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71-001 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-002 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-003 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-004 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-104 INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ART: IMAGE, OBJECT, TEXT
A broad but selective look at art and artifacts made in various world cultures and periods, from antiquity onward. The course will move chronologically through these eras, while simultaneously addressing key themes in the history of art. The course will also offer a basic introduction to some of the...
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71-114 WORLD ARCHITECTURE: A COMPARATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY
A survey of several major architectural traditions and their cultural contexts from prehistory to the present: Neolithic; Mesopotamia; Egypt; Indus, India and SE Asia; China and Japan; Pre-Columbian America; Greece; Rome; Early Christian and Byzantine; Islam; European Medieval; Early Modern Europe; ...
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71-204 INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ART: ASIAN ART
An introductory survey of the arts of India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. Organized chronologically by country, the course also examines cross-cultural thematic issues, particularly Buddhism. It encompasses ancient India and the origins of Buddhist art and traces the expansi...
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71-234 HISTORY OF THE ART OF CHINA
A survey of Chinese art from the Neolithic period (ca. 6000-2000 BCE) through the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), focusing on all the visual arts, their cultural history and their political, social and religious contexts. Organized chronologically, the course encompasses art from the Neolithic through the...
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71-244 HISTORY OF THE ART OF JAPAN
A survey of Japanese art from the Jomon period (10,500-300 BCE) into the Edo period (1615–1868), focusing on all the visual arts, their cultural history and their political, social and religious contexts. Organized chronologically, the course traces the visual arts beginning with the earliest arti...
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71-254 ANCIENT CHINESE ART AND CULTURE: NEOLITHIC THROUGH TANG
Ancient Chinese art and culture encompasses all the visual arts from the Neolithic Period (ca. 6000-2000 BCE) through the end of the Tang dynasty (61-907). Organized chronologically, the course encompasses ceramics and jades from the four main Neolithic cultures and the bronze and ceramic production...
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71-264 CHINESE PAINTING: THE COURT, POLITICS AND THE LITERATI
Encompasses Chinese painting from the Neolithic period (ca. 5000 BCE) and ends with the rise of the literati tradition in the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Organized chronologically, the course addresses the major subjects and themes in Chinese painting taking into account the artists’ involvement in ...
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71-274 CHINESE PAINTING: PERSONAL EXPRESSION, ORTHODOXY AND ECCENTRICITY
Encompasses Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) through 17th and 18th centuries of the Qing dynasty. Includes a consideration of the rise of the literati tradition and how it evolved in the Yuan under Mongol control. Organized chronologically, the course examines the contributions of ...
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71-301 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-302 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-303 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-304 SPECIAL PROJECTS
May be repeated with a change in topic.
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71-314 ART OF MESOAMERICA
A survey of the ancient Americas, concentrating on the archaeology and ritual aesthetics of the Mezcala, Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Nayarít, Chupícuaro, Teotihuacan, Totonac, Toltec, Mixtec, Purépecha and Aztec, among others, and focusing on each culture’s sense of past and place. In so doing, this ...
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71-324 ART OF THE ANDES
A survey of the ancient Americas, concentrating on the archaeology and ritual aesthetics of the Valdivia, Chavín, Jama-Coaque, Tairona, Coclé, Paracas, Nazca, Moche, Tiwanaku, Wari, Chimu and Inca, among others, and focusing on each culture’s sense of past and place. In so doing, this course exa...
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71-344 AZTEC AND INCA IMPERIAL ARTS
The two advanced civilizations in the Americas achieved their great empires by recalling past cultures and innovating upon public art and ritual to meet increasing cultural complexities. This course concentrates on the imperial aesthetics of the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) and the Inca,...
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71-354 LATIN AMERICAN CITIES AND FRONTIERS
From the 16th to the early 19th centuries, the center of power in Latin America shifted from Spain to colonial Latin American cities, as ideas of the ”other” shifted from monstrous races and animals to the wild and uncivilized Indian. This course explores center-periphery dynamics through the cr...
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71-364 NATIVE BOOKS, IMAGES AND OBJECTS
As the primary vehicle of communication in the 16th century, and as a model of religion, the Book was part of Spain’s effort to colonize the Americas. Yet there already existed systems of recording in Mesoamerica and the Andes, which were both conflicting and commensurate with European notions of ...
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71-374 PAINTING A NEW WORLD
Identity in the Viceroyalties of New Spain (Mexico) and Peru both shape and were shaped by traditions of painting. This course explores the stylistic developments of painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries, concentrating primarily on visual literacy and the role of artists in society. We will e...
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71-444 HELLENISTIC ART
A survey of the formation of Roman art and ancient art theory within the context of the broader Hellenistic world. It covers Greek art from the Classical and Hellenistic periods (c. 480-30 B.C.) and contemporary Roman art of the Mid and Late Republic and early Empire. (c. 390 B.C.-c. A.D. 79). The c...
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71-504 ART OF SPAIN, 711-1700
A survey of the art and architecture of Spain, from the Muslim conquest of Toledo to the end of the Habsburg Monarchy, with a concentration on the ideological and political shifts that occurred during Spain’s emergence as a global power. Beginning with the conflicts and resolutions between Christi...
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71-544 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
An in-depth survey of Italian art and culture from the beginning of the 14th century to the end of the 16th century. (FAL) (WA)
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71-554 BAROQUE ART
A survey of European art and its cultural and intellectual context from c. 1600 to the mid 18th century. (FAL) (WA)
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71-614 REVOLUTION, ROMANTICISM, REALISM
Encompasses the visual arts produced in Europe and the United States between 1780 and 1860. Covers movements such as David and Neo-Classicism; Romanticism in England, Germany and France; native and colonial American art; and international Realism. Issues to be addressed include the relationship betw...
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71-624 MODERNISM AND MODERNITY
Encompasses the visual arts produced primarily in Europe and the United States between 1860 and 1945. Organized according to chronological developments in the history of modernism and the avant-garde, the course also focuses on thematic issues including the rise of mass culture; primitivism; the inf...
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71-634 ART SINCE 1945
Encompasses the visual arts produced primarily in Europe and the United States between 1945 and present day. Includes a consideration of modernism and Abstract Expressionism, art informel, Post-painterly abstraction, Pop art, Happenings and performance art, environmental art, Minimalism, Conceptuali...
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71-644 GENDER AND ART
A study of the ways in which gender and sexuality are intricately involved in the making, reception and criticism of art. Includes a consideration of how the art historical canon is generated and an examination of the ways in which art imagines both femininity and masculinity. An investigation into ...
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71-674 GERMAN ART IN THE MODERN ERA
Encompasses the visual arts produced in Germany from the early-19th to mid-20th centuries. Includes German Romanticism, the importance of the academy and history painting, artistic responses to the 1848 revolution, industrialization and the unification of the German nation state in 1871. Moving into...
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71-684 THEORY AND METHODS OF ART HISTORY
Introduces the theories and methodologies that have been of crucial importance to the development of the discipline of art history. These may include Kantian aesthetics, German formalism, iconography, Marxist critical theory, structural and semiotic methods, feminist theory, and post-structuralism. ...
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71-764 MODERN ARCHITECTURE
A survey of Western (Euro-American) architecture from c. 1750 through present day. Material considers the context of intellectual history, industrial and political revolutions, mass culture and technological innovation. It is also an introduction to issues of architectural theory and the history of ...
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71-804 SEMINAR IN SPECIAL PROBLEMS
A research seminar in various topics. Primarily for majors but open to non-majors who fulfill prerequisites. Prerequisites: Art 71-104 or 71-114 and two additional courses in art history, or permission of instructor. Open to juniors or seniors only. May be repeated with change of topic. (Every semes...
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71-901 TUTORIAL
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71-902 TUTORIAL
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71-903 TUTORIAL
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71-904 TUTORIAL
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71-941 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP
Internships related to specific fields of study. Must be taken Pass/D/F.
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71-942 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP
Internships related to specific fields of study. Must be taken Pass/D/F.
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71-943 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP
Internships related to specific fields of study. Must be taken Pass/D/F.
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71-944 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP
Internships related to specific fields of study. Must be taken Pass/D/F.
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71-951 INDEPENDENT STUDY
May be repeated with a change of topic. At the invitation of the instructor.
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71-952 INDEPENDENT STUDY
May be repeated with a change of topic. At the invitation of the instructor.
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71-953 INDEPENDENT STUDY
May be repeated with a change of topic. At the invitation of the instructor.
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71-954 INDEPENDENT STUDY
May be repeated with a change of topic. At the invitation of the instructor.
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71-983 HONORS
At least eight credits of work over two semesters (beginning spring junior year or fall senior year) on a single project. At the invitation of the instructor and approval of the art history faculty.
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71-984 HONORS
At least eight credits of work over two semesters (beginning spring junior year or fall senior year) on a single project. At the invitation of the instructor and approval of the art history faculty.
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71-985 HONORS
At least eight credits of work over two semesters (beginning spring junior year or fall senior year) on a single project. At the invitation of the instructor and approval of the art history faculty.
