Course	ARTH 101 Perspectives in World Art I
Professor	Nicholas Napoli
CRN	97363
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Perspectives in World Art introduces the breadth and diversity of the visual arts worldwide over the course of two semesters. Students may take either semester or both. The first semester class examines painting, sculpture, architecture, and other artifacts from the Paleolithic period through the 14th century. The works, studied chronologically to create an integrated historical context, come from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Readings, outside the course textbook, will broaden critical perspectives and present different methodological approaches. Requirements include two papers, a mid-term, a final, and two quizzes. This course fulfills one requirement for moderating into Art History. Open to all students.

Course	ARTH 114 Introduction to the History of Design and Decorative Arts
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	97167
Schedule	Wed Th 10:30 - 11:50 am AVERY 117
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: STS

A survey of decorative arts from the rococo period to postmodernism. Students explore the evolution of historical styles as they appear in furniture, interiors, fashion, ceramics, metalwork, and graphic and industrial design. Objects are evaluated in their historical contexts, and formal, technical, and aesthetic questions are also considered. Two or more trips to museums to see decorative arts collections are included.

Course	ARTH 126 Architecture since 1945
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	97353
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: STS

A survey of the major transformation in architectural practice and debate since the end of World War II, with a focus on the challenges aimed at the modernist discourses of the early 20^th century. These challenges begin with Team 10's critique of the historical avant-garde and encompass regionalism, neorationalism, corporate modernism, so-called “blob” architecture, and various permutations of these models. Attention is also paid to alternative and experimental practices that deal with pop art, cybernetic, semiological, and new media discourses. The course concludes with the impact on built form of globalization and advanced information technologies.

Course	ARTH 195 Monuments of Asian Art
Professor	Patricia Karetzky
CRN	97359
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Reem Kayden Cntr 103
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

The Monuments of Asia Art is an introduction to the great cultures of India, China and Japan. The course is divided into three sections, with a series of five lectures devoted to each area. The major artistic monuments, painting, and sculpture, will be discussed in terms of their unique characteristics. Religious traditions include Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam in India; Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism in China; and Shinto and Buddhism in Japan. Secular artistic traditions – both pictorial and literary are also studied in the respective societies along with an analysis of their particular artistic format and stylistic evolution.

Course	ARTH 212 The Handmaiden’s Tale: 19th Century Photography and Fine Art
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
CRN	97355
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Annex
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: STS

Photography led a tortured path into the precincts of fine art, and this course explores that fractious history. We begin by studying the pre-existing debate over realism in art that forms the “backstory” for the complicated reception of photography, and work forward to the so-called Pictorialist movement at the end of the 19^th century. Along the way, we will discuss topics such as: photography’s status as “the bastard child of art and science,” “passing (i.e., how to make photographs that look like art)” photography and art pedagogy, pornography, the fine art nude, and Victorian mores, photography’s role in the “liberation” of painting, and the 20^th century repudiation of the 19^th century photography’s art aspirations. The course will take a hybrid seminar/lecture format, and will include significant weekly readings, at least two medium-length writing assignments, and two exams. A trip to the Met’s “British Calotypes” exhibition is planned.

Course	ARTH 219 Art of the Northern Renaissance
Professor	Jean French
CRN	97357
Schedule	Mon Wed 12 noon -1:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Related interest: STS

A survey of painting in Flanders, the Netherlands, and Germany during the 15^th and 16^th centuries. The course opens with an examination of the remarkable innovations of Flemish and Dutch artists working abroad, primarily under the patronage of the French court. It then shifts to the emergence, in the North, of new forms of painting in the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Jan van Eyck, and Rogier van der Weyden. The class examines developments in landscape and portraiture (including engagement and marriage portraits), the use of oils, and changing patronage as well as the influence of various philosophical and religious movements, including nominalism, the Devotio moderna, and mysticism. Particular attention is paid to controversial works (alleged references to alchemy, witchcraft, and heretical sects in the paintings of Bosch) and recent interpretations of old favorites (The Arnolfini Wedding of van Eyck).

Course	ARTH 232 Italian Renaissance Architecture
Professor	Nicholas Napoli
CRN	97364
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross listed: Italian Studies

Cross-listed: STS

This class traces the development of architecture and urbanism in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. Proceeding more or less chronologically from Florence to Rome and Venice, the class situates the architecture and ideas of Brunelleschi, Alberti, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Palladio (yes! they were all architects) within their political and theological context in order to decode their meaning. It focuses on how the Renaissance’s complicated relationship with antiquity gave birth to both archaeology (the study of the material remains of the past) and architectural theory (the formulation of suitable ideas for the future). The second half of the class explores how the demands of the Counter Reformation modified architectural form and theory, while the conclusion will consider how the achievements in Italy affected France, Spain, and England. Requirements include a mid-term, final, critical essays, and quizzes. Open to all students.

