 if student has credit for HART 365.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores illuminated European manuscripts from late antiquity through the early sixteenth century. It examines manuscripts’ functions, patrons, makers, and materials and technique, as well as such issues as the relationship between text and image and the manuscript’s ideological stance. Students have the opportunity to study original medieval illuminations. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 377. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 577 if student has credit for HART 377.

Long Title: THE AESTHETICS OF REALISM: FROM COURBET TO THE WIRE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will consider both the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of an aesthetics of realism. As a form of art concerned with the world as it is, in all its imperfection, realism is often assumed to ignore ideas of beauty, and even to court harsh, rough or ugly appearances. But as we will see there is both theoretical basis for an aesthetics of realism and a long history of its visual development. Graduate students will read approximately 200-250 pages per week, which will be discussed in an additional hour-long session each week. Graduate students will write two 5-7 page short papers and one 18-20 page final term paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 379. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 579 if student has credit for HART 379.

Long Title: COLLAGE AND ITS HISTORIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will explore the centrality of collage to the development of the 20th century art and film. Beginning with the seminal achievements of Picasso and Braque, we will examine works across geographical and medium boundaries, including Dada photomontage, early avant-garde film, 1960s happenings, and the reformulation of collage aesthetics in 1980s postmodernism. For each lecture, Graduate students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all the readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional two or three weeks to discuss the interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 381. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 581 if student has credit for HART 381.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE, ART, AND LITERATURE IN ISLAMIC CULTURES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Buildings, objects, and texts are all cultural artifacts. When they intersect—when a building is inscribed with a poem or a literary text engages with a spatial reality—the result is a sophisticated product that combines visual and verbal modes of communication. Visual cultures of the Islamic lands abound with such examples, ranging from poetic epigraphy on buildings (as in the Alhambra) to versified descriptions of cities and monuments. This seminar will examine select works of Islamic art and architecture in relation to literary texts that engage with their aesthetic and functional aspects. Graduate students will submit a research paper that is 20-25 pages; undergraduate students will submit a 15-page research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 385. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 587 if student has credit for HART 385/HART 487.

Long Title: JUSTICE AND CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why have film directors been drawn to criminal investigations and the search for justice since cinema's early years? This course examines films that represent court trials, investigate crimes and seek truth across different cultures over the last 100 years. Graduate students will write a 20-page research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 389. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 589 if student has credit for HART 389.

Long Title: METHODS OF ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar surveys approaches the study of art and visual culture from art history's origins as a discipline to the present day. We will study a range of works of art and interrogate many of the essential terms of art historical study. Frequent guest lectures will be featured. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: THINKING MODERN DRAWING: ON SITE AT THE MENIL DRAWING INSTITUTE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How has drawing been practiced, understood, tested, and re-thought in the modern period? This course will explore these questions through in-depth readings and close study of works of art in the Menil Drawing Institute, which houses one of the world's best collections of the medium. Meetings will frequently take place on site at the Menil, and involve curators, conservators, and other museum staff. Part of students' work will be to prepare a joint exhibition, emerging from class discussions, that utilizes and explores Menil Drawing Institute resources. Graduate students will be assigned additional readings throughout the semester and submit a final paper of 20-30 pages in length. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 390.

Long Title: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Global English; Globalization and its Discontents; and Critical Regionalisms. Cross-list: ENGL 594. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: READINGS IN MEDIA HISTORY AND THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Understanding "media" broadly, this class explores a range of historical and theoretical readings around the term. Typewriters, photography and television will be among our topics, guided by two primary questions: how have developments in media affected, even determined, human perception and communication, and how have artists and critics responded to such changes? In addition to all undergraduate requirements, graduate students will be assigned additional weekly readings and asked to write a final research paper of 20-30 pages. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 495. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 595 if student has credit for HART 495.

Long Title: FROM EXPRESSIONISM TO FASCISM: ART AND FILM IN GERMANY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focusing on the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, this class will examine art and film in Germany from the birth of Expressionism through the end of the Nazi dictatorship. Topics covered will include Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, and Fascist aesthetics. Particular attention will be paid to the relations between aesthetics and politics and art and everyday life, all central concerns of the art and criticism of the period. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 398. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 596 if student has credit for HART 398.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM CURATORIAL STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special Topics class taught by visiting Curators from the MFAH. FA 2016: Intro to Islamic Art at the MFAH: This course explores the dynamic, multifaceted character of Islamic art and architecture across the globe. Travel from Spain to India studying original art at the Museum of Fine Arts. Gain understanding of the historical, religious, social, craft, and visual contexts of the art. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 297. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 597 if student has credit for HART 297.

Long Title: PREPARATION FOR CANDIDACY I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description: Preparation for qualifying exams.

Long Title: PREPARATION FOR CANDIDACY II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description: Preparation for qualifying exams and dissertation prospectus.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND GRADUATE INTERNSHIP I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 400. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 603 if student has credit for HART 400. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND GRADUATE INTERNSHIP II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate Internship at Bayou Bend and The American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 401. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 604 if student has credit for HART 401. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EXTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Considering extractivism—from highly toxic practices such as mining to less maligned enterprises such as monoculture agriculture—this seminar explores the multiple ways in which architecture and urbanism have performed as instruments of extractive capitalism in Latin America, from the colonial search for El Dorado, to the neocolonial infrastructures of modern developmentalism, to the commodity boom and planetary urbanization of today. Engaging with critical theory and groundbreaking architectural history, students will interrogate the environmental and racialized social injustices supported by extractive architectures, as well as alternate forms of inhabiting the planet that have been left out of historical accounts. Attendance and participation; In-class reading presentations (Graduate students are required to present for three different weeks ); Contribution to the Map of Extractive Architecture and Urbanism in Latin America Map (Students will identify case studies related to the course content and mark them as pins and story-maps in a digital collaborative document. Graduate students will identify 4-6 case studies); Individual research project (Students will write a final research paper. Graduate students should write a paper of approximately 7,000 words). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 408.

