Art History

Associate Professor Adam Herring, Department Chair

Professor: Randall C. Griffin
Associate Professors: Adam Herring, Lisa Pon
Assistant Professors: Beatriz Balanta, Amy Freund, Adam Jasienski, Stephanie Langin-Hooper
Visiting Assistant Professor: Eric Stryker
Adjunct Associate Professor: Mark Roglán

Honors Program

The Art History Honors Program is available to majors with exceptional academic records who seek a greater intellectual challenge. It is conducted as a two-term sequence (fall: ARHS 4391  and spring: ARHS 4392 ) during senior year, culminating with a 30-page thesis and faculty review. Students should contact the art history undergraduate adviser for more information.

Programs

• Art History, B.A.

• Art History Minor

Courses

• ARHS 1300 - From Mummies to Gladiators: Art and People of the Ancient World
• ARHS 1301 - Catacombs, Cathedrals, and Flying Machines: Art and People of the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
• ARHS 1302 - From the Baroque to the Digital Age: Art and People of the Modern World
• ARHS 1303 - Introduction to Western Art I
• ARHS 1304 - Introduction to Western Art II
• ARHS 1306 - Introduction to Architecture
• ARHS 1307 - Introduction to Art History
• ARHS 1308 - Epic of Latin America
• ARHS 1310 - History Through Things: Consumer Culture in the United States
• ARHS 1312 - Picturing the American West
• ARHS 1313 - Pharaohs, Pyramids, and Other Wonders of the Nile: Introduction to the Art of Ancient Egypt
• ARHS 1333 - Introduction to Visual Culture
• ARHS 1335 - Monsters, Mayhem, and Miracles: Life in the Medieval World
• ARHS 1336 - Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture: Ways of Knowing
• ARHS 1350 - Art in the Portuguese Empire
• ARHS 1351 - Visual Cultures: Topics in Western Art
• ARHS 3307 - Photography in Taos; Photographic Art, Photographic History
• ARHS 3310 - War, Looting, and Collecting in the Ancient World
• ARHS 3311 - Mortals, Myths, and Monuments of Ancient Greece
• ARHS 3312 - Portraiture and Selfhood, 1400-1914
• ARHS 3313 - The Etruscans and Iron Age Italy
• ARHS 3314 - Art of the Moving Image
• ARHS 3315 - Classical Sculpture
• ARHS 3316 - Art in Rome
• ARHS 3317 - Land Between Two Rivers: Art of Ancient Iraq and Its Neighbors
• ARHS 3320 - Glittering Pages: Art of the Medieval Manuscript
• ARHS 3322 - Art and the Italian Commune
• ARHS 3324 - Art and Cultures of Medieval Spain
• ARHS 3325 - The Gothic Cathedral and Its World
• ARHS 3328 - Latin American History Through Visual Culture
• ARHS 3329 - Paris Art and Architecture I
• ARHS 3330 - Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
• ARHS 3331 - Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance
• ARHS 3332 - 16th-Century Italian Art
• ARHS 3333 - Special Topics in Italian Art and Architecture
• ARHS 3334 - The Look of Freedom
• ARHS 3337 - The Baroque From a Northern Perspective
• ARHS 3338 - Sacred and Profane: Spanish Art and Architecture
• ARHS 3339 - El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting of the Golden Age
• ARHS 3344 - Paintings at the Prado
• ARHS 3346 - Paris Art and Architecture II
• ARHS 3348 - 18th-Century Art
• ARHS 3349 - Hieroglyphs to Hypertext: The Art and History of the Book
• ARHS 3350 - Modern Art and Media Culture, 1789-1870
• ARHS 3351 - British Art and Architecture: The Making of Modern Britain
• ARHS 3352 - Impressionism, Symbolism, and the Deviant Body: Making a Difference
• ARHS 3355 - History of Photography II: 1940-Present
• ARHS 3356 - Modern Architecture
• ARHS 3358 - Gender and Sexuality in the Visual Arts
• ARHS 3359 - Topics in Art History: International Studies
• ARHS 3360 - Modern Painters in Spain
• ARHS 3361 - Special Studies in Art History
• ARHS 3362 - Picturing Children and the Family in Art, 1850 to the Present
• ARHS 3363 - Topics in Brazilian Art and Architecture
• ARHS 3364 - History and Theory of Prints
• ARHS 3365 - Race and Gender in Visual Culture
• ARHS 3366 - The Rise of European Modernism
• ARHS 3367 - History of Photography I: Origins-1940
• ARHS 3368 - Art and Context: 1940-1970
• ARHS 3369 - Contemporary Art: 1965-Present
• ARHS 3370 - The Art Market: Making, Selling, and Displaying Art in Early Modern and Modern Europe
• ARHS 3371 - The Decorative Arts and the History of Dress in 18th-Century Europe
• ARHS 3373 - American Art and Architecture to 1865
• ARHS 3374 - American Art and Architecture, 1865-1940
• ARHS 3376 - Latin American Art
• ARHS 3377 - Art and Architecture of Hispanic New Mexico
• ARHS 3378 - Art and Cultural Production: The Stranger in Visual Culture and Literature of the Americas
• ARHS 3379 - Power and Spectacle: The Arts of Spain and New Spain
• ARHS 3382 - Art and Experience in Inka Peru
• ARHS 3383 - The Ancient Maya: Art and History
• ARHS 3384 - Land Art
• ARHS 3385 - The Aztecs Before and After the Conquest: Mesoamerica, 1400-1600
• ARHS 3386 - Subcultures
• ARHS 3388 - Why We Go to Auschwitz: Art, Trauma, and Memory
• ARHS 3391 - Visual Culture in Colonial Mexico
• ARHS 3392 - Islamic Art and Architecture: The Creation of a New Art
• ARHS 3393 - Culture of Oaxaca: A Sense of Place
• ARHS 3394 - Art and Architecture of Japan
• ARHS 3396 - Art and Architecture of China
• ARHS 3398 - Introduction to Museum Studies
• ARHS 3399 - The Medieval Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Art and Text
• ARHS 4101 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4102 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4111 - Undergraduate Museum Internship
• ARHS 4201 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4202 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4211 - Undergraduate Museum Internship
• ARHS 4301 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4302 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
• ARHS 4304 - The City as Place
• ARHS 4310 - Seminar on Ancient Art
• ARHS 4311 - Undergraduate Museum Internship
• ARHS 4312 - Special Topics on 18th-Century Art and/or Architecture
• ARHS 4320 - Seminar on Medieval Art
• ARHS 4322 - Museum Theory
• ARHS 4330 - Seminar on Early Modern Art
• ARHS 4331 - Seminar on Spanish Art
• ARHS 4349 - Seminar on Contemporary Art
• ARHS 4350 - Seminar on Modern Art
• ARHS 4362 - The City of New York
• ARHS 4391 - Art History Honors Thesis