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| Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today |
| CAS AH112 |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
MOR 101 |
Cranston/Ribner |
| Major monuments and artists. Sequential development, from the Renaissance to the modern period, of major styles in architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and photography. Relationship of visual art to social and cultural trends. |
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| Understanding Architecture: Theoretical Approaches to the Built Environment |
| CAS AH201 |
TR 12:00-2:00 |
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Sewell |
| Introduces a range of approaches to the analysis of architecture. Learn how scholars and architects have interpreted meaning in architecture through the rubrics of art, structure, language, nonverbal communication, experience, and culture. |
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| Arts of Africa |
| CAS AH215 |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
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Vendryes |
| Survey of the arts of a variety of cultures and time periods in Africa, including architecture, sculpture, masks, body adornment, royal regalia, and contemporary painting. Topics include art and spirituality, royal patronage, masquerade performances, representations of women, colonialism, and globalization. |
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| The Arts of Asia |
| CAS AH225 |
MWF 11:00-12:00 |
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Bai |
| Surveys of the major artistic traditions of Asia. Important monuments are examined analytically in order to explain why certain forms and styles are characteristic of specific times and places, and how these monuments functioned in their cultural contexts. |
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| Arts in America |
| CAS AH284 |
TR 12:30-2:00 |
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Hills |
| Survey of American painting, architecture, sculpture, prints, and photography from the early settlement in 1630 to the present. |
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| History of Photography |
| CAS AH295 |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
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Sichel |
| An introduction to the study of photographs. The history of the medium in Europe and America from its invention in 1839 to the present. After lectures on photographic theory and methodology, photographs are studied both as art objects and as historical artifacts. |
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| Early Modern Islam |
| CAS AH 313 |
TR 9:30-11:00 |
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Fetvaci |
| Architecture, manuscripts, textiles, metalwork, and ceramics of the Mughal, Ottoman, and Safavid Empires. Focus on the formation of imperial styles, intersections between art and politics, and the importance of the arts in dynastic legitimization. |
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| Arts of Japan |
| CAS AH326 |
TR 9:00-11:30 |
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Tseng |
| The arts of Japan, from prehistory through the twentieth century. Painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and architecture (including landscape architecture) are emphasized, but attention is also paid to woodblock prints, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork. |
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| Greek and Roman Cities |
| CAS AH332/AR 332 |
MWF 10:00-11:00 |
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Verba |
| Follows the development of urban centers in the Greco-Roman world from the Late Bronze Age through the Roman period. Topics include state formation, urban architecture and infrastructure, public and private buildings and monuments, and social dynamics of urban culture. |
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| Arts of Classical Greece |
| CAS AH333 |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
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Westervelt |
| Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, and metalwork of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in their original contexts. Addresses such larger issues as development of portraiture; tension of "real" and "ideal"; roles and shifting iconographies of myth; and political use of monuments. |
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| Nineteenth-Century Architecture |
| CAS AH382 |
TR 8:00-9:30 |
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Morgan |
| Survey of European and American architecture from 1750 to 1910. Explores issues in architecture, landscape architecture and city planning, and examines style, technology, and architectural theory. |
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| Twentieth-Century Art from 1940 to 1980 |
| CAS AH392 |
MWF 2:00-3:00 |
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Williams |
| An exploration of the major currents in European and American art since World War II. Examines abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, earthworks, and conceptual art in relation to major issues in postwar culture, politics, and art criticism. |
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| Twentieth-Century Architecture |
| CAS AH398 |
TR 3:30-5:30 |
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Scrivano |
| An introduction to the major developments in architecture and urban planning from ca. 1900 to the present. Traces the history of modern architecture in key projects, taking account of formal, technological, and ideological factors, as well as social, cultural, and environmental contexts. |
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| Greek Art |
| CAS AH433 |
Thu 9:00-12:00 |
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Westervelt |
Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2010 is to be announced. |
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| Medieval Art |
| CAS AH444 |
Mon 11:00-2:00 |
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Kahn |
| Detailed study of the castles, cathedrals, and works of art produced in Anglo-Norman England, including Canterbury Cathedral, the Tower of London, and the Bayeux Tapestry. Contemporary attitudes toward images, monastic art, allegory, nostalgia, symbolism, parody, the grotesque, building techniques, and patronage. |
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| Twentieth-Century Art |
| CAS AH495 |
Tue 2:00-5:00 |
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Sichel |
| Examines major artists and artistic currents of the twentieth century. Topics vary each year. Some background in the history of modern art is recommended. Topic for Spring 2010: Paris. |
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| Curatorship: Exhibition Development |
| CAS AH521 |
Mon 10:00-1:00 |
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| Explores the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the many career paths it offers. Meetings with a wide range of staff members and introduction to a variety of museum practices and procedures based on current exhibition and renovation projects. |
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| Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy: History, Theory and Practice |
| CAS AH530 |
Mon 5:00-8:00 |
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Bai |
| Introduction to the history, theory and practice of the art of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy. The related art of seal carving is also introduced. No knowledge of Chinese or Japanese required. |
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| Seminar in Roman Art |
| CAS AH534 |
Tue 2:00-5:00 |
CAS 311 |
Kleiner |
| Topic: Pompeii. An in-depth study of Pompeii and the other towns buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 CE. |
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| Courtly Commissions: Ottoman Art and Architecture |
| CAS AH541 |
Tue 9:30-12:30 |
CAS 311 |
Fetvaci |
| This course will explore the artistic patronage of the Ottoman court during its most creative and dynamic period, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Specific works of art such as mosques, illustrated manuscripts, textiles and ceramics, as well as case studies of individual patrons will allow us to explore the relationships between artists, architects, authors and patrons. The themes of self-fashioning, artistic agency, courtly behavior and decorum, art as propaganda, workshops and production practices and the formation of an imperial style will frame our discussions. |
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| Early American Architecture |
| CAS AH570 |
Tue 2:00-5:00 |
HIS 110 |
Dempsey |
Lectures and field trips explore American architecture and building from
initial European contact through the early nineteenth century. |
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| The Sister Arts |
| CAS AH598 |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
STH 625 |
Redford |
| Examination of how the linked activities of showing and telling, seeing and saying, have preoccupied Western culture since the time of Horace, whose influential comparison brought literature and painting into promising alignment. Explores the intimate relations between word and image by concentrating on such subjects as emphasis and spatial form. |
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GRADUATE COURSES |
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| Colloquium in Japanese Art |
| GRS AH726 |
Thu 9:00-11:00 |
CAS 311 |
Tseng |
| The arts of Japan from prehistory through the twentieth century. Painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and architecture (including landscape architecture) are emphasized, but attention is also paid to wood block prints, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork. |
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| Seminar: Art History Writing |
| GRS AH802 |
Mon 9:00-11:00 |
CAS 303A |
Cranston |
| What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how has it changed over time? We will consider these questions through several foundational texts including writings of Vasari, Bellori, Winckelmann, Kant, Warburg, Riegl and Panofsky. |
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| Seminar: African Art |
| GRS AH822 |
Fri 11:00-1:00 |
CAS 311 |
Becker |
| In-depth discussion of special topics in the study of African art and architecture. Topic for Spring 2008: Contemporary African Art. Examination of contemporary African painting, sculpture, and photography from period of 1950 to the present. |
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| Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture |
| GRS AH833 |
Wed 10:00-12:00 |
CAS 311 |
Westervelt |
| Representations of Women in Greek Art and Literature. Examines the role of women in society, through representations in art and also in works of ancient literature that give valuable insight into the lives of women as important, but undervalued, members of the Greek polis. |
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| Seminar: The Suburbs, Utopian Landscape or Ecological Disaster |
| GRS AH884 |
Wed 2:00-4:00 |
CAS 303A |
Morgan |
| This graduate seminar will explore the highly contested landscape of suburban architecture and development. After discussions of common readings in the initial weeks, students will conduct independent research and present their work to the seminar. There are no pre-requisites. |
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| Seminar: American Art |
| GRS AH887 |
Tue 12:00-2:00 |
CAS 303A |
Hills |
| Topic for Spring 2008: American Figurative Painting 1930-1955. Focuses on art and politics in America during the years of the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. |
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| Seminar: Twentieth-Century Art |
| GRS AH895 R1 |
Wed 9:00-11:00 |
CAS 303A |
Ribner |
| GRS AH895 W1 |
Fri 9:00-11:00 |
CAS 311 |
Williams |
| Two topics are offered Spring 2008; students may take one or both for credit. Section R1: Picasso. Section W1: Art and Culture of West Germany. The major themes in the art and culture of West Germany during the years of the Berlin Wall. Issues include the representation of history and trauma, the question of memory and commemoration, and the status of painting. |
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