History of Art and Architecture

Faculty of the Department of History of Art and Architecture

Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art (Chair) (on leave spring term)
Qianshen Bai, Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Boston University)
Suzanne P. Blier, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art (on leave 2001-02)
Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art
James Cuno, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Eva R. Hoffman, Visiting Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Tufts University)
Alice G. Jarrard, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave spring term)
Robin E. Kelsey, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave fall term)
David Gordon Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art (Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art (on leave fall term)
David J. Roxburgh, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2001-02)
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Afro-American Studies
John Shearman, Adams University Professor
Rabun Taylor, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave fall term)
Eugene Wang, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2001-02)
Cherie A. Wendelken, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture
Irene J. Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts
Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Director of Graduate Studies)

Museum Associates Offering Instruction in the Department

Marjorie B. Cohn, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture and Carl A. Weyerhauser Curator of Prints in the Harvard University Art Museums
Harry A. Cooper, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Associate Curator of Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums)
Eugene F. Farrell, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Senior Conservation Scientist in the Harvard University Art Museums)
Ivan Gaskell, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of Paintings, Harvard University Art Museums)
Deborah Martin Kao, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums)
Henry William Lie, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Senior Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums)
Robert D. Mowry, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Curator of Chinese Art and Head of Asian Art, Harvard University Art Museums)
Peter Nisbet, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum)
William W. Robinson, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Ian Woodner Curator of Drawings in The Fogg Art Museum)
Stephan S. Wolohojian, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture ( Associate Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts, Harvard University Art Museum)

Courses in the History of Art and Architecture undergraduate curriculum are structured as a three-tier system, consisting of a sequence of entry-level courses, field-specific introductory courses, and upper-level courses. For the concentrator, these are supplemented by tutorials. Passage through the sequence from entry level to more advanced classes is encouraged—particularly for prospective concentrators.

Three entry-level courses are offered, HAA 10, HAA 11, and Literature and Arts B-10, each of which would serve as a point of entry into the courses and concentration of History of Art and Architecture. History of Art and Architecture 12-89 constitute field-specific introductions to the major subfields of art history and their associated methodologies. These introductory courses are intended both for students in the concentration and for non-concentrators with an interest in a particular subject within History of Art and Architecture. History of Art and Architecture 100-199, upper-level courses, tend to focus upon a particular problem or set of materials within a subfield.

Primarily for Undergraduates

History of Art and Architecture 10. The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance
Catalog Number: 4988
Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Concentrating on painting but with reference to other media, the course will examine art between the beginning of Modern Times around 1400 until the present. It will be team taught and organized around specific topics each occupying one week. It will be organized chronologically but will not attempt to cover the material but to highlight important issues, debates, innovations, specific works or artists.

History of Art and Architecture 11. Landmarks of World Architecture
Catalog Number: 3675
Cherie A. Wendelken and members of the Faculty
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Examines great monuments in world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on a building or complex in their area of expertise. These will include St. Peter’s, Guggenheim Museum, Chartres Cathedral, Taj Mahal, Paris Opera, Pompidou Center, Hagia Sophia, temples at Khajuraho, Hôtel de Soubise, and palaces at Katsura, Versailles, and Nineveh. Sections will focus on key questions in the analysis and interpretation of architecture.

[History of Art and Architecture 12x. Introduction to Islamic Architecture (650-1650)]
Catalog Number: 4040
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the major monuments of medieval and early modern architecture in the Islamic world stretching from Spain in the west to the borders of China in the east. Architectural monuments will be examined in their cultural, political, socio-economic, and aesthetic contexts. A highly selective survey, emphasizing the methodological concerns of the field through a focused study of building programs in such monuments as the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem; the Great Mosques of Damascus, Samarra, Cordoba, Marrakesh, Isfahan, Samarqand, Cairo, Istanbul, Delhi and Agra; and other building types including madrasas, shrines, mausoleums, caravansarays, palaces, and gardens.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

[History of Art and Architecture 12y. Introduction to Islamic Art: Visual and Portable Arts in Context]
Catalog Number: 3235
David J. Roxburgh
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduces key examples of the arts of the book, calligraphy, and portable arts (e.g. ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory) made between 650 and 1650 in the Islamic world, from the rise of Islam through to the pre-modern “Gunpowder Empires.” Objects are examined in light of their cultural, political, socio-economic, and aesthetic contexts. Themes include production and patronage; systems of object content and use; intermedial correspondences; and cross-cultural relationships of content and form. The selected materials are studied through a range of methodologies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2003–04.

