Course	ARTH 101 Perspectives in World Art
Professor	Diana Minsky
CRN	95372
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Perspectives in World Art is a two-semester course which introduces the breadth and diversity of the visual arts worldwide. Students may take either semester or both. 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 situate them in an integrated historical context. In addition to the course textbook, readings are assigned to broaden critical perspectives and present different methodological approaches. Requirements include two papers, a mid-term, a final, and quizzes. This course is open to all students especially those considering a major in either art history or studio arts. It is designed for students with no background in art history.

Course	ARTH / ART 105 WT Sculpture I: The Practice of Sculpture 1865-1965
Professor	William Tucker
CRN	95184
Schedule	Th 1:30 -4:30 pm Fisher Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: PRACTICING ARTS

See Studio Arts section for description.

Course	ARTH 113 History of Photography
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
CRN	95373
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am CAMPUS WEIS
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Photography, Science, Technology & Society, Victorian Studies

The discovery of photography was announced in 1839, almost simultaneously by several inventors. Born of experiments in art and science, the medium combines vision and technology. It possess a uniquely intimate relation to reality, and for this reason has many applications outside the realm of fine art, but from its inception photography has been a vehicle for artistic aspirations. This survey of the history of photography from its earliest manifestations to the 1970s considers the medium’s applications as, among others, art, science, historical record, and document. The course is open to all students, and is a Prerequisite for most other courses in the history of photography. Priority will be given to students in photography.

Course	ARTH 114 History of the Decorative Arts
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	95375
Schedule	Th 2:30 -3:50 pm PRE 110 Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am PRE 110
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

This class will survey the history of the decorative arts from the Rococo period to post modernism.  Students will explore the evolution of historical styles as they appear in furniture, interiors, fashion, ceramics, metalwork, and graphic and industrial design.  Objects will be evaluated in their historical contexts, and formal, technical, and aesthetic questions will also be considered.  The course is taught by two PhD students from the Bard Center for the History of the Decorative Arts under the supervision of Professor Wolf.  Two or more trips to museums to see decorative arts collections will be included; as an introductory survey the class is open to all students.

Course	ARTH 124 Japanese Arts of Edo Period
Professor	Patricia Karetzky
CRN	95378
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

After a period of five hundred years of civil war, Japan entered the Edo period when a stable government established peace that lasted until the modern era. From 1615 - 1868 Japan and its capital at Edo, the modern Tokyo, underwent a number of dramatic changes which are readily apparent in the art and architecture. This course will examine the variety of painting styles that characterize the Edo period, including the native, western influenced, Zen, genre, and aristocratic, as well the development of print making represented by such masters as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. Contemporary developments in architecture, textiles and ceramics will also be viewed and contemporary literature will be studied for the cultural and historical context it provides for understanding the art. The social and artistic aspects of Edo culture are also viewed as a preparation for modern Japan. No Prerequisites.  

Course	ARTH 125 Modern Architecture from 1850 to 1950
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	95374
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm PRE 110
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

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 social-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. First year students and prospective majors, as well as anyone interested in architecture, are welcome and encouraged to enroll. This course does not require background in the topic.

Course	ARTH 130 Introduction to Visual Culture
Professor	Julia Rosenbaum
CRN	95819
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 – 11:50 am Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS /

This course teaches students how to look at, think about, and describe works of art. It constitutes an introduction to the discipline of art history and to visual artifacts more broadly defined. Texts will include John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Visual Culture Reader, and Henry Sayre, Writing About Art. Frequent short writing assignments will be based on first-hand observation of works of art at nearby museums and galleries. This course is designed for anyone with an interest in, but no formal work, in art history. Preference will be given to prospective majors and first year and arts division students. Limited to 15 students.

Course	ARTH 140 Survey of Islamic Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	95376
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 – 3:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, Theology

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.

Course	ARTH 160 Survey of Latin American Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	95377
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 – 2:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/D	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross-listed: LAIS (core course), SRE, Theology

Related interest: Africana Studies

A broad overview of art and cultural production in Latin America, including South and Central America, Mexico, and the hispanophone Caribbean. A survey of major pre-Columbian monuments is followed by an examination of the contact between Europe and the Americas during the colonial period, 19^th-century Eurocentrism, and the reaffirmation of national identity in the modern era.

Course	ARTH 210 Roman Art and Architecture
Professor	Diana Minsky
CRN	95379
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Theology

This class follows the development of Roman art and architecture from the founding of the city by Romulus in 753 BCE to the transferal of the capital to the east by Constantine in 330 CE. Lectures and discussions will explore how Rome incorporated and synthesized the styles and achievements of conquered peoples (including Etruscans, Greeks, and Egyptians) to produce something entirely new, which not only articulated the nature of the empire, but also established a common artistic vocabulary throughout the Mediterranean basin – a vocabulary which continues to influence. The ability of art and architecture to communicate political policy and the conversion of the Classical into the Christian will number among the themes of the class. This course is open to all students. Requirements will include two papers, a mid-term, a final, and quizzes. Participation in this class qualifies students for consideration for Roma in situ, taught in Rome during January 2006 and at Bard during spring 2006.

Course	ARTH /PHOT 215 Photography in America
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
CRN	95829
Schedule	Wed Fr 12:00 -1:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Photography was one of the first areas of artistic production in which the United States achieved international predominance. This course examines American photographs in the context of the history, art, and literature of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Topics include the daguerreotype’s resonance with transcendental philosophy; the indelible photographic images of the Civil War; photography and the rise of American consumer culture, the progressive movement, and photographic “muckraking”; photography’s place in Stieglitz’s literary/artistic circle; and photography and American postwar social alienation.

Course	ARTH 220 Early Medieval Art and Architecture
Professor	Jean French
CRN	95381
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies, Classical Studies, Theology

An examination of art from the age of Constantine to 1000 C.E., including catacomb painting, the early Christian basilica and martyrium, the domed churches of the East, and Byzantine mosaics and icons. The class explores the contrasting aesthetic of the migrations, the “animal style” in art, the Sutton Hoo and Viking ship burials, the golden age of Irish art, the Carolingian “renaissance,” the treasures of the Ottonian empire, and the art of the millennium. Special emphasis is given to works in American collections.

Course	ARTH 283 Art Since 1945
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	95383
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am PRE 110
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

This course will consider major movements and trends in art since 1945. We will begin by considering the ascendancy of modernism in the immediate postwar period and go on to examine various challenges to the modernist paradigm that emerged in subsequent decades. The course will focus on European and North American art but will also incorporate Asian and Latin American art, particularly in the context of increasing globalization. Particular attention will be paid to issues of identity and difference, uses of new media, and debates about political and ideological critique in recent artistic practices. This class is open to all students, although priority will be given to those with some background in modern art.

Course	ARTH 298 The History of the Museum
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	95382
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society

Examines the history of the museum from the Renaissance to the present. Traces the transformation of early collecting and display practices into the first modern “survey” museum, and considers the emergence of alternatives to this model. Particular attention given to critiques of the museum (including critiques of exclusivity and cultural insensitivity), as well as to problems in contemporary museum practice (such as contested provenance and the issue of restitution). Other topics to be addressed include: the museum as memory and memorial; the role played by the museum in the wake of new world discovery and European colonization; collections as sites for producing knowledge; artists’ intervention in the museum; the virtual collection; the gallery and the museum; the logic and politics of display. The class will be conducted as both lecture and discussion. Papers will involve researching and analyzing aspects of a museum or exhibition in New York or New England.

Open to all students.

Course	ARTH 331 Venetian Painting of the Renaissance
Professor	Jean French
CRN	95384
Schedule	Mon 4:30 -6:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Italian Studies

An introduction to the major painters of the Venetian School: Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese. Students investigate the development of independent easel painting, the poetic landscapes of Giorgione, the enigmatic Venuses of Titian and Veronese, the pageantry of Venetian narrative cycles, and the special character of Venetian patronage and of the city itself. The class attempts to define those qualities that made for distinctively Venetian style.

Course	ARTH 348 Asian American Artists Seminar
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	95386
Schedule	Fr 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS / RETHINKING DIFFERENCE

Cross listed: Asian Studies

In recent years there has been increasing interest in artists of Asian ancestry who have worked in the United States. The relationships between the artistic traditions of their native lands and their subsequent immersion in American culture provide material for fascinating inquiries concerning biography, style, subject matter and politics. This class will survey some of the central figures involved, and will explore uncharted art historical territory. Key artists studied will include Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isamu Noguchi, Yayoi Kusama and Mariko Mori, as we begin in the early years of the Twentieth century and trace the history of these artists to the present. We will take several field trips to look at works by Asian American artists, and students will present reports to the class.

Course	ARTH 357 Documentary Photography
Professor	Luc Sante
CRN	95387
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Photography may not always tell the truth, but a photograph is helpless not to give away certain truths about the time it records. This course will, first of all, trace the evolution of documentary photography from 1839 to the present--photojournalism, travel and exploration photography, evidentiary photography, street photography, and the subjective hybrids practiced by artists such as Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. It will consider how formal conventions have affected content in various photographic practices that present themselves as documentary, and ask whether many former hallmarks of verity have not been fatally compromised. Throughout we will engage in reading photographs, less like critics than like detectives. One paper or presentation will be required halfway through, and a take-home exam at the end of the term.

Course	ARTH 385 Art Criticism and Methodology
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	95385
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: ANALYSIS OF ARTS

Cross-listed: Philosophy and the Arts

This seminar, designed primarily for art history majors, helps students develop the ability to think critically about a range of different approaches to the field of art history. Students read and discuss a variety of texts in order to become familiar with the discipline’s development. Methodologies such as connoisseurship, cultural history, Marxism, feminism, and post-modernism are analyzed.