CRN	14163	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 102
Title	Perspectives in World Art II
Professor	Susan Aberth
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 102

This course, the second half of a two-semester survey, will continue to explore the visual arts worldwide. Beginning in the fourteenth century and ending in the present, the class will survey painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as works in newer media (such as photography, video, and performance). The class will encompass works from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, arranged chronologically in order to provide a more integrated historical context for their production. In addition to the course textbook, readings will be chosen to broaden critical perspectives and to present different methodological approaches. This course is designed for those students with no background in art history as well as for those who may be contemplating a major either in art history or studio. Students who have taken part one of this course will be given preferential enrollment. First and second years students are encouraged to enroll.

CRN	14165	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH / PHOT 113
Title	History of Photography
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Photography

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.

CRN	14166	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 126
Title	Architecture since 1945
Professor	Noah Chasin
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 301

This survey course will address major transformations in architectural practice and debate from the end of World War II until the present. The focus will be on the various critiques and challenges that were aimed at the modernist discourses of the earlier part of the century, beginning with Team 10/New Brutalism and encompassing regionalism, neorationalism, corporate modernism, postmodernism, so-called "blob" architecture, and various permutations in and around these different models. Attention will also be paid to alternative and experimental practices that deal with Pop Art, cybernetic, semiological, and new media discourses. The course will conclude with the emergence of globalization and advanced information technologies and their impact on built form. Open to all students, with priority given to those with previous architectural history experience.

CRN	14167	Distribution	A/D
Course No.	ARTH 160
Title	Survey of Latin American Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: LAIS, SRE

Related interest: AADS

This course will provide a broad overview of art and cultural production in Latin America including: South America, Central America, Mexico and the hispanophone Caribbean. Beginning with a survey of major Pre-Columbian monuments, the class will then go on to examine the contact between Europe and the Americas during the colonial period, the Eurocentrism of the nineteenth century, and finally the re-affirmation of national identity in the modern era. Open to all students.

CRN	14168	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 213
Title	The Classical Tradition in Western Architecture
Professor	Diana Minsky
Schedule	Mon Wed 7:00 pm - 8:20 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: Classical Studies

This lecture-based class traces classicism, one of the dominant strains of Western design, in public architecture from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its presence in contemporary America in order to understand its evolving political iconography (both democratic and dictatorial). After defining the formal vocabulary, major monuments, and symbolic associations of its Greek and Roman roots, the central section of the class will focus on the Italian Renaissance's revival and reinvention of the classical vocabulary through the birth of archaeology, the writing of architectural treatises, and the adaptation of classical types to Christian functions. Next, the class explores the impact of Enlightenment interpretations, the discovery of Pompeii, and the opening up of Greece on classical revival monuments. The final weeks study the role of classical architecture in America from Thomas Jefferson to Post-Modernism.

Requirements include tests, a series of short critical essays, and a field trip to New York City. Open to all students.

CRN	14170	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

A study of major painters and sculptors of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome, focusing on the works of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. The class considers the origin and development of a monumental style in Italian art and concludes with an examination of the work of selected mannerist artists.

Open to all students.

CRN	14171	Distribution	A/B
Course No.	ARTH 255
Title	Edith Wharton & Architecture
Professor	Diana Minsky
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 301

Cross-listed: American Studies, Literature

Edith Wharton's first two books, The Decoration of Houses (1902) and Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904), dealt with domestic decoration and design, not fictional domestic drama. An interest in the meaning and appropriateness of architectural styles continued throughout Wharton's career. Wharton situates her characters' public and private lives and their social or moral decisions within a carefully constructed architectural framework. In her short stories and novels, architecture not only sets the stage and mood, but also emerges as a character, chorus, or choreographer, contributing to, commenting on, or controlling the action (or inaction). This course analyzes Wharton's narratives in the context of both her architectural principles and the building boom of the Gilded Age. Requirements include extensive reading (two treatises, four novels, and short stories), analytical essays, class presentations, and field trips to local Gilded Age buildings. Permission of instructor required. Limited to fourteen students.

CRN	14460	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 267
Title	Introduction to 20^th Century Art
Professor	Michael Lobel
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 102

THIS IS A REQUIRED COURSE FOR SOPHOMORES PLANNING TO MODERATE INTO STUDIO ART.

This class is designed to familiarize Studio Art majors with the leading artists and art movements of the modern period. The history of modern art will be surveyed through examination of works of art, analysis of writings by artists and critics, and in-class discussion. This course replaces the Sophomore Seminar (Art 230) as a required course for prospective studio majors and enrollment priority will be given to those students. Enrollment is limited to twenty-five students.

CRN	14172	Distribution	A/D
Course No.	ARTH 269
Title	Revolution, Social Change, and Art in Latin America
Professor	Susan Aberth
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Human Rights, LAIS, SRE

Related interest: AADS, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The use of art in the service of political change has been pervasive throughout the history of Latin America, from colonial times to the present. This course will first examine the role that Christian iconography played in the Conquests of the sixteenth century, and how that same iconography took on radical new meanings as time went on. We will then investigate the visual strategies employed in the presentation of the “heroes” of Independence movements (Bolívar, Hidalgo, etc.), and how art contributed to the formation of national identities. In the twentieth century we begin with an analysis of the Mexican Mural Movement and how the artists involved promoted and reaffirmed the nation’s new leftist political policies in public spaces. Also covered will be printmaking as a political tool, the use of the image of Che Guevara as martyr and catalyst for social change, murals in Nicaragua, art by Chicano activists in the United States, and the role of folk art traditions. The course will end with a look at the use of performance, installation and video as a means of promoting dialogue on such complex issues as the “Border,” racism, feminism, and the AIDS epidemic. Open to all students.

CRN	14173	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 272
Title	The European Baroque
Professor	Susan Merriam
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: French Studies, Italian Studies
A survey of seventeenth-century European art, with emphasis on major figures including Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. We will consider the social and historical circumstances in which works of art were produced as well as their formal aspects. Topics to be addressed include: the baroque as a pan-European sensibility; artistic negotiation of personal style, princely perogative, papal authority, and the demands of the market; collecting and connoisseurship; the rise of academies; studio practice; illusionistic painting and architecture. At least one museum visit will be scheduled. Open to all students.

CRN	14164	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 278
Title	American Art, 1865-1945
Professor	Julia Rosenbaum
Schedule	Tu Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: American Studies

A survey examining the relationship between art and culture, from the aftermath of the Civil War to the rise of Abstract Expressionism. The careers of individual painters, sculptors, and photographers are studied within the context of social, political, and artistic movements. Covering a range of media and genres, the course will address the marketing and reception of art as well as comparison to European artistic interests of the same period. Topics include “modernity” and nationalism; the arts and crafts movement; documentary vs. aesthetic photography; professionalization in the art world; the West and the frontier spirit; World’s Fairs and cultural propaganda; African-American experience and the Harlem Renaissance; the Mexican muralist movement; urban art and the Ashcan school.

Open to all students.

CRN	14174	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 283
Title	Art Since 1945
Professor	Michael Lobel
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 102

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.

CRN	14169	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 284
Title	Gender and the Visual Arts, 1400-1700
Professor	Susan Merriam
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course examines the intersection of gender and visual culture in early modern Europe (1400-1700). During this time, ideas about gender underwent rapid change. We will study how visual culture both reflected and shaped this change, as well as how the practice and theory of art-making was itself engendered. Using a range of materials (painting, works on paper, decorative arts, architecture) we will consider topics such as: differing conditions of artistic practice for men and women; the pictorial reinforcement of cultural ideals (courtship, marriage, the family); the visual critique of perceived threats (witchcraft, prostitution, homosexuality) to societal order; images and sexual desire; the body (anatomical illustration, the nude). At least one museum visit will be scheduled. Open to all students.

CRN	14175	Distribution	A/D
Course No.	ARTH 295
Title	The Arts of India
Professor	Patricia Karetzky
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Weis Cinema

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

Beginning with the most ancient urban civilization, dating to the prehistoric period, the flowering and development of Indian philosophical and religious thought is traced through its expression in the arts, including the culture’s unique exploitation of the sensuous as a metaphor for divinity. Its evolution of an iconic tradition is studied, as are its development of religious architectural forms, narrative painting, and sculpture.

CRN	14177	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 322
Title	Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Routes
Professor	Jean French
Schedule	Mon 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: French Studies, Medieval Studies

This examination of the “renaissance of the 12^th century” follows the major pilgrimage routes through France to the famous shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. An analysis of the great sculptured portals of Burgundy, Provence, Limousin, Perigord, Languedoc, and western France concludes with the royal portals at Saint-Denis and Chartes. Innovations in sculpture and architecture are studied within the contexts of religious and social change, the cult of relics, heresy, troubadour poetry, early drama, and epic, as well as the Crusades. Sculpture from each of the areas studied, now housed in American collections, is a major focus of the course, which includes field trips to New England and New York.

CRN	14179	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH / PHOT 324
Title	Photography and the Modernist Creed
Professor	Laurie Dahlberg
Schedule	Th 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 102

Cross-listed: Photography

In many ways, photography is held to be the medium that most perfectly represents the aims and principles of modernism. This seminar considers European and American photography in its “high modernist” era (1900-40) as a medium shaped by the key texts and events of modernism, such as the writings of Marx, Freud, and Bergson, and World War I. The course investigates some of the lesser-known figures in photography as well as the monoliths of the era, such as Stieglitz and Moholy-Nagy.

Pre-requisite: Any art history or history of photography class.

CRN	14176	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	ARTH 328
Title	Architecture and War
Professor	Noah Chasin
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

Cross-listed: Human Rights

The unique relationship between war and architecture is based on the shared preoccupation with the idea of community. Whereas architecture (and/or urbanism) is the generator of community, war constitutes the systematic destruction of societies and their populations. This seminar will focus on the second half of the twentieth century and the ways in which architecture and urbanism have been affected, transformed, destroyed, and rebuilt throughout various periods of conflict and instability during the past fifty years. We will read critical texts and histories by Manuel De Landa and Paul Virilio (among others), and look at case studies including the totalitarian regimes of the late 1930s and 1940s, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the various Balkan crises, and 9/11 and the rebuilding of the World Trace Center site. Preference will be given to students with a background in modern architectural history.

CRN	14178	Distribution	A
Course No.	ARTH 332
Title	Villas of the Hudson Valley
Professor	Diana Minsky
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm FISHER ANNEX

The villa or country house, as opposed to a working farm, embodies a city dweller's idyllic interpretation of country life. Built more to express an idea than fulfill a function, villa architecture allows its patrons and architects to create innovative means to express the relationship between man and nature. The first month and a half of this seminar will study the characteristics and evolution of the country house from ancient Rome to twentieth-century America before spending the rest of the semester visiting local sites. The architecture of the Hudson Valley played a critical role in the evolution of the country house and landscape garden in America. Using primary sources in their research, students will study local developments and situate them within the context of the history of villa architecture. Requirements include short critical essays, one class presentation, one research paper, and field trips. Permission of the instructor required. Limited to fourteen students.