Art History

• GRS AH 699: Teaching College Art History I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in art history. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AH 716: African Diaspora Arts in the Americas
  Study of the transmission of African artistry in the Caribbean, South America, and the United States from the period of slavery to the present. Topics include Kongo and Yoruba arts and their influence on the arts of Santería, Vodun, and carnival. Also offered as GRS AA 716.
• GRS AH 726: Colloquium in Japanese Art
  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.
• GRS AH 727: Colloquium in Chinese Art
  This course introduces the major tradition of Chinese art, from the Neolithic period to the present. Topics include bronzes, tomb sculpture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and gardens.
• GRS AH 731: Archaic Greece
  
• GRS AH 733: Colloquium in Greek Art and Architecture
  Greek architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts. Emphasis on developments in Athens and on the creation of the classical style in art and architecture.
• GRS AH 745: Colloquium in Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
  
• GRS AH 757: Colloquium in Renaissance Art
  Survey of the arts in the Renaissance in Europe from the communes of the early fifteenth century to the courts of the sixteenth century. Topic for Fall 2007: Art Theory and the Renaissance.
• GRS AH 761: Colloquium in Southern Baroque Art
  
• GRS AH 765: Colloquium in Baroque Art in Northern Europe
  Seventeenth-century painting in Holland and Flanders with emphasis on Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyck.
• GRS AH 779: American Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
  Explores the visual arts of painting, sculpture, photography, and popular media, through their interplay with persistent political and social questions that defined nineteenth-century America and continue to shape life in the twenty-first century. Themes include heroes, citizenship, war, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, consumerism.
• GRS AH 782: Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century Architecture in Europe and America
  Dilemma of style in nineteenth-century architecture; study of the relationship of architectural theory to the changing philosophy and aesthetic theory of the period. Development of functionalist theory.
• GRS AH 786: Colloquium in Twentieth-Century American Painting
  The colloquium, which accompanies the lecture course for CAS AH 386, focuses on critical and theoretical readings that relate to twentieth-century American painting, photography, sculpture, installation and performance art, and criticism.
• GRS AH 792: Colloquium in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
  An exploration of the major currents in European and American art since World War II. Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Earthworks and Neo-Expressionism will be examined in relation to prominent issues in postwar culture, politics, and art criticism.
• GRS AH 798: Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Architecture
  In conjunction with the CAS AH 398 lecture course, this colloquium focuses on main figures, events, artifacts of twentieth-century architectural history.
• GRS AH 802: Sem A-H Writing
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AH 803: Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary.
• GRS AH 804: Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Taught by curators of the museum. Topics vary.
• GRS AH 812: Seminar: Portraiture
  Topic: Art History and biography.
• GRS AH 820: Seminar: Asian Art
  Topic for Spring 2010: 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 footprints of ruling aristocrats, priests, and warriors; investigates the places, products, and events unique to the city.

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