Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: ANTIQUITY TO GOTHIC

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Antiquity through the 15th century. Cross-list: CLAS 102, MDST 111.

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

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ASIAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Asian art from the Neolithic period to the present.

Long Title: KEY MONUMENTS AND ARTISTS OF WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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, and architecture.

Long Title: IMAGES OF WAR AND PEACE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, this course will examine images of war and peace in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. It will explore images of battles, the hero, peace, and the miseries of war, and how the past affects ideas about war and peace today. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 106.

Long Title: CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Following the 1917 Revolution, Soviet society initiated radical experiments not only in political and governmental structures but in all aspects of culture and everyday life. This class will examine these developments focusing on avant-garde experiments in cinema, literature and the visual arts, as well as philosophical and political debates around the meaning of revolution itself. This course is limited to first-year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 118.

Long Title: FILM NOIR

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Comprising some of the greatest Hollywood productions of the 1940s and 50s, film noir is characterized by its despairing moods, violent protagonists, femmes fatales and intricate criminal plots. This class will examine the formal and narrative conventions of film noir and explore its cultural and political contexts. Students will be introduced to different modes of filmic and cultural analysis. Films will include "The Maltese Falcon," "Double Indemnity," and "Scarlet Street," among others. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 119.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an introductory course on African art from the 15th to 20th centuries, ranging from a study of archaeological objects to sculpture and masks from the colonial period and beyond. The course will meet at the Menil Collection: numbering close to 1000 objects, the de Menils' collection includes a range of masks and sculptures from West and Central Africa that allow for a first hand introduction to various cultures on the continent.

Long Title: PASS THE POPCORN: 14 FILMS YOU SHOULD SEE BEFORE YOU GRADUATE FROM RICE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Long Title: THE SOCIAL LIVES OF GRAFFITI: ANCIENT AND MODERN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, students will explore how graffiti express individual and collective identities, humor, power and subversion, and social commentary. Case studies will range from the graffiti within Pompeii's 2000-year-old brothel to the artwork of the famous graffiti artist Banksy.

Long Title: FOURTEEN ARTWORKS AT THE MFAH

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Special topics and new courses, not necessarily to be repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

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

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A team-taught interdisciplinary course focusing on certain major philosophical, religious and artistic traditions of pre-modern Asia, with an emphasis on the historical processes by which ideas, people, products, technologies and skills circulated within and beyond state boundaries. Cross-list: ASIA 211, HIST 206.

Long Title: GREEK/ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: SPACES OF PERFORMANCE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys the architectural history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the 5th century BCE to the 3rd Century CE. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of the ancient world has historically been conceived in relation to the bodily practices and social performances. Therefore, the case studies are visualized in the light of social events, festivals, cult practices and public spectacles. Cross-list: ARCH 212.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY: ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in ancient art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in Medieval art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: HUMA 108, MDST 108.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: SPECIAL TOPICS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in non-Western art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: HISTORY AND AESTHETICS OF FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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, narration, 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: THE BEGINNINGS OF CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class studies the emergence of cinema in the context of cultural developments at the turn of the 20th century. Early films will be examined together with such contemporaneous issues as technologies of vision, modern mass culture, urban expansion and consumerism. Cross-list: FILM 281.

Long Title: NONFICTION FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: INTRODUCTION TO FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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. Cross-list: ENGL 275, FILM 273.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Focus is on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life. Cross-list: ENGL 286.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new course in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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 INTERN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

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 INTERN PROGRAM II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

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

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

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 505. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 305 if student has credit for HART 505.

Long Title: THE THEATER OF THE WORLD: ART, ARCHITECTURE, & URBANISM IN RENAISSANCE ROME

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the visual culture of Renaissance Rome through the prism of the papacy and urban experience. We will study architecture, urban schemes, fresco cycles, altarpieces, illuminated manuscripts, sculptures, spectacles, and processions, including some of the most famous artistic projects produced in the period: the papal apartments frescoed by Raphael, Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel, and the building of the new St. Peter's.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth examination of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia and Persia. Beginning in The Neolithic period, we will examine the development of Near Eastern art and architecture through the study of ancient sites and their associated material culture. Cross-list: ANTH 331, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 511. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 311 if student has credit for HART 511.

