History of Art and Architecture

Faculty of the Department of History of Art and Architecture

Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art (Chair)
Manfred Bietak, Martha A. Willcomb Visiting Professor on Ancient Egyptian Civilization (University of Vienna) (spring term only)
Suzanne P. Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies
Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Emeritus, George P. Bickford Research Professor of Indian and South Asian Art (fall term only)
Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
Julian R. Gardner, Visiting Professor of History of Art and Architecture (University of Warwick) (fall term only)
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2003-04)
Alice G. Jarrard, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art
Robin E. Kelsey, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2003-04)
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Director of Graduate Studies)
Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2003-04)
Yukio Lippit, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2004-05)
Eric P. Mumford, Visiting Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Washington University in St. Louis) (spring term only)
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Associate of Currier House (on leave 2004-05)
Alina A. Payne, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2004-05)
Jennifer L. Roberts, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Betsey A. Robinson, Assistant Professor of the Classics
David J. Roxburgh, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies
Rabun Taylor, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2004-05)
Hugo van der Velden, Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave spring term)
Eugene Wang, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Irene J. Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts (on leave 2003-04)
Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
David G. Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology

Museum Associates Offering Instruction in the Department

Marjorie B. Cohn, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Acting Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, Carl A. Weyerhauser Curator of Prints in the Harvard University Art Museums)
Harry A. Cooper, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (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)
Deborah Martin Kao, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums)
Henry W. Lie, Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Senior Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums)
Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture (Director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art in the Harvard University Art Museum)
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 (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 introductory courses, upper-level courses and departmental tutorials. Passage through the sequence from entry level to more advanced classes is encouraged—particularly for prospective concentrators.

HAA 10, and HAA 11 are general, conceptual introductions to History of Later Western Art, and History of World Architecture, respectively, 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, we examine art between the beginning of Modern Times around 1400 until the present. It is team taught and organized around specific topics each occupying one week. It is organized chronologically but does not attempt to be a comprehensive survey, but rather to highlight important issues, debates, innovations, specific works or artists.

History of Art and Architecture 11. Landmarks of World Architecture
Catalog Number: 3675
Alice G. Jarrard and members of the Department
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 each lecture on a building or complex in their area of expertise. These include the Pantheon, Taj Mahal, Paris Opera, Hôtel de Soubise, Saint Peter’s, and Farnsworth House, as well as complexes at the Alhambra, the Forbidden City, Cuzco, Dhaka, Versailles. Sections focus on key questions in the analysis and interpretation of architecture.

[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 (fall 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 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 13k. Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture
Catalog Number: 1426
Rabun Taylor
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
At its height, the Roman Empire extended from Scotland to Syria, and from the North Sea to the Sahara. We examine 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 18k. Introduction to Japanese Art
Catalog Number: 7525
Yukio Lippit
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A survey of the most visually and conceptually significant examples of art and architecture produced in the Japanese archipelago from the prehistoric era through the modern period. Broader historical questions addressed through careful readings of individual objects and buildings. Special emphasis placed on the characteristics of materials, genres, and formats most frequently employed in the Japanese context, as well as the relationship of Japanese artistic traditions to larger interregional trends.

History of Art and Architecture 19x. Introduction to African American Art History
Catalog Number: 2396
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Examines three hundred years of artistic production by peoples of African descent living in the US, from the beginning of the slave trade through the early Civil Rights movement of the 20th century. Primary focus is on the so-called fine arts of painting and sculpture. We also consider architecture, the material culture of slavery and daily life, vernacular art, and dominant culture, representations of Blacks.

History of Art and Architecture 19y (formerly History of Art and Architecture 19). Introduction to the Art of Africa
Catalog Number: 8872
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines key issues in African art. Designed both to be an introduction to the rich and diverse arts of Africa and to serve as a forum for the critical evaluation of related theoretical issues. Each class explores the art of a given civilization, discussing as well concomitant traditions in religion, philosophy, politics, history, while also focusing on a larger thematic concern: gender, representation of other, aesthetics, artistic creation, psychology, performance art, and the like.