[History of Art and Architecture 13h. Foundations of Early Civilization: An Introduction to the Art of Ancient Mesopotamia]
Catalog Number: 7382
Irene J. Winter
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia from Uruk through the Neo-Assyrian periods, charting the relationship between the arts and society from the earliest city-states to the beginnings of empire. Includes a survey of archaeological data as well as those art-historical approaches available for analysis of ancient monuments.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 13k. Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture
Catalog Number: 1426
Rabun Taylor
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
At its height, the Roman Empire extended from Scotland to Syria, and from the North Sea to the Sahara. This course examines the art and architecture produced in lands under Roman rule during a one thousand year period, from Rome’s beginnings as an Etruscan-influenced city in the 7th century BCE to the Christianizing of Rome in the 4th century CE.

[History of Art and Architecture 14. Introduction to Early Medieval Art]
Catalog Number: 2049
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Western art and architecture, from the Age of the Invasions through the 13th century, with greater emphasis on signficant themes, contexts, and approaches than on chronological coverage.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 15d. Introduction to Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture ca. 1260–1600
Catalog Number: 1682
John Shearman
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An introduction to the major personalities and events in four Italian styles: Gothic, Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Mannerist. The approach assumes that we are concerned essentially with history—with one branch of a large family of historical studies. The works of art are thus studied in the context of whatever human, social, political, technological, or economic circumstances are most appropriate. The course is a highly selective survey. The lectures vary widely in method and focus, a secondary intention being to illustrate the concerns of art history as a discipline.

History of Art and Architecture 17z. Introduction to the History of Photography
Catalog Number: 3515
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
An introduction to the history of photography from its origins to the present, with an emphasis on the role of the medium in the development of modern modes of experience and pictorial intelligence. The course considers photography in relation to, among other things, science, entertainment, social order, tourism, publicity, and history.

[History of Art and Architecture 18d. Introduction to the Art and Architecture of India]
Catalog Number: 6967
Pramod Chandra
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Gives a general idea of ancient Indian architecture, sculpture, and painting through carefully selected monuments and themes. Visual analysis and the importance of artistic evidence in the understanding of the sketchy historical record of the country are emphasized.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

[History of Art and Architecture 18g. Introduction to the Art and Architecture of Japan]
Catalog Number: 2470
Cherie A. Wendelken
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of Japanese art and architecture from prehistoric times to the 20th century. The major achievements of each period are examined in the context of cultural history, with emphasis on the relationship between the arts and place-making.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 19x. Introduction to African American Art History
Catalog Number: 2396
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
This course examines over two hundred years of artistic production by peoples of African descent living in the United States. While focusing primarily on the fine arts, a variety of media and methodologies will be examined: from 19th-century landscape painting to contemporary avant garde installations; from the material culture of slavery to the vernacular art of the current era.

History of Art and Architecture 40. Court and Cloister in the Later Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 0734
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Courtly culture and patronage, primarily in Paris, Prague, and Burgundy, with an emphasis on issues of artistic exchange, dynastic commemoration, princely piety, the development of secular genres, and the emergence of the court artist.

History of Art and Architecture 70. Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1700–1990s
Catalog Number: 4593
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
What is modernity, and what is the place of visual representation within modern culture? What conceptions of individuality, originality, and desire are at work in the idea of “the artist” in the modern period? Central to the course will be examination of the place of the body and of sexuality in different stylistic regimes—in rococo, Neo-classicism, Impressionism, Abstraction, and beyond; as well as changing conceptions of “identity” in relation to national, imperial, and post-colonial contexts. The course will examine the whole range of modern media, from painting, sculpture, prints, and photography to video, installation, and performance art.