Long Title: GENDER, ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates the significance of gender and sexuality in the production, use, and representation of architectural and urban spaces: within the historiography of architectural and urban history; and in determining spatial justice - how access to space based on gender and sexuality advances or erodes human and civil rights. Cross-list: ARCH 394, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 514.

Long Title: CITY & FESTIVAL: CULT PRACTICES & THE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How do social events, festivals, cult practices, public spectacles shape a city? The course will explore what makes a city in the first place, and attempt to make sense of the fragmentary archaeological evidence from the ancient Greco-Roman world in understanding, reconstructing cities. Cross-list: ARCH 310, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 516.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce you to the major monuments of Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. We will focus not only on the history and functions of these monuments in antiquity but also on how their meaning and representation has changed and evolved in the post-classical world. May 2010. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: CLAS 321. Repeatable for Credit.

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.

Long Title: THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: After defeating Antony and Cleopatra the emperor Augustus restored stability to Rome, oversaw the expansion of empire, and made Rome a capital city. Study of art and literature of this "Golden Age" will address Augustus' construction of identity, imperial and non-imperial patronage, and the formation of Augustan ideology in Rome and the provinces. Cross-list: CLAS 320.

Long Title: THE PEN AND THE BRUSH: THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the arts of the book in the Islamic world, from the earliest manifestations to printing. We will analyze Korans, scientific and pseudo-scientific manuscripts, illustrated literary texts, anthologies of poetry, albums, and consider techniques, materials, book formats, and schools of production. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 524.

Long Title: FIVE CITIES: HISTORY, MEMORY AND MODERNITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Combines history, urban geography, fiction, travel writing and film to engage in debates about urban modernity in four 19th-20th century Middle Eastern cities: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Istanbul and Izmir (Smyrna). Explores intersections of memory, history, and space in the modern imagination and the real and imaginary experiences that shape our relations to the spaces of the city. Cross-list: ARCH 326, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 526.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at the art and architecture of the Ottoman empire, the longest surviving Muslim empire, from its inception in 1453 until its demise in the 1920s. Based on in-depth studies of religious and secular monuments, objects, and paintings, it examines the roots of Ottoman visual culture, the formation of a canonic style, relations with eastern and western artistic traditions, issues of power and identity in art, systems of patronage, concepts of westernization and Ottoman modernism.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability, and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Cairo. Cross-list: ARCH 329, HIST 329, 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

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: MDST 330, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 530. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 330 if student has credit for HART 530.

Long Title: GOTHIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 331, 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

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: MDST 332, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 532. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 332 if student has credit for HART 532.

Long Title: CINEMA AND THE CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This class explores representations of the city in 20th century European and American cinema, considering such diverse films as Dziga Vertov's "Man with the Movie Camera," Jules Dassin's "The Naked City," Fritz Lang's "M," and Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run." 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: FILM 336, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 536. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 336 if student has credit for HART 536.

Long Title: HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class surveys the history of Russian/Soviet cinema from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. We will examine films as part of the broader political and social history of this period, paying particular attention to such issues as aesthetics and politics, entertainment and propaganda, history and memory, and gender and sexuality. Cross-list: FILM 337.

Long Title: LANDMARKS IN ISRAELI ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the main artistic movements of israel (1948-88.) It explores how traditional Jewish symbols are transformed by political events and Zionist dogmas. Zionist thinking expanded familiar biblical legends and myths creating modern ones for the emerging Israeli culture. Art was also influenced by Greco-Roman mythology and Christian symbolism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 538.

Long Title: STILL LIFE PAINTING, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Still life paintings show objects, arranged on a table or shelf, in such a way as to reflect human experience. This course examines still life painting from the Dutch Golden Age through nineteenth-century Europe and America to innovative works produced by such twentieth-century movements as Dada, surrealism, and pop art. 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

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. Cross-list: MDST 340.

