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ASAG 6318 - Graduate Studio
Credits: 3
Independent study with individual faculty members. Teaching is essentially through private critiques. Classroom work can be arranged in instances where regular work from models or specific technical information or equipment is needed. Scheduling of critique of classroom work is the responsibility of the student.
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ASAG 6319 - Graduate Studio
Credits: 3
Independent study with individual faculty members. Teaching is essentially through private critiques. Classroom work can be arranged in instances where regular work from models or specific technical information or equipment is needed. Scheduling of critique of classroom work is the responsibility of the student.
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ASAG 6320 - Graduate Studio
Credits: 3
Independent study with individual faculty members. Teaching is essentially through private critiques. Classroom work can be arranged in instances where regular work from models or specific technical information or equipment is needed. Scheduling of critique of classroom work is the responsibility of the student.
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ASAG 6321 - Studio Workshop
Credits: 3
An intensive investigation in art by students engaged in independent work, group collaboration, and analytical study. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Ceramics |
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ASCE 5100 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300.
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ASCE 5200 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300.
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ASCE 5300 - Advanced Ceramics
Credits: 3
Students refine their understanding of the discipline of ceramics based on their grasp of techniques and principles from the first two courses. Employing the fluid nature of ceramics to flow across disciplines, students select a common ground (for example, architecture, food service, or the human figure) and identify specific techniques (for example, printing, throwing, or painting) to accomplish primarily self-initiated projects of research and making. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASCE 5302 - Directed Studies in Ceramics
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASCE 3300.
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ASCE 5310 - Special Topics in Ceramics
Credits: 3
To be announced by the Division of Art. Prerequisite: ASCE 1300, ASCE 1310, ASCE 3300, ASCE 3310, ASCE 3320, ASCE 3330 or permission of instructor.
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Drawing |
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ASDR 5100 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300.
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ASDR 5200 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300.
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ASDR 5300 - Drawing Advanced
Credits: 3
Drawing at the senior level exemplifying independent development in drawing. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASDR 5302 - Directed Studies in Drawing
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300.
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ASDR 5303 - Directed Studies in Italy: Advanced Students
Credits: 3
Offers senior-level development in drawing and individual responses to the ruins, monuments, and landscape of Italy, which are themselves the subjects of many masterpieces encountered in churches, museums, and archaeological sites. Students are allowed the freedom to explore formal issues and expressive means in response to these subjects, producing a visual record of their perceptions and thoughts in representational, abstract, or conceptual modes. Critiques allow students to demonstrate skills in formal analysis and interpretation. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisite: ASDR 3300.
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ASDR 5305 - Drawing as Concept and Performance
Credits: 3
This course begins with the premise that the contemporary artist conceives of drawing as an expanded field of expressive and conceptual possibilities. Drawing understood as concept or performance is neither solely preparatory nor descriptive. Rather, drawing is constructed using a variety of means, including imaginative systems of notation, graphic conventions drawn from visual culture at large, and scripted physical actions. Prerequisite: ASDR 3305.
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Photography |
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ASPH 5100 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5101 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5200 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5201 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5302 - Directed Studies in Photography
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5303 - Directed Studies in Video
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPH 5304 - Advanced Photography and Digital Media
Credits: 3
An advanced investigation of lens-based creative practice, which culminates in a self-directed body of work. Execution and exploration of students’ work is open to digital, analog, video, and hybrid processes. Prerequisite: ASPH 3303 or permission of instructor.
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Printmaking |
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ASPR 5100 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5200 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5300 - Printmaking Workshop
Credits: 3
Further intermediate- and advanced-level exploration of the possibilities of the printing medium as an expressive tool. The ambience of the workshop, with no fixed structure, offers freedom to experiment in all directions (emotionally, intellectually, and technically) and to seek inspiration from any source. Students gain the self-discipline necessary for coherent results and mastery of the craft of printing. Prerequisite: ASPR 3300 or permission of instructor.
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ASPR 5302 - Directed Studies in Printmaking
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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Painting |
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ASPT 5100 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300.
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ASPT 5200 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300.
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ASPT 5300 - Advanced Painting
Credits: 3
An intensive studio experience for students who wish to develop a significant body of work in painting. Independent development is stressed alongside a program of readings and individual and group critiques. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in painting at the 3000 level or permission of instructor.
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ASPT 5302 - Directed Studies in Painting
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300.
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ASPT 5306 - Painting in Taos II
Credits: 3
An advanced study of painting in the physical and cultural environment of the Fort Burgwin Research Center. Prerequisite: ASPT 3300 or ASPT 3306, or permission of instructor.
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Sculpture |
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ASSC 5100 - Directed Studies in Sculpture
Credits: 1
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASSC 5200 - Directed Studies in Sculpture
Credits: 2
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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ASSC 5300 - Advanced Seminar in Sculpture
Credits: 3
Advanced investigation of contemporary practice in sculpture, including methods of research, means of production, and the critical and theoretical contexts of contemporary sculpture. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours in art courses at the 3000 level or permission of instructor.
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ASSC 5302 - Directed Studies in Sculpture
Credits: 3
Students may take one course per term only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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Art History |
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ARHS 5101 - Directed Studies
Credits: 1
To be arranged with permission of the adviser and the faculty members directing the studies project.
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ARHS 5102 - Directed Studies
Credits: 1
To be arranged with permission of the adviser and the faculty members directing the studies project.
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ARHS 6000 - Thesis Project
Credits: 0
This course is designed for graduate students who are completing a thesis project begun in an earlier term.
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ARHS 6101 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6102 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6105 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6106 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6107 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6108 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6109 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6110 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6111 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6112 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 1
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ARHS 6201 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 2
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ARHS 6202 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 2
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ARHS 6300 - Graduate Directed Study
Credits: 3
Specific topics for study selected by instructor.
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ARHS 6301 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 3
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ARHS 6302 - Master’s Thesis
Credits: 3
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ARHS 6303 - Archaeological Field Methods of Italy
Credits: 3
Archaeological field experience in classical archaeology in Italy. Introduces the principles of archaeological field method through lectures and field experience. Also, lectures on Etruscan history, art, and culture. (Temporalities pre-1500) (SMU-in-Italy: Archaeology)
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ARHS 6304 - Seminar On Ancient Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6305 - Seminar On Greek Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6314 - Art of the Moving Image
Credits: 3
Considers how artists have made use of moving images in film, television, video, animation, and 3D projection, from the 1920s to the present day. Discusses how the uses of these media by artists intersect with and diverge from their uses in the film and television industries. Students will develop an in-depth knowledge of art of the moving image and an awareness of key themes and issues in film and media studies.
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ARHS 6315 - Classical Sculpture
Credits: 3
A study of the styles, subjects, and techniques of the sculptor’s art during the ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman eras. Focuses on the functions of sculpture in the round, in relief, freestanding, and in architectural settings, with particular attention to historical background.
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ARHS 6316 - Etruscan and Roman Art
Credits: 3
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ARHS 6318 - Seminar On Non-Western Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6320 - Medieval Art
Credits: 3
An introduction to the art of Byzantium, Islam, and the medieval West through study of five genres to which each of these cultures made distinctive contributions: the congregational worship space, imaging the sacred word, the court and its objects, the pilgrimage site, and the urban religious complex.
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ARHS 6321 - Seminar on Medieval Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6323 - Seminar on Convivencia: Jewish, Islamic, and Christian Art in Medieval Spain
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6324 - Art and Cultures of Medieval Spain
Credits: 3
Introduces the visual traditions of the diverse medieval cultures that coexisted from the fall of Roman Hispania to the cultural and political consolidations of Ferdinand and Isabella. Emphasizes instances of cultural coexistence and rivalry (“convivencia”) among Spain’s medieval Islamic, Christian, and Jewish cultures. Also, the interplay of foreign and indigenous traditions, the expression of religious and ethnic identity, and the reuse and reconception of artistic forms and objects. Direct study of medieval Spanish painting, sculpture, and manuscripts in the Meadows Museum and Bridwell Library supplement classroom lectures, discussion, and research projects. (Temporalities pre-1500; global perspectives)
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ARHS 6329 - History and Methods of Art History
Credits: 3
Introduction to the history of the discipline with discussion of major methodological approaches as they have shaped past scholarship and the present sense of crisis in the discipline. Exercise in methods of research and its presentation in good form. Required of all first-year graduate students.
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ARHS 6330 - Seminar on Italian Renaissance Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6331 - Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance
Credits: 3
Surveys major artistic developments of the Renaissance (1300-1600), with special attention to the work of Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, and Michelangelo. Includes study of the customs, literature, and philosophy of the period through selected readings of primary sources. (Temporalities pre-1500)
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ARHS 6332 - 16th-Century Italian Art
Credits: 3
Topics include the dominance of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian in the 16th century; the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome and its aftermath, Mannerism, in Catholic courts across Europe; the development of art history as a discipline in conjunction with the rise of academics, art collecting, and the search for elevated status; and the challenge of women artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola to prevailing notions of creativity. (Temporalities pre- and post-1500)
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ARHS 6333 - Seminar on 18th-Century Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports. (*updated* 11/17/2020)
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ARHS 6335 - Seminar on Early Modern Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6337 - The Baroque From a Northern Perspective
Credits: 3
Explores the world of Rembrandt, Rubens, Leyster, Vermeer, Van Dyck, De la Tour, Le Brun, Jones, and Wren in the context of such contemporary events as the Thirty Years’ War and the Reformation. Also, art versus craft, nationalism versus internationalism, individual genius versus market, colourism versus classicism, and collector versus connoisseur. By considering a broad range of artworks - from tapestry to painting and from etching to architecture - in terms of the maker, market and patron or client, this survey seeks the underlying whys for this absorbing period. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6339 - El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting of the Golden Age
Credits: 3
A survey of the painting traditions of Spain’s 15th through early 19th centuries, including such artists as El Greco, Velazquez, Ribera, Murillo, and Goya. Lectures are supplemented by direct study of Spanish paintings and prints in the Meadows Museum. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6340 - Seminar on Spanish Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6345 - Seminar on 20th-Century Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6348 - 18th-Century Art
Credits: 3
A study of European visual culture, 1700-1800, in its many contexts. Topics include art and the public sphere; the rise of museums, exhibitions, criticism, and theory; shifts in patronage and artistic practice; connections among commerce, industry, and the arts; questions of identity; stylistic revivals and innovations; explorations of the past; and encounters with cultures outside Europe. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6349 - Hieroglyphs to Hypertext: The Art and History of the Book
Credits: 3
Examines the early development and the enduring cultural impact of the book - that is, the physical format of written communication known as the codex, which has dominated the intellectual landscape for the past two millennia. This survey traverses the historical forms of written communication, including cuneiform, hieroglyphs, calligraphy, woodblock, and letterpress printing, as well as the new dematerialized forms stored in digital information retrieval technologies. (Temporalities pre-1500)
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ARHS 6350 - Modern Art and Media Culture, 1789-1870
Credits: 3
Examines the emergence of a public sphere and a culture of looking in the 19th century. Discusses European visual art in relation to the rise of museum and gallery culture, journalistic illustration, the department store display window, photography and the panorama, the art critic, and early cinema. (Methods and theories)
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ARHS 6351 - Seminar on Contemporary Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6353 - Seminar on Modern Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6354 - Seminar on 19th-Century Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6355 - History of Photography II: 1940-Present
Credits: 3
A survey of the history of photographic media from 1940 to the present, with particular emphasis on the still photograph in its various uses as art, document, aide-memoire, amateur pursuit, and social practice. Examines photographic images and image-makers in relation to the social historical contexts in which they are produced; the evolution of photographic technologies; and the idea of the photographic image as it appears in and is transformed through TV, video, film, conceptual art, and new media. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6356 - Modern Architecture
Credits: 3
Western architecture from the late 19th century to the present, focusing on the proto-modern trends of the late 19th century and the major masters of the modern movement: Sullivan, Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6357 - Seminar on Cubism
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6358 - Gender and Sexuality in the Visual Arts
Credits: 3
Considers the representation of gender and sexuality in the visual arts, as well as the gendering of art production, patronage, and viewership. Topics may include the work of female artists, representations of male and female bodies, the role of the visual arts in constructing, subverting, norms of gender and sexuality, and the gendering of art theory and the art historical canon.
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ARHS 6359 - Topics in Art History: International Studies
Credits: 3
Specific topics for investigation will be chosen by the instructor.
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ARHS 6360 - Seminar on British Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6361 - Special Studies in Art History
Credits: 3
Specific topics for investigation will be chosen by the instructor.
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ARHS 6362 - Picturing Children and the Family in Art, 1850 to the Present
Credits: 3
Considers changing representations of children and the family in art from 1850 to the present. Artworks will be studied in relation to literary and theoretical texts, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to Melanie Klein’s research on the emotional development of children. Key topics will include the perceived relationship between childhood and artistic creativity, the representation of gender and sexuality, family members as artistic collaborators, and representations of the changing structure of the family in the twenty-first century.
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ARHS 6363 - Topics in Brazilian Art and Architecture
Credits: 3
Explores Brazilian art and architecture from the encounter of the Portuguese with native peoples of the New World in 1500, through the long period of colonial history, to the vibrant contemporary arts of Brazil today. Topics include the complex tapestry of artistic and intercultural exchange among Brazil’s Amerindian, African, and European populations; indigenous terra-forming; Tupi feather work, ceramics, and urban planning; European mapping of Brazil and the Amazon; religious art and architecture; Afro-Brazilian art forms and religious practices; Carnival and other performances of popular culture; the artistic production of the colonial period and the foundations of Brazilian modern art; video art during the dictatorship and contemporary allegories of underdevelopment; and historical artistic practices and their link to different national and international models for representing Brazilian national identity today, as well as their ethical, aesthetic, political, and/or social repercussions. (Temporalities post-1500; global perspectives)
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ARHS 6364 - History and Theory of Prints
Credits: 3
Covers how prints are made and how they can function (newspapers, postage stamps, maps, works of art, etc.). Also, the history of printmaking; established and emerging printmakers and major printmaking techniques from the 15th through 21st centuries; and fundamental issues regarding originality and copying, uniqueness and multiplicity, display, and collecting as raised by the medium of print. Provides firsthand experience of prints through looking assignments, visits to local collections, and in-class exercises. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6365 - Race and Gender in Visual Culture
Credits: 3
The body is not just a compilation of organs. It is a site through which this era’s most contentious political discussions (e.g., human rights violations, racism, and sexism) are experienced. Students explore the complex interconnections among race, gender, and politics in visual culture to analyze how these identities, locations, and markers are constructed and deployed in various media, including painting, photography, and TV. (Temporalities post-1500; methods and theories)
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ARHS 6366 - Seminar on Pre-Columbian Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6368 - Art and Context: 1940-1970
Credits: 3
An international survey of modern art during 1940-1970 that looks at the postwar development of modernist, formalist, figurative, realist, and antimodernist art in a social historical context, with particular attention to the cultural impact of World War II, the ideological conflicts and geopolitics of the Cold War, and the social and political upheaval of the 1960s. Also, the relevant histories of gender, sexual, racial, regional, and national identity in America and other industrialized nations (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan). (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6369 - Contemporary Art: 1965-Present
Credits: 3
An international survey of contemporary art from 1965 to the present, with specific attention to the rise of the current proliferation of new modes and new media in art (multimedia, installation, performance, site-specificity, video, interactive, and digital art), locating its origins in the social upheaval and shifting artistic practices at the close of the 1960s. Also, contemporary art practices as they relate to a range of influential developments in critical theory, social history, and local and global visual cultures. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6370 - The Art Market: Making, Selling, and Displaying Art in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Credits: 3
Examines how art was produced, sold, collected, and displayed in early modern and modern Europe. Includes case studies of different centuries and cultures, which might include 16th-century Italy, 17th-century Holland, 18th-century England, or 19th-century France. Students consider issues such as artists’ education and self-promotion, the roles of private and governmental patronage, the development of art academies and public exhibitions, the circulation of art objects between Europe and non-European countries, the gendering of the production and consumption of art, and the rise of the dealer system. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6371 - The Decorative Arts and the History of Dress in 18th-Century Europe
Credits: 3
Explores the history of production and consumption of the decorative arts and clothing in 18th-century Europe. Topics include how decorative objects and clothing were made and by whom, how styles evolved and in what political and social contexts, how consumers used objects to define themselves in and against society, and how objects and textiles circulated between Europe and the rest of the world. Also, the gendering of production and consumption, and the relationship between the luxury market and more affordable objects. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6372 - Seminar on American Art
Credits: 3
Specific topics chosen by the instructor. Seminar members discuss the student reports.
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ARHS 6373 - American Art and Architecture to 1865
Credits: 3
A survey of American painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Colonial period through the Civil War.
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ARHS 6374 - American Art and Architecture, 1865-1940
Credits: 3
Provides a stylistic and iconographic survey of American painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture from 1865 to 1940 and attempts to situate the images within their specific cultural contexts. Also, broad underlying issues such as nationalism, class, race, and gender. Group discussions on the strengths, assumptions, and weaknesses of these interpretations are relevant for the students’ research, thinking, and writing. (Temporalities post-1500)
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ARHS 6376 - Latin American Art
Credits: 3
A survey of art and architecture in Latin America from the initial contacts between European and American civilizations until the 20th century. (Temporalities post-1500; global perspectives)
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