Courses

• 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 Fall 2011: Greek Painted Pottery. Greek painted pottery is among the most important and challenging categories of ancient art. Stresses hands-on work to explore painted pottery's use and abuse in scholarship, along with its utilitarian roles and problematic status as "art" in Greek social contexts.
• 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 Spring 2011: Topics in Sixteenth Century Venice Art and Architecture. Considers the major artists working in sixteenth century Venice, including Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Palladio. Themes include: the pastoral, scuole pictures, the female nude, trade with the East, villa culture, and the role of water in urban planning.
• CAS AH 462: Seminar: Baroque Art
  Topic for Fall 2011: Rembrandt. Situates Rembrandt's art and career within the nexus of his social and cultural worlds through various perspectives and methods of art history. Discusses the embattled state of connoisseurship; patronage, collecting, and the open market in seventeenth-century Holland.
• CAS AH 482: Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Art
  Topic for Fall 2011: The Age of Victoria. Painting, prints, photography, architecture, and the decorative arts from the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) are viewed in relation to contemporary literature, politics, science, religion, social history, and technological growth. Includes Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Whistler.
• CAS AH 491: Directed Study
  
• CAS AH 492: Directed Study
  
• CAS AH 495: Seminar: Twentieth-Century Art
  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 Fall 2010: Picasso.
• CAS AH 497: Seminar: Contemporary Art
  Topic for Fall 2011: Art Criticism Since 1945. Analyzes the changing role of the art critic and explores competing models of critical writing from WWII to the present. Students write reviews of current area exhibitions as well as a research paper.
• CAS AH 501: Practicum in Museum Studies
  Approval by the director of museum studies and stamped approval are necessary. Internships in Boston-area museums, galleries, historical agencies, and houses arranged for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, 10-12 hours per week with written report.
• CAS AH 502: Practicum in Museum Studies
  Approval by the director of museum studies and stamped approval are necessary. Internships in Boston-area museums, galleries, historical agencies, and houses arranged for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, 10-12 hours per week with written report.
• CAS AH 504: Topics in Religion and the Visual Arts
  In-depth discussion of special issues in the study of religion and art. Topic changes each year. May be repeated for credit. Topic for Fall 2009: Religious Architecture in Islam: Mosques, Shrines, and Tombs. Also offered as CAS RN 504.
• CAS AH 520: The Museum and Historical Agency
  The history, present realities, and future possibilities of museums and historical agencies. Emphasis on the collection, preservation, and use of objects, as well as on the interaction of artists, dealers, collectors, donors, scholars, trustees, and museum professionals.
• CAS AH 521: Curatorship: Exhibition Development
  Topic for Spring 2011: Curatorship: Boston and Modern Art. Preparation for the exhibition ?Boston Modern? at Harvard?s Fogg Art Museum. Examines Boston?s reception of modernism, from Boston?s Armory Show of 1913 to the city?s embrace of Color Field in the 1960s.
• CAS AH 527: Topics in Art and Society
  May be repeated for credit as topics change. Two topics are offered Spring 2011. Students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: Impressionism through Symbolism. Major currents in nineteenth- century European art are examined in light of contemporary developments in politics, science, religion, literature, music, and the history of ideas. Section B1: Photography and Africa: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation. The role colonial-era photography played in determining how the world views Africa. Examines images by contemporary African photographers and looks at how they have confronted stereotypes in order to create their own self image.
• CAS AH 529: Seminar: Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
  Critical examinations of twentieth-century Chinese art, including the fate of traditional art, art under a totalitarian regime, the problematic status of the artist in a socialist state, and avant-garde art in the international context.
• CAS AH 530: Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Practice
  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.
• CAS AH 532: Japanese Print Culture
  Seminar on print culture of Japan from the eighteenth century to the present. Study of woodblock prints, photographic prints, book art, print advertisements, postcards, and manga. Focus on their function as both artistic expression and instruments of mass communication.
• CAS AH 533: Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
  Topic for Fall 2010: Ancient Greek Sculpture. An in-depth examination of the role of free standing, relief, and architectural sculpture in Greek society from 3000 BC through the end of the Hellenistic period.

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