Long Title: EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of Italian art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli, with emphasis on painting and sculpture in the 15th century.

Long Title: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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. 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

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.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will trace the development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Italy and France with reference to the dialectic of license and rule. The first part, which covers the period from 1400-1600, will focus on the civil, domestic, and ecclesiastical architecture of the chief protagonists of the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio. Their buildings and urban initiatives will be interpreted in terms of continuities & discontinuities between an emerging theoretical tradition and the demands of actual practice. Cross-list: ARCH 345.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON LOVE: MAKING LOVE IN MODERN ART AND THOUGHT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores various conceptions of love from the classical era to our postmodern age. Ranging from eros to philia to agape, we will examine literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of love in painting, cinema, literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and culture. Cross-list: SWGS 346.

Long Title: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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.

Long Title: FASCISM, TOTALITARIANISM AND RETURNS TO ORDER

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory seminar will examine the response by artists, architects, critics, and filmmakers to fascism, protofascism, and totalitarianism in Europe from 1905 to 1945. Particular attention will be paid to the differing ways in which authoritarianism becomes manifest in the specific cultural and historical conditions of France, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Spain, and the ways in which antimodernist artistic production in turn responds to this specificity.

Long Title: NINETEENTH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the major developments in painting and sculpture from late 18th century neoclassicism and romanticism through realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism. Include architecture, photography, and decorative arts.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (1725-1875)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the key artistic 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.

Long Title: AGE OF ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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.

Long Title: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID: REVOLUTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will consider the painting of Jacques-Louis David with particular reference to the ideas of revolution. This seminar will combine close reading and looking, using primary and secondary readings to explore issues of classicism, politics, eroticism, and aesthetics in the work of this central figure in art history. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 555. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 355 if student has credit for HART 555.

Long Title: ART IN THE VANGUARD: VISUAL CULTURE AND RADICAL POLITICS, 1800-2005

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CONSTABLE AND TURNER

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will explore critical issues surrounding the careers of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, arguably the greatest landscape painters of the early 19th century. We will look at both similarities and differences in the work of these two rivals, while considering their work in the context of great historical change in England.

Long Title: IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 558. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 358 if student has credit for HART 558.

Long Title: ISSUES IN EARLY MODERNISM: FAUVISM TO EXPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, 1900-1925. We will consider mainstream European formalist modernism in movements like Fauvism and Cubism, considering critical issues around masters including Matisse, Picasso and Mondrain, as well as the continuing figurative tradition in the work of artists like Kirchner and Beckmann.

Long Title: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: ARCH 360, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 560. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 360 if student has credit for HART 560.

Long Title: TRUTH TO NATURE: AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 'The Pre-Raphaelites' were 19th century English painters who strived for 'Truth to Nature,' i.e., mimetic renderings of nature and Man, a concept prescribed by aesthete John Ruskin. The latter's writings have reached the United States; American artists have created their own version of Pre-Raphaelitism, adapting it to mythical concepts of American as the new 'Promised Land.' Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 561.

Long Title: LATE MODERN ART: 1945 - PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the major developments, key figures and significant works of late Modernism. Covering a period from roughly 1945-Present, we will trace modernism's unfolding in the avant-garde practices of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Beginning with the shift from Paris to New York as the cultural center of the avant-garde, the rise of Abstract Expressionism & its divided legacies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 562. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 362 if student has credit for HART 562.

Long Title: HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Roland Barthes described the emergence of photography in the early nineteenth century as an "anthropological revolution in man's history," a "truly unprecedented type of consciousness." This lecture class aims to examine this proposition by examining the history of photography in the nineteenth century as it develops within a number of specific thematics, from the medium's conception in the late 18th century through to debates in the 20th century about photography's relationship to artistic and social issues. The structure of the class will allow for individual sessions to combine a formal, illustrated presentation with some detailed discussion of particular images and texts. Taken as a whole, the class will look at photography as a cultural phenomenon as much as an art form, critically studying the various discursive arenas that this new medium helped to foster and redefine. Credit cannot be received for both HART 263 and HART 363.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE ARMORY SHOW

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of topics in U.S. art from the colonial era to circa 1910. Some themes to be addressed include representations of landscapes and their relation to American culture nationalism; social realism vs. modernist abstract images; and representations of gendered subjectivity in American visual culture.