*History of Art and Architecture 91r. Directed Study in History of Art and Architecture
Catalog Number: 1028
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and members of the Faculty
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open only to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Head Tutor for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor.

*History of Art and Architecture 97r. Sophomore Tutorial
Catalog Number: 0935
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and members of the Faculty
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of concentrators.

*History of Art and Architecture 98ar. Advanced Tutorial
Catalog Number: 1328
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and members of the Faculty
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of concentrators.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture 97r.

*History of Art and Architecture 98br. Advanced Tutorial
Catalog Number: 3507
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and members of the Faculty
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of concentrators.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture 97r.

*History of Art and Architecture 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 3118
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and members of the Department.
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Intended primarily for honors candidates in History of Art and Architecture. Permission of the Head Tutor required.

For Undergraduates and Graduates

[History of Art and Architecture 101. The Materials of Art]
Catalog Number: 5741
Eugene F. Farrell and staff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the materials and techniques that have been used to produce art objects (paintings, sculpture, works on paper). An emphasis on the physical choices and constraints offered to the artist through the centuries. Problems of description, dating, authenticity, aging, and preservation are considered.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture concentration or two previous art history courses.

History of Art and Architecture 124z. Architecture and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Early Modern Islamic Empires (1450-1650)
Catalog Number: 4604
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
In the 16th century, three great regional empires partitioned among themselves the central zone of Islam from the Balkans to Bengal. The Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids in Iran, and the Mughals in India formed separate cultural domains with distinct architectural idioms. the formation of these autonomous architectural modes is traced from their common origins in the 15th-century Timurid heritage. The building types each empire emphasized are studied as an index of differing imperial ideologies and theories of dynastic legitimacy. Variations in the architectural practices of the Mediterranean, Iran, and India are stressed, together with differing modes of architectural decoration.

History of Art and Architecture 126x. Early Islamic Painting and the Portable Arts: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 2064 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eva R. Hoffman (Tufts University)
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An exploration of the visual arts in Muslim lands from Spain to Central Asia between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries, with special attention to issues and strategies involved in the study of small scale portable arts in such media as ceramics, metal work, ivory, textiles and the arts of the book. Topics include patronage, cultural interchange, inter-media exchange between small and large scale monuments, the circulation of works between public and private, secular and religious spheres.

History of Art and Architecture 137. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0302 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Irene J. Winter
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An inquiry into aesthetic theory as it was developed in Western Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how that approach may be used to examine the art of non-European traditions. After a set of common readings and discussion, students will be asked to select a particular tradition for research, and examine the utility of such concepts as “beauty” cross-culturally. Class presentation and paper.

[History of Art and Architecture 140r. Byzantine Art]
Catalog Number: 3687 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The course will focus on what is considered the “classical” in Byzantine art. The question of a Macedonian renaissance and its consequences will be given special emphasis.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 143m. The Art of the Court of Constantinople
Catalog Number: 4412
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Concentrates on art and architecture created for the court of Constantinople from the 9th to the 12th century. Focuses on objects and monuments, exploring their role in political, religious, and personal events.

History of Art and Architecture 146. The Illuminated Manuscript
Catalog Number: 0161 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Selected topics and issues in the history of the illuminated manuscript in the Latin West, including sessions in the Houghton Library.

History of Art and Architecture 165x. Sets and Settings of Baroque Theater
Catalog Number: 2054 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alice G. Jarrard
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores the sets and the architectural settings for spectacle in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe. Taking reconstructions of the Vitruvian theater as the starting point for an examination of dynastic, public, and ecclesiastical theater in Italy, England, France, and Spain, the course emphasizes the spatial and visual dimensions of settings for dramatic and operatic performance. What is the nature of “theatrical” architecture? Issues of spectatorship, perspective, and technology will be emphasized.

