AHIS W4555x. American Colonial Portraiture. 3 pts.

This class surveys the field of American colonial portraitures, introducing the major figures in each region and analyzing their work in terms of its style and technique as well as the cultural expectations surrounding the making and viewing of the paintings. Attention will be paid to diverse material forma of portraiture, from miniatures to silhouettes, from oil paintings to engravings on individual sheets or bound into books. The class will pay particular attention to the ways in which portraiture facilitated and undermined the economic and political operations of the colonies.

AHIS W4175. Anatolian Art and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

An examination of the arts, architecture, and archaeology of Anatolia, inclusive of central and western Anatolia as well as related eastern Mediterranean regions, this survey includes material from the Bronze and Iron Ages, with a particular focus on the visual culture of the Hittites.

AHIS W4215. Aegean Art and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the arts, architecture, and archaeology of the Aegean, inclusive of surrounding eastern and western Mediterranean regions, this survey includes material from the Bronze Age, with a particular focus on the visual culture of the Minoans and Mycenaeans.

AHIS W4235x. Violence in Greek Art. 3 pts.

Greek art is usually associated with beauty, symmetry, and formal perfection. However, both the historical context that led to the creation of artistic expressions in various media and the majority of topics Greek artists chose to depict clearly demonstrate the violent origins of Greek art. Aim of this course is to break through the frame of what is considered the canonical image of Classical antiquity and shed light on the darker aspects of Greek art. The course will try to demonstrate how art in Classical Greece was used as an effective means in both dealing and channeling violence. Nevertheless, violence in art also represented a sophisticated way to create and demolish the image of dangerous otherness: the aggressive barbarian (Persian), the uncontrolled nature outside the constraints of the polis (Centaurs), the all too powerful female (Amazons).

AHIS G6265. Roman Art I. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Italians, Etruscans, and the development of Roman art from the early republic to Augustus.

AHIS G6270. Roman Art II: Augustus To the Flavians. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Roman art from Augustus to the end of the 1st century CE: the creation of an imperial art.

AHIS G6273. Roman Art III: From Trajan To Constantine. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Some knowledge of Antiquity and German useful. Roman art from Trajan to Constantine; examination of Roman figural art, painting, mosaic, sculpture, their principal modes and themes of representation, and an analysis of the phenomenon of Late Antiquity

AHIS G6274. Roman Art IV. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This lecture course is intended to confront art and architecture from the third through the sixth century among the peoples of the Roman Empire in its eastern and western forms. The two faculty, one specializing in secular and Jewish art, the other in Christian, provide a conversation about how traditional Roman art forms and ideas interact with new ones to create a distinct art versus one that is merely transitional or decadent. The lectures will be combined with talks from visitors and museum trips in order to keep the actual objects under scrutiny.

AHIS G8125. Stories and Histories in Stone: Archaic Greek Sculpture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The seminar will focus on the stylistic and formal analysis of Archaic sculpture, mainly the Kouros and Kore types, as well as on the puzzling visual ambiguity of the images, which enabled their semantic polyvalence as reflected in their manifold functions

AHIS G8178. Art and Internationalism In the Mediterranean Bronze Age. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A forum for the study of the arts, architecture, and archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, this seminar is inclusive material and questions related to interconnections among the Aegean, Anatolia, Syria-Palestime, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, and Sardinia.

AHIS G8210. Archaeology of Homeric Greece. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The archaeological background to the Homeric poems; the social structure and monuments of the Mycenaean and Dark Age Greek periods.

AHIS G8255. Interpreting the Parthenon. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Critical discussion of current issues and approaches: the predecessors; patronage, project and building construction; functions (political vs. religious); cult-statue and sculptural decoration from the workshop to the public; transformations from the late classical period and the modern reception since the Renaissance.

AHIS G8260. Gender and Status In Roman Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Understanding the effects of social categories of gender and class on Roman art. Focus on the way gender- and class-based patronage, audience, and artistic practice interact to help shape monuments, and the way those monuments can give physical form to social relationships and ideologies.

AHIS G8262. Greek Myth in Italy before the Empire: An Investigation in Cross-Cultural Relationships. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The course will investigate the diffusion of Greek mythological images in Etruria, Southern Italy, and Rome from the Archaic to the Late Republican period (ca. 630 to 30 BCE). Among the issues which we will address there are: Why were peoples like the Etruscans or the Romans so keen on using Greek myth, and why did they not develop (to the same extent, at least) a mythic imagery of their own? What changes did myth undergo in the process of diffusion from Greece to the indigenous cultures in Italy? How can we use the verbal, narrative dimension of mythological scenes to get information about societies for which we do not have written sources?

AHIS G8267. Studies In Augustan Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The construction of an imperial political imagery, its affect, and its routes of reference.

AHIS G8270. Roman Art In the Time of Trajan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German. Art and architecture from the late 90's through 117 C.E. during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan. Exploration of Roman art, imperial imagery, patronage, the relationship between the culture of the city of Rome and that of the provinces

AHIS G8274y. Imperial Spaces. 3 pts.

This interdisciplinary seminar will investigate the fora of imperial Rome, focusing on the interaction between architectural space, figural decoration, and human activities that took place there. Images, archaeological remains, historical and literary texts, will be studied jointly in order to understand the functioning of these key places of Rome's public life, as well as their relationship with the exercise and display of power. Permission of the instructor required.

AHIS G8290. Roman Provincial Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Art in the Roman provinces, east and west

AHIS G4072. Contemporary African Art: Alternative Africas. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This survey examines art being made today by African artists working in Europe, America and in Africa, and surveys the origins of African modernity in the 20th century. Theoretical and critical approaches and even basic definitions in this new field are still being challenged, and the course will consider these and the many Africas evoked by artists and critics.

AHIS W4075. Arts of Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS W4076. Arts of Sub-Saharan African. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of the arts of sub-Saharan Africa.

AHIS W4078. Art and Archaeology of West Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Reviews the history of West African art from circa 500 B.C.E. through 1900 C.E., using mostly evidence from sculpture, pottery, and textiles. Also critically assesses the current state of archaeological research and its value to art historical scholarship.

AHIS G8061. Masquerade: Rhetoric/Theory/Practice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will explore masquerade, one of the oldest of the world's visual arts, drawing on critical works in art history, literary criticism, philosophy, theatre, and anthropology. We will study how Western theories about "the mask" have shaped the literature on African masquerading but our ultimate goal is to open up new questions about African practice inspired by arguments on cross-dressing, minstrelsy, the "uncanny," and the "carnivalesque."

AHIS G8067. The Artist In Africa. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examination of the art historical body of literature and exhibitions that have addressed artistic identity in various African contexts. As a result of the legacy of European colonialism, Africa and its artistic heritage have been the subject of paradigms that characterized them as exotic and different from Western traditions as well as being homogenous.

AHIS G8067. The Literature of African Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The seminar seeks to excavate the field of African art history, with special emphasis on the legacy of anthropology and the challenges posed by feminism, African voices, public exhibition and canon formation.

AHIS G8075. The Object & the Museum: African Art & the West. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The vast majority of all the African art objects in the world today are held by collections outside the continent. Studies of classical African art normally -- and appropriately - focus on the original historical context of the works in Africa, bypassing this anomaly. This seminar for advanced graduate students will examine the problematics of the situation - the factors that drained Africa of its old art objects, and current issues and practices in collecting. Students will confront the physical object, removed from its village, redefined and recontextualized in Manhattan as an element of western décor or material culture. Readings and class discussions will cover the ethics of collecting, the market, and the display of religious or sensitive objects; conflicts over identity, representation, and whose message will be heard in the museum; questions of forgery, quality and museum authority -- among many other issues of contention including definitions of African art itself. Taking advantage of New York city's abundance of collections, the course will offer students direct contact with major works of African art.

AHIS W4155. Mesopotamian Art & Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Introduction to the art and architecture of Mesopotamia beginning with the establishment of the first cities in the fourth millennium B.C.E. through the fall of Babylon to Alexander of Macedon in the fourth century B.C.E. Focus on the distinctive concepts and uses of art in the Assyro-Babylonian tradition.

AHIS W4158. The Art of Mesopotamia: 4th To 2nd Millenium B.C.E. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to ancient Near Eastern art as it developed on the background of the political and social changes from the earliest known urban civilization to territorial states. Questions of (dis-)continuity in the visual representation of gods or political rulers and in the selection of narrative scenes on seals, reliefs, in statues and terracottas are discussed in relation to ideological, ethnical, social and economical differences.

AHIS W4181. Art and Architecture of Ancient Assyria. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of the art and architecture of ancient Assyria (northern Iraq) from the Early Dynastic period (ca. 2500 B.C.E.) until the end of the Neo-Assyrian empire (612 B.C.E.). Surviving artifacts, excavation reports, ancient written records, and specialized studies on trade, state and imperial administration, cult and temple, history, and language.

AHIS G8158. Topics in Ancient Near Eastern Art: The Second Millennium. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will investigate art and concepts of art and aesthetics in the second millennium BC. The seminar will be focused on the cultures of the Ancient Near East and is intended to provide in depth tutoring and a format for discussion for advanced graduate students who are being prepared for the PhD degree in ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology. The texts consulted will include primary ancient texts in the Akkadian language, as well as secondary literature on the art and archaeology of second millennium Mesopotamia and the larger ancient Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean areas. The seminar will also make use of objects that will be on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 2009, in the exhibition scheduled to open at the same time. The seminar will therefore also be able to investigate questions of historiography and exhibition practices of Near Eastern Antiquity.

AHIS G8159. Ancient Art in Seals. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Using the collection of Seals and Tablets at the Pierpont Morgan Library, this seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct original research. The seminar will focus on Middle to Late Bronze Age as well as Iron Age glyptic material with well understood contexts from Syria, Cyprus, and Greece. Central topics for research and discussion include style, artistic exchange, and the construction of authority. Using the collection of Seals and Tablets at the Pierpont Morgan Library, this seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct original research. The seminar will focus on Middle to Late Bronze Age as well as Iron Age glyptic material with well understood contexts from Syria, Cyprus, and Greece. Central topics for research and discussion include style, artistic exchange, and the construction of authority.

AHIS G8164. Art and Ritual in the Ancient Near East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will be an investigation of the relationship of art and ritual in the ancient Near East. Topics to be covered include rituals of architecture and foundation deposits, votive images and votive gifts, sacrifice and ritual substitution, iconoclasm, the care of ancestral images and cult images, rituals of death and burial, and the arts of divination.

AHIS G8167. Death In Mesopotamia: Burials In the Ancient Near East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Burials, as the archaeologically retrievable part of burial rituals, offer unique chances for inquiries into the status of individuals and their social groups, the social history of sites and regions, and belief systems of ancient societies. Theory of burial ritual, different archaeological theories and methods for the interpretation of burials, and Mesopotamian private religion lead to reassessments of tombs and graveyards published without interpretative efforts.

AHIS G8170x. Assyrian Art. 3 pts.

This seminar will investigate Assyrian art and architectural forms and practices.

AHIS G8184. The Body and Representation In the Ancient Near East. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. In Near Eastern antiquity, identity was not seen as according to a duality of mind/body but was conceived of as multi-faceted and included aspects such as name, shadow and image as integral parts of being. Investigates such indexical concepts of the body and its representation in the arts of the ancient Near East. Focus on embodied notions of gender and sexuality, and on the king's royal body, the institutuon of body substitutes for the king, and images of extreme violence and bodily mutilations in Assyrian art. Readings: ancient texts in translation: Assyrian historical annals and Babylonian omen texts; as well as modern critical and philosophical writings (e.g., Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler).

AHIS G8742. Inventing the Monument. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will focus on the invention of the public monument as a commemorative genre, and the related concepts of time, memory and history in the ancient world (Near East, Egypt ,Greece, Rome). Public monuments will be studied in conjunction with readings from ancient texts (in translation), as well as historical criticism, archeaological and art historical theories. Permission of the instructor and reading knowledge of German required

AHIS W4131. Early Christian & Byzantine Art, ca. 300-1453. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS W4315. The Making of Medieval Art, 650-900. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The development of medieval art in the Germanic kingdoms of western Europe from the mid-7th century to the end of the Carolingian empire

AHIS G4330x. Paris in the Middle Ages. 3 pts.

The urban fabric of Paris provides the connective tissue linking medieval achievements in architecture, sculpture, and painting with the history of the city from the Romans to the Renaissance.

AHIS W4338. Rome In the Middle Ages. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: one introductory course in medieval art. The role of monumental art in the transformation of imperial Rome into the capital of Western Christendom between the 4th and 14th centuries.

AHIS W4356. Gothic Painting In France, 1200-1350. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Origins and development of French Gothic painting from the Ingeborg Psalter through the works of Pucelle and his circle.

AHIS W4357. Gothic Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

How have "Gothic" edifices been represented in words and images? Examines monuments and considers the historiography and theories that they have generated.

AHIS G4368. Gothic Sculpture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The portals, tombs and other sculpture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries created a new kind of "virtