Courses

• CAS AH 386: Twentieth-Century American Painting
  Realist and avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, including New York dada, early abstraction, regionalism, art and politics during the depression years, abstract expressionism, pop art and minimal art, performance art, feminist art, and recent developments in postmodernism.
• CAS AH 388: British Painting from Holbein to the Twentieth Century
  A survey of painting in Britain from the Reformation to 1914. Emphasis on the cultural context of art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The development of portraiture, landscape, genre, and history painting is discussed.
• CAS AH 391: Twentieth-Century Art to 1940
  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.
• CAS AH 392: Twentieth-Century Art from 1940 to 1980
  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.
• CAS AH 393: Contemporary Art: 1980 to Now
  Explores the terms of debate, key figures, and primary sites for the production and reception of contemporary art on a global scale since 1980. Painting, installation art, new media, performance, art criticism, and curatorial practice are discussed.
• CAS AH 398: Twentieth-Century Architecture
  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.
• CAS AH 399: History and Theory of Landscape Architecture
  Explores man's relationship with nature by a study of selected built environments from antiquity to the present. Focus on both the private garden and the public park--here considered as works of art--and their changing forms, meaning, and interpretations.
• CAS AH 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS AH 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS AH 425: Seminar: Topics in Asian Art
  Topic for Fall 2010: Japanese Monuments from Prehistory to Twentieth Century. Examines key architectural projects throughout Japanese history, from the Ise Shrines to the National Gymnasium for the Tokyo Olympics. These are considered in the context of major historical events, cultural trends, and political developments.
• CAS AH 428: Seminar: Islamic Art
  The development of the central aesthetic concepts and visual traditions of the Islamic world are considered through a variety of time periods, media, or themes. Topic for Spring 2011: TBA.
• CAS AH 429: Seminar: African Art
  In-depth examination of varying topics in the study of African art and architecture.
• CAS AH 433: Seminar: Greek Art
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2011: TBA.
• CAS AH 444: Seminar: Medieval Art
  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.
• CAS AH 451: Seminar: Renaissance Art
  Topic for Fall 2009: Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, and Poetry of Michelangelo. Topics explored include Michelangelo's spirituality, his relationships with popes, princely patrons, and other artists, and his use of visual sources. Investigates the interface between artistic production, psychology, and biography.
• CAS AH 462: Seminar: Baroque Art
  Explores the relationship between visual culture and political authority in seventeenth-century Europe. Focus on painting, architecture, and sculpture by major artistic figures of the period, including Rubens, Van Dyck, Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Bernini.
• CAS AH 482: Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Art
  Topic for Fall 2008: 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.
• CAS AH 491: Directed Study
  
• CAS AH 492: Directed Study
  
• CAS AH 494: Seminar: Photography
  Topic for Spring 2008: Documentary Photography. A study of changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to the present. Topics include urban photography, war imagery, topographical and survey landscapes, architectural records, social reform photography, New Deal imagery, and digital documents.

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