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| Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today |
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| CAS AH112 |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
MOR 101 |
Zell/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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| Art & Architecture in Ancient America |
| CAS AH222 |
TR 9:30-11:00 |
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Coggins |
| Introduction to the cities, monuments, and major art styles of the Aztec, the Maya, the Inca, and their predecessors in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes from the first millennium BC to the sixteenth century. |
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| The Arts of Asia |
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| CAS AH225 |
MWF 11:00-12:00 |
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Bai |
| This course is survey of the major artistic traditions of Asia. Important monuments will be introduced and 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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| Medieval Art |
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| CAS AH240 |
MWF 10:00-11:00 |
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Kahn |
| European art and architecture from the Fall of Rome through High Gothic. Covers media including sculpture, textiles, stained glass, and precious metalwork. Monuments treated are Rome's great churches, the Book of Kells, the Bayeux Tapestry, and Chartres and Rheims cathedrals. |
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| Arts in America |
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| CAS AH284 |
TR 9:30-11:00 |
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Morgan |
| Survey of American painting, architecture, sculpture, prints, and photography from the early settlement in 1630 to the present. |
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Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the
Saharan Crossroads |
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| CAS AH317 |
MWF 1:00-2:00 |
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Becker |
| This class considers the trans-Saharan cultural exchange that occurred between North and West Africa and its impact on art and architecture from the medieval period to the present. This course will also focus on the interconnections between Islam and other modes of African religious practice and how this influenced African aesthetic expression. |
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| Arts of Japan |
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| CAS AH326 |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
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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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| Arts of Classical Greece |
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| 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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| Northern Renaissance Painting |
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| CAS AH359 |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
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Bensoussan |
| The painting in countries north of the Alps (Netherlands, Flanders, Burgundy, France, Germany) from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, studied in its historic, cultural, environmental, and artistic contexts. Architecture, sculpture, and graphics are included. |
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| Metropolis: Art and Politics in Istanbul, London, Paris, and New York |
| CAS AH384 |
MWF 3:00-4:00 |
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Sewell |
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| An introduction to cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. Focuses on Istanbul, London, Paris, and New York at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory. |
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| Twentieth-Century Art: 1880-1940 |
| CAS AH391 |
MWF 12:00-1:00 |
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Ward |
| A study of the key tendencies in European art between the 1880s and World War II. The work of van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Dalí, and their contemporaries is examined in relation to major issues in European culture and politics. |
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| Twentieth-Century Art: 1940-1980 |
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| CAS AH392 |
MWF 2:00-3:00 |
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Esielonis |
| An exploration of the major currents in European and American art between 1940 and 1980. 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 |
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| CAS AH398 |
TR 3:30-5:00 |
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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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| Seminar: Modern Architecture |
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| CAS AH421 |
T 10:00-1:00 |
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Scrivano |
Main figures, events, and artifacts of 20th century architectural history. The seminar focuses on main figures, events, and artifacts of 20th century architectural history. Discussions and student presentations will consider various examples of the history of modern architecture,
ranging from Art Nouveau to the latest realizations of the 1990s. The seminar’s main goal is to investigate how the narratives dominating the discipline have been shaped over the course of time and how they reflect specific cultural and historical contexts. |
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| Seminar: Medieval Art |
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| CAS AH444 |
M 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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| Italian Renaissance Sculpture |
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| CAS AH451 |
W 2:00-5:00 |
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Bensoussan |
Italian Renaissance sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo, focusing on the revival of antiquity and the elevation of sculpture to a liberal rather than a mechanical art. This seminar will study monumental sculpture, portrait busts, fountain and garden sculpture, tomb
sculpture, and bronze reliefs for religious settings. |
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| Curatorship: Exhibition Development |
| CAS AH521 |
W 10:00-1:00 |
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Mergel |
| First-hand review and constructive critique of exhibitions at the ICA/Boston and a range of local museums, non-profit spaces, university art centers, and commercial galleries. Discussion of unique contexts that shape exhibitions: institutional mission, audience demographic, community affiliations, collecting goals, gallery layout, building/expansion plans, and related programming. |
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| Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy |
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| 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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| African American Art |
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| CAS AH571 |
Tue 1:00-4:00 |
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Hills |
| Studies African American art and craft production from the early nineteenth century to the present against the background of the diaspora, reconstruction, and the modernist movements of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also offered as CAS AA 571. |
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| Twentieth Century Architecture & Urbanism |
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| CAS AH585 |
R 12:30-3:30 |
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Morgan |
| This seminar will explore the historical context for the current issues of Sustainability and Green Architecture from the eighteenth century to the present. The engagement of architecture with nature will be charted through questions of landscape theory, public park making, suburbanization, adaptive re-use, and new material materials and methods of construction, among other topics. The course will involve discussion of common readings, site visits, and independent research. |
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| The Baroque |
| CAS AH597 |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
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Redford |
| Examines seventeenth-century architecture, painting, music, poetry, and drama. The syllabus is organized both topically and topographically: issues of space, light, ornamentation, and theatricality are explored in relation to the cultural capitals of Rome, Paris, and London. Also offered as CAS EN 597 and UNI HU 539. |
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GRADUATE COURSES |
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| Colloquium in Japanese Art |
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| GRS AH726 |
Thu 2:00-4:00 |
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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 wood block prints, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork. |
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| Colloquium in Greek Art and Architecture |
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| GRS AH733 |
Thu 10:00-12:00 |
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Westervelt |
| Greek architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts. Emphasis on developments in Athens and on the creation of the classical style in art and architecture. |
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| Seminar: African Art |
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| GRS AH822 |
Mon 2:00-4:00 |
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Becker |
| African Islam at the Saharan Crossroads. This course considers the influence of Islam on visual and performing arts within Africa, concentrating on the artistic, cultural, and historical interactions between northern and western Africa. |
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| Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture |
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| GRS AH863 |
Wed 2:00-4:00 |
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Zell |
| An exploration of the art and career of Johannes Vermeer through a variety of perspectives and methods of art history. The seminar attempts to situate his astonishingly small production of about 34 paintings within the cultural and social worlds for which they were created. |
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| Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Art |
| GRS AH889 |
Wed 8:00-10:00 |
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Ribner |
| Impressionism through Symbolism. An exploration of major currents in European art, from the representation of modern life by Courbet, Manet and the Impressionists to the quest for spirit and sensation by Gauguin, Munch and Rodin. The art will be considered in light of concurrent developments in politics, science, literature and religion. |
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