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ARTH 100 - Critical Questions in Art History
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 100
An exploration of significant questions and integrative concepts in Art History, their grounding in the process of scientific discovery and application, and their broader relevance to society. Designed for first-year students. Although topics vary, the courses also seek to improve students’ communication skills beyond the written word.
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ARTH 216 - Urbanism in the Ancient World
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
This course examines the development of cities in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from the first Neolithic towns to sprawling Roman municipalities, c.3000 BCE to 400CE. Ancient literary sources offer “first hand” accounts of those who lived in the communities. Archaeological evidence illustrates the way that people organized, used, and experienced space.
Cross-listed with: CLCV 314
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ARTH 217 - Greek Archeology and Art
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
An archaeological consideration of the Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic and Classical periods of Greek civilization. Architecture, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts are included.
Formerly: ARTH 267 Cross-listed with: CLCV 217
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ARTH 218 - Roman Archeology and Art
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
The architecture, painting and sculpture of Hellenistic Greece and of Rome.
Formerly: ANTH 268 Cross-listed with: CLCV 218
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ARTH 220 - Study Abroad Credit
Credits: (1-4)
For study abroad credit.
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ARTH 222 - Art in Florence
Credits: (3)
This course is a brief survey of Florentine architecture, painting and sculpture from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Three of the weeks will be dedicated exclusively to one of these mediums and the fourth will treat a combination of them.
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ARTH 225 - Topics in Art History
Credits: (3)
Selected topics in Art History to be used with cross-listed courses that are not listed with Art History as the home department.
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ARTH 230 - Topics in Art History
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Selected topics in Art History to be used with courses that are listed with Art History as the home department.
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ARTH 240 - Pre-Columbian Art History
Credits: (3)
This course is a wide-ranging survey of the arts from the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, prior to contact with European societies. The course will focus on the historical development of the arts and architecture of these areas and the role of art in this wide variety of social contexts. Lectures will cover, but are not limited to, rulership art of the Olmec and Maya, Aztec manuscript painting, Moche ceramics, and Inca architecture.
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ARTH 241 - Art of the Caribbean
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 350
The Caribbean is often perceived as ‘paradise;’ a place where the sun always shines and beautiful beaches welcome weary travelers. Jamaican photographer Peter Dean’s work sometimes confronts the viewer with images that make them reconsider this notion of paradise. Take for example his 2005 photograph ‘Escaping Pineapple’; the sea carries the beautiful ripe pineapple away, soft water splashing around it, an endless grey-blue sky on the horizon. In an instant the viewer connects to this ‘paradise’ of water, sun, and tropical fruit; but then is struck with a question: Why does the pineapple want to escape?
Likewise, this course will challenge students to re-evaluate what they know about the Caribbean and Caribbean art. The Caribbean is comprised of more than twenty countries, each with its own unique history and identity. Yet the countries share a cultural unity in their mixture of American, African, European, and Asian origins.
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ARTH 251 - Pre-Modern European Art
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
This course surveys major artistic traditions, while introducing students to the main intellectual, social, and historical concepts developed in Europe and the Mediterranean world between ca. 300-1500.
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ARTH 252 - Early Modern European Art
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
This course provides an overview of Early Modern European Art from around 1400-1850, considering the changing attitudes towards art making and viewing within wider cultural, social, and political contexts.
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ARTH 253 - Modern European Art
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
The study of European art movements and milieux from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Emphasis placed on France and important developments from the rococo to contemporary art. Illustrated lectures and readings.
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ARTH 257 - Asian Art
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
This course explores the history of Asian art, from the prehistory to the contemporary. Asia, since prehistory, has been a constantly shifting mosaic of kingdoms and cultures, engaged in a network of creative exchanges. Its cultural diversity will be examined through art, architecture and archeological discoveries. The lectures will be constructed in three sections to survey the most significant art works, with a focus on India, China and Japan. Students are expected to obtain a critical understanding of the history and theory of arts in Asia and of the importance of visual arts within Asian cultures. It also introduces key issues concerning religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism) and regional studies, and sheds light on cultural exchanges from the time of the Silk Road, through the colonial period, to the 21st-century.
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ARTH 258 - Chinese Art and Archaeology
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
A study of art, architecture and archeological discoveries from the Stone Age to the 19th-century. Significant works are examined in the contexts of historical and social changes related to broader Chinese culture and intercultural exchanges (notably East/West).
Formerly: ARTH 393
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ARTH 259 - Japanese Art and Archaeology
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
A study of art, architecture and archeological discoveries from the Stone Age to the contemporary in Japan. High, religious, and popular arts are examined in the contexts of historical and social changes and intercultural exchanges with China, Korea and the West.
Formerly: ARTH 394
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ARTH 261 - Arts of North America
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Critical exploration of creative art in North America-including New Spain, New England, New France, the U.S., Mexico, and Canada-since the arrival of Columbus in 1492, examining diverse makers, media, and techniques in historical contexts. Lectures, discussions, readings, writing assignments, and exams.
