EAST-WEST PHOTOGRAPHY (HONORS)

HISTORY OF ART 3605H EAST-WEST PHOTOGRAPHY (HONORS) Professor Namiko Kunimoto VPA. This course This course introduces will students begin with to the major emergence media of and photography techniques used and will by artists examine Asia. the medium s examine pivotal in-depth role in the shaping practical relations aspects between of the production Asia and the of West. sculptures, We will paintings, explore early We will prints, This course portraiture, drawings, mandalas, will explore architectural and major developments sites, other colonial media. This in tourism, emphasis on technique will be balanced Chinese popular art from culture, 1850 to family the present, photographs, with and by discussions of the ways that a work s materiality shapes and activates its meaning. particular contemporary interest in how art photography. artists defined No themselves previous experience in the context in Asian of radical art or social photography and economic required. changes, periods of destructive warfare, and an increasingly international art world. Class # 33927 TUES & THURS 2:20-3:40

HISTORY OF ART 3901 WORLD CINEMA TODAY Mark Svede Fulfills the GE requirement for Arts & Humanities -- Visual and Performing VPA. Arts (VPA). This course This course will survey will survey the best the of best world of world cinema cinema within within the past the past decade decade or two, or two, including representative examples of national of national cinemas, cinemas, such such as (potentially, as (potentially, since since the selections the selections including would would change) change) Iranian, Iranian, Chinese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Taiwanese, and Indian; and ethnic Indian; cinemas, ethnic cinemas, such (potentially) Kurdish, tially) Jewish Kurdish, diaspora, Jewish and diaspora, Quebecois; and Quebecois; regional cinemas, regional such cinemas, (potentially) such as (potentially) East- such as (poten- This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used by artists in Asia. We will examine in-depth the practical aspects of the production of sculptures, paintings, ern European Eastern and European Middle and Eastern Middle cinemas; Eastern continental cinemas; continental cinemas, such cinemas, African such and as African South and prints, drawings, mandalas, and other media. This emphasis on technique will be balanced This American; course South global will American; explore cinema, global major such developments cinema, as Euro-American, such as in Euro-American, Chinese Hong art Kong, from Hong 1850 and Kong, Dogme to the and present, 95; Dogme and with the 95; and by discussions of the ways that a work s materiality shapes and activates its meaning. particular cinemas the of interest cinemas civilizations, in of how civilizations, such artists as Islamic, defined such as Judeo-Christian, themselves Islamic, Judeo-Christian, in the and context Confucian. and of Confucian. radical Not all social these Not and categories, categories, changes, others that or periods others are possible, that of destructive are are possible, represented warfare, are represented in and any an given increasingly any quarter. given international quarter. art all these economic world. AUTUMN 2016 2017 Class Call # 23681 24118 TUES WEDS & THURS & FRI 2:20-3:40 3:55-5:15

HISTORY OF ART 4005 ARTISTIC MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES Professor Christina Mathison This course introduces students to the major media and techniques used by artists throughout history. This course We will introduces examine in-depth students the to the practical major aspects media and of the techniques production used of in sculptures, Asia throughout paintings, history. prints, We mosaics, will examine manuscripts, the process drawings, and techniques textiles, involved metalwork, in the and production other media. of Bamboo, This emphasis Ceramics, on Drawing, technique Epigraphy, will be balanced Ivory, Lacquer, by discussions Mandalas, of Metals, the ways Painting, that a Paper, work s Prints, materiality Stone, shapes Textiles, and activates and Wood. its meaning. Lectures and coursework will center around understanding the Silk, media and techniques of these art forms and analyzing the relationship between materials and meaning. The course will also involve the study of the limitations of some of these media and the approaches to conservation. Class # 34000 TUES & THURS 12:45-2:05

HISTORY OF ART 4016 SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR Professor Byron Hamann A seminar designed to perfect the research and writing skills of advanced majors in History of Art, this course is reading and writing intensive. Initial classroom meetings will be focused on the discussion of key theoretical and art historical texts, in which every student will be required to participate; the overall arc of the class is centered around the writing of a major research paper by each student. Class # 33928 Diversity (Global) Historical Studies; and Arts & VPA. Humanities VPA. WEDS & FRI 12:45-2:05

HISTORY OF ART 4531 17th CENTURY ART OF THE NETHERLANDS: SHAPING IDENTITIES, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND VALUES Professor Barbara Haeger This course examines the major artists and varied functions of paintings and prints created in the northern and southern Netherlands (what we know today as The Netherlands and Belgium) during the seventeenth century. The material has been organized to explore the role of art in propagating religious beliefs, facilitating social cohesion, shaping values, and defining civic, national, and individual identities. We will also examine the particular contributions of individual artists (e.g. Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer) and issues of artistic theory and practice. Class # 33930 TUES & THURS 3:55-5:15

HISTORY OF ART 4605 ASPECTS OF MODERNITY Professor Danny Marcus This class explores the emergence of mass culture and mass politics in Europe and North America between the 1870s and the 1920s, a period during which many of the key institutions of contemporary society from the popular press and the democratic franchise to technologized entertainment and readyto-wear fashion were first introduced on a large (but not universal) scale. In lectures and discussions, we will investigate the many, often divergent, strategies by which artists sought to adapt to, and participate in, the modernization of culture and society; to help direct our attention, we will work through a handful of key texts by major historians and theorists, all of which offer original arguments about the relationship between art and modernity. Students will be asked to think critically about the shifting significance of race, class, gender, and sexuality during the period at issue, rooting these concerns in close observation of artworks and cultural artifacts. Class # 25185 WEDS & FRI 2:20-3:40

HISTORY OF ART 4815 THE ART OF MODERN CHINA: 1850 TO THE PRESENT Professor Julia Andrews This course will explore the ways in which Chinese artists of the past century have defined modernity and tradition against the complex background of China s history. A key issue is the degree to which artists have chosen to adopt or adapt Western conventions and the extent to which they have rejected them. We will examine art works in different media, including oil painting, Chinese ink painting, graphic design, woodblock prints, and recent installation and video art, along with documentary and theoretical materials to investigate the most compelling of the multiple realities that Chinese artists have constructed for themselves. Class # 25186 TUES & THURS 9:35-10:55