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Art History DepartmentGraduate Courses, Spring 2005 |
| Please note: The online course atlas (rather than the printed course atlas) is the most current version. Last update: November 30, 2004. ARTHIST 592: Introduction to Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignShpuza ---------------- W 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM ----------------MAX: 2 Content : This course is designed to provide students interested in architecture with a basic understanding of computer-aided design and graphic analysis. Emphasizing a hands-on approach, the course is structured around a group project which is designed to let students explore the potential of the computer, not merely as a drafting and presentation instrument but as an active analytical and design aid. Texts : TBA Particulars : TBA ARTHIST 596R: InternshipMay be repeated with permission from the director of internships. Interns must be nominated by the department for internships at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, the High Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Variable credit. ARTHIST 597R: Directed StudyFaculty; variable credit. ARTHIST 599R: Thesis Research (Permission only)ARTHIST 729: ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE HELLENISTIC AGEWESCOAT-------------Tu 4:00-7:00 PM---------------- Max: 12 Content: A broad investigation of the artistic developments engendered by the dynamic social, religious, and political changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 until the defeat of Antony at Actium in 31 BC. Special attention will be paid to the shift from the isolated work of art or architecture to the creation of spatial environments and integrated complexes, to the rise of new artistic centers, to the renewed importance of international sanctuaries, and to the role of Hellenistic monarchs as patrons of the arts. Particulars: Students are responsible for readings and discussion each week. In addition, each student will pursue a research project on which he or she will write a term paper and make a class presentation at the end of the semester. During the course of the semester, students will be asked to give brief reports on their progress and to share bibliographies with other members of the seminar. ARTHIST 729: Studies in Civic Identity and Romanization: Ephesos and Leptis MagnaMuntasser---------------F 9:00 AM - noon -----------------Max: 6 Content: This course would use the architectural, artistic and epigraphic benefactions of a city’s local elite as the means to investigate dynamics between so-called “Romanization” and civic identity in two provincial cities of the Roman Empire. Ephesos and Leptis Magna will provide case studies for clarifying the concept of “Romanization,” a term that is both useful and problematic. The physical and symbolic dimensions of the urban landscape will be examined, including the power of foundation myths and local gods in the creation of a civic identity. Topographical relationships and processional patterns will form part of the investigation into the dynamics of power relationships between the center and the periphery. ARTHIST 735: Museological Approaches to Shamanism in the AmericasStone-Miller-------------W 9:00 AM - noon--------------Max. 5 Content: This advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar explores how visionary spirituality is reflected in the artistic record of the ancient and traditional modern Americas from Mexico southward. As a group we will continue to plan the future Carlos Museum exhibition “Beyond the Portal: Shamanic Art and Healing in the Americas.” Principal themes will be contemporary practices that relate to the past, gendered images of shamans, and conveying the attributes of trances. Texts:
Particulars: Students will be responsible for: readings for each three-hour meeting per week: a project concerning a particular room in the exhibition (final written c. 25-page projects to include final selection of objects, contact information, labels, case designs, and research summaries of select objects); and a one -hour presentation of project in class. ARTHIST 739: Medieval Art as a Bible for the IlliteratePastan----------------Th 1:00 - 4:00 PM--------------MAX: 12 Content: This seminar examines the implications of Pope Gregory I’s statement, “What Scripture is to the educated, images are to the ignorant,” (Letter to Serenus of Marseille, c. 600 CE). Frequently cited throughout the Middle Ages, this statement became the standard defense of figural painting and sculpture, a rationalization for the expense of art making, and an implicit argument about the power of images. In this course, we will explore the both textual tradition and image cycles that could be construed as affirming or contradicting Gregory’s dictate. Other issues to be considered include: how one “reads” a medieval image, recent scholarship on the varieties and kinds of literacy, and the discrepancies or slippage between the intentions of a patron and meanings imparted to beholders. Case studies are focused on, but not limited to, arts of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, a period corresponding to the explosion of imagery in cathedrals, treasury arts and manuscript illuminations. Text: Reserve readings. Particulars: Weekly seminar discussions, seminar presentations, and a research paper. ARTHIST 749: History of Early Modern PrintmakingMelion------------- M 2:00 - 5:00 PM--------------- Max: 4 Content: Seminar on the three modes of mechanical reproduction--oodcut, engraving, and etching--that fundamentally changed the theory and practice of pictorial imitation between 1400 and 1700. Among the topics to be considered are the relation between traditional media and the new print technologies; the propagation of new kinds of pictorial image--emblematic, meditative, demonstrative; the rise of print publishing houses and, allied with this, of new methods of making and marketing pictures; and the character of the printed image--portable, multiple, affordable--as this impinges on established notion of invention, manner, and authority. Printmaker to be examined closely include Martin Schongauer, Albrect Du"rer, Marcantonio Raimondi, Giogio Ghisi, Hendrick Goltzius, and Rembrandt. Texts:
Particulars: Seminar meets once a week. Grading based on class participation, presentations on assigned topics, and research paper. ARTHIST 775: The Architecture of Gaudí in ContextRohrer--------------Monday 1:00 - 4:00 PM ----------------Max: 4 Content : This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar for students with some knowledge of the history of modern architecture. We will study the work of the polyfacetic Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudí, not only within the context of the development of his theory and practice, but also within the cultural, artistic, and socio-economic-political contexts of his time. We will study the evolution of his production with relation to 19 th century eclecticism, turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau, and the modern movement in architecture, considering the contexts of a Barcelona undergoing major urban and cultural transformation, the politics of Catalan nationalism, and the particularities of the Catholic devotion that informed his work. We will study his formal and structural innovations with regard to their reception by Surrealists, Expressionists, Modernists and Post-modernists in an effort to understand the formation of architectural reputation. Texts :
Particulars: The seminar will be based upon weekly readings and discussions; each student will prepare a research paper that will be presented, in abbreviated form, to the seminar orally at the end of the term. LAC credit may be possible for those who wish to do a substantial part of the reading in Spanish. Permission of the instructor required. Art History 775: Art and Globalism
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