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ARTH 272 - Modern Architecture and Urbanism
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An introduction to key themes in the architecture and urbanism of the past two centuries. Influential buildings and cities analyzed in relation to their intellectual, technological, and socio-political contexts. Emphasis placed on Enlightenment ideals, industrialism, utopian thought, modernism and avant-garde discourses, colonialism, nationalism, regionalism, and internationalism.
Formerly: ARTH 372
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ARTH 282 - Art and Ecology
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI, NQR
Interdisciplinary study of art and ecology in various contexts since the 19th century, highlighting creative expression, interpretation, and activism concerning issues such as global warming, pollution, evolution, nonhuman life, species extinction, ideas about “nature,” and the politics of environmental justice.
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ARTH 291 - Cultures of Collecting
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
A critical overview of the collecting and display of things. The intent of the class is to place museums within a wider historical and global context that considers broadly the ways in which knowledge is produced, categorized and communicated through human choice and ordering of material objects. (This course is anchored in the ALV and CSI domains.)
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ARTH 317 - Ancient Architecture
Credits: (3)
This course, taught in seminar format, examines the major developments of ancient Greek and Roman architecture in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East from the Bronze Age to the 4th century A.D.
Formerly: ARTH 345 Cross-listed with: CLCV 425
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ARTH 330 - Topics in Art History
Credits: (1-4)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Courses of special subjects.
Course may be repeated for credit only if there is no duplication of topic or title.
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ARTH 331 - The Curatorial Project
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A required course for Art History majors exploring the history, theory, politics, and practical knowledge of curating. In addition to critical readings, classroom discussion, writing, and exhibition design, students will organize and implement an art exhibition during the semester.
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ARTH 333 - Theories & Methods of Art History
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A required seminar for Art History majors. The course explores foundational ideas and key thinkers that have shaped the field and engages students in a critical survey of the theories and methodological approaches to the study of the history of art.
Formerly: ARTH 480
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ARTH 335 - Art and Architecture of Colonial Latin America
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A history of colonial art and architecture in New Spain (Mexico) and Peru that emphasizes cross-cultural issues of power, hybridity, and identity. Includes a substantial introduction to pre-Hispanic visual culture.
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ARTH 336 - Topics in Curatorial Studies
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: ALV
Courses of special topics.
Course may be repeated for credit only if there is no duplication of topic or title.
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ARTH 338 - Museum Internships
Credits: (1-3)
May be used as an opportunity for an off-campus experience. Must be approved in advance on a case-by-case basis by the Department Chair and the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education. See Special Programs-Internships in this catalog for more information. Open only to Art and Arth History majors who have completed at least 21 credits toward the major. May not be repeated.
Note: Application through the Department and the Academic Advising Office in the preceding semester (see Special Programs-Internships in this catalog). Graded: Pass/Fail
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ARTH 342 - Symbolism to Surrealism
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
This course is designed to familiarize you with important figures and work from movements and milieux including symbolism, postimpressionism, fauvism, cubism, dada, and surrealism. It covers a period that runs roughly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the Second World War.
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ARTH 343 - Surrealism to High Modernism
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
This course is designed to familiarize you with important figures and work from movements and milieux in a period that runs roughly from the 1920s to the 1960s. We will not restrict ourselves geographically (or chronologically or according to medium) except as a convenience. The course is meant as a survey of major works and critical discourses.
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ARTH 351 - Medieval Art and Architecture
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A study of the visual culture and built environment of Europe from 300 to 1450. Architecture and art are examined in relation to religious, social, political, and economic contexts. Themes include urban development, pilgrimage architecture and monasticism, the Gothic style, classical revivals, Crusader art, and material culture.
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ARTH 353 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
The study of the formation of Christian art and the persistence and elaboration of these themes and styles in the Byzantine Empire until 1453. This course examines religious art and architecture in relation to Christian theology and liturgy as well as significant secular works in relation to the broader context of cross-cultural dialogue in the Medieval Mediterranean region.
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ARTH 355 - Art and Gender in the Middle Ages
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An interdisciplinary exploration of relationships between art and gender as reflected in processes of creation, selection of subject matter, or the development of individual style. Contemporary approaches to studying gender in history and theories of representation combine with analyses of art and texts seen as manifestations of identity.
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ARTH 361 - Perspectives in Italian Renaissance Art
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An examination of Renaissance Art in Florence, Rome, and Venice. Artistic developments are considered in their religious, political, and intellectual contexts.
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ARTH 362 - Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A selective survey of Northern Renaissance painting that considers the work of artists such as Van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer, and Bruegel in the context of Humanism, Reform, and Early Capitalism.
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ARTH 363 - Baroque
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
This course provides a survey of the visual arts in Europe including Italy, the Spanish Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and France during the seventeenth century. Emphasis is placed on the wider artistic and political culture of the period.
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ARTH 364 - Sight and Insight: Painting in Early Modern Europe
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
The nature and reliability of human vision was a focus of debate in Early Modern Europe. This course considers the role of the artists and the artefacts they made in shaping the attitudes of the wider visual culture. Throughout the semester we will explore how increased preoccupation with distinctly artistic concerns is intertwined with contemporaneous developments in religion and science.
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ARTH 365 - Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A comprehensive survey of 17th-century Dutch painting. Artistic developments are placed in the context of the formation of the Dutch Republic around 1600. Artists such as Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer are considered.
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ARTH 366 - The Golden Age of Spain
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An examination of the historical context and development of Spanish art, architecture, and cultural performance, 1500-1700, that explores issues of patronage, iconography, function, and reception.
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ARTH 373 - Urbanism: History and Theory
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An examination of critical debates and approaches in the interdisciplinary field of urbanism, highlighting the role of design in shaping livable and equitable environments. Topics include suburban sprawl, environmental sustainability, historic preservation, gentrification, place-making, expert knowledge and community participation, ecology and urban resilience.
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ARTH 375 - Cities in the Modern Middle East
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
An exploration of critical events and urban planning schemes that have shaped cities in the Middle East and North Africa since the 1850s. Representative cities analyzed in relation to imperial modernization, European colonialism, nation building, Cold War exchange, the oil industry, civil war and conflict, and neoliberal policies. Particular attention placed on urban life and lived experience.
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ARTH 377 - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
The history of modern and contemporary Chinese art in relation to cultural and social changes from the first Opium War to the present, spanning the late-19th century, the 20th-century and the on-going developments of the 21st-century.
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ARTH 383 - American Art since 1900
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
North American Art from 1913 to the present , emphasizing varieties of Modernism and Postmodernism in relation to politics, industrialism, war, and other historical forces. Key movements and groups: the Stieglitz circle, Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Land Art, Conceptual Art, Folk and Outsider Art, Institutional Critique, Identity Politics, and Eco-art.
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ARTH 391 - Nature and its Representations
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: ALV, CSI
The arts mirror the diversity of ideas of nature. This course explores the art of environment in relation to major Euroasian traditions and beliefs, with in depth examination of the concept of representation and its limits, through different cultural perspectives and artistic genres.
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ARTH 392 - Buddhist Art & Architecture: Origin, Exchange & Innovation
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A study of the origin, exchange & innovation in Buddhist art and architecture through Asia, focusing on sites and unique genres. Buddhist imagery mirrors great tolerance for regional cultures and religious debates through variation in abstract/figurative and realistic/fantastic art forms, with references to mythology and Dharmic theology.
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ARTH 395 - Ink Painting: History, Theory and Technique
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A comprehensive study of ink painting in East Asia. Artistic developments are examined against the debates on art, aesthetics, history, and cultural identity. Landscape, portraiture, birds-and-flower, narrative painting, Chan painting, the arts of the literati, the eccentrics and the courts are considered.
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ARTH 396 - Art of the Andes
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A survey of the portable arts and architecture of the Ancient Andes from pre-history to the early Spanish colonial period focusing on the ways these works functioned as part of larger cultural, political, and economic spheres.
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ARTH 430 - Seminar Topics in Art History
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Seminar topics of special subjects that involve the student in research in primary materials and involve intense writing.
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ARTH 468 - History of Prints
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
A seminar on the origins and development of printmaking from the 15th to the 20th century. Prints are viewed as part of a wider cultural and artistic context and as a means of communication.
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ARTH 478 - Seminar Topics in Curatorial Studies
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Seminar Topics of special subjects in Curatorial Studies that involve students in research in primary materials and intense writing.
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ARTH 479 - Seminar Topics in Built Environment Studies
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Seminar topics of special subjects in Built Environment Studies that involve students in research in primary materials and intense writing.
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ARTH 490 - Independent Study
Credits: (1-3)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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ARTH 493 - Senior Research Colloquium
Credits: (3)
A required “capstone” seminar for Art History majors requiring students to expand and refine a research paper already written for an earlier art history course and deliver a related public presentation. Fulfills the Major Writing and Computing Requirements.
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ARTH 495 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Admission by consent of the departmental committee. Each candidate will be responsible for submitting by the end of their junior year a thesis proposal and a selected bibliography in some specific area of art historical literature, prepared in consultation with their advisor. Students admitted to honors study in art history will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year and will submit a scholarly thesis two weeks before the last day of classes of their graduating semester. Information is available from the department web site and the Charles Center. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
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ARTH 496 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Admission by consent of the departmental committee. Each candidate will be responsible for submitting by the end of their junior year a thesis proposal and a selected bibliography in some specific area of art historical literature, prepared in consultation with their advisor. Students admitted to honors study in art history will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year and will submit a scholarly thesis two weeks before the last day of classes of their graduating semester. Information is available from the department web site and the Charles Center. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
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