Long Title: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Small, focused, advanced discussion, workshop and/or design based courses on topics of recent research in architecture, delivered by RSA full time or visiting faculty. This seminar is open to RSA undergraduate students junior-level and above, and RSA graduate students. Students from other departments may enroll in the course with instructor permission. See the RSA website for more information: arch.rice.edu/courses. Space is limited and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. The final course roster is formulated on the first day class by the individual instructor. Cross-list: ARCH 612, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 412. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 612 if student has credit for HART 412. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY - FOURTEENTH CENTURY GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Individual readings in 14th century gothic art and architecture. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: HART IN THE WORLD SPRING SEMINAR

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar serves as required preparation for the planned “HART in the World” research travel course (HART 697) offered in the immediately following summer session. Students will study a range of materials—including works of art, literature, films, and historical studies—related to the planned destination city. Graduate students will be required to do additional reading, give two presentations, and submit a 25-35 page paper. To be offered every other year. Graduating students are not eligible. More information available at: https://arthistory.rice.edu/opportunities/hart-world Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 338. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 638 if student has credit for HART 338. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS AND THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE I (1450-1850)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated before 1850. Cross-list: ARCH 645.

Long Title: CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This seminar examines cinematic engagements with urban spaces and experiences around the world spanning the last two centuries. Particular attention will be paid to issues of migration, marginality, colonialism, war and post-war, nostalgia and memory, race and gender. Cities of focus include Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, Algiers, Beirut and Paris. Our weekly discussions of individual films will be grounded in critical writings of the cities' histories and theories of space and film. Cross-list: ARCH 654, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 359. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 659 if student has credit for HART 359.

Long Title: THE WHITENESS OF GREEN: A HISTORY OF RACIALIZED LANDSCAPES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: By exploring a sequence of sites extending from urban parks in Rio de Janeiro to Rice University’s academic quadrangular in Houston, this course examines how green spaces have been socially constructed through laws, policies, design and institutional practices and how race and science have inflected in the politics and practices through which humankind interacts with non-human nature/the natural world. This course also explores acts of resistance and practices of space-taking and place-(remaking) by disenfranchised communities in urban and non urban settings. Reading Presentations: Graduate students will be asked to take responsibility for presenting the assigned readings for at least three different weeks; these 15 to 20-min presentations involve giving a brief background on the author, situating the assigned text in the context of the course, extrapolating a few key points and generating a few questions to initiate discussion of the material. Diachronic Map: Graduate students will be required to participate in the elaboration of the narrative that will accompany the graphic documentation (photos, architectural plans and urban schemes) Final Research Paper (Graduate Students): 20 to 25 typed, double-spaced pages Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 462.

Long Title: A VISUAL CULTURE TRAVELOGUE: ART AND POLITICS IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Providing an alternative understanding of modernity and its artistic partner, modernism, this survey course traverses the political, social and cultural landscapes that informed and formed the art and architecture of Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present. Graduate students will be expected to write a more extensive research paper (20-25 page-long paper rather than the 8-10 page - paper required to undergraduate students. The use of primary sources is mandatory. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 265. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 665 if student has credit for HART 265.

Long Title: MAPPING PLACES IN TIME: THE TEMPORAL CARTOGRAPHY OF CITIES, SITES, AND EVENTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on the evolution of urban form, or the art of living together, in light of existing and emerging communication and representation tools and techniques that make it possible to represent change over time and space. These same tools and techniques prompt a new range of art-historical and cultural questions that bring up new disciplinary questions to be covered during the semester: What does it mean to visualize a city, a site, or an event and their cultural record? Why should we look at changing spaces over time to understand art history? How does the development of larger typologies of historical and visual evidence help us think through cultural questions? Can we use an analysis of historical and contemporary viewership to understand both real and imagined spatial ideologies in art history and visual culture? Graduate students will be required to complete an additional assignment equivalent to an analytical 20 page paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 450. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 670 if student has credit for HART 450/HART 470.

Long Title: LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF MODERN CITIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course challenges our pre-conceived maps of the world, highlighting Latin America's place within our understanding of modernity as a product of transnational interconnections. Transversing the Atlantic, this course traces the interactions of capitalism and culture, science and aesthetics, and the ideologies that informed and formed the urban fabric and spatial politics of important cities in the modern Latin world - Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Havana, and Brasilia. Cross-list: ARCH 675, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 375. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 675 if student has credit for HART 375.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study, Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film & media studies on the graduate level. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HART IN THE WORLD FIELD STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through on-site lectures, seminar discussions, museum visits, architectural itineraries, and field trips, this course will explore the complex political, social, and cultural histories of a major international metropolis. The city visited changes each time the course is offered; past locations have included Istanbul, Rome, and Rio de Janeiro. More information on upcoming locations is available at https://arthistory.rice.edu/hitw-about. Graduating students are not eligible. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 397. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 697 if student has credit for HART 397. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SUMMER RESEARCH FOR PH.D.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Summer Research of Ph.D. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PH.D. RESEARCH

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Dissertation Research for Ph.D. candidates. Repeatable for Credit.