CRN	93311	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 101
Title	Perspectives in World Art I
Professor	Diana Minsky
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 102

This course, the first of a two-semester sequence, introduces the breadth and diversity of the visual arts worldwide. In the first semester the class examines painting, sculpture, architecture, and other cultural artifacts from the Paleolithic period through the 14^th century. Works from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas are studied chronologically in order to provide a more integrated historical context for their production. In addition to the course textbook, readings are chosen to broaden critical perspectives and present different methodological approaches. The course is designed for students with no background in art history and those who may be contemplating a major in either art history or studio arts. First-year students and sophomores are welcome.

CRN	93312	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 125
Title	Modern Architecture: Revolution to World War II
Professor	Noah Chasin
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 102

This course will address the history of modern architecture from its emergence in Western Europe during the eighteenth century through to its widespread presence and diversification by the end of World War II. The course will pay particular attention to the way in which architects have responded to, and participated in, formal and aesthetic developments in other arts as well as broader technological, economic, and socio-political transformations. As architecture encountered the industrialized condition of modernity and the rise of the metropolis it gave rise to a fascinating range of aesthetic and programmatic experimentations. Covering many aspects of architecture--from buildings, drawings, models, exhibitions, and schools, to historical and theoretical writings and manifestoes--the course will investigate a range of modernist practices, polemics, and institutions. The readings have been selected both to provide an overview of the history of modern architecture and to offer a number of critical and historical approaches to evaluating its legacy. Open to all students.

CRN	93313	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 130
Title	Introduction to Visual Culture
Professor	Julia Rosenbaum
Schedule	Tu Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

This course constitutes an introduction to the discipline of art history and to visual artifacts more broadly defined. It teaches students to look at, think about, and analyze visual material. We will consider issues of medium, genre, and style, as well as the role of the visual in shaping personal and social identities. Readings will be drawn from a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Thinking about the visual goes hand in hand with writing about art; frequent short writing assignments will be based both on readings and first-hand observation of objects. The course is designed for anyone with an interest but no formal work in art history. Preference will be given to prospective majors, and lower level college students.

CRN	93315	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 140
Title	Survey of Islamic Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: AADS

Survey of Islamic art in Iran, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Spain, China, India, Indonesia and other regions, from the death of Muhammad in AD 632 up until the present. The course will include architectural monuments, their structural features and decoration as well as the decorative arts in all the various media – pottery, metalwork, textile and carpet weaving, glass, jewelry, calligraphy, book illumination and painting. There will be visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view their Islamic collection. This class is open to students at all levels.

CRN	93316	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 227
Title	Roman Urbanism from Romulus (753BCE) to Rutelli (2000CE)
Professor	Diana Minsky
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: Classics, Italian Studies

Politicians and popes, from the time of the founding of the city of Rome to the current Italian government (including Francesco Rutelli, mayor of Rome), have made conscious use of the historical significance of the urban topography and architectural history of the city to craft a capital that suits their evolving ideological aims. Proceeding chronologically, this class will focus on the commissioning of large-scale representational architecture, the creation of public space, the orchestration of streets, and the ongoing dialogue between the past and present in the city of Rome. Ideally, students should have previously taken classes that consider either the art, architecture, or politics of Rome during some period of its long history from antiquity to the present. Requirements will include critical essays, a research paper, and a class presentation. Open to all students.

CRN	93317	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 230
Title	The Early Renaissance
Professor	Jean French
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:45 am - 11:00 am OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Italian Studies

A survey of Italian painting and sculpture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Major trends from Giotto and Duccio through Piero della Francesca and Botticelli are analyzed within a wider cultural context. Consideration is given to the evolution of form, style, technique, and iconography; contemporary artistic theory; and the changing role of the artist in society.

Open to all students.

CRN	93318	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 248
Title	Crossroads of Civilization: The Art of Medieval Spain
Professor	Jean French
Schedule	Mon 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm OLIN 301

Cross-listed: LAIS, Medieval Studies

A study of over thirteen hundred years of the art and architecture of the Iberian peninsula. The course will begin with a brief look at the Celtiberian culture and at the colonial activities of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. The major focus, however, will be four primary areas: Visigothic art; Al-Andalus, the Islamic art of Spain; Asturian and Mozarabic art; Romanesque art of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. Students will investigate the complex patterns of exchange, appropriation, assimilation and tension among the Islamic, Judaic and Christian traditions and will attempt to assess the effects of this cross-fertilization of cultures on the visual arts. The course will be conducted as a seminar and is open to students outside art history.

CRN	93319	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 257
Title	Art in the Age of Revolution: European Painting, 1760 - 1860
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 102

A social history beginning with the art of the pre-Revolutionary period and ending with realism. Major topics include changing definitions of neoclassicism and romanticism; the impact of the revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848; the Napoleonic presence abroad; the shift from history painting to scenes of everyday life; landscape painting as an autonomous art form; and attitudes toward race and sexuality. Emphasis is placed on French artists such as Greuze, Vigée-Lebrun, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, Corot, and Courbet; Goya, Constable, Turner, and Friedrich are also considered. Open to all students.

CRN	93436	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 276
Title	Chinese Religious Art
Professor	Patricia Karetzky
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

This survey begins with the earliest expression of the Chinese aesthetic, in Neolithic painted pottery. Next, the early culture of the Bronze Age is viewed, followed by the unification of China by the first emperor, the owner of 60,000 life-sized clay figurines. In the fifth century Buddhist art achieved expression in colossal sculptures carved from living rock and in paintings of paradise. Confucian and Taoist philosophy, literature, and popular culture are examined through the paintings of the later dynasties, with an accent on landscape painting. The course ends with a consideration of 20^th century art.

CRN	93430	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 277
Title	The Dutch “Golden Age”
Professor	Susan Merriam
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am – 12:50 pm OLIN 102

Examines the extraordinarily rich visual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century Holland, the first bourgeois capitalist state. We will study the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer, among others, as it expressed the daily life, desires, and identity of this new society. The course will be taught thematically, addressing artistic practice (materials and production, patronage, the art market), aesthetics (realism, style), and social concerns (public and private life, city and rural cultures, national identity, colonialism, domesticity, gender, religion, and the new science). Open to all students.

CRN	93431	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 356
Title	Sightseeing: Vision and the Image in the Early Modern Period
Professor	Susan Merriam
Schedule	Mon 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm FISHER ANNEX

Examines the complex relationship between theories of vision, and the production and reception of images, in European art and culture of the early modern period (ca. 1500-1750). Objects of study will include: visual technologies (optical devices such as the camera obscura, telescope, and "peepbox"); perspective systems and their distortion; the curious and the connoisseurial eye; visions of the divine (the experience of miraculous apparitions); the ways vision and imagery were associated with desire; evidentiary theory; the representation of sight. Open to all moderated students.

CRN	93322	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 365
Title	Seminar in 20th Century Sculpture
Professor	Tom Wolf
Schedule	Th 10:30 am - 12:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

A brief survey of the sculpture of the 20th century is followed by a close examination of several specific topics, including the work of Auguste Rodin and Constantin Brancusi, the Surrealist object, and the development of installation art. There will be several class trips to see collections of modern sculpture. The class is open to qualified students with the permission of the instructor.

CRN	93858	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 377
Title	Word and Image: New Brutalism and the Architectural Avant-Garde, 1950-1980
Professor	Noah Chasin
Schedule	Wed 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm FISHER ANNEX

The architectural avant-gardes of the 1920s and 1930s are well known, but the neo-avant-gardes of the postwar period embody an equally rich and perhaps more diverse set of issues. This course will investigate a series of these avant-gardes through the comparison and contrasting of their written texts and their built and unbuilt projects. We will use as a focal point the immediate postwar period, when the movement known as New Brutalism presented a critique of International-style Modernism. Along the way we will discuss the interrelationships between art and architectural movements (such as the connection between New Brutalism and Pop Art), and conclude with debates surrounding Postmodernism. Each particular avant-garde moment will be discussed in terms of its political and sociological context, as well as in terms of points of connection and departure with developments in contemporaneous artistic avant-gardes. “How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists, then believe what they’ve said when they see it in print.” -Karl Kraus (1915)

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CRN	93432	Distribution	A
Course No.	BGC 110 / ARTH
Title	Introduction to the History of the Decorative Arts, 1400 to the Present
Professor	Tom Wolf
Schedule	Wed Thur 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

This class will survey the history of the decorative arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Decorative arts, including furniture, fashion, textiles, ceramics, glass and metal work, will be presented in the contexts of their historical moments and their specific cultures. Formal, technical, and aesthetic questions will also be considered. A consideration of the traditions of non-Western countries will make up about one third of the course, and interactions between cultures will be a recurrent theme. This is an experimental course, taught by four Ph.D. students from the Bard Center for the History of the Decorative Arts under the supervision of Professor Wolf. One or more trips to museums to see decorative arts collections will be included; as an introductory survey the class is open to all levels of student.