Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC ***** A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period through the 15th century. Also offered as MDST 111. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II: RENAISSANCE TO PRESENT ***** A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ASIAN ART ***** Survey of Asian art from the Neolithic period to the present. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE ***** This course offers an introduction to the history of Western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Carnavan Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. This course is offered in alternate years with HART 101. ***** Also offered as MDST 104.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: KEY MONUMENTS & ARTISTS OF THE WEST MVMT ***** 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, and architecture.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ARTS OF CHINA ***** Introduction of the history of the visual arts of China from the Bronze Age to the present. We will pay special attention the artworks' physical and social contexts (e.g. tomb, temple, court, literati's garden and studio, city, nation-state). Topics include: funerary art and the imagination of the afterlife, art and imperial cosmology, rise of literati aesthetic, relationship between landscape painting and calligraphy, and the emergence of propaganda avant-garde art in Modern China. ***** Also offered as ASIA 170. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART AS CIVILIZATION ***** This seminar will examine the formative role that definitions of civilization have played in shaping the West in the modern period, and it will pay particular attention to the role that art has been assigned as one of civilization's attributes and agents. Topics will include: the museum, the discipline of art history, war spoils, and iconoclasm. Enrollment limited to 15.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FOURTEEN ARTWORKS AT THE MFAH ***** This course is designed to provide students with no previous background in art history with an introduction to the discipline through the "in situ" study of 14 works from the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Some of the topics to be addressed include British aristocratic portraiture, French Impressionist painting, the aesthetic dialogues of Matisse and Picasso, the abstracted sculptures of Brancusi and Calder, and the site-specific installation of Turrell's light tunnel. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES ***** Special topics and new courses, not necessarily to be repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history at the introductory level. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS: ANCIENT GREEK SITES ***** Special topics, independent study, and new courses in ancient art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY: ANCIENT ART ***** Special topics, independent study, and new courses in ancient art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC ART ***** Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART ***** Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL ART AND LITERATURE ***** This course will focus on major themes represented in a selected number of works in art and literature from the Middle Ages. ***** Also offered as MDST 230. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART ***** Special topics, independent study, and new courses in Medieval art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MEDIEVAL ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE ***** This course will be concerned with the art, architecture, and history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. Also offered as HUMA 108 and MDST 108. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley, Manca.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPCIAL TOPICS IN 19TH & 20TH CENTURY ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH & 20TH CENTURY ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART ***** Special topics and new courses in non-Western art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in non-Western art. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HISTORY AND AESTHETICS OF FILM ***** Introduction to the art and aesthetics of film as an artifact produced within certain social contexts. Includes style, narration, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and ideology in classical Hollywood cinema, as well as in independent, alternative, nonfiction, and Third World cinemas. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): Dove.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HISTORY AND AESTHETICS OF VIDEO ***** Overview of the history of American television and video, with emphasis on milestone genre, programs, and videos in the context of socioeconomic and political events and contemporary discourse. Includes mainstream TV and newer forms such as cable TV, video art, and ethnic TV. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTRODUCTION TO FILM: FILM CRITICISM ***** This writing-intensive course will teach students to view films analytically and write film criticism. Each week, students will view a film, read some criticism of that film, and write their own view of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world cinema history. Special emphasis on influential relationships between criticism and film styles. ***** Also offered as ENGL 275. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Ostherr Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY ***** This course introduces the student to approaches to understanding and interpreting film as film. It traces the attempts to grasp the new medium in theoretical terms from its origins to the present day. Topics include: montage, mis-en-scene, the gaze, history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. ***** Also offered as ENGL 286. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Dove

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES ***** Special topics and new course in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructors(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPCIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY & CRITICISM ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY & CRITICISM ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. **** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM I ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Canfield

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM II ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Canfield

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS ***** The early development of civilizations from the Paleolithic age to the first Bronze Age urbanizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and China. Slide illustrated lectures will focus on archaeology, history of religion, and history of art. Attention to contemporary cultural politics. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE THEME OF FERTILITY ***** Ancient fertility, religions, and their disguised or censored modes of survival into the modern world, will be investigated through archaeology, mythology, literature, history of religions, and history of art. Paleolithic, Neolithic, Ancient Near East and Greece, India, China, and pre-Columbian New World - then a glance at Modernity. Lectures with thousands of slides. Get ready to learn a new language of images. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** This course will present the art and architecture of Greece, Asia Minor, and Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period (ca 2000-30 B.C.). It will consider development of the classical orders in architecture, innovations with painting and sculpture, and the cultural and political significance of art in ancient Greek society. ***** Also offered as CLAS 312. ***** Instructor(s): Quenemoen

