ART HISTORY

CRN

 10300

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 102

Title

The History of Western Art II

Professor

 Aruna D'Souza

Schedule

 Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Italian Studies

The second half of the survey of western art will continue chronologically beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the twentieth century. The class will focus on a limited number of works and artists that reflect major artistic and cultural trends. While the first half of the class is not required for enrollment in the second, it will facilitate understanding, since continuity and dialogue over time will be issues. The architecture and urbanism of Bernini's St. Peter's, the portraits of Rembrandt, and the innovations of Picasso (Guernica will be our focal point), will number among the topics discussed. Beyond learning the specifics of the works covered in class, the aim of the course is visual literacy: giving students a critical vocabulary for discussing and interpreting art.

CRN

 10427

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 227

Title

Creating a Capital: Urban Intervention in the City of Rome from the Age of Augustus to the Present

Professor

 Diana Minsky

Schedule

 Mon Wed 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Italian Studies

Politicians and popes from the Emperor Augustus to the current Italian government, conscious of the historical significance of urban topography and architectural type, have crafted Rome into a capital that suits their 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 on-going dialogue between the past and present in the city of Rome.

CRN

 10188

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 231

Title

The High Renaissance

Professor

 Jean French

Schedule

 Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Italian Studies

Major painters and sculptors of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome are studied. Focusing on the works of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo, the course considers the origin and development of a monumental style in Italian art and concludes with an examination of the work of selected Mannerist artists.

CRN

 10190

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 262

Title

Twentieth-Century Northern Art

Professor

 Tom Wolf

Schedule

 Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 102

Fri 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: German Studies

This course focuses on German art of this century, with a brief look at some Scandinavian and Austrian art as well. The emphasis is on art in Germany from Jugendstil through expressionism, dadaism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Nazi and concentration camp art, and post-World War II developments. Artists studied include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and George Grosz. The course concludes with an investigation of how recent artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter connect to previous German artistic tendencies.

CRN

 10191

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 270

Title

History of African Art and Architecture

Professor

 Anne Bertrand

Schedule

 Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 102

Cross-listed: AADS

This introductory course will survey the vast array of the different art forms created on the African continent from the prehistoric era to the present one. We will approach our study of African art by looking at a selection of the artistic production of the most important cultural centers of the seven geographic subdivisions of the continent: Egypt and Nubia, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa, West Africa and the Guinea Coast, Sahel and Savanna, as well as North Africa. We will discuss such topics as colonialism and "primitivism".

CRN

 10194

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 276

Title

Chinese Religious Art

Professor

 Patricia Karetzky

Schedule

 Th 1:30 pm - 4:10 pm OLIN 102
The major religious ways of thought in China - Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism - have had a deep influence on the moral and spiritual development of Chinese culture. Each of these religious movements had a different kind of impact, but all found expression in the arts and architecture of China. This course will study the evolution of religious art and architecture in China through its various dynasties. Material includes the mystical arts of ancient Sichuan, the cosmological symbolism of the Ming Tang Hall, the imagery associated with the Taoist arts of the prolongation of life, the importation of Buddhism from India and its adaptation in China, ancient Buddhist cave temples, the development of the pagoda, the evolution of Confucianism into an institutional religion, and contemporary popular religion. Literary, religious and historical sources are considered.

CRN

 10193

Distribution

 A/C

Course No.

 ARTH 360

Title

Fin de Siecle:Seminar in Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts

Professor

 Tom Wolf

Schedule

 Fri 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 301
Combining lectures, discussions, and student reports, this seminar will study artistic developments in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century. We will begin with a survey of anti-realist tendencies in the 1880's and 1890's in the works of artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Aubrey Beardsley. Then we will examine related developments in photography and the decorative art styles of Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts, concluding with a study of the impact of these trends in the United States.