[History of Art and Architecture 19z. The Importance of Art in the Conquest of the Americas]
Catalog Number: 2455
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Looks at the various roles that painting and sculpture played in the conquest. Stressing Mexico and Peru, we deal with issues such as idolatry, beauty, commensurability, miracles, legal testimony, and heresy as studied through works that were either produced in the New World by natives or Spaniards, or works brought there from Spain.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 70. Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture, 1700–1990s
Catalog Number: 4593
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
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? Traversing different styles - rococo, Neo-classicism, Impressionism, Abstraction - we discuss a 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
David J. Roxburgh and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Limited 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
David J. Roxburgh and members of the Department
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
David J. Roxburgh and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of concentrators.

*History of Art and Architecture 98br. Advanced Tutorial
Catalog Number: 3507
David J. Roxburgh and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Required of concentrators.

*History of Art and Architecture 99. Tutorial - Senior Year
Catalog Number: 3118
David J. Roxburgh and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Intended 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 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eugene F. Farrell and members of the Department
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 2004–05.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture concentration or two previous art history courses.

[History of Art and Architecture 106x. Prints From Then Till Now]
Catalog Number: 2475 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Marjorie B. Cohn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Western printmaking, focusing on origins, functions, and fortunes of woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography, and other fine-art techniques. Work by artists, such as Rembrandt, Goya, and Picasso, is analyzed, but emphasis is on aspects of prints inherent in the medium, such as their role in fostering graphic conventions, print production as collaborative enterprise, and the implications of multiples. Students are encouraged to work on prints from time periods and geographical regions of particular interest.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 124z. Architecture and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Early Modern Islamic Empires (1450-1650)
Catalog Number: 4604 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
In the 16th century, three great regional empires partitioned 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 distinctive architectural and decorative idioms originating from a shared Timurid heritage. The building types each empire emphasized are studied as an index of differing imperial ideologies and theories of dynastic legitimacy.

[History of Art and Architecture 128. Topics in Arabic Art and Culture: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 6008 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David J. Roxburgh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A problem oriented inquiry into Arabic art and culture (ca. 750 to 1300), focusing on regions circling the Mediterranean, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant. Materials (the book, painting, portable arts, epigraphy, architecture) and geographic focus vary. Themes also change, but include relations between art and literature, aesthetics, vision and perception, courtly culture, the rise of a mercantile patron class, and cultural continuities and resurgences.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

[History of Art and Architecture 130. Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome]
Catalog Number: 4494
Rabun Taylor
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A general survey of the architecture and urban development of Rome from its beginning until late antiquity. By studying the city’s monumental center, students gain an understanding of Rome’s immense cultural legacy in general, and in specific a familiarity with the spatial and topographical vocabulary inherited by the modern urban West. Additionally, by examining the remains of ancient Rome’s infrastructure, they confront the city as an organic and historical entity.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

[History of Art and Architecture 133. Greek Architecture and Urbanism]
Catalog Number: 2412
Betsey A. Robinson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of Greek architecture and site organization from the Early Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period. We study civic, sacred, and domestic architecture, the emergence of the polis, colonial foundations, and the evolution of urban planning, from sites in modern Greece and Turkey to southern Italy, northern Africa, and the Levant.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.
Prerequisite: Some previous work in classical archaeology or the history of architecture

History of Art and Architecture 135v. The Architecture of Temples in Ancient Egypt
Catalog Number: 8051
Manfred Bietak (University of Vienna)
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Introduction to the origins and development of Egyptian temples from the Old to the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt (c. 3000—1070 BC). As a model case, the New Kingdom Amun temple in Karnak will be closely examined, along with its decorative sculptural program, and the religious system of Pharaonic Egypt explored as context.

[History of Art and Architecture 137. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 0302 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Irene J. Winter
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

[History of Art and Architecture 138. Hellenistic Art and Architecture]
Catalog Number: 2327
Betsey A. Robinson
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Focuses on the rich and innovative visual culture of the Hellenistic world, ca. 323-31 B. C., from the death of Alexander the Great, through the rise and fall of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and the hellenization of the Romans. Examines the social and physical settings of architecture and art, aesthetic diversification and dissemination, dynastic imagery, and trophy art.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture 13k and/or Classical Archaeology 131 recommended.

History of Art and Architecture 141v. The Creation of Venetian Medieval Art, c. 1204- 1375
Catalog Number: 5342
Julian R. Gardner (University of Warwick)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
From the decoration of San Marco with mosaics and crusade booty, to the creation of a “Venetian” style. Architecture, mosaics, facade-sculpture and church-furnishings of San Marco. The influence of thirteenth-century art in Byzantium, the impact of Giotto in the Veneto, and the formation of Venetian panel-painting style under Paolo and Lorenzo Veneziano. Mendicant influence on the development of Venetian Gothic architecture.

History of Art and Architecture 143m. The Art of the Court of Constantinople
Catalog Number: 4412
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
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 146x. The Art of Devotion]
Catalog Number: 4493 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The proliferation of novel forms of devotional art and practice during the late Middle Ages, from Passion piety to mysticism, encompassing icons, panel painting, reliquaries, prayer books, devotional dolls, as well as the debates these innovative images engendered over differences between monastic and lay, male and female, and “low” and “high” piety up to and including the Reformation.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 151z. Renaissance Architecture and the Rise of Classicism
Catalog Number: 6427
Alina A. Payne
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Charts the rise and dissemination of classicism in Renaissance Europe. Lectures focus on the development of the style, its origin in the fascination with and appropriation of antiquity, its response to shifts in political and social life, and its mechanisms of transmission (travel, book and print culture) as well as on phenomena of exchange (with the East), colonial export, and resistance (based on vernacular, political, religious and other cultural differences) to this pan-European trend.

History of Art and Architecture 155. Problems in Northern Renaissance Art
Catalog Number: 8827
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Focusing on key monuments, this course is devoted to the visual arts of North-Western Europe, particularly the Low Countries, France and Germany, during the period 1350-1550. The main topics of the course are: the problem of paradigm and historical periodization, style, patronage, iconography, the use and function of art, self-representation, perspective and the depiction of pictorial space, contemporary awareness of a Northern artistic tradition, art theory, specialization, and the rise of genre.

History of Art and Architecture 168. Palaces and Identity in Early Modern Europe, 1450—1775
Catalog Number: 5500 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alice G. Jarrard
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Explores the residence as a site of familial, institutional, and cultural identity formation. Using primary and modern texts, we analyze the form and function of urban dwellings at specific moments in European history. Starting with the palazzi of Florentine merchants in the Renaissance and ending with the hôtels of eighteenth-century Paris, we consider the impact of antiquity, vernacular tradition, gender and social roles, political status, ceremonial uses, and the display of collections.

History of Art and Architecture 170r (formerly History of Art and Architecture 270r). Topics in 19th-Century Art
Catalog Number: 7958 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henri Zerner
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Considers the role of printmaking and reproduction in 19th-century art from an socio-economic as well as aesthetic point of view, discussing the technical transformation of image making as well as the critical and theoretical discourses of the period and today.

History of Art and Architecture 171v. Topics in the History and Theory of 20th Century Architecture and Urbanism
Catalog Number: 2353
Eric P. Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11; Th., at 11; Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Begins with a brief consideration of the new approaches that emerged in the late nineteenth century and then focus on selected topics including the work of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, De Stijl and other European avant-garde movements, the organic functionalism of Häring and Scharoun, the work of Le Corbusier, Mies and his American disciples, the work of Louis Kahn, and others.

History of Art and Architecture 172w. American Art and Modernity, 1865-1965
Catalog Number: 2227
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An introduction to American art and visual culture as it developed in the years between Reconstruction and Deconstruction. Thematically-focused lectures treat a variety of media and artistic practices, concentrating on such issues as the response of artists to the rapidly proliferating environment of consumer products, the incorporation of scientific and industrial processes into artistic practice, the continually renegotiated relationship between abstraction and nationalism, and new methods of constructing history and subjectivity in the arts.

[History of Art and Architecture 174s. Body Image in French Visual Culture: 18th and 19th Century]
Catalog Number: 9158
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Functions and meanings of the body as privileged visual signifier in French visual arts (painting, sculpture, printed imagery, photography). Body image seen as both instrument of different discourses of modernity and a site of resistance to them. Among the issues addressed: the king’s body, republican corporeality; the problem of the nude, bodily spectacles; race; otherness; androgyny; monstrosity; pornography; representations of hysteria; images of desire; fetishism; body and/in space; body and the self.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 175w. Pop Art
Catalog Number: 2172 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An investigation of key themes surrounding the emergence of Pop in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on developments in the United States but also considering international examples. Interprets the movement in terms of the formal challenges that it posed to painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as its multifaceted philosophical engagements with the broader postwar spectacle of consumption and advertising.

History of Art and Architecture 176w. Modern Architecture, Ornament and Objects
Catalog Number: 5877 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines the consequence for modern architecture of two complementary debates in the period 1850-1920s, associated with the objects of daily use and ornament respectively. Discussion focuses on the growing interest in the arts and crafts, the body, materials, and fabrication; and on the intersection between the discourse of architecture and other disciplines (museology, monument preservation, psychology, anthropology, ethnology, natural science, archaeology, and art history).

History of Art and Architecture 179y. Connoisseurship in/and Art History
Catalog Number: 8165 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores the theoretical and methodological basis of connoisseurship and its place in art history. It moves between the critical reading of texts and the examination of how specific practical examples affect historiography.

History of Art and Architecture 184x. Painting of India
Catalog Number: 7460 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Pramod Chandra
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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 stated of Rajasthan. Patronage, and the relationship of painting to literature, music, religion, and political, social, and cultural conditions is also studied.

History of Art and Architecture 186. Chinese Landscape Painting: Visions and Vistas: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 3009 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eugene Wang
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Chinese painting is known for its primacy of “spiritual” dimension at the expense of realistic depiction; painters nevertheless make claims on nature out there. Inner subjectivism may engage outer topography. Taking this as point of departure, the course covers Chinese painting from the 10th to 18th century.

History of Art and Architecture 191x. Manuscripts in Colonial Peru and Mexico
Catalog Number: 6631 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
We study the few remaining Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian as well as the much more numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century colonial pictorial manuscripts. We also study the only three pictorial manuscripts of the Andes. Emphasis is on the production, form and iconography of the different manuscripts. The physical and formal properties also are examined in relation to use of manuscripts in the Americas, both before and after the Spanish conquest.

History of Art and Architecture 193. Painting Traditions in Africa
Catalog Number: 1131 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
This pro-seminar examines painting traditions from pre-historic to contemporary works. Critical issues of artistic identity, content, and style discussed.

Primarily for Graduates

History of Art and Architecture 206. Science and the Practice of Art History
Catalog Number: 6180 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henry W. Lie and staff
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
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: to better know what we are looking at. In collaboration with specialists in the Straus Center.

History of Art and Architecture 221. Visual Encounters: Artistic Relations Between Europe and the Islamic World
Catalog Number: 6163 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and David J. Roxburgh
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Focusing on the 15th through 18th centuries, the seminar addresses the impact of European art on Islamic visual culture to understand the receptivity to Western imagery and the nature of interaction and reaction.

[History of Art and Architecture 231. Architect and Builder in the Premodern World: from Principles to Process]
Catalog Number: 7322 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Rabun Taylor
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An exploration of thought and skill, freedom and constraint, planning and chance in architectural design and construction from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe, with an emphasis on the Roman period.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 233. Monuments of Archaeology: Antiquarianism and Architectural History, 1730-1940
Catalog Number: 4115 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Betsey A. Robinson and Rabun Taylor
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Exploration of architectural archaeology, from the 18th century development of a “new breed of archaeological works” by Piranesi, Stuart & Revett, et.al., through the Beaux-Arts envois and “scientific” archaeology.

*History of Art and Architecture 234v. The Art and Archaeology of Egyptian Avaris, Capital of the Hyskos
Catalog Number: 0426 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Manfred Bietak (University of Vienna)
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Introduction to the site of Tell el-Dab-a/Avaris in the eastern Nile Delta, from the Middle to the New Kingdom (c. 2000-1070 BC), including interconnections with Aegean and Near Eastern cultures.

History of Art and Architecture 240r. Byzantine Art
Catalog Number: 4109 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Topic to be announced.

History of Art and Architecture 245. Jan and Hubert van Eyck: The Rise of Painting in the Late Medieval West
Catalog Number: 5639 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Focuses on meaning and interpretation, with special attention to the Ghent altarpiece. Themes include function, ritual, context, court art, competition, and the appreciation of painting in comparison to other media.

History of Art and Architecture 250v. Giotto and his Publics
Catalog Number: 5448 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Julian R. Gardner (University of Warwick)
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The distortions of Vasari’s biographical model. Private chapel commissions, altarpieces and narrative strategies. New documentary information and new technical insights. Relationships to ancient art, Rome, Assisi, Naples, Florence, and Siena.

History of Art and Architecture 255. Giorgio Vasari: Art, History and Criticism in the Renaissance
Catalog Number: 5608 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines Giorgio Vasari’s oeuvre as critic, historian, artist and architect as it illuminates conceptions of style, progress, aesthetic quality, artistic personality and exchanges between the arts in Renaissance Italy.

History of Art and Architecture 265x. Paris/Rome/London
Catalog Number: 5787 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alice G. Jarrard
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Through analysis of the lively dialogue between these three capitals regarding urbanism and the “public”, considers the emergence of the modern city between 1650 and 1800. The museum and theater are particular focuses.

History of Art and Architecture 271v. Defining “Urban Design” 1945-1970
Catalog Number: 1417 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eric P. Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis)
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An examination of this post-war period of American urban design.

History of Art and Architecture 273. The Modern Death of the Artist
Catalog Number: 8689 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Yve-Alain Bois
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
From the birth of abstraction to the multifarious art production of the 60s, artists have conjured a set of tropes in order to manifest their paradoxical desire for impersonality. What tropes? How? Why?

History of Art and Architecture 275w. The Thing
Catalog Number: 8955 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An investigation of “objecthood” and its role in art history, examining theoretical frameworks for interpreting everything from teapots to minimal objects. Interrogates the forms of exchange—economic, libidinal, aesthetic—that these objects invite (or refuse).

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). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores relation between art and self in its modern configurations. How art contributes to the formation of subjectivity? The place of the image within cultural discourse, and the work of art as representation of the artist.

[History of Art and Architecture 279. Semiotics of the Image]
Catalog Number: 3644 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A fresh consideration of the possibilities for semiotic analysis of works of art. Emphasis on critically reading canonical texts by Peirce, Saussure, and others, and evaluating particular instances of semiotic analysis within art historical scholarship.
Note: Expected to be given in 2004–05.

History of Art and Architecture 282. Body and Relics in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Art
Catalog Number: 5213 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eugene Wang
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines Chinese Buddhist art from the 7th through 10th centuries, from the perspective of “body,” with special attention to the role of relics in the formation of visual culture.

History of Art and Architecture 286. The Ashikaga Shogunal Collection and its Legacy
Catalog Number: 5609 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Yukio Lippit
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines this legendary fifteenth-century collection of Chinese painting through its impact on painting production, Sino-Japanese iconographic recodings, display practice, shogunal identity, political ritual, the medieval gift economy, and its place in the historical imagination.

History of Art and Architecture 294. Cuzco, 1650-1700
Catalog Number: 0538
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Cuzco, the center of the Inca Empire, became a major colonial Peruvian city, but in 1650 an earthquake destroyed most of its buildings. We will examine aspects of the city’s rebuilding between 1650 and 1700.

Cross-listed Courses

Afro-American Studies 166. Contemporary African-American Visual Culture: Proseminar
Afro-American Studies 174. The African City
Classical Archaeology 136. Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
[Classical Archaeology 140. The Parthenon]
Classical Archaeology 154. Cities of the Roman East
Classical Archaeology 160. Vase-painting and Iconography
[Classical Archaeology 180. Coinage, Politics, and Economy in the Greek World]
Classical Archaeology 256. Greeks and Persians
Literature and Arts B-16. The Meanings of Abstraction in 20th-Century Art
Literature and Arts B-21. The Images of Alexander the Great
Literature and Arts B-35. The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
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 210. Medieval Manuscripts and Liturgical Arts]
[Religion 2348ab. Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar]
*Visual and Environmental Studies 40a (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 40ar). Fundamentals of Still Photography: Studio Course
[*Visual and Environmental Studies 40b. Photography: Intermediate Studio Course]
*Visual and Environmental Studies 140r (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 140ar). Color Photography: Studio Course
*Visual and Environmental Studies 143r. The Photographer as Auteur: Studio Course
*Visual and Environmental Studies 145r. Photography Now: Seminar/Workshop
*Visual and Environmental Studies 147r. Conceptual Strategies in Photography: Studio Course
*Visual and Environmental Studies 148r. Photofictions: Seminar/Workshop
*Visual and Environmental Studies 180 (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 154ar). The Moving Image: Film and Visual Representation
*Visual and Environmental Studies 181 (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 154br). Frames of Mind: Introduction to Film Theory and Film Analysis
*Visual and Environmental Studies 182 (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 155ar). Film Architectures: Seminar
[*Visual and Environmental Studies 183 (formerly *Visual and Environmental Studies 155br). A Cultural Study of Film: Mapping and Fashioning Space: Seminar]
*Visual and Environmental Studies 185x. Texture Analysis: Fashion and Film: Seminar
Women’s Studies 1405. Gender, Architecture, and Space: 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, Pramod Chandra 7186, Marjorie B. Cohn 4468, Harry A. Cooper 1728, Thomas B. F. Cummins 3568, Eugene F. Farrell 1009, Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800 (on leave 2003-04), Alice G. Jarrard 2400, Ioli Kalavrezou 2242, Deborah Martin Kao 3345, Robin E. Kelsey 4132 (on leave 2003-04), Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373, Neil Levine 4178 (on leave 2003-04), Henry W. Lie 2575, Yukio Lippit 4713 (on leave 2004-05), Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro 4406, David G. Mitten 1290, Robert D. Mowry 1958, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688 (on leave 2004-05), Peter Nisbet 1738, Alina A. Payne 4605 (on leave 2004-05), Jennifer L. Roberts 4407, Betsey A. Robinson 4361, William W. Robinson 2239, David J. Roxburgh 2138, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, Rabun Taylor 4253 (on leave 2004-05), Hugo van der Velden 4767 (on leave spring term), Eugene Wang 3600, Irene J. Winter 1955 (on leave 2003-04), Stephan S. Wolohojian 2756, and Henri Zerner 3792
Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD 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, Ioli Kalavrezou 2242, David G. Mitten 1290 (spring term only), 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
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373 and Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800 (on leave 2003-04) (spring term only)
Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD 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 14. Limited to incoming graduate students.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3.

*History of Art and Architecture 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 6575
Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Yve-Alain Bois 2922, Pramod Chandra 7186, Thomas B. F. Cummins 3568, Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800 (on leave 2003-04), Alice G. Jarrard 2400, Ioli Kalavrezou 2242, Robin E. Kelsey 4132 (on leave 2003-04), Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373, Neil Levine 4178 (on leave 2003-04), Yukio Lippit 4713 (on leave 2004-05), David G. Mitten 1290, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688 (on leave 2004-05), Alina A. Payne 4605 (on leave 2004-05), Gloria Ferrari Pinney 1384 (spring term only), Jennifer L. Roberts 4407, Betsey A. Robinson 4361, David J. Roxburgh 2138, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 3799, Rabun Taylor 4253 (on leave 2004-05), Hugo van der Velden 4767 (on leave spring term), Eugene Wang 3600, Irene J. Winter 1955 (on leave 2003-04), and Henri Zerner 3792
Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree.