Professor: J. Barringer
CRN: 11414
Distribution:
A/C
Time: Tu Th 10:30 am - 11:50 am OLIN 102
A survey of Western art (painting, sculpture, and architecture) from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, including works of the Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and twentieth-century developments (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Abstract Expressionism). The emphasis is on cultural context, including social, historical, religious, and political developments.
Professor: J. French
CRN: 11413
Distribution:
A/C
Time: M 3:40 pm - 5:40 pm OLIN 102
cross-listed: French Studies, Italian
Studies
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 will be analyzed within a
wider cultural context. Consideration will be given to the evolution of form, style, technique, and
iconography, to contemporary artistic theory, and to the changing role of the artist in
society.
Professor: T. Wolf
CRN: 11418
Distribution:
A/C
Time: Th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 115
A survey of the major issues and the major artists involved in the sculpture of the twentieth century. Beginning with Rodin in the late nineteenth century and ending with minimal art in the 1960s, the course will examine the various media, styles, and subjects investigated by Picasso, Brancusi, Giacometti, David Smith, and others.
Professor: E. Frank
CRN: 11417
Distribution:
A/C
Time: W 10:30 am - 12:30 pm OLIN 102
cross-listed: American Studies
The course will be organized around formal and contextual analysis of four great American
painters: Eakins, Homer, Pollock and de Kooning. Through a variety of approaches, each artist's
relationship to his generation and to both European and American painting will be the focus of
inquiry. The larger purpose of the course will be to construct questions and locate problems in
positing a specifically American tradition in painting. Some background in American and
European art history preferred but not required.
Professor: P. Karetzky
CRN: 11420
Distribution:
A/C
Time: Th 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm OLIN 102
cross-listed: Asian Studies
Unlike most surveys of India and the Far East, this course will be divided into three
sections--India, China, and Japan. Each section will have five lectures, and each lecture will be
devoted to
one major monument. The lectuer will focus on all aspects of the monument--history,
construction, decorative program, iconography, style, and cultural context. Such monuments
include Sanchi stupa, the Ellora cave chapels and the Taj Mahal in India and in China the
excavated site of Anyang with its ancient finds, the Buddhist cave temples of Dunhuang, the zen
temple of Daitokuji in Japan. In this way the student will get an introduction to ASian art and
culture as well as an in depth knowledge of its major monuments.
Professor: J. French
CRN: 11416
Distribution:
A/C
Time: Tu 3:40 pm - 5:40 pm OLIN 301
cross-listed: French, Irish & Celtic, and
Medieval Studies
This course examines the "golden age" of Ireland and the age of Beowulf, Celtic and
Anglo-Saxon metalwork, illumination, myth, and legend. It analyzes Irish art in pagan times, the
luxury
manuscripts of the Irish monasteries (such as the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kelly), and the
intricacies of the goldsmith's art (the Tara brooch, the Sutton Hoo treasure).
Professor: J. Barringer
CRN: 11415
Distribution:
A/C
Time: Tu 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm OLIN 301
cross-listed: Italian Studies
Baroque Rome was one of the most glorious periods in the city's history and in the history of art.
This course examines architecture (especially church and palace architecture), urban planning,
sculpture, and painting in Rome in the seventeenth century, including the works of Bernini,
Borromini, Caravaggio, Maderno, the Carracci, Il Guercino, Reni, Pozzo, Poussin, and Claude
Lorrain. Special attention will be given to historical, religious, and social developments, and to the
interaction of the arts. Topics to be addressed include patronage (papal and otherwise), the
relationship of the contemporary city to that of the past, the roles of the Counter-Reformation and
the Jesuit order, and the impact on art beyond Rome.
Professor: T. Wolf
CRN: 11419
Distribution:
A/C
Time: W 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm OLIN 301
of related interest: Victorian Studies
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.