Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to visual
analysis through study of western art 1600-present, examining
major artists and movements from Europe to North America.
Study of the relationship of art and artists to
political,religious, social change, and to changes in ideology,
patronage, audience. May be repeated for credit.
Lecture-3 hours; term paper. Interpretation of the natural
world in the western world 1600-1900, with perspectives on the
present; landscape painting, ideology of picturesque and sublime,
landscape art and travel, reshaping the land as art.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Transformation in architecture and
urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying
social, political, and economic systems as well as very different
cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914.
Offered in alternate years.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. The High Renaissance and Mannerism
in 16th-century Italy: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and
Titian in their artistic and cultural settings- Florence, Rome,
and Venice; the architecture of Bramante, Michelangelo, and
Palladio.
Lecture/Discussion—4 hours. Social, cultural, aesthetic and
technical developments in the history of photography including
patronage and reception, commercial, scientific, political and
artistic applications, and a critical-theoretical inquiry into
photography’s impact on the social category “art” and the history
of subjectivity.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art History
major, minor, or other significant training in Art History
recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors,
minors, other advanced students. Study of a broad problem
or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture.
Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing. Topics (D)
Gendering of Culture.
GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for
credit when topic differs.
