HISTORY OF ART 3605H

EAST-WEST PHOTOGRAPHY(HONORS)

Professor Namiko Kunimoto

This course will explore major developments in Chinese art from 1850 to the present, with particular interest in how artists defined themselves in the context of radical social and economic changes, periods of destructive warfare, and an increasingly international art world.

This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used by artists in Asia. We will examine in-depth the practical aspects of the production of sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, mandalas, and other media. This emphasis on technique will be balanced by discussions of the ways that a work’s materiality shapes and activates its meaning.

This course will begin with the emergence of photography and will examine the medi-um’s pivotal role in shaping relations between Asia and the West. We will explore early portraiture, architectural sites, colonial tourism, popular culture, family photographs, and contemporary art photography. No previous experience in Asian art or photography required.

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 33927TUES & THURS 2:20-3:40

Fulfills these GE requirements:

VPA.

WORLD CINEMA TODAYMark Svede

This course will survey the best of world cinema within the past decade or two, includ-ing representative examples of national cinemas, such as (potentially, since the selections would change) Iranian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indian; ethnic cinemas, such as (potential-ly) Kurdish, Jewish diaspora, and Quebecois; regional cinemas, such as (potentially) East-ern European and Middle Eastern cinemas; continental cinemas, such as African and South American; global cinema, such as Euro-American, Hong Kong, and Dogme 95; and the cinemas of civilizations, such as Islamic, Judeo-Christian, and Confucian. Not all these cat-egories, or others that are possible, are represented in any given quarter.

HISTORY OF ART 3901

AUTUMN 2016

Call # 23681WEDS & FRI 2:20-3:40

This course will explore major developments in Chinese art from 1850 to the present, with particular interest in how artists defined themselves in the context of radical social and economic changes, periods of destructive warfare, and an increasingly international art world.

This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used by artists in Asia. We will examine in-depth the practical aspects of the production of sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, mandalas, and other media. This emphasis on technique will be balanced by discussions of the ways that a work’s materiality shapes and activates its meaning.

This course will survey the best of world cinema within the past decade or two, including representative examples of national cinemas, such as (potentially, since the selections would change) Iranian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indian; ethnic cinemas, such as (poten-tially) Kurdish, Jewish diaspora, and Quebecois; regional cinemas, such as (potentially) Eastern European and Middle Eastern cinemas; continental cinemas, such as African and South American; global cinema, such as Euro-American, Hong Kong, and Dogme 95; and the cinemas of civilizations, such as Islamic, Judeo-Christian, and Confucian. Not all these categories, or others that are possible, are represented in any given quarter.

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 24118TUES & THURS 3:55-5:15

Fulfills the GE requirement for Arts & Humanities -- Visu-al and Performing

Arts (VPA).

Fulfills these GE requirements:

VPA.

ARTISTIC MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES

Professor Christina Mathison

This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used by artists through-out history. We will examine in-depth the practical aspects of the production of sculptures, paintings, prints, mosaics, manuscripts, drawings, textiles, metalwork, and other media. This emphasis on technique will be balanced by discussions of the ways that a work’s ma-teriality shapes and activates its meaning.

HISTORY OF ART 4005

This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used in Asia throughout

history. We will examine the process and techniques involved in the production of Bamboo,

Ceramics, Drawing, Epigraphy, Ivory, Lacquer, Mandalas, Metals, Painting, Paper, Prints, Silk,

Stone, Textiles, and Wood. Lectures and coursework will center around understanding the

media and techniques of these art forms and analyzing the relationship between materials and

meaning. The course will also involve the study of the limitations of some of these media and

the approaches to conservation.

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 34000TUES & THURS 12:45-2:05

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Professor Byron Hamann

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 33928

HISTORY OF ART 4016

A seminar designed to perfect the re-

search and writing skills of advanced

majors in History of Art, this course is

reading and writing intensive. Initial

classroom meetings will be focused on

the discussion of key theoretical and art

historical texts, in which every student

will be required to participate; the over-

all arc of the class is centered around

the writing of a major research paper by

each student.

WEDS & FRI 12:45-2:05

Fulfills these GE requirements:

Diversity (Global) and Arts &

Humanities VPA.

Fulfills these GE requirements:

Historical Studies; VPA.

17th CENTURY ART OF THE NETHERLANDS: SHAPING IDENTITIES,

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND VALUES Professor Barbara Haeger

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 33930

HISTORY OF ART 4531

This course examines the major artists

and varied functions of paintings and

prints created in the northern and south-

ern Netherlands (what we know today as

The Netherlands and Belgium) during

the seventeenth century. The material

has been organized to explore the role

of art in propagating religious beliefs,

facilitating social cohesion, shaping val-

ues, and defining civic, national, and in-

dividual identities. We will also examine

the particular contributions of individu-

al artists (e.g. Rubens, Rembrandt, and

Vermeer) and issues of artistic theory

and practice.

TUES & THURS 3:55-5:15

ASPECTS OF MODERNITY

Professor Danny Marcus

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 25185

HISTORY OF ART 4605

This class explores the emergence of

mass culture and mass politics in Europe

and North America between the 1870s

and the 1920s, a period during which

many of the key institutions of con-

temporary society—from the ‘popular’

press and the democratic franchise to

technologized entertainment and ready-

to-wear fashion—were first introduced

on a large (but not universal) scale. In

lectures and discussions, we will inves-

tigate the many, often divergent, strate-

gies by which artists sought to adapt to,

and participate in, the ‘modernization’

of culture and society; to help direct our

attention, we will work through a hand-

ful of key texts by major historians and

theorists, all of which offer original argu-

ments about the relationship between

art and modernity. Students will be

asked to think critically about the shift-

ing significance of race, class, gender,

and sexuality during the period at issue,

rooting these concerns in close obser-

vation of artworks and cultural artifacts.

WEDS & FRI 2:20-3:40

THE ART OF MODERN CHINA: 1850 TO THE PRESENT

Professor Julia Andrews

AUTUMN 2017

Class # 25186

HISTORY OF ART 4815

This course will explore the ways in

which Chinese artists of the past cen-

tury have defined modernity and tradi-

tion against the complex background

of China’s history. A key issue is the

degree to which artists have chosen

to adopt or adapt Western conven-

tions and the extent to which they have

rejected them. We will examine art

works in different media, including oil

painting, Chinese ink painting, graphic

design, woodblock prints, and recent

installation and video art, along with

documentary and theoretical materials

to investigate the most compelling of

the multiple realities that Chinese art-

ists have constructed for themselves.

TUES & THURS 9:35-10:55