Courses

• GRS AH 802: Seminar: A-H Writing
  This seminar will consider the history and methods of art history through the writings of Vasari, Bellori, Winkelmann, Kant, Hegel, Wolfflin, Riegel, Warburg, Panofsky, Gombrich, among others.
• GRS AH 812: Seminar: Portraiture
  Topic for Fall 2012: Portraiture from 1300-1600. Topics include the influence of ancient art and literature, tropes of animation (especially the "speaking portrait"), the visualization of identity, and the relationship between biography and art history.
• GRS AH 820: Seminar: Asian Art
  Topic for Spring 2012: Kyoto: Art, Architecture, and Urbanism. Analysis of major artistic and architectural projects sponsored by successive generations of emperors, aristocrats, warriors, and priests in Kyoto, from the eighth to the end of the nineteenth century. Discussions and readings emphasize issues of lineage, heritage, and tradition.
• GRS AH 822: Seminar: African Art
  In-depth discussion of special topics in the study of African art and architecture. Topic for Fall 2011: Material Journeys: Contact Zones and Borderlands in Africa and Its Diaspora. Considers art produced at contact zones to rethink concepts of tradition, authenticity, diaspora, and commodity. Focuses on northwestern Africa and the Caribbean from the fifteenth century to present. Sapi-Portuguese ivories, Islamic architecture in West Africa, and Berber art are addressed.
• GRS AH 846: Seminar: Romanesque and Gothic Art
  Detailed study of the castles, cathedrals, and works of art produced in Anglo-Norman England. Topics include contemporary attitudes toward images, monastic art, allegory, nostalgia, symbolism, parody, the grotesque, building techniques, and patronage. Among the works studied are Canterbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, the Tower of London, and the Bayeux Tapestry.
• GRS AH 853: Seminar: Renaissance Art and Architecture
  Topic for Fall 2010: The Renaissance Studiolo.
• GRS AH 863: Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2012: Rembrandt. Exploration of Rembrandt's art and career within the context of his social and cultural worlds through a variety of art historical approaches.
• GRS AH 867: 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. Explores contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AM 867.
• GRS AH 886: Seminar: American Painting
  Topic for Spring 2012: Visual Culture of the Civil War Era (1840-1870). American visual culture from 1850 to 1870. Slavery, Sectionalism, Civil War, Emancipation, the death of Lincoln, and Reconstruction in painting, sculpture, book illustration, the illustrated weeklies, photography, exhibitions, and organized urban spectacles.
• GRS AH 891: Seminar: Photography
  Historical, archival, and theoretical examinations of photography, with emphasis on its role both as document and as art. Topic for Fall 2011: Documentary Photography. Studies changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to present. Addresses urban photography, war imagery, architectural records, social reform photography, and New Deal imagery. Concentrates on rich archival resources available in the museums and societies in Boston.
• GRS AH 892: Approaches to Architectural History
  Introduction to the theory and practice of architectural history. Readings explore varied approaches to interpreting architecture; assignments develop skills of informed and careful architectural analysis.
• GRS AH 895: Seminar: Twentieth Century Art
  Topic for Fall 2012: Paris 1900-1940. The representation of Paris from the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the beginning of World War II. Topics include the "flâneur," the effect of modernism, World War I, and growing fragmentation from the beginning of the century to 1940.
• GRS AH 901: Directed Studies
  
• GRS AH 902: Directed Studies
  
• GRS AL 902: Directed Study in Applied Linguistics
  Directed study in linguistics. Hours arranged.
• GRS AM 699: Teachng Coll Am
  
• GRS AM 735: Studies in American Culture
  Introduction to handling of primary materials from a number of disciplines in order to develop an American Studies perspective. Topic for Spring 2013: TBA
• GRS AM 736: The Literature of American Studies
  Introduction to classic problems in the interpretation of American society and culture.
• GRS AM 747: Historic Building Conservation
  Theory and practicalities involved in conservation of historic buildings. This course will cover the history and theory of building conservation architectural investigations of building, including documentary, constructional, and finish materials to materials for conservation.
• GRS AM 754: Planning and Preservation
  Considers the methods employed to protect and plan for the historic landscape. Topics include the history of preservation planning and the broader planning profession, and a review of case law, legislation, and the protection strategies of current preservation practice.

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