[History of Art and Architecture 170. Artists and Architects: Collaborations, Overlaps, Confrontations: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6145 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Neil Levine
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the multifaceted relationships between architecture and art from the 1960s on. Works and writings by Donald Judd, Frank Gehry,Yves Klein, Robert Venturi, Claes Oldenburg, Daniel Liebeskind, Ed Ruscha, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Frank Stella will be among those studied.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

[History of Art and Architecture 171t. Degas: Beyond Impressionism]
Catalog Number: 7454 Enrollment: Limited to 50.
James Cuno
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examination of the character and meaning of Degas’ idiosyncratic body of work in light of recent revisionist histories of Impressionism. Special emphasis will be placed on works in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 171z. American Landscapes, 1860-1900
Catalog Number: 2109 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course considers four decades of New World landscapes in various media, with an emphasis on photography and painting. Topics include industrialization, nationalism, geological and biological processes, the frontier, recreation, and disenchantment. Special emphasis on the work of photographers Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, George Barnard, and Eadweard Muybridge, and the painters Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Ralph Blakelock, Martin Johnson Heade, and George Inness.

History of Art and Architecture 172. Impressionism
Catalog Number: 0808
James Cuno
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course will examine the development of the “New Painting” in Paris from Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’herbe of 1863 to the late paintings of Monet and Degas in the first decades of the 20th century. In addition to their formal and technical achievements, we will explore the social circumstances in which they worked and the extent of their influence on painting elsewhere in Europe and in North America. Of particular interest will be the rapid development of a bourgeois urban and commercial culture in Paris during the second half of the 19th century.

[History of Art and Architecture 173y. Difference from Within: Contemporary Women Artists]
Catalog Number: 7251 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the works of important European and American women artists from the 1950s to the present, including Lee Krasner, Eva Hesse, Hannah Wilkie, Judy Chicago, Rebecca Horn, Mary Kelly, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, and Janine Antoni, among others. Explores the ways of thinking about their art as a representation of difference understood as historically contingent cultural values rather than a natural or innate quality. Seeks less to pit male vs. female artist than to open up a discussion of the woman artist herself as a locus of difference(s) and of the diversity and difference among women’s aesthetic productions.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 174x. Architecture and Urbanism in the Nineteenth Century: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1182 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Neil Levine
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Will focus on major issues in historiography, theory, criticism, and practice in the period between the French Revolution and the rise of Modernism. Works studied will be chosen from Europe, the United States, and the European colonial empire.

History of Art and Architecture 175z. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Catalog Number: 3270 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Neil Levine
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines the buildings, writings, and ideas of the 20th century’s most celebrated architect through selected projects and themes.
Prerequisite: HAA 11 or equivalent.

History of Art and Architecture 177z. Max Beckmann: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 7808 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Peter Nisbet
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
The career of Max Beckmann (1884-1950), probably the greatest German painter of the 20th century, spanned academic beginnings, expressionist torment during and after the First World War, sober realism in the 1920s, and grand mythological compositions of his final decades. To assess this singular achievement and its place in the history of modernism, we shall pay close attention to the artist’s writings (in translation) and make particular use of Harvard’s outstanding collection of his works.

[History of Art and Architecture 181y. Early Indian Sculpture]
Catalog Number: 3518 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Pramod Chandra
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines Indian sculpture, mostly Buddhist in subject, during the three centuries before the Christian era. The approach is primarily visual and an attempt is made to understand the patterns of development and the light shed on contemporary religion.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

[History of Art and Architecture 184x. Painting of India]
Catalog Number: 7460 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Pramod Chandra
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The course examines some important styles, notably ancient wall painting as preserved at Ajanta, western Indian Manuscript painting, the Mughal School patronized by the emperor Akbar and its origins, and 17th-century painting from selected states of Rajasthan. Patronage, and the relationship of painting to literature, music, religion, and political, social, and cultural conditions will also be studied.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 189x. Constructions of Tradition in Modern Japan: Architecture and Art 1868-1968
Catalog Number: 1264 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Cherie A. Wendelken
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Both rejection and re-examination of the past were part of the remaking of Japan as a modern nation. This seminar examines the interpretation of premodern history, myth, literature, and art by modern architects and artists working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Constructions of tradition were part of movements to create national style,revive folk culture, defend the relevance of modernism, and preserve historic cities.

History of Art and Architecture 196. Contemporary Art in Africa
Catalog Number: 8120 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Major art movements in 20th-century Africa as well as critical issues which have framed related discussions will be treated. Painting, sculpture, photography, graphic arts, architecture, and performance traditions will be explored with an eye toward both their unique African contexts and the relationship of these traditions to contemporary art movements in a more global perspective.

Primarily for Graduates

History of Art and Architecture 206. Science and the Practice of Art History
Catalog Number: 6180 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Shearman and Henry William Lie
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
To equip the historian with critical and informed approaches to the range, uses, ambiguities, instruments, and computer applications of scientific, diagnostic investigation of art and architecture, potentially in all media and periods. In short: better to know what we are looking at. In collaboration with specialists in the Straus Center.

History of Art and Architecture 225. Critical Issues in Islamic Art and Architecture
Catalog Number: 2819 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A critical examination of major issues and methodological problems that have shaped the field since its construction in the 19th century. Themes include the Orientalist discourse on Islamic art and the Islamic city, uses of the classical heritage, aniconism, the arabesque, calligraphy, collecting and exhibiting Islamic art.

History of Art and Architecture 235x. Art of the Royal Tombs of Ur
Catalog Number: 4082 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Irene J. Winter
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Early Dynastic grave goods from Mesopotamia (2600 BCE) will be studied as art, as artifacts of technical mastery, gender and other social roles, and funerary ritual. Course to coincide with exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, May, 2002.

History of Art and Architecture 240r. Byzantine Art
Catalog Number: 4109 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course will run in conjunction with the preparation for the exhibition “Presenting Byzantine Women.” The students will organize and prepare the presentation of the objects and the final write up of the catalogue.

History of Art and Architecture 248. Vision, Visions and Visuality in Medieval Art
Catalog Number: 6908 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The place of sight in the perception, reception, and study of medieval art, with attention to medieval and modern theories of vision and visuality.

History of Art and Architecture 251r. Italian Art of the Renaissance: Seminar
Catalog Number: 6632 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Shearman
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Focuses on a limited aspect of Renaissance Art in Italy, but always examines a substantial body of material. Topic is different each year, to be determined in consultation with prospective students.

History of Art and Architecture 270r. Topics in 19th-Century Art
Catalog Number: 7958 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The seminar in 2002 will be centered on the work of Thèodore Gèricault and his place in the art of the Empire and the Restoration.

History of Art and Architecture 271x. Rethinking the Origins of Modernity: The “New” 18th Century
Catalog Number: 1598 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Discusses the origins of modernity in art, architecture, and visual culture, with emphasis on new methodologies. Among the issues addressed: the public vs. the private sphere; interiors, intimacy, and interiority; high and low culture; the notion of the self; artistic identity; sexuality, sexual difference, and gender; the emergent discourse of race.

[History of Art and Architecture 278y. Modern Art and Subjectivity, 18th Century to the Present]
Catalog Number: 2544 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the relation between art and the self in its different, modern configurations. How does art contribute to the formation of subjectivity? What is the place of the visual image within broader cultural discourse of the self in the modern period? How are artists represented in their own works?
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

History of Art and Architecture 278z. Photography and Anxiety
Catalog Number: 7816 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Anxiety pervades many of the most thoughtful answers we have to the question: what is photography? This course examines this anxiety in hopes of obtaining a deeper understanding of the medium and its historical discomforts.

History of Art and Architecture 287x. Methods and Resources for the Study of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Catalog Number: 6171 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Qianshen Bai (Boston University)
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Designed to familiarize students with traditional Chinese bibliography, major references, attain skills in reading inscriptions and colophons in cursive script, deciphering seals, and searching for classical poems and essays. Fieldtrips to view private collections.

Cross-listed Courses

[Afro-American Studies 165y. African Women in Art and History]
[Afro-American Studies 166. Proseminar: Contemporary African-American Visual Culture]
Afro-American Studies 167. Images of Blacks, Blacks Making Images
Afro-American Studies 168. Visual Culture of Latina and African-American Women
Afro-American Studies 169. Visualizing Africa
[Classical Archaeology 131. Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology, ca. 1200–300 BCE]
Classical Archaeology 136. Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
Classical Archaeology 143. Two Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries: Olympia and Delphi
Classical Archaeology 180. Coinage, Politics, and Economy in the Greek World
Classical Archaeology 241. Narrative in Ancient Greek Art
Classical Archaeology 255 (formerly Classical Archaeology 244). Art and Archaeology of the Etruscans
History 1463. Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century: Conference Course
[Literature and Arts B-10. Art and Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture]
[Literature and Arts B-21. The Images of Alexander the Great]
Literature and Arts B-27. Majesty and Mythology in African Art
[Literature and Arts B-31. The Portrait]
Literature and Arts B-35. The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
Literature and Arts B-44. The Architecture of Capital and Court in Western Europe, 1600–1800
[Literature and Arts B-46. Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests: Genghis Khan and His Successors]
[Literature and Arts B-48. Chinese Imaginary Space]
Literature and Arts C-69. Pompeii
[Medieval Studies 101. The Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval History: Proseminar]
[Medieval Studies 105. Production of Manuscripts and Printed Books Before 1600]
[Religion 2348ab. Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar]
*Visual and Environmental Studies 143r. The Photographer as Auteur: Studio Course
*Visual and Environmental Studies 154ar (formerly Visual and Environmental Studies 159ar). The Moving Image: Film and Visual Representation
*Visual and Environmental Studies 155ar. Film Architectures: Seminar Course
*Visual and Environmental Studies 155br. A Cultural Study of Film: Mapping and Fashioning Space: Seminar Course
[*Visual and Environmental Studies 160. Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890–2035]
[*Visual and Environmental Studies 166. North American Seacoasts and Landscapes, Discovery to Present: Seminar]

Graduate Courses of Reading and Research

*History of Art and Architecture 300. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 5716
Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Yve-Alain Bois 2922 (on leave 2001-02), Pramod Chandra 7186, Marjorie B. Cohn 4468, Harry A. Cooper 1728, James Cuno 2925, Eugene F. Farrell 1009, Ivan Gaskell 3174, Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800, Alice G. Jarrard 2400 (on leave spring term), Ioli Kalavrezou 2242 (on leave spring term), Deborah Martin Kao 3345, Robin E. Kelsey 4132, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373, Neil Levine 4178 (on leave fall term), Henry William Lie 2575, David Gordon Mitten 1290, Robert D. Mowry 1958, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688, Peter Nisbet 1738, Gloria Ferrari Pinney 1384 (on leave fall term), William W. Robinson 2239, David J. Roxburgh 2138 (on leave 2001-02), Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, John Shearman 1689, Rabun Taylor 4253 (on leave fall term), Eugene Wang 3600 (on leave 2001-02), Cherie A. Wendelken 3471, Irene J. Winter 1955, Stephan S. Wolohojian 2756, and Henri Zerner 3792
Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the Ph.D. degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.

*History of Art and Architecture 301. Museum Apprenticeship
Catalog Number: 1912
Marjorie B. Cohn 4468, James Cuno 2925 (spring term only), Ioli Kalavrezou 2242 (on leave spring term), and Henri Zerner 3792
Members of the Fogg Museum Staff — Curatorial research.

*History of Art and Architecture 309. Thesis Colloquium and/or Thesis Defense
Catalog Number: 6568
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688 and Henri Zerner 3792
Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the Ph.D. degree, but is required before the degree may be granted.

*History of Art and Architecture 310 (formerly *History of Art and Architecture 318). Methods and Theory of Art History
Catalog Number: 7879 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henri Zerner 3792
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9

*History of Art and Architecture 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 6575
Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Yve-Alain Bois 2922 (on leave 2001-02), Pramod Chandra 7186, James Cuno 2925, Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800, Alice G. Jarrard 2400 (on leave spring term), Ioli Kalavrezou 2242 (on leave spring term), Robin E. Kelsey 4132, Joseph Koerner 1954, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373, Neil Levine 4178 (on leave fall term), David Gordon Mitten 1290, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688, David J. Roxburgh 2138 (on leave 2001-02), Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, John Shearman 1689, Rabun Taylor 4253 (on leave fall term), Eugene Wang 3600 (on leave 2001-02), Cherie A. Wendelken 3471, Irene J. Winter 1955, and Henri Zerner 3792
Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the Ph.D. degree.