Long Title: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 365.

Long Title: AMERICAN ART FROM GEORGIA O'KEEFFE TO ANDY WARHOL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN ART FROM THE 1960S TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, body and performance art, deconstruction, postmodernism, minimalism, and art in the digital age.

Long Title: SUBJECTIVITY IN MODERN/POSTMODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 348.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY AND FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine literal and symbolic representation of the human body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions on beauty vs. subjective fragmentation; the performative nature of social identity; and art history's long-standing preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. Cross-list: SWGS 369. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 369 if student has credit for HART 569.

Long Title: NOTHING AND EVERYTHING IN THE HISTORY OF ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines the linked themes of plentitude and absence of creating and dissolution, in modern art. Specific topics will include representations of magic, fire, water, clouds, the void, blindness, sublimity and wonderment, surprise and astonishment, love and ravishment, and the idea of "the unknown masterpiece."

Long Title: CHINESE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 571. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 371 if student has credit for HART 571.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will study how various artistic styles developed in historical, social, and cultural contexts from the ancient period to the present day. Through the careful examination of architecture, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, bronze, and film, students will gain a deeper understanding of Chinese art and visual culture. Cross-list: ASIA 372, MDST 373, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 572. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 372 if student has credit for HART 572.

Long Title: METHODOLOGY SEMINAR: WORD AND IMAGE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ART & RELIGION IN CHINA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory course examines the complex relationship between art and religion in China (4th - 19th centuries). Through an analysis of painting, sculpture, cave temples, steles, manuscripts, talismans, illustrated prints, and primary sources, we will explore the visual, religious and cultural dimensions of Buddhism and Daoism, and the fluid nature of Chinese culture. Cross-list: ASIA 374, RELI 374.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN ART: INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: EAST & WEST: MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE IN CHINA AND NORTHERN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores a series of issues that are critically important for the medieval art of both China and northern Europe. Topics include materials and techniques; public and private art: commerce, technology and prints; art and motion; archaeology; paradise and hell; maps and space; the gaze; erotica; patronage; and multiculturalism. Cross-list: ASIA 376, MDST 376, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 576. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 376 if student has credit for HART 576.

Long Title: JEWS AND ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore art made for Jews and by Jews, as well as depictions of Jews by themselves and others. It will examine how art negotiated the internal politics of Jewish communities, and how Jews reacted to their minority status and constructed Jewish identity and memory through their art. Cross-list: RELI 377, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 577. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 377 if student has credit for HART 577.

Long Title: THE AGE OF REMBRANDT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century art, including major masters, such as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer, and major developments, such as the rise of still life, genre, and landscape painting. It will also explore women artists, Delft tiles, doll's houses, and multicultural aspects of art production.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: A course that explores the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. Cross-list: ENGL 373, FILM 373.

Long Title: COLLAGE AND ITS HISTORIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: MODALITIES OF CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will survey the range of organizing principles in cinema - the differing and combative ways cinema arranges its images and sounds. We will look at classicism, modernism, postmodernism and many other modes. The films will range from early silent pictures, to experimental shorts, to commercial blockbusters. Cross-list: FILM 382.

Long Title: GLOBAL CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: SACRED SPACES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course explores the forms, politics, and functions of sacred spaces in the Ancient Mediterranean using the theories of Eliade, Smith, Jones, and Lefebvre. Students will learn how to analyze archaeological and literary evidence to determine the social developments they (re)produce over the course of the first six centuries. Cross-list: ARCH 383, HIST 383.

Long Title: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 aesthetic particularities, gender commitment, 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. Cross-list: GERM 321, HUMA 321, SWGS 358.

