History of Art and Architecture 10. The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance
Catalog Number: 4988
Henri Zerner
Half course (fall 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.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B.
History of Art and Architecture 12m. Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0678
David J. Roxburgh
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An introduction to key monuments and cities-Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, Isfahan, Istanbul, Samarqand-from the historical Islamic lands, ca. 650-1650 C.E., from Spain to India. Various building types are treated-e.g., mosques, palaces, schools, tombs, and shrines-as well as the factors that shaped them, whether artistic, cultural, socio-religious, political, or economic. Different methods of studying architecture are introduced in the course of the lectures.
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). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
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.
[History of Art and Architecture 14k. Art, Faith and Power: Introduction to Early Christian and Byzantine Art]
Catalog Number: 9156
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
The course will focus on major moments in the history and politics from the age of Constantine I the Great to the Crusades.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History of Art and Architecture 14n. From the Carolingians to the Capetians: Topics in Medieval Art ]
Catalog Number: 6451
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to medieval art organized thematically, rather than chronologically, but ranging from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, including many media (architecture, murals, sculpture, stained glass, metalwork, manuscripts) and making maximum use of local collections. Topics include sacred space, nature and the supernatural, secular imagery, Passion piety, pilgrimage, propaganda, patronage, visions and visionaries, the Apocalypse and medieval conceptions of time and history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 17y. American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860
Catalog Number: 8937
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to early American art with a focus on transatlantic, cross-cultural perspectives. We begin with the global struggle for control of the North American continent, tracing the collision of multiple Native American and African traditions with the visual and material cultures of British, French, and Spanish colonialism. We then focus more closely on the US proper, examining the active role of the visual arts in the formation of American politics, religion, and society.
History of Art and Architecture 18k. Introduction to Japanese Art
Catalog Number: 7525
Melissa M. McCormick
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Surveys the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the nineteenth century. The primary focus will be on Japanese painting, sculpture, and architecture, although calligraphy, garden design, ceramics, and prints will also be explored. Essential themes include the relationship between artistic production and Japanese sociopolitical development, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, and the impact of religion, region, gender, and class on Japanese artistic practice.
[History of Art and Architecture 51p (formerly History of Art and Architecture 151z). Renaissance Architecture and the Rise of Classicism]
Catalog Number: 6427
Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Charts the rise and dissemination of classicism in Renaissance Europe. Lectures focus on the development of the style, its origin in the fascination with antiquity, its response to shifts in social and political life, its mechanisms of transmission (travel, book and print culture) as well as phenomena of exchange (with the East), colonial export, and resistance to this pan-European trend.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 55k. Northern Renaissance - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0473
Joseph Koerner
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores the revolutionary achievements of Netherlandish, French, and German artists, 1400-1600, with consideration of related developments in Italy. Figures include, van Eyck, Bosch, Durer, and Bruegel.
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
Joseph Koerner 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
Joseph Koerner 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
Joseph Koerner 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
Joseph Koerner 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
Joseph Koerner, Robin Kelsey, and members of the Department
Full course. Fall: F., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 8, 9
Note: Intended for honors candidates in History of Art and Architecture. Permission of the Head Tutor required.
*History of Art and Architecture 101. The Materials of Art
Catalog Number: 5741 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henry W. Lie and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
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.
Prerequisite: History of Art and Architecture concentration or two previous art history courses.
History of Art and Architecture 120n. Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9252 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David J. Roxburgh
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Critical examination of the arts of the book, portable arts, and architecture sponsored by the Timurids (1370-1507), a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given to primary written sources in translation.
[History of Art and Architecture 122x. Architecture of the Mediterranean World (1300-1650)]
Catalog Number: 9898
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar and Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Architecture in Christian and Islamic regions of the eastern Mediterranean basin studied in comparative perspective with particular focus on the Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts. Emphasis on cross-cultural encounters, uses of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, transmission of scientific knowledge and technology, patronage and architectural practice, languages of ornament, urban renovation, military architecture, emergence of monumental domed structures, churches, palaces and villas.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with Graduate School of Design (course number to be determined).
[*History of Art and Architecture 123y. Monuments of Medieval Islamic Architecture (7th–13th Century)]
Catalog Number: 8101 Enrollment: Limited to 14.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A contextual study of major monuments focusing on architectural, decorative, and epigraphic programs. Questions of interpretation, meaning and uses of the past addressed by focusing on selected buildings including the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem; the Great Mosques of Damascus, Baghdad, Samarra, Cordoba, Cairo, Isfahan, Kairouan, Konya, Marrakesh, and Delhi; funerary architecture and palaces. Cross-cultural dialogues in frontier regions of the Islamic world, such as Spain, Sicily, Anatolia and India considered.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 125e. Orientalist Legacies: Paradigmatic Discourses in the Field of Islamic Art]
Catalog Number: 4599 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
A critical examination of Orientalist discourses that shaped the construction of Islamic art as a field at the turn of the 20th century and their persistent echoes in current scholarship and exhibitions. Readings focus on late 19th - century historiography, modernist readings of abstract ornament and painting, and such topics as the essential "character" of Islamic art," "alterity of the arabesque," iconoclasm, the so-called Islamic city, the garden as paradise, collecting and exhibiting Islamic objects.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 131g. Pergamon: A Hellenistic Royal Residence and its Roman Afterlife - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8305
Ruth Bielfeldt
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
The marvelously preserved city of Pergamon is still the best example to study monarchic town planning in the Hellenistic world. The exertion of monarchic power on the urban texture of the newborn capital of the Pergamene kingdom: this explicitly political perspective will help us understand the extant archaeological remains, the urban layout, the hierarchically organized public space, the sanctuaries with their famous war memorials as well as the spaces of private life.
*History of Art and Architecture 137. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0302 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Irene J. Winter
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
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 139j. Narrating Life and Death: Myths on Roman Sarcophagi ]
Catalog Number: 1094 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ruth Bielfeldt
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
In Imperial Rome Greek Myths enter a new sphere: tombs. But the mythological narratives decorating the monumental relief sarcophagi are more than a simple traditionalist repeating of old stories: their visual language becomes a medium for expressing core experiences in life and death. Examines Roman sarcophagus imagery and interpret it in a contextual perspective, focusing on specific funerary contexts as well as the broader understanding of how death was conceptualized in Roman culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Open to qualified undergraduates and graduates.
History of Art and Architecture 139x. Art and Life in Pompeii - Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5600 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ruth Bielfeldt
Half course (fall term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Pompeii is more than the victim city of 79 A.D. The Seminar course focuses on the different cultural stages of Hellenistic and Roman Pompeii (600 BC-79 AD). We will study the most important spaces of public and domestic life- the Forum, the main sanctuaries, the necropoleis, the town houses - in a diachronic perspective and interpret them as indicators of changing cultural, political and social affiliation.
[*History of Art and Architecture 140h (formerly History of Art and Architecture 40). Court and Cloister in the Later Middle Ages]
Catalog Number: 0734 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11. Excursion to New York.
[*History of Art and Architecture 140r. Family and Daily Life in Byzantium]
Catalog Number: 3681 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
The course will focus on domestic life and environment in everyday Byzantine society. Course topics will examine the private as well as public life of the individual from childhood to adult life, through artifacts from the household, as well as education, work, and other social contexts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 141k. Rome, Constantinople, Ravenna in the Light of Imperial Rule - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0268 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Will focus on the imperial art and architecture in these cities, from Constantine to Justinian.
History of Art and Architecture 143r (formerly *History of Art and Architecture 143m). The Art of the Court of Constantinople
Catalog Number: 4412
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (fall 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 15.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the proliferation of novel forms of devotional practice and devotional art (sculpture, icons, panel painting, manuscript illumination) from the 12th through 15th century. Issues addressed include differences between monastic and lay, male and female, and high and low piety. The course includes close reading of religious literature, in translation, including texts written by and for women. Includes visits to local libraries and museums. No prior knowledge of medieval art required.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
*History of Art and Architecture 149g. Casts, Construction and Commemoration: German Gothic in America and Abroad - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9633 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
German monumental sculpture from the 11th through 13th centuries in its broader European context using the cast collection in Adolphus Busch Hall.
History of Art and Architecture 151k. Italian Artists as Competitors, ca. 1300-1700 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3100 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Artistic competitions, sometimes accompanied by deadly hostility among artists, played a central role in early modern Italy. Examples include the famous competitions between Ghiberti and Brunelleschi; Leonardo and Michelangelo; Cellini and Bandinelli; Bernini and Borromini.
[History of Art and Architecture 152. Italian Renaissance Art]
Catalog Number: 9947
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
An overview of the major works, artists, regions, subjects, and functional contexts of painting and sculpture between c. 1400 and 1600, with an emphasis on the dynamics and developments within the period. Major topics include art theory, relationships between art and science, perspective, composition, animation, and style.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core requirement for Literature and Arts B.
[History of Art and Architecture 152m. Leonardo da Vinci]
Catalog Number: 3017
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course focuses on the main topics and developments in Leonardo’s art, science, and technology, contextualizing him in the artistic, cultural and political realities of Renaissance Italy around 1500, but also in the history of appropriations from Vasari to Dan Brown. The inseparableness of art and science, but also the internal tensions of this relationship, make Leonardo’s work particularly relevant for major trends in contemporary culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 153p. Le Corbusier and the Invention of Modernism]
Catalog Number: 4383 Enrollment: Limited to 18.
Alina A. Payne
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Investigates the architecture, painting, and texts of Le Corbusier against the background of competing claims for the invention of modernism in architecture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 155p. Jan van Eyck and the Rise of Painting
Catalog Number: 4715
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
This course will examine the work of Jan van Eyck and his contribution to the rise of Netherlandish painting in the fifteenth century. Special attention will be paid to the role of oil painting in comparison to other artistic media, such as goldsmith’s work, enamel, embroidery, tapestry; art theory and the awareness of tradition; self-reference and reflectivity in works of art; multiple audiences and layers of meaning; use and function; music and the visual arts.
History of Art and Architecture 159. Image and Text in 16th Century France
Catalog Number: 5699 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Henri Zerner and Tom Conley
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Will examine the relation between visual and textual expression during the Renaissance in France, with emphasis on emblem books, and their impact on other genres.
*History of Art and Architecture 170g. The Grid
Catalog Number: 9803 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Neil Levine
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Examines one of the most fascinating and contested devices underlying the design of buildings, cities, and works of art in general. Important since antiquity, the grid has become, in the modern era, a characteristic and prevalent way to organize space and form. Examples to be studied will range from the Spanish Law of the Indies and the Jeffersonian Land Survey to the use of the grid by Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies, LeWitt, Eisenman, and others.
History of Art and Architecture 170r. Topics in 19th c. Art : Ingres - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8207 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Henri Zerner
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
*History of Art and Architecture 171x. Exoticism & Orientalism - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7006 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores cultural and artistic engagement with the trope of the "other" in 18th and 19th century France. Different interpretive paradigms will be considered. Distinction between pre- and post-Napoleonic modes of curiosity emphasized. Artists will include: Watteau, Boucher, Liotard, Van Loo, Delacroix, Chasseriau, Gérôme, Renoir.
[*History of Art and Architecture 172k. Photography and Labor in the 19th Century]
Catalog Number: 2099 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
A consideration of the relationship between photography and labor from the Daguerreotype and Calotype to the first Kodak cameras. We will discuss issues of skill, art, social class, gender, industrialization, magic, and representation.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[History of Art and Architecture 172w. American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965]
Catalog Number: 2227
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to developments in American art between the Civil War and the Cold War. Thematically focused lectures concentrate on such issues as the shifting status of the art object within an environment of proliferating consumer products, the incorporation of scientific and industrial processes into artistic practice, the continually renegotiated relationship between nationalism and abstraction, and new methods of understanding history and subjectivity in the face of urbanization, mechanized reproduction, and the mass media.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 173m. The Early Modern Artist]
Catalog Number: 7574 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores the emergence of artistic individuality in French 18th-century art and culture. What was modern about the 18th-century artist? What were the criteria of artistic self-definition? Among the issues addressed: the cultural myth of the artist; artist vs. critic; artistic identity and the philosophical notions of the self; subjectivity, sexuality, and gender; the artist’s touch; authorship; melancholia; eccentricity; the artist’s body; fashion. Artists include: Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, Vigée-Lebrun, David, Girodet. Museum trip(s).
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 173y. Difference from Within: Contemporary Women Artists]
Catalog Number: 7251 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Examines the works of important European and American women artists from the 1950s to the present . Explores the ways of thinking about their art as a representation of difference understood as historically contingent cultural value 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 2009–10.
[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). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
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 2009–10.
[History of Art and Architecture 175k. American and European Art, 1945–1975]
Catalog Number: 6910
Benjamin Buchloh
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course will examine artistic production in the US and Europe between 1945 and 1975 to clarify some of the most crucial questions of this thirty year period: How did post war visual culture repress or acknowledge the recent ’caesura of civilization’ brought about by World War II?; how did the neo-avantgarde position itself with regard to the legacies of the avantgardes of the 1920s?; how did artistic production situate itself in relation to the newly emerging apparatus of Mass Media culture?
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 175w. Pop Art
Catalog Number: 2172 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
The emergence of Pop art in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on its challenges to prevailing standards of painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as its multifaceted engagements with postwar spectacles of information and advertising.
History of Art and Architecture 175y. Visual Culture of Weimar Germany (1919-1937) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5473
Benjamin Buchloh
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
An account of the complex practices defining the avantgarde culture of Weimar Germany from the end of the empire to the beginning of fascism. Ranging from expressionism to Dadaism, from the Bauhaus to New Objectivity, particular emphasis will be given to the transition from painting to collage and photomontage, and to the new photographic culture in response to a rising massmedia culture.
History of Art and Architecture 178m. Cold War Photography - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8383 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
This course will consider the intersection of photography and social history from 1945-1989 through an examination of key photographic practices, publications, exhibitions, and critical texts.
History of Art and Architecture 180x. Visible Sound: Chinese Art of Pathos - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3715
Eugene Wang
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
The course deals with a central question: why do Chinese history and art history give us different impressions? One is turbulent, the other largely peaceful. Were traditional Chinese artists indifferent to wars and unrests? If not, how did they register their strong emotions such as pathos through visual forms? How does the medium of ink painting and calligraphy convey pathos, which is arguably more amenable to sonic medium such as singing? Can images be vocal?
Note: No prerequisite of either Chinese language of art history.
History of Art and Architecture 183v. Mughal Imperial Architecture - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2182
Ebba M. Koch
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course looks at Mughal architectural history within a cross-cultural perspective, it provides a view of the development of Mughal architecture explaining its main themes while addressing artistic interactions with other Islamic courts and Europe, as well as a contextual approach to Mughal court culture. It will be of interest both to Islamic majors and architectural historians working on European Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
[History of Art and Architecture 188j. Japanese Architecture]
Catalog Number: 6988
Yukio Lippit
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
A survey of the diverse architectural traditions of the Japanese archipelago from the prehistoric era through the twentieth century. Various building types—including the Shinto shrine, Buddhist temple, castle, teahouse, palace and farmhouse—will be studied through representative surviving examples. Issues to be explored include the basic principles of timber-frame engineering, the artisanal culture of master carpenters, and the mixed legacy of the functionalist interpretation of Japanese architecture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 194e. World Fairs: Art and Exposition - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5687 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This seminar addresses the larger question of cultural display as seen through the art and architecture of colonial and world fairs from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century Europe and the U.S., shaping issues of national identity, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.
[History of Art and Architecture 195e. Art and Colonialism] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8969 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
text yet forthcoming
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 196. Contemporary Art in Africa]
Catalog Number: 8120 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (spring 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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 197. The Imperial Arts of the Inca and the Aztec
Catalog Number: 9976
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course concentrates on the art and architecture of the two ancient American civilizations, surveying the forms of representation used to establish imperial presence within the accepted vernacular of Mesoamerican and Andean artistic traditions. Special attention is given to the role of art as a means of expressing imperial claims to mythic and historic precedents, upon which political and economic expansion could be realized.
