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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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Borgatti |
| 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 9:30-11:00 |
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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 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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| The Grand Tour |
| CAS AH368 |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
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Redford |
| This course recreates the itinerary of the Tour and analyzes its impact on art, architecture, collecting and connoisseurship. It also assesses the Tour’s role as a “virtual academy” for artists and intellectuals. The course pays special attention to Great Britain, where the influence of the Tour was most pervasive, but also examines key figures and trends in France and Germany. |
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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 3:30-5:00 |
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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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| Greek Art: Representations of Greek Myth |
| CAS AH433 |
Thu 9:00-12:00 |
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Westervelt |
Mythology was the most common subject of sculptors, metalworkers and painters and the same myth was used to decorate the lowliest pot or the most spectacular temple. Yet how did mythology function in Greek society? Why are some myths represented hundreds of times while others only once or twice? Why are some myths depicted in the same way over and over again while others show countless variation? Did the Greeks believe these myths or were they simply stories? These are only some of the questions that we will try to answer through an in-depth study of the myths themselves, finding the earliest versions and tracing their development in both literature and art. |
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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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| 20th Century Art: Paris: 1900-1940 |
| CAS AH495 |
Tue 2:00-5:00 |
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Sichel |
| This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the representation of Paris in a variety of media, from the Exposition Universelle in 1900 to the beginning of World War II. Although literature, universal expositions, painting, photography, and film construct very different Paris images, certain common concerns will be studied throughout the semester. These include: the continuing importance of the "flaneur," the effect of modernism on the city, the changing personality of the city as it is perceived in the different media, the effect of World War I, the methods by which Paris is made orderly and comprehensible through art forms, a growing fragmentation from the beginning of the century to 1940, and the changing nature of the city's "romance" or magic for both Parisians and foreigners. |
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| Curatorship: Exhibition Development |
| CAS AH521 |
Mon 10:00-1:00 |
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TBD |
| 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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| Roman Art Seminar: Imperial Rome |
| CAS AH534 |
Tue 2:00-5:00 |
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Kleiner |
| An in-depth examination of the "Eternal City" from its founding by Romulus through the Early Christian period, with a focus on the High and Late Empire. Among the key monuments to be investigated are Nero's Golden House, the Colosseum, the Forum and Column of Trajan, the Pantheon, the Baths of Caracalla, the Arch of Constantine, Old St. Peter's, and the catacombs. |
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GRADUATE COURSES |
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| Imperial Reflections: Early Modern Islamic Art and Architecture |
| GRS AH713 |
Thu 2:00-4:00 |
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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.
Please note this course is in conjunction with the CAS AH313 lecture course. |
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| Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Arhitecture |
| GRS AH798 |
Wed 10:00-12:00 |
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Scrivano |
In conjunction with the CAS AH 398 lecture course, this colloquium focuses on main figures, events, artifacts of twentieth-century architectural history.
Please note this course is in conjunction with the CAS AH398 lecture course. |
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| Seminar: Asian Art (Kyoto) |
| GRS AH820 |
Thur 2:00-4:00 |
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Tseng |
| Topic: Kyoto. Explores the long cultural history of Kyoto as imperial capital from founding in the late eighth century to today; analyzes the artistic and architectural footprint of ruling aristocrats, priests, and warriors; investigates the places, products, and events unique to the city; finally, examines the distinctive status of being an old capital in the modern century. |
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| Seminar: The Female Nude in Italian Renaissance Art |
| GRS AH853 |
Wed 10:00-12:00 |
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Cranston |
| This seminar will consider the origins and significance of the nude female figure in Italian Renaissance art. Topics will include the following: the influence of antiquity, the creative associations between the female nude and nature, the role of epithalamic and garden art, the development of the recumbent nude as an independent type, Renaissance practices of viewing and display, and the female nude as a site for critical aporia. |
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| Seminar: Institutional Architecture |
| GRS AH884 |
Mon 2:00-4:00 |
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Morgan |
| This research seminar will examine the world of institutional architecture from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States. For the purposes of this course, institutions will be considered residential/work communities of any kind, such as hospitals and insane asylums, almshouses and poor farms, prisons and penitentiaries, residential schools and colleges, convents and monasteries, etc. Recent scholarship on power relationships, gender ordering, spatial politics, the histories of science, medicine and religion will be examined to develop appropriate methods of questioning these building complexes. Utopian as well as other institutions will be considered. A major research paper will be the central product of the term. |
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| Seminar: The Visual Culture of Civil War America |
| GRS AH886 |
Tue 9:00-11:00 |
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Hills |
| The seminar focuses on American visual culture of the Civil War era: Slavery, Sectionalism, Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction (1850 to 1870), including paintings, sculpture, book illustration, graphics in the illustrated weeklies, photography, exhibitions, and organized urban spectacles. |
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| Seminar: Twentieth-Century Art |
| Two topics are offered Spring 2009; students may take one or both for credit. |
| GRS AH895 R1 |
Wed 9:00-11:00 |
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Ribner |
| Topic: Picasso. Nearly eight decades of incessant art making by Pablo Picasso will be examined in relation to major currents in modern European art, literature and politics. |
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| GRS AH895 W1 |
Fri 9:00-11:00 |
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Williams |
Topic: Contemporary Art and Globalization. Considers how globalization has replaced postmodernism as key paradigm for art produced since 1989.
Explores the process by which contemporary art has been historicized and made into a field of study distinct from modern art. |
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