Long Title: DADA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Inaugurated against the calamitous backdrop of the First World War, "Dada," the artist Francis Picabia claimed, "smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing." This seminar will examine the aesthetics of shock and nihilism (literally, 'nothingness'), developed by Dada in six cities: Zurich, Berlin, Colgne, Hannover, New York, and Paris. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 586. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 386 if student has credit for HART 586.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES: GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POST WAR EUROPEAN CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This class surveys major developments in European cinema from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Our study will include such movements as Italian Neorealism, German Rubble Films, French New Wave, and Soviet cinema in the Thaw. Particular attention will be paid to such issues as cinema and post-war reconstruction, memory and nation, and body and space. Cross-list: FILM 388, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 588. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 388 if student has credit for HART 588.

Long Title: FILM MELODRAMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Melodrama - the genre of tears, sensationalism and excess - has long been the focus of critical debates. Initially dismissed as mere escapism, melodrama films have begun to generate nuanced studies about their engagement with issues of gender, sexuality, class, and race. This seminar examines aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of film melodrama, including historical works by Vidor, Sirk, Godard, and Fassbinder, as well as more recent projects by Haynes and Almodovar. Cross-list: FILM 389. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 389 if student has credit for HART 589.

Long Title: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE VISUAL ARTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOGY AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. Cross-list: SWGS 391.

Long Title: AESTHETICS AND HERMENEUTICS: MODERN ART, MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE, AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sacred texts and the visual arts have contributed immeasurably to shaping individual and collective conceptions of the spiritual in modern and postmodern culture. This course will examine a range of aesthetic and hermeneutic traditions, including mystical texts, modernist artworks and related museum exhibitions, in order to consider the ways in which the experiences of reading, writing, and viewing can serve as powerful acts of self-creation. Cross-list: RELI 362.

Long Title: THE SACRED ARTS OF SECULAR MODERNISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines various representations of spirituality and the sacred in modernist & post modernist aesthetics, and their corresponding expressions in historical and contemporary museum practices. Special emphasis will be placed on the outstanding collections of the adjacent museum district, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Cross-list: RELI 394.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics in art history. Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: REPRESENTATION, HEALING, AND THE BODY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will examine literal and symbolic representations of the human body in order to explore the relations between the visuality of medicine, corporeality, subjectivity, and healing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THINKING THROUGH THE IMAGE: THE ART OF METHODOLOGY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines a range of methodological strategies that underpin the writing of modern and post modern art history. Some of the interpretive approaches to be examined include formalism, modernism, existentialism, post-modernism, feminism, Marxism, post colonialism, post- structuralism and deconstruction.

Long Title: EXHIBITING SEXUALITIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class investigates how sexuality has been constructed, avoided, celebrated, and suppressed in museums. In addition to studying a genealogy of sexual display and spectatorship in museums, students will also do the work of collectors, curators, and critics of artistic, historical, and scientific displays of sex and sexuality. Cross-list: SWGS 321.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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

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: SENIOR THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Senior Thesis project in art history. Students must receive permission of the department faculty prior to enrolling. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDIES - UNDERGRADUATE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special topics and new courses in art history, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS: EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE EARLY MODERN AND MODERN PERIODS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 431.

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

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." Cross-list: FREN 433, MDST 433, 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

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: 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

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. Cross-list: HIST 443, MDST 435, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 535. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 435 if student has credit for HART 535.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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. Cross-list: MDST 437.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. Cross-list: MDST 440.

Long Title: BOSCH AND BRUEGEL: A SEMINAR ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 451.

Long Title: LEONARDO AND MICHELANGELO

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. Rather it was enriched by the art of diverse native groups, immigrants, colonial subjects, and trading partners. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of Renaissance and Baroque art.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in Renaissance and Baroque art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: EARLY MODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the major developments, key figures and works of early modernism, a trajectory whose beginnings are now generally located in the late-nineteenth century. Covering a period from roughly 1900 - 1945, we will trace Modernism's unfolding in the avant-garde practices of the first three decades of the 20th century, as well as the first anti-modernist critiques, ending with Modernism's eventual destruction in the authoritarian politics of the 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Long Title: MODELS OF ABSTRACTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HART 351

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.

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

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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.

Long Title: CUBISM AND THE PROBLEM OF FORM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the cultural, social, and artistic context that led to the development of Cubism. Particular attention will be paid to the problem of form and color in the period from 1907 to 1914, as well as the reception of Cubism during the post-world war I "return to order". In addition to the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the work of the so-called "Salon Cubists" will be examined (Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Andre Lhote, Henri Le Fauconnier, et al.) along with the work of Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Le Corbusier and Amadee Ozenfant.

Long Title: THE ARTIST AS ETHNOGRAPHER - THE ETHNOGRAPHER AS ARTIST

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the intersections between the historical avant-garde, contemporary art, and anthropology. Developing on the so-called "ethnographic turn" within contemporary art - what Hal Foster has famously termed "the artist as ethnographer" - we will look at the way that this tendency within artistic production has doubled back onto the field of anthropology, leading to what could be called "the ethnographer as artist." Particular attention will be paid to the role of the art museum and international art exhibitions. Cross-list: ANTH 454.

Long Title: FIVE MODERN PAINTERS,1860-1914:MANET, CEZANNE, PICASSO, MATISSE, DELAUNAY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will look closely at five key episodes in early modernist painting: the distinct contributions of Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Robert Delaunay. Examining a range of methodological approaches and primary source material, the class will pay particular attention to the ways in which altered notions of visual experience impacted advanced painting. Over the course of the semester we will attempt to understand how each of these five artists responded, each in their own way, to the changes wrought by modernity and modernism.

Long Title: COPLEY, SARGENT, AND THE MUSEUM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Drawing from the collections and resources of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this course is designed to achieve two goals: (1) to provide an overview of the art and career of two American painters: the eighteenth-century colonial painter John Singleton Copley, and the late nineteenth-century expatriate painter, John Singer Sargent, focusing on the close examination of works of art on view at the MFAH, and (2) to introduce students to the history and culture of the art museum in the United States by using the MFAH as a laboratory for study.

Long Title: VIDEO AND EXPANDED CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the emergence of video and "expanded cinema" as a primary field of artistic practice over the course of the 1960s and 1970s. We will examine seminal works by artists including Andy Warhol, Dan Graham, and Robert Whitman as well as the shifting aesthetic, political, and media landscapes in which this work emerged. Cross-list: FILM 455, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 557. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 457 if student has credit for HART 557.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in 19th and 20th century art. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in modern Art History. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MASS CULTURE & THE AVANT-GARDE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will explore the close relationship between mass culture and avant-garde art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, we will examine how artists have both borrowed from and reacted against mass cultural forms--from comic books to television--as a means to renew their practice. Artists to be considered include Gustave Courbet, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and others.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This seminar covers the concept of authorship in Hollywood cinema since 1968. Filmmakers include Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, and Charlie Kaufman. Cross-list: ARTS 435, FILM 435.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 683.

Long Title: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950'S

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, issues of voyeurism, and eroticism, and the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. Cross-list: SWGS 485.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics will vary from year to year.

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The course focuses on the concepts of coloniality, exoticism, and abstraction. It examines the "Orientalist" tradition in works by Delacroix, Chasseriau, Matisse, and Assia Djebar; exoticism according to Gauguin, Segalen, and Khatibi; the postcolonial baroque in artifacts by Simon, Boudjedra, and Glissant; abstraction in Borduas, Atlan, and Khadda's paintings. A reduced reading list to undergraduates. Cross-list: FREN 487, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 587. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 487 if student has credit for HART 587.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CULTURAL BOUNDARIES ETHNIC MYTHS, AND THE SEARCH FOR A NATIONAL STYLE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce the issue of art and identity as it was presented in the cultural debates taking place in europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

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

Long Title: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY (FALL)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate research paper (special design). Must take HART 502 and HART 503 to receive credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY (SPRING)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate research paper. Must take HART 502 and HART 503 to receive credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

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

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

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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. Graduate students will be assigned additional readings. We will meet an additional two to three times to discuss the readings. In addition, a research paper will be due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 305. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 505 if student has credit for HART 305.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II (ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH POSTMODERNITY)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth examination of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia and Persia. Beginning in The Neolithic period, we will examine the development of Near Eastern art and architecture through the study of ancient sites and their associated material culture. 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 311. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 511 if student has credit for HART 311.

Long Title: GREEK/ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: SPACES OF PERFORMANCE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys the architectural history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the 5th century BCE to the 3rd Century CE. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of the ancient world has historically been conceived in relation to the bodily practices and social performances. Therefore, the case studies are visualized in the light of social events, festivals, cult practices and public spectacles. 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 512.

Long Title: THE HELLENISTIC AGE: ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We examine the art, architecture, and cultural history of the Hellenistic Age, from Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) until the death of Cleopatra (31 BC). During this period a brilliant Greek-based culture developed from the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley, transforming Greeks, Persians, Jews, Romans and many others. Graduate students will be assigned additional readings and a research paper will be due at the end of the semester.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates the significance of gender and sexuality in the production, use, and representation of architectural and urban spaces: within the historiography of architectural and urban history; and in determining spatial justice - how access to space based on gender and sexuality advances or erodes human and civil rights. 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 694, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 314.

Long Title: CITY & FESTIVAL: CULT PRACTICES & THE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How do social events, festivals, cult practices, public spectacles shape a city? The course will explore what makes a city in the first place, and attempt to make sense of the fragmentary archaeological evidence from the ancient Greco-Roman world in understanding, reconstructing cities. 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 316.

Long Title: ISTANBUL - LIFE OF AN IMPERIAL CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate Equivalent of HART 220. Additional requirements will include 3 - 7 to 8 page papers. These will include limited research, based on bibliography. The 3 papers will be in lieu of the 1 hours midterm and 1 hour final tests required for the 200 class. Cross-list: ARCH 520.

Long Title: THE PEN AND THE BRUSH: THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the arts of the book in the Islamic world, from the earliest manifestations to printing. We will analyze Korans, scientific and pseudo-scientific manuscripts, illustrated literary texts, anthologies of poetry, albums, and consider techniques, materials, book formats, and schools of production. 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 324.

Long Title: FIVE CITIES: HISTORY, MEMORY AND MODERNITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: ARCH 526, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 326.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: ARCH 529, 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

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: GOTHIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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 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

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

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. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." All graduates will meet on a regular basis outside of the weekly class to discuss readings; must keep an annotated bibliography of all additional readings; will be assigned to lead a discussion on topic of their research; and must complete a substantial research paper. Cross-list: FREN 533, 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

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

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

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: LANDMARKS IN ISRAELI ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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 the readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional two or three times per semester 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 338.

Long Title: STILL LIFE PAINTING, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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 the readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional two or three times per semester 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 339. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 539 if student has credit for HART 339.

Long Title: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID: REVOLUTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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 355. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 555 if student has credit for HART 355.

Long Title: COPLEY, SARGENT, AND THE MUSEUM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Drawing from the collections and resources of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this course is designed to achieve two goals: (1) to provide an overview of the art and career of two American painters: the eighteenth-century colonial painter John Singleton Copley, and the late nineteenth-century expatriate painter, John Singer Sargent, focusing on the close examination of works of art on view at the MFAH, and (2) to introduce students to the history and culture of the art museum in the United States by using the MFAH as a laboratory for study. 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.

Long Title: VIDEO AND EXPANDED CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the emergence of video and "expanded cinema" as a primary field of artistic practice over the course of the 1960s and 1970s. We will examine seminal works by artists including Andy Warhol, Dan Graham, and Robert Whitman as well as the shifting aesthetic, political, and media landscapes in which this work emerged. For each lecture, Graduate students will be assigned 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 457. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 557 if student has credit for HART 457.

Long Title: IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: ARCH 560, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 360. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 560 if student has credit for HART 360.

Long Title: TRUTH TO NATURE: AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 'The Pre-Raphaelites' were 19th century English painters who strived for 'Truth to Nature,' i.e., mimetic renderings of nature and Man, a concept prescribed by aesthete John Ruskin. The latter's writings have reached the United States; American artists have created their own version of Pre-Raphaelitism, adapting it to mythical concepts of American as the new 'Promised Land.' 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 requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 361.

Long Title: LATE MODERN ART: 1945 - PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the major developments, key figures and significant works of late Modernism. Covering a period from roughly 1945-Present, we will trace modernism's unfolding in the avant-garde practices of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Beginning with the shift from Paris to New York as the cultural center of the avant-garde, the rise of Abstract Expressionism & its divided legacies. 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 362. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 562 if student has credit for HART 362.

Long Title: CHINESE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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. 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 371. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 571 if student has credit for HART 371.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will study how various artistic styles developed in historical, social and cultural contexts from the ancient period to the present day. Through the careful examination of architecture, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, bronze, and film, students will gain a deeper understanding of Chinese art and visual culture. 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 times to discuss the interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate students will be expected to complete all requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 372. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 572 if student has credit for HART 372.

Long Title: EAST & WEST: MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE IN CHINA AND NORTHERN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores a series of issues that are critically important for the medieval art of both China and northern Europe. Topics include materials and techniques; public and private art: commerce, technology and prints; art and motion; archaeology; paradise and hell; maps and space; the gaze; erotica; patronage; and multiculturalism. 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 hour 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 376. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 576 if student has credit for HART 376.

Long Title: JEWS AND ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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 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 377. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 577 if student has credit for HART 377.

Long Title: COLLAGE AND ITS HISTORIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: DADA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Inaugurated against the calamitous backdrop of the First World War, "Dada," the artist Francis Picabia claimed, "smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing." This seminar will examine the aesthetics of shock and nihilism (literally, 'nothingness'), developed by Dada in six cities: Zurich, Berlin, Colgne, Hannover, New York, and 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 addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 386. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 586 if student has credit for HART 386.

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The course focuses on the concepts of coloniality, exoticism, and abstraction. It examines the "Orientalist" tradition in works by Delacroix, Chasseriau, Matisse, and Assia Djebar; exoticism according to Gauguin, Segalen, and Khatibi; the postcolonial baroque in artifacts by Simon, Boudjedra, and Glissant; abstraction in Borduas, Atlan, and Khadda's paintings. Cross-list: FREN 587, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 487. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 587 if student has credit for HART 487.

Long Title: POST WAR EUROPEAN CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This class surveys major developments in European cinema from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Our study will include such movements as Italian Neorealism, German Rubble Films, French New Wave, and Soviet cinema in the Thaw. Particular attention will be paid to such issues as cinema and post-war reconstruction, memory and nation, and body and space. 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 hour every two or there 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 388. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 588 if student has credit for HART 388.

Long Title: FILM MELODRAMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Melodrama - the genre of tears, sensationalism and excess - has long been the focus of critical debates. Initially dismissed as mere escapism, melodrama films have begun to generate nuanced studies about their engagement with issues of gender, sexuality, class, and race. This seminar examines aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of film melodrama, including historical works by Vidor, Sirk, Godard, and Fassbinder, as well as more recent projects by Haynes and Almodovar. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned addtional readings. Tehy 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 times 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. 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

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: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Preparation for candidacy exams.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Prospectus research and writing.

Long Title: HISTORY & THEORY II - PRE 1890

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will trace the development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Italy and France with reference to the dialectic of license and rule. The first part, which covers the period from 1400-1600, will focus on the civil, domestic, and ecclesiastical architecture of the chief protagonists of the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio. Their buildings and urban initiatives will be interpreted in terms of continuities & discontinuities between an emerging theoretical tradition and the demands of actual practice. Cross-list: ARCH 645.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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: Ph.D. RESEARCH

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 2 TO 4

Description: This may be taken each semester until the dissertation is completed. Repeatable for Credit.