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DISCOVERY OF THE MIND ***** The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. From myth to philosophy. First expressions of subjectivism and relativism. Primarily ancient near Eastern and Greek materials. Emphasis will be on art, philosophy, literature, and religion. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ROMAN ART & ARCHITECTURE ***** A chronological survey of Roman sculpture, painting, and architecture from its Etruscan beginnings to the late Empire. Art and architecture of Rome and the provinces considered within their larger social, political, and urban contexts. Particular attention given to patronage, the relation between Roman and Greek art, and Rome's position as an artistic center. ***** Also offered as AMC 315 and CLAS 315. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Quenemoen

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANCIENT ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in ancient art history.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AGE OF AUGUSTUS ***** This course will consider the period in Roman history between 31 BC and 14 AD, when the emperor Augustus restored stability to the Roman world, oversaw the expansion of the empire, and rebuilt Rome as a capital city. The Age of Augustus witnessed an unparalleled flowering in the literary arts and a revolution in art and architecture whose legacy persists to this day. We will examine in detail the political events and cultural life of this vital time, paying particular attention to the continuity between the late Republic and the Augustan period, Augustus' construction of his public identity, imperial and non-imperial patronage in poetry and the visual arts, and the role of literature, art, and architecture in the formation of Augustan ideology in Rome and in the provinces. The course offers a thorough picture of one of the most significant, yet in some ways most elusive, periods in antiquity. ***** Also offered as CLAS 320. ***** Instructor(s): Quenemoen

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I ***** An introduction to the arts of architecture of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explores the development of a visual tradition through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and intertextualities. Examines key religious and secular institutions and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts. ***** Also offered as ARCH 331. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VIS CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD II ***** An introduction to the architecture, ceramics, textiles, and arts of the book of the Islamic world, from Egypt to India and Central Asia, beginning in the wake of the Mongol, conquests and ending with the demise of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on court patronage and production, the course examines key buildings and objects through their aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Methodological concerns of the field are addressed through an exploration of such themes as iconoclasm, word and image, and cross-cultural influences. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Also offered as ARCH 332. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will consider questions of patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. ***** Also offered as ARCH 328/628. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART? ***** This seminar is a critical examination of key themes and issues in Islamic art. Based on readings that focus on specific examples of artistic and architectural production of major landmarks from the 7th to the 18th centuries our discussions will evolve around such questions as:: What is Islamic about Islamic art? How and where did art, religion, and politics intersect? To what extent were art and architecture informed by religious principles, practices, and rituals? Can we speak of a distinctive visual language across the Muslim world? We will also experience the role of myth in the construction of cultural heritage, the development of writing into a major form of art called calligraphy, and questions of patronage and imperial ideology. We will revisit long-held assumptions about the nature of Islamic art as iconoclastic and aniconistic, and about the nature and aspect of artistic exchange between the Muslim world and the Latin Christian West, Byzantium, and China. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 330.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOTHIC ART & ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1140-1300: THE AGE OF CATHEDRALS ***** Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. ***** Also offered as MDST 331. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATE GOTHIC ART & ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1300-1500 ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 332. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART ***** Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY ***** Study of Italian art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli, with emphasis on painting and sculpture in the 15th century. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM IN ITALY ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA ***** Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin Claude, and Velazquez. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I ***** This course provides a chronological survey of European architecture, urbanism, and landscape design from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Through focused attention to selected buildings, plans, designs, and theories, the course considers key works and their relationships to differing aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. ***** Also offered as ARCH 345. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT ***** This course explores the visual cultures of the European Enlightenment (1650-1800), focusing on developments in architecture, painting, prints, urbanism, and landscape design and their intellectual and historical contexts. Topics include: intimacy and self; prisons, hospitals, and academies; luxury and sensual pleasures; the Grand Tour and the search for origins; urban spectacles and the public sphere. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NINETEENTH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE ***** Exploration of the major developments in painting and sculpture from late 18th century neoclassicism and romanticism through realism, impressionism, and post-impressionsim. Include architecture, photography, and decorative arts. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TWENTIETH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE ***** Exploration of major developments in painting and sculpture from the 1880s to the 1940s. Includes impressionism and post-impressionism, expressionism, cubism, abstraction. Dada, and surrealism, with a brief consideration of architecture and photography. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART AND ARCHITECTURE INT HE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (1725-1875) ***** This course will consider the key artistitc and architectural movements and styles in Europe from Rocco to Impressionism. We will also look at major theoretical development in those years in art, architecture, and city planning. Finally, we will take into account momentous political developments, especially revolution, and the threat of revolution, which affected and were in turn affected by, cultural production. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Costello.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE TRANSITION FROM MONDERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM ***** A study of film as an integrated part of visual culture in general. In addition, this course will integrate the arts in general within a mat of cultural wholeness including history, philosophy, post-colonial studies. Marxism, and psychoanalytic theory, with less explicit attention to post-modern issues in literacy criticism. ***** Instructor(s): Mc Evilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MODERN TO POSTMODERN ART CRITICISM ***** The study of the history, function, and philosophical foundations of modern and postmodern art criticism. The relationship of artists to critic, the place of the artist/critic, and the institutional role of critics will be examined. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART IN THE VANGUARD: VISUAL CULTURE AND RADICAL POLITICS, 1800-2005 ***** This seminar will consider the relationship between visual culture, history and radical politics, looking closely at art as a means of political and ideological resistance and persuasion. Ranging from the 19th to the 21st century, we will consider various strategies of creating politically radical art, looking at the work of Daumier, Courbet, John Heartfield and others. We will also look at the impact of Marxism on art historians, critics and philosophers, including Benjamin, Adorno and Althusser. Finally, we will examine divergent governmental views of art, including the Nazi conception of "Degenerate Art", the fate of modern art in the Soviet Union and the influence of anti-communism on the visual culture of the United States. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Costello

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE & DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900 ***** Major topics will include the furniture styles of early America, the architecture of colonial cities, the life, thought, and architectural ideas of Thomas Jefferson, urban design and building projects in Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, and domestic life and interior design in 19th century America. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE BEFORE 1900 ***** The course will cover such topics as portraiture in colonial America, the neoclassical movements in American sculpture, the landscape painting of the Hudson River School, and the art of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sergeant. We will study the relationship between American philosophy (especially transcendentalism) and painting. Includes European and Latin American art as relevant. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO 1920 ***** This course will examine a range of topics in U.S. art from the colonial era to circa 1920. Some themes to be addressed will include representations of landscape and their relation to American culture nationalism; social realism vs. modernist abstract images; and representations of general subjectivity in American visual culture. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ***** This course will examine a range of subjects within the history, theory, and criticism of photography, including the relationship between commodification, eroticism, and the objectification of the body; and the intersecting issues of mechanical reproduction, authorship, and authenticity in modern and postmodern discourses. ***** Also offered as WGST 365. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART: FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1960S ***** This course will examine a range of topics in American and European art from the 1920s to the 1960s. Our subjects will include the machine aesthetic, cultural nationalism, social realist and regionalist practice, the New York School, and Pop art. Intense methodological reading will accompany visual analysis. ***** Enrollment limited to 40. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STUDIES IN MODERN ART FROM THE 1960S TO PRESENT ***** This course will examine a range of topics in American and European art from the 1960s to the present. Our subjects will include Pop art, Brutalism, deconstruction, postmodernism, minimalism, and art in the digital age. ***** Enrollment limited to 40. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SUBJECTIVITY IN MODERN/POSTMODERN ART ***** Subjects of Desire: Subjectivity in Modern and Postmodern Art and Thought. This course examines the intellectual history of subjectivity and its various representations in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics. In particular, we will consider the intersection of subjectivity and desire by examining the ongoing project of human self-creation through aesthetics, ornament, framing devices, technological apparatuses, and other supplementary objects of desire within traditional humanist discourses to recent "posthumanist" narratives. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY & FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART ***** This course will examine literal and symbolic representations of the body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions of beauty versus subjective fragmentation; the performance nature of social identity; and art history's longstanding preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. ***** Also offered as WGST 369. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE BRUSH AND THE STROKE IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE PAINTING ***** Traditional Chinese painting was the art of the movements of the brush. This course examines the brushwork from several perspectives; as performance; as expression of the artist's moral character; and as a system of codes and gestures borrowed from the art of calligraphy. We consider how historically shifting understanding of the brushwork served to express diverse aesthetic, social, and cultural concerns: the cosmological and political significance of writing; the function of pictorial expression; the distinction between professional and literati painters; and the notion of the pictorial canon. ***** Also offered as ASIA 371. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: METHODOLOGY SEMINAR: WORD & IMAGE ***** Art history is the craft of putting images into words. This course explores the question of how words and images intersect in the visual arts. Readings of some key texts on the subject will be followed by a series of case studies concerning specific artistic genres and issues. Topics include: narrative in painting; the frame and the caption; character and face in portraiture; the word as image in calligraphy; and sound and image in film. Through its readings and cases, the course will provide students a focused introduction to art historical theories and methods. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN ART: INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT ***** This course studies the work of leading visual artists working in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. The range and diversity of Latin American art will be emphasized and work in a variety of media will be explored, including mural painting, easel painting, architecture, prints, sculpture, photography, film, installations, and conceptual art. The work will be discussed in terms of contextual historical, political, social, and cultural developments. ***** Instructor(s): Deffebach

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN MEXICAN ART ***** This course studies the art of Mexico from Independence (1821) to the present. Primary emphasis will be on twentieth-century art, especially on images created after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20. A variety of media will be explored, including murals, easel painting, architecture, prints, photography, film, and conceptual art. We will examine the construction of national identity, the debate between national and international currents in art, and the role of public art. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Deffebach

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE ***** This course will cover the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. We will examine the development of narrative, the transition to synchronized sound, the classical Hollywood form and style (with detailed analysis of cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene, sound), the rise and fall of the Production Code, film genres and the star system, the emergence of television, the influence of postwar "art cinemas," the origins of the blockbuster, and the status of Hollywood as "global cinema." The relationship between film and culture will be explored through the economics of filmmaking, the role of regulatory institutions, and the controversies surrounding the notorious Birth of a Nation, McCarthyism and the Blacklist, and representations of sex and violence on film. ***** Also offered as ENGL 373. ***** Instructor(s): Ostherr Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Cinema originated in the inscription of physiology on film; this was quickly followed by biology and ethnology done by cinematography. This course examines the historical, critical and methodological relations between film as a medium or method of visual investigation and cinema as a site of cultural analysis. ***** Also offered as ANTH 318. ***** Instructor(s):Landecker Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODALITIES OF CINEMA ***** In each class a lecture will introduce the day's film, the film will then be watched, followed by a discussion. Much of the material of film history will be presented, but in a deliberately jumbled way. Each film will be a major classic of a movement or genre, but they will be viewed out of historic order with the intention of highlighting certain themes and features. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GLOBAL CINEMA ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Dove

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EISENSTEIN & BRAKHAGE ***** The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein is widely recognized as the leading experimenter and investigator of visual meanings, and the ways they are formed. His masterpieces such as Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible are monuments of both the aesthetic and the social/historical aspects of the medium. All seven of his films will be viewed, accompanied by lecturers and discussions. Stan Brakhage, the American filmmaker whose death last year was noted in network news, is widely regarded as the leading exponent of the medium known as avant-garde film. Like Einstein, he was a primary investigator of the limits and methods of visual meanings. For the second half of the course, a selection of Brakhage's most important works, from Prelude to Dogstar Man to Anticipation of the Night, will be viewed with accompanying lectures and discussions.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAPPRING GERMAN CULTURE: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS ***** Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. This course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetics particularities, gender commitment, subject orientations and post-feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films subtitled in English. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. ***** Also offered as GERM 321, WGST 358, and HUMA 321. ***** Instructor(s): Eifler

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES ***** Examines the relationship between globalization and mass- mediated images and sounds. Looks at global distribution of Hollywood entertainment from early twentieth century onward; reception of Hollywood cinema and television in different national contexts; production of alternative/oppositional film and television by indigenous populations. Case studies of Hollywood, Bollywood, and Hong Kong.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORETICAL PRESPECTIVES ON THE VISUAL ARTS ***** Exploration of overlapping themes central in the history of art, using texts from Plato to post-modernism. Includes the use of biography, style, connoisseurship, quality, the social basis of art, theories of change in the arts, psychology, iconography, and the modernist canon and post-modern challenges to that canon, as well as race, gender, class, authorship, and audience. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOGY AND VISUAL CULTURE ***** In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual culture and the history of art, as well as to the interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. Also offered as WGST 391. ***** Enrollment limited to 10. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan, Shehabuddin