[History of Art and Architecture 197g. Colonial Art]
Catalog Number: 2623
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Art and Architecture of the 16th/17th c. in the Spanish New World.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 199g. Global Art: Comparative Approaches in Art History & Ethnography]
Catalog Number: 5255 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The course explores art in global context, among those traditions in Africa, Oceania, and Native America, fields shared by both art history and anthropology. How does each discipline address local perspectives on art? Readings will be drawn from historical and more recent study. Issues addressed will be: approaches to field analysis, comparative perspectives, the role of history, artists, art markets, museums. Students will gain an understanding of the global art forms under consideration, and different disciplinary approaches, as well as questions important to the understanding of visual engagement.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 223x. Islamic Palaces, Pavilions and Gardens]
Catalog Number: 4156 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Studies palaces, villas and landscape architecture with reference to late antique and ancient Near Eastern prototypes, and contemporary parallels in non-Islamic courts. Court rituals, uses of the past, discourses of power and pleasure emphasized.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design.
[*History of Art and Architecture 226e. Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchanges: Islamic and European Courts]
Catalog Number: 4723 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
The seminar explores artistic exchanges between Islamic and European courts, 14th through 18th centuries, and representations of the East in Western images. Particular focus on visual hybridity in Spain, Turkey, Iran and India.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 229p. Word and Image in Persian Painting]
Catalog Number: 2342 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David J. Roxburgh
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi’s Shahnama and Nizami’s Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of inquiry.
Note: Expected to be given in 2010–11.
History of Art and Architecture 235g. The Roman House as Enlivened Space - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4809 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ruth Bielfeldt
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Seminar addresses the culture of enlivenment in the late Republican/Early Imperial Campanian House, manifest in the figural and floral decoration of furniture and household objects, in statuary, and illusionistic wall paintings of garden landscapes and animate architecture.
*History of Art and Architecture 240r. Topics in Byzantine Art : Manuscripts
Catalog Number: 4109 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Manuscripts: Their Role and Place at the Byzantine Court.
[*History of Art and Architecture 241n. Image-Text-Context]
Catalog Number: 1084 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Topics in text and image in medieval manuscript illumination, vernacular and Latin, as well as in other media, making intensive use of local collections (Houghton and Boston Public Library).
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Excursion to Europe, pending funding.
[*History of Art and Architecture 241r. Topics in Early Christian Art: Art and Politics in Late Antiquity]
Catalog Number: 7968 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ioli Kalavrezou
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
With the emergence of a new religion, far-reaching transformations took place in the Greco-Roman world, which set the traditions of western culture and society for the art of the Middle ages and beyond.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History of Art and Architecture 242. Issues of Interpretation in Medieval Art
Catalog Number: 7561 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A wide-ranging introduction to critical approaches to the study of medieval art, with emphasis on systems of signification, mixing historiography and methodology in a workshop format in which students help set the agenda.
[*History of Art and Architecture 243n. Hieronymus Bosch]
Catalog Number: 6718 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Joseph Koerner
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
A painter of hatred, Bosch launched a never-ending war over what his pictures mean. This course studies the artist’s oeuvre and the responses and controversies it elicited in light of Bosch’s own fugitive distinction of friend from foe.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 245. Jan and Hubert van Eyck: The Ghent Altarpiece]
Catalog Number: 5639 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 252k. The Age of Albrecht Durer - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3305 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Joseph Koerner
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Considers new directions in research on German Renaissance art with special emphasis on the question of "style".
*History of Art and Architecture 252y. Pieter Bruegel
Catalog Number: 0275 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (spring term). W., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Seminar will focus on interpretation, and address topics like puns, proverbs and popular culture; canvas and panel painting; the Netherlandish tradition; humanist wit and burlesque humor; art and iconoclasm; and a very severe winter.
*History of Art and Architecture 254g. Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Space of Sculpture - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6596 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Bernini’s, "dream of the moving statue" (K. Gross) and his goal to, "bend marble like wax"; transformations of (urban, religious, domestic) space in the Baroque master’s radiant sculptures.
[*History of Art and Architecture 254p. The Invention of the Portrait]
Catalog Number: 6845 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Major moments of an enigmatic genre, from 13th century tomb sculpture to late 16th century experiments. Key concepts include similitude versus animation, gender, materiality, agency.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students; with excursion.
[*History of Art and Architecture 256g. Order and Disorder in Renaissance Architecture]
Catalog Number: 6638 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). W., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The effects of the heterogenuous "disordered" materials/media surviving from antiquity (words, fragments, painting, architectural representations on coins, plaquettes, reliefs, gems, vessels) on Renaissance architecture design.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 256m. Alberti’s Renaissance]
Catalog Number: 3538 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alina A. Payne and Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (fall term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores Leon Battista Alberti’s multifaceted oeuvre with particular emphasis on the artistic and theoretical problems he posed before the artists of his time and subsequent generations.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 257r (formerly *History of Art ans Architecture 257n). The Medieval Treasury]
Catalog Number: 9439 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Hugo van der Velden
Half course (spring term). W., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Explores the function, constitution, significance and interpretation of the late medieval treasure, with special attention to the courts of France, Burgundy, Berry, etc., the Avignon papal court, and churches like St. Denis and Ste. Chapelle.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 263m. Moving Statues, Breathing Images - Enlivening and animation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5014 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Frank Fehrenbach
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Enlivening was arguably the most famous topos in Early Modern art. We inquire of its implications in form, art theory, and history of science. Key terms include: movement, color, composition, opacity, gaze; Genesis, Pygmalion, Medusa, Narcissus.
*History of Art and Architecture 270m. The Ethnographic Imagination - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7797 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Christie McDonald
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Focuses on social, artistic and literary images of otherness in the French Enlightenment. Making the foreign familiar, an ethnographic imaginary developed, key to self-reflection and critique. Writers and artists include Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Watteau, Boucher, Vien.
[*History of Art and Architecture 270p. Paris and the Idea of the Modern City]
Catalog Number: 9012 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Neil Levine and Antoine Picon (Design School)
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines the critical role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple perspectives of architecture, art, culture, urban design, and technology.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4409.
[*History of Art and Architecture 270r. Topics in 19th-Century Art]
Catalog Number: 7958 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Henri Zerner
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Theme this year is: "Imitation, Copy, Reproduction" -Centered on graphic arts, but also considering "multiples" and semi-industrial or industrial production of ornament, etc.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 271m. Architecture, Display, and Mass Culture in 19th/20th c.]
Catalog Number: 2560 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Alina A. Payne
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the redefinition of architecture at the turn of the 19th/20th century in both practice and theory in the context of the museum/exhibition movement and the rise of historical (archaeology, art history) and man-based sciences (anthropology, ethnology, psychology).
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 271x. The Origins of Modernity: The “New” 18th Century]
Catalog Number: 1598 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Issues include: art and the public sphere; the birth of the critic; high & low; interiors and interiority; intimacy; artistic identity; sexuality, sexual difference, and gender; the discourse of race. Emphasis on new research and methodologies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 272n. Space and Subjectivity in the Modern Period (18th - 20th century)]
Catalog Number: 8846 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Antoine Picon (Design School)
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines the relation between architectural space, real and imagined, and the constructions of the self from the 18th century to the present. Issues of interiority, dwelling, sexuality, narcissism, voyeurism, ornament, and technology will be considered.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 272w. Post WW II European Art: France, Italy, Germany]
Catalog Number: 6119 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Benjamin Buchloh
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Addresses the work of key figures of post-war European art, under the perspective of different, yet complementary conflicts: avantgarde and neo-avantgarde, artistic practices and spectacle culture, aesthetics of repression, trauma and commemoration.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 272z. Post WW II European Art (Part II)]
Catalog Number: 6513 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Benjamin Buchloh
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This term: Great Britain, Scandinavia , Austria, and the Benelux countries. Addresses the artistic responses to the legacies of Surrealism, to American mass culture, and to the impact of Fascist domination.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History of Art and Architecture 275w. The Thing
Catalog Number: 8955 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Investigates the conundrum of "thingness" in art history, introducing theoretical frameworks for interpreting everything from teapots to minimal sculpture. Interrogates forms of exchange - economic, libidinal, aesthetic, historical- that objects invite (or refuse).
History of Art and Architecture 275x. Aesthetic Theories from Weimar to the Post War Frankfurt School - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1977 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Benjamin Buchloh
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
The seminar addresses the major texts of aesthetic theory as they were formulated by Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse between 1919 and 1968.
*History of Art and Architecture 277s. Circa 1970
Catalog Number: 2286 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Investigation of US artistic production and discourse from the early 1970s, with emphasis on the rubric of the “politicization of the avant-garde” and the periodization of the 60s and 70s. Comparative looks at Europe and Latin America.
[*History of Art and Architecture 278x. Chance in Photography]
Catalog Number: 4081 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Writers and practitioners from William Henry Fox Talbot to Jeff Wall have acknowledged and interpreted the strange traffic between photography and chance. This seminar will ponder and discuss this traffic’s history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[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 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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
History of Art and Architecture 279. Semiotics of Art
Catalog Number: 3644 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robin E. Kelsey
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
A fresh consideration of semiotic analysis in the study of the visual arts. Readings will include canonical writing on semiotics (e.g., Peirce, Saussure, Jakobson) and on the semiotics of art (e.g., Schapiro, Damisch, Mukarovsky, Krauss).
[History of Art and Architecture 279k. Seeing Spectatorship]
Catalog Number: 7691 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
What happens when attention shifts from art object to viewer? When, why, and how does this occur? Graduate seminar mapping recent reception-oriented approaches in art as well as art history, literary, film, and cultural studies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History of Art and Architecture 283v. Chinese Art as Ritual - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9584 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eugene Wang
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Focus is on art as instead of in ritual. Explores how ritual processes or procedural thinking governs the organization of images. Close examination of visual programs in early tombs, Buddhist caves, and Daoist temples.
History of Art and Architecture 285v. The Complete Taj Mahal - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6801 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ebba M. Koch
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
The seminar provides an in depth discussion of one of the most famous buildings in the world, of its historical setting, urban context, construction, architecture, symbolism and reception in the West.
[*History of Art and Architecture 286p. The Poem-Picture Scroll]
Catalog Number: 6580 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Yukio Lippit
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This seminar closely examines the genre of the poem-picture scroll (shigajiku) in medieval Japan. Extant works will be studied within the context of literary and painting practices of the time, Zen monastic institutions, the cultural salons of Kyoto, and interregional diplomatic exchange.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Reading knowledge of Japanese or Chinese required.
[*History of Art and Architecture 288n. The Kano School]
Catalog Number: 1578 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Yukio Lippit
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This seminar examines the ways in which Kano painters amalgamated disparate Japanese painting traditions to achieve a neutral, flexible, and highly influential mode of pictorial representation by the mid seventeenth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[*History of Art and Architecture 292p. Topics in Pre-Columbian Andean Art in the Peabody Museum]
Catalog Number: 1832 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Studies of the Collection.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
*History of Art and Architecture 310. Methods and Theory of Art History
Catalog Number: 7879 Enrollment: Limited to 14.
Hugo van der Velden 4767
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Note: Limited to incoming graduate students.
*History of Art and Architecture 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 6575
Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Benjamin Buchloh 5325, Thomas B. F. Cummins 3568, Frank Fehrenbach 5013, Jeffrey F. Hamburger 3800, Ioli Kalavrezou 2242, Robin E. Kelsey 4132, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth 3373, Carrie Lambert-Beatty 5283 (on leave spring term), Neil Levine 4178, Yukio Lippit 4713 (on leave 2008-09), David G. Mitten 1290 (on leave spring term only), Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar 1688 (on leave 2008-09), Alina A. Payne 4605 (on leave 2008-09), Gloria Ferrari Pinney 1384, Jennifer L. Roberts 4407, Betsey A. Robinson 4361, David J. Roxburgh 2138, Rabun Taylor 4253, Eugene Wang 3600, Irene J. Winter 1955, Henri Zerner 3792, and Hugo van der Velden 4767
Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree.