Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Christian, Barbarian, Moslem,
and Classical traditions in European Art from the fourth through
the sixteenth centuries.
Discussion/Laboratory—3 hour(s); Project (Term
Project). Pass One restricted to Art History and Art Studio
majors. Curate an exhibition. Development of exhibition
proposal, object selection and installation, design, lighting,
creation of exhibition text and promotional material. Production
of a public display for a campus museum or
elsewhere. Effective: 2020 Fall Quarter.
Lecture/discussion–4 hours. Study of human rights as they
relate to art, architecture, and cultural heritage.
Examines museums, art collections, and cultural-heritage
management, their relation to the cultural prerogatives of
communities and indigenous groups, and protection of cultural
heritage during war and conflict.
GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci|AH or SS, DD, VL, WC, WE.
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 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). A historical survey
of Buddhist art in relation to the development of Buddhist
doctrine and philosophy. (Same course as RST
171.) Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Seventeenth-century paintings,
sculpture and graphic arts, including such artists as Caravaggio,
Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez in their political and social
context.
Lecture/discussion—4 hours; term paper. Development of new media
and aesthetics in the context of such cultural and political
phenomena as the New Left, feminism, and globalization;
investigation of the critical-theoretical questions of
neoavantgardism, postmodernism, and postmodernity.
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.
Instructors: Katharine Burnett
GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for
credit when topic differs.
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.
GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for
credit when topic differs.
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.
GE credit: ArtHum| AH, OL, VL, WE. May be repeated two times for
credit when topic differs.