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Hacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchiram, Eisenman, Libesking, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. ***** Also offered as ARCH 384. ***** Instructor(s): Last

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN ART HISTORY ***** Special topics in art history. Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP I ***** 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(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP II ***** 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(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES ***** Special topics and new courses in art history, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BURIED CITIES: THE ART & ARCHITECTURE OF AKROTIRI, POMPEII, & HERCULANEUM ***** An examination of classical antiquity's best preserved cities thanks to volcanic eruptions: the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri and the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Art and architecture will be examined within their larger social and urban contexts. Methodological and ethical issues surrounding the excavation and preservation of these sites will also be considered. ***** Instructor(s):Quenemoen

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPEICAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANCIENT ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special work in ancient art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPE & THE ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This seminar aims to assess the mutual impact of the visual cultures of Europe and the Islamic world through history. Focusing on 15th-19th-century material including architecture, painting, photography, textiles, and sartorial fashion, it examines channels of interaction, forms of influence, and modes of representation in aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, and political terms, and in light of concurrent theoretical debates. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s):Hamadeh

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MAKING OF THE ORIENT ***** The Making of the Orient in the 18-20th Century Europe focuses on the construction of the image of the Orient in the age of European colonial expansion. Through critical analysis of texts, images, and cultural practices (painting, photography, architecture, city planning, music, fiction, and travel literature) and key theoretical works, this course examines issues of production and codification of knowledge, politics of representation, and identity construction in and beyond the colonial period. ***** Also listed as ARCH 422. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN EARLY CHIRSTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ***** This course will focus on one of the most important contributions to the history of western architecture-- the Gothic cathedral. The course will approach the material from a number of different perspectives--the formal and technical development of Gothic architecture; the Medieval architect and the design of Gothic buildings, the social, economic, and political history of "big church" building in the Middle Ages; Gothic architecture as experience and metaphor; and the afterlife of the Gothic cathedral from Vasari to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. ***** Also offered as MDST 431. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in Medieval art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY: MEDIEVAL ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in Medieval art. ***** Also offered as MDST 439. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION ***** Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. ***** Also offered as MDST 440. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BOSCH & BRUEGEL: A SEMINAR ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE ***** The obscene, the grotesque, the humorous, and the bizarre were frequently depicted alongside sacred religious scenes, in the margins of Medieval manuscripts, beneath the seats of church canons, or in the periphery of Gothic cathedral facade sculpture. This fantastic world, along with the personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins, were often imagined as the "other" in representations of race, class, and gender. By the sixteenth century, these images had migrated into the center of paintings, especially in the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This course will examine the juxtapositions and complex meanings of sacred and profane imagery within the context of late Medieval and post reformation religious and social life. ***** Also offered as MDST 451. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LEONARDO AND MICHELANGELO ***** This course will offer a look at two of the greatest and most influential artists of all time. Students in this seminar will study the paintings, drawings, sculpture, and architecture of Leonardo and Michelangelo, as well as the philosophical and religious ideas found in their notebooks, letters, poetry, and other writings. There are no prerequisites for the course. ***** Instructor(s): Manca

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY I: EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE & ARCHITECTURAL THEORY ***** This seminar examines European architecture and architectural theory from Alberti to Semper. Through the detailed consideration of a number of key buildings and theoretical texts, it investigates relationships between theory, design, and themes such as origins, orders, proportion, structure, sensation, character, type, style, and surface. ***** Also offered as ARCH 685. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART ***** Special topics and new courses in Renaissance and Baroque art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in Renaissance and Baroque art. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WAR II ***** A study of art between World Wars I and II that is produced or used in the service of established governments and cultural values or, to the contrary, stands in protest against them. Emphasis on conditions in France, the Soviet Union, and Germany during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Some consideration of examples in Mexico and the U.S. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FOUR MODERN MASTERS ***** Exploration of the art, life, context, and criticism of Picasso, Duchamp, Ernst, and Mondrian. ***** Prerequisite(s): HART 351 or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY I ***** This seminar examines European architecture and architectural theory from Alberti to Semper. Through the detailed consideration of a number of key buildings and theoretical texts, it investigates relationships between theory, design, and themes such as origins, orders, proportion, structure, sensation, character, type, style, and surface. ***** Also offered as ARCH 685.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART ***** Special topics and new courses in 19th and 20th century art. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in modern Art History. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Di Palma Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in American art. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY & POSTREVOLUTIONARY CHINA (ca. 1949-PRESENT) ***** Exploration of propaganda and avant-garde art in modern Chinese visual culture. The course will cover a wide range of materials (e.g. paintings, installation arts, propaganda posters, comic books, and films). Issues addressed include: art as social movement, the notions of political and artistic avant-garde, the structure of authoritarian art, and the paradox of counter-discourse. The course will maintain a global and comparative frame of analysis, drawing on scholarship on Soviet and Third Reich German visual cultures as well as Euro-American mass culture and avant- garde art. ***** Also listed as ASIA 470. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPANESE ANIMAITON: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY ***** Since the 1980s, animation has become the major force in Japanese popular culture, serving as a medium to address the diverse concerns of a high-tech media-focused society. This seminar explores the social, historical, and aesthetic significance of Japanese animation. Topics include gender and sexuality, ecological consciousness and religious imagination, folklore and history, viewership and fandom, the centrality of the fantastic and the grotesque, visions of a media- and technology-saturate society, and the prevalence of apocalyptic motifs and conspiracy theory. ***** Also offered as HIST 472 and ASIA 472. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Nakatani

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN MEXICAN ART ***** The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the traumatic encounter of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20. ***** Also offered as WGST 477. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Deffebach

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in non-Western art. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: SCORSESE, PENN, KUBRICK ***** Focuses on issues of authorship in film and television. Presents a structuralist and post-structuralist reading of the films of Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Arthur Penn. Their films will be seen in the context of the social issues of the 1960s through the 1990s. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRDWORLD CINEMA ***** Study of significant national cinemas, film movements, and filmmakers of the Third World from Africa to Latin America and from the Middle East to China. Includes colonial and postcolonial discourses. ***** Also offered as ANTH 382. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ***** Overview of the history of documentary and ethnographic cinema from a worldwide perspective. Includes both canonical and alternative films and film movements with emphasis on the shifting and overlapping boundaries of fiction and nonfiction genres. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as ANTH 483. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE AND DIASPORA CINEMA ***** This course theorizes and analyzes the politics and aesthetics of the films and videos that displaced filmmakers of the world have produced since the 1960s-films that form a new accent in the language of cinema. ***** Also offered as ANTH 484. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950S ***** This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy relationship between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, and issues of voyeurism, eroticism, the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Also offered WGST 485. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STUDIES IN FILM ***** Topics will vary from year to year. ***** Also offered as ENGL 489. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Ostherr

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES ***** Special topics and new courses in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM & MEDIA STUDIES ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART AND THE MIND ***** Exploration of topics in art history, criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and the psychology of art. Previous art history courses desirable, but not required. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: UNDERSTANDING POSTMODERNISM ***** A study of broad cultural change that is still unresolved, and still controversial. Attention will be paid to postmodern issues in history, philosophy, postcolonial studies. Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, with less explicit attention to postmodern issues in literary criticism. The visual arts, including film, will be presented not in isolation but in a matrix of cultural wholeness. Lectures, discussion, slide and film showings. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Haacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchigram, Eisenman, Libeskind, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. ***** Also offered as ARCH 384. ***** Instructor(s): Last

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS ***** Art is presented as a way of thinking about reality. Slide-illustrated lectures will involve visual formulations of: origination, history destiny, society, the individual, sexuality, gender, power, and the end of the world. ***** Enrollment limited to 35. ***** Instructor(s): McEvilley

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY & CRITICISM ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in art history, theory, themes, and criticism. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM I ***** Graduate level course that will provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including varieties of museums, their role in society, and significant issues in museums today. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM II ***** Graduate level course that will 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II (ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH POSTMODERNITY) ***** Graduate version of HART 206. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN MEXICAN ART ***** The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the traumatic encounter of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20. ***** Also offered as WGST 487. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Deffebach

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WORLD CINEMA ***** Graduate version of HART 482. ***** Also offered as ANTH 682. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ***** Graduate version of HART 483. ***** Also offered as ANTH 683. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE AND DIASPORA CINEMA ***** This course theorizes and analyzes the politics and aesthetics of the films and videos that displaced filmmakers of the world have produced since the 1960s-films that form a new accent in the language of cinema. ***** Also offered as ANTH 684. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM & MEDIA STUDIES ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in film & media studies on the graduate level. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy