Courses

• CAS AH 383: Paris Architecture and Urbanism
  Traces the development of Parisian architecture and urbanism, from the Roman era to the present, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth 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 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 389: Impressionism
  Impressionism, its sources, and its aftermath: from the painting of modem life and leisure by Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Degas to the evocation of spirituality, pain, and desire in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, and Munch.
• 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
  This course provides an introduction to the major developments in architecture and urban planning from ca. 1900 to the present. It traces the proliferation of modernist thought through key projects but also to everyday buildings and landscapes.
• 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 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 2013: Painting and Calligraphy in Islam. Examines the manuscript traditions of the Islamic world, with particular attention to painting and calligraphy. Books and albums are considered within the genres of religious, historical, and literary manuscripts. Consideration of the Persian epic Shahnama, glittering Qurans, and royal albums.
• CAS AH 430: Seminar in Greek and Roman Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of Greek and Roman art. Topics change annually. Taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. [Topic for 2007/2008: Looking for the Ancient Artist.]
• CAS AH 438: Seminar: Pompeii
  An in-depth study of Pompeii and the other towns buried by Mount Vesuvius. All aspects of the Vesuvian cities are examined, including urban planning and public architecture, private domestic and funerary architecture, mural painting, mosaics, and sculpture. Also offered as CAS AR 438.
• CAS AH 440: Seminar in Late Antique and Medieval Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of late antique and medieval art. Topics change annually. Taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. [Topics for 2007/2008: Decline and Fall? Transformation in Late Antiquity; Cathedrals in Context: Religion and the Great Church in England 1170-1350.]
• CAS AH 444: Seminar: Medieval Art
  In-depth examination of varying topics in the study of Medieval Art. Topic for Fall 2015: The Rebirth of Sculpture in Europe 1000-1250. Monumental architectural sculpture ceased to be produced after the Fall of Rome. This seminar examines prohibitions against carved imagery and the rebirth of sculpture around the year 1000. Focus on the invention and development of the grand church entrance.
• CAS AH 450: Seminar in Renaissance Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of Renaissance art. Topics change annually. Taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. [Topic for 2007/2008: Art in Venice c. 1420-1510.]
• CAS AH 460: Seminar in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art. Topics change annually. Taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. [Topic for 2007/2008: Seventeenth-Century Art in Italy, Spain, and France.]
• CAS AH 462: Seminar: Baroque Art
  Topic for Spring 2015: Global Baroque: Art and Power in the Seventeenth Century. Investigates the interaction between art and structures of power in seventeenth-century Europe, with particular attention to the global dimensions of this phenomenon. Focus on Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez; also other forms of cultural production that circulated through global trading networks.
• CAS AH 482: Seminar: Nineteenth-Century Art
  Topic for Fall 2013: Romanticism. An exploration of the art of Goya, Blake, Friedrich, Géricault, Delacroix, and others, who created enduring works of the imagination in an era of revolution, nationalism, and religious revival. Includes discussion of weekly readings, an oral report, and a final paper.
• CAS AH 490: Seminar: Special Topics in the History of Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of art. Topics change annually. Taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. [This course designation is to accommodate seminars that do not fit into specific chronological periods. An example from 2007/2008: Classicisms Ancient and Modern: Classical Greece to Modern France.]
• CAS AH 494: Seminar: Photography
  Topic for Spring 2014: The Photographic Book. This seminar examines the photographic book from 1839 to the present. Focus on the book as a unique form for the medium, and study of image/text relationships, narrative structures, and cultural constructions of the book's message.

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