Course	ARTH 240 Rights and/to the City: Topics in Human Rights & Urbanism
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	97354
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course); STS

The course will explore the often-contested terrain of urban contexts, looking at cities from architectural, sociological, historical, and political positions. What do rights have to do with the city? Can the ancient idea of a "right to the city" tell us something fundamental about both rights and cities? Our notion of citizenship is based in the understanding of a city as a community, and yet today why do millions of people live in cities without citizenship? The course will be organized thematically in order to discuss such issues as the consequences of cities' developments in relation to their peripheries (beginning with the normative idea of urban boundaries deriving from fortifying walls), debates around the public sphere, nomadic architecture and urbanism, informal settlements such as slums and shantytowns, surveillance and control in urban centers, refugees and the places they live, catastrophes (natural and man-made) and reconstruction, and sovereign areas within cities (the United Nations, War Crimes Tribunals). Students will do two position papers and one research paper. Admittance is at the professor’s discretion.

Course	ARTH 257 Art in the Age of Revolution: European Painting 1760-1860
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
CRN	97356
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am CAMPUS WEIS
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

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 Corot, Courbet, David, Delacroix, Géricault, Greuze, Ingres, and Vigée-Lebrun; Constable, Friedrich, Goya, and Turner are also considered.

Course	ARTH 269 Revolution, Social Change, and Art in Latin America
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	97166
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm PRE 110
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Human Rights, LAIS, SRE

This course examines the role that Christian iconography played in the conquests of the 16^th century and the radical new meanings that same iconography took as time went on; it also reviews the visual strategies employed in the presentation of the “heroes” of independence movements (Simón Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo) and how art contributed to the formation of national identities. It considers the 20^th century Mexican mural movement and how the artists involved promoted and reaffirmed the nation’s new leftist political policies in public spaces. Other topics include printmaking as a political tool; the use of Che Guevara’s image as a catalyst for social change; murals in Nicaragua; art in Chicano activists in the United States; and the role of folk art traditions. The course concludes with a look at the use of performance, installation, and video as a means to promoting dialogue on such complex issues as the border, racism, feminism, and AIDS.

Course	ARTH 277 The Dutch "Golden Age"
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	97360
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 102
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society

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.

Course	ARTH 298 History of the Museum
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	97361
Schedule	Wed Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	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. Open to all students.

Course	ARTH 320 Celtic Art from Beginnings through Viking Invasions
Professor	Jean French
CRN	97358
Schedule	Mon 4:30 -6:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Irish and Celtic Studies; Medieval Studies

Through a study of archaeological remains, myths and sagas, and non-narrative art, this course explores the origin and identity of the Celts, the rich variety of their material way of life, their institutions, and their attitudes toward the supernatural. The course begins with the Continental Celts, who left their treasures throughout Iron Age Europe, from the Balkans in the east to France and Spain in the west. Students become familiar with chariot graves and their princely goods; sanctuaries devoted to the “cult of the head”; and swords, helmets, cauldrons, torques, and bracelets – all decorated with the swirling and intricate patters of the Celtic imagination. Also studied are the migration of the Celts to Ireland and Britain, prehistoric passage graves (Newgrange, Dowth, and Knowth), Irish gold ornaments, dwellings, fortifications, sacred sites, and mysterious stones (fring forts, crannogs, Navan Fort, the Hill of Tara, etc.). Traditions associated with the coming of Christianity include the beehive huts and oratories of ascetic monks and the high crosses and round towers that even today dot the landscape. The course concludes with an examination of Celtic objects found in Viking and Anglo-Saxon graves (Sutton Hoo), as well as the cultural impact of Viking raids and settlements in Celtic Ireland. Open to students in various disciplines, sophomores through seniors.

Course	ARTH / PHOT 343 Vernacular Photography
Professor	Luc Sante
CRN	97366
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm Woods
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

This course addresses the many purposes to which photography has been put outside the realm of art. Students consider the studio portrait, the postmortem portrait, journalistic photography, scientific photography, forensic photography, “spirit” and Kirlian photography, erotic photography, advertising photography, fumetti, and the snapshot. Students study methods of production and reproduction – the carte de vistie, the postcard, the Fotomat, the Polaroid – in their social and historical contexts. Discussion topics include how photographs change their meaning over time, how they insinuate themselves into the unconscious, and the human desire for narrative.

Course	ARTH / REL 343 Popular Arts in Modern India
Professor	Richard Davis
CRN	97198
Schedule	Tu 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 309
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Art History, Asian Studies

See Religion section for description.

Course	ARTH 348 Asian American Artists Seminar
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	97365
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	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 surveys some of the central figures involved and explores uncharted art historical territory. Key artists studied include Yum Gee, Yasua Kuniyoshi, Isamu Moguchi, Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Mariko Mori.

Course	ARTH 375 Mexican Muralism
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	97352
Schedule	Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Annex
Distribution	Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: LAIS

This course examines the muralism movement’s philosophical origins in the decades following the Mexican Revolution, the murals of Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros, the Tres Grandes (“The Three Great Ones”); and the work of lesser-known Mexican muralists. Also considered is the muralism movement’s wide-ranging impact on murals executed under the WPA in the United States throughout the 1930s, in Nicaragua during the 1970s, and in urban Chicano communities. Prerequisite: Art History 101-102, or 160 or permission of the instructor.

Course	ARTH 385 Art Criticism and Methodology
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	97362
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	Analysis of 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.