Courses

• CAS AH 353: Renaissance Architecture and Theory
  Italian Renaissance architecture and architectural theory from 1400 to 1600. Emphasis on individual buildings and urban planning in Rome, Florence, and Venice, and on treatises by Alberti, Serlio, and Palladio.
• CAS AH 361: Southern Baroque Art
  Seventeenth-century art in Italy, France, and Spain; emphasis on Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velazquez.
• CAS AH 365: Baroque Arts in Northern Europe
  Seventeenth-century art in Holland and Flanders. Emphasis on Rubens, Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer.
• CAS AH 367: Material Culture
  Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Also offered as CAS AM 367.
• CAS AH 368: The Grand Tour
  The culminating educational experience for the elite of Enlightenment Europe took the form of an extended trip to Italy, ?The Grand Tour.? This course recreates the itinerary of the Tour and analyzes its impact on art, architecture, collecting, and connoisseurship.
• CAS AH 377: American Furniture and Allied Arts, 1630-1830
  Survey of furniture and related arts-painting, architecture, and silver-with an emphasis on aesthetics and quality, sources, style changes, regional differences, materials, and construction.
• CAS AH 379: 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.
• CAS AH 380: Romanticism in Europe
  In-depth exploration of art in the age of revolution, nationalism, colonial expansion, and religious revival. Development of new attitudes toward history, nature, and the imagination in the work of Friedrich, Goya, Delacroix, Gericault, Ingres, Turner, Constable, Blake, and others.
• CAS AH 382: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
  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.
• CAS AH 383: Paris and Its Architecture: From Monument to Urban Landscape
  Traces the development of Parisian architecture and urbanism, from the Roman era to the present, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasizing dynamic relationships among architecture, urban development, and socio-political history.
• 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 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 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS AH 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• 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. Topic for Spring 2012: Contemporary African Art. Focus on contemporary African painting, sculpture, and photography from 1950 to the present.
• 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.

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