Course	ARTH 102 Perspectives in World Art II
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	16378
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross listed: Africana Studies, LAIS

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 year students are encouraged to enroll. On-line

Course	ARTH 122 Survey of African Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	16474
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, SRE

This introductory course surveys the vast array of art forms created on the African continent from the prehistoric era to the present, as well as arts of the diaspora in Brazil, the Americas, Haiti, etc. In addition to sculpture, masks, architecture and metalwork, we will examine beadwork, textiles, jewelry, house painting, pottery, and other decorative arts. Some of the topics to be explored will be implements of divination, royal regalia, the role of performance, music and dance, funerary practices, and the incorporation of western motifs and materials. All students welcome. On-line

Course	ARTH 194 Arts of Buddhism
Professor	Patricia Karetzky
CRN	16379
Schedule	Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Religion

Buddhism began in India around the sixth century B.C.E. with the philosophical meditations of the historic Buddha. Self-reliance and discipline were the primary means to achieve release from suffering. Within five hundred years the philosophy, responding to external forces, evolved into a religion incorporating new ideologies of eschatology of the Buddha of the Future and of paradisiacal cults. A new pantheon of deities appeared with the powers to aid mankind in its search for immortality. Buddhist pictorial art begins with auspicious emblems representing key ideas of the doctrine and anthropomorphic images of the Buddha; later, the new pantheon is formulated and employed in the art. This course analyzes the development of Buddhist art in India from its earliest depictions and its transmission through Southeast Asia, Central Asia, to China and Japan.

Course	ARTH 216 Leonardo’s Last Supper and the Reception of Renaissance Iconography
Professor	Diana Minsky
CRN	16384
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Italian Studies; Science, Technology & Society

This seminar-style class will situate Leonardo's recently restored Last Supper within the Renaissance tradition of Last Suppers and depictions of the life of Christ by studying the evolution of the interpretation of this painting. While our primary texts will be Leo Steinberg's Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper (2000) and his controversial Sexuality of Christ (1983), other reading will include Vasari, Leonardo, Goethe, Freud, Panofsky, Clark, Kemp, and Pedretti. Students will be expected to have read Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (2003) prior to the beginning of class so that we can consider the validity of its assertions. Requirements will include critical essays and class presentations. Some knowledge of Renaissance art, literature, or culture will prove helpful. Permission of the instructor required.

Course	ARTH 227 Roman Urbanism from Romulus to Rutelli (753 BCE-2000CE)
Professor	Diana Minsky
CRN	16385
Schedule	Tu Th 4:00 -5:20 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Classics and Italian Studies

Politicians and popes -- from the city’s founder, Romulus, to recent governments (including Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome) -- have made conscious use of the historical significance of Rome’s topography and architecture to craft a capital that expresses their evolving ideological aims. This class will focus on the commissioning of large-scale representational architecture, the creation of public space, and the orchestration of streets at seven sites which have been in continuous use since antiquity. By charting the chronological development of these sites, we will examine the ongoing dialogue between the past and present in Rome. Ideally, students should come to the class with some knowledge of either the art, architecture, or politics of Rome during some period of its history. Requirements will include critical essays, quizzes, and class presentations. Permission of the instructor required. Completion of this class qualifies students for consideration for Roma in situ, to be taught in Rome during January 2007.

Course	ARTH 229 Topics in Contemporary Latin American Art
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	16380
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: LAIS

Related Interest: Africana Studies

This course will present a comprehensive overview of the artistic practices and intellectual discourses relevant to contemporary art production in Latin America. Painting, sculpture, photography, video, glass, ceramics, textiles, performance and installation art will all be examined, along with the theoretical issues that inform them. Some of the many topics to be discussed include post-colonial theory, the history of abstraction in Latin America, national identities, the legacy of Muralism, religious syncretism, ecologies, and Border issues. Although this course is open to all students, taking Survey of Latin American Art prior to this is highly suggested. On-line

Course	ARTH 230 The Early Renaissance
Professor	Jean French
CRN	16381
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Italian Studies; Science, Technology & Society

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. On-line

Course	ARTH 261 Realism and Impressionism
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	16386
Schedule	Wed Th 10:30 - 11:50 am CAMPUS WEIS
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: French Studies

French painting in the mid-19^th century if often considered on the high points of the history of European art, and many trace the origins of modern art to that place and time. This course surveys two of the movements central to that period. The realists, painters of everyday life, were led by Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. They were followed in the 1860s by the impressionists, among them Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Claude Monet. The careers of these artists are examined as they reacted to the art of the major painters who preceded them and responded to the political and cultural conditions of 19^th century Paris. Open to all students. On-line

Course	ARTH 268 Shantytown, Bidonville, Favelas
Professor	Paul Ramirez / Noah Chasin
CRN	16461
Schedule	Wed 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher St. Arts
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: Practicing Arts

Cross-listed: Studio Art, Human Rights, SRE

The shantytown, the slum, the favela, the bidonville: these communities go by many different names worldwide. By some estimates one third of the world’s urban dwellers live in them. They arise in in-between spaces: the border between two countries, the ring between urban and rural, the unmarked area between downtown and suburb, the sidewalk between shop and street. The results are self-organizing communities that rely on political collaboration, recycling of materials, and an informal architecture based on contingency and necessity.

This course will be both a seminar and studio course. Through readings, slide lectures, discussion, and field trips, we will examine several of these communities. We will also look into how their informal architecture, improvised city planning, and use of recycled materials are influencing non slum-related projects by urban planners, architects, and artists. From the studio perspective, the class will try to negotiate the inherent problem of looking at the some of the world’s poorest communities for aesthetic value and content. Instead of borrowing shanty aesthetics, or making art about the problem (or for the problem), class production will be based on the processes that arise in the shantytown: collaboration, recycling, need, self-organization, and the use of unregulated space. The class itself—through seminar discussions and collaborative projects—will organize itself into a community. Students will participate in several charettes (intensive, design-specific working sessions) throughout the semester. This course is open to any student that has completed at least one level II production course in any media. We encourage non-studio and non-art history majors to enroll. Admission will be at the behest of the instructors.

Course	ARTH 277 The Dutch "Golden Age"
Professor	Susan Merriam
CRN	16382
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: 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. On-line

Course	ARTH 278 Winslow Homer to Jackson Pollock: The Rise of Modernism in America
Professor	Julia Rosenbaum
CRN	16388
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 102
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: American Studies

This course concentrates on early twentieth-century artists and art movements in the United States, from Winslow Homer to Jackson Pollock, from the emergence of photography to the rise of Abstract Expressionism. What have artists and critics meant when they talked about realism and abstraction? How have artists understood their work as modern? What responses have they had to social injustice and war? Covering a range of media and genres, we will explore these and other questions about art making in the context of social and political events. Topics include “modernity” and nationalism; the roles and representation of technology in art; exhibitions and cultural propaganda; artistic identity and gender roles; public art, murals, and social activism. On-line

Course	ARTH 323 Crossroads of Civilization: The Art of Medieval Spain
Professor	Jean French
CRN	16383
Schedule	Mon 4:30 -6:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies, LAIS

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. On-line

Course	ARTH 332 Villas of the Hudson Valley
Professor	Diana Minsky
CRN	16389
Schedule	Fr 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: American Studies

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 villas from ancient Rome to twentieth-century America before spending the rest of the semester visiting local sites where students will present their research. The architecture of the Hudson Valley played a critical role in the evolution of the country house and landscape garden in America. Using local archives in addition to published sources, each student will study an estate and situate it within the context of the history of villa architecture. Requirements include critical essays, one class presentation, one research paper, and field trips. Permission of the instructor required. Limited to fourteen students.

Course	ARTH 336 David Smith: Life and Work in Sculpture
Professor	Michael Brenson
CRN	16392
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

This course is a seminar on the work of David Smith, widely regarded as America's greatest sculptor. While in college he worked on an assembly line in a Studebaker factory in South Bend, which triggered dreams of a community of workers in metal. In 1932, after an early career in painting, Smith encountered the sculpture of Picasso and Julio Gonzalez in reproduction and decided that steel could be his material and sculpture his calling. Over the next thirty years, until his death in 1965, he produced an astonishingly direct and varied yet consistently elusive and finally mythic body of sculpture informed by modernism and magic, and what he called "identity." More than anyone else, he brought American sculpture into the 20th century. Our seminar, which will coincide with and make full use of the centennial Smith retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, will examine the many facets of Smith's art and life. We will consider his work sculpturally, not just in terms of influence and development, but in terms of the complexity of a sculptural language whose syntactical originality has never been adequately understood. We will also study his critical reception, particularly the writings of influential critics like Clement Greenberg, Hilton Kramer and Rosalind Krauss. His own writings (and their relationship to the writings of other Abstract Expressionists, such as Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko) and politics will be another area of study. At the close of the seminar, we will attempt to put the pieces together and speculate on big questions about the work’s meaning over time, and his “legacy” to American Art.

Course	ARTH 367 Feminism and Art in the United States
Professor	Tom Wolf
CRN	16393
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies

This seminar will study the intertwined relationship between women’s liberation and art in the United States during the Twentieth century.  We will look at the role of women in the Arts and Crafts movement and the art and artists associated with the Suffragist movement around 1900.  In the second half of the course we will study “Second Wave” feminism of the 1970s as manifested in the art world, and examine how it relates to its predecessors.  Students will present reports to the class about selected women artists, or about issues concerning the interplay between art and women’s political issues.  We will read classic documents of feminist art history and theory including texts by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Linda Nochlin. The class is open to Upper College students and others with the permission of the instructor. On-line

Course	ARTH 375 Mexican Muralism
Professor	Susan Aberth
CRN	16390
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Annex
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: Analysis of Arts

Cross-listed: Human Rights, LAIS

In the decades following the Mexican Revolution muralists, largely sponsored by the new leftist government, strove to convey utopian notions of nationhood in order to generate an awareness of patriotic values among the masses.  Popular themes included scenes of Revolutionary combat, the Spanish conquest, the social customs and festivals of Mexico's indigenous population, and glorified conceptions of the country's pre-Hispanic past.  This course will examine the movement's philosophical origins, the murals of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros, and the work of lesser known Mexican muralists.  Also studied will be the movement's wide ranging impact on murals executed under the WPA in the United States throughout the 1930s, in Nicaragua during the 1970s, in urban Chicano communities, and in recent contemporary art.  Students will be required to write an extensive research paper and give an oral presentation with slides.  Survey of Latin American Art is highly suggested, but not required.  Special permission of the instructor. On-line

Course	ARTH 385 Art Criticism and Methodology
Professor	Noah Chasin
CRN	16391
Schedule	Th 9:30 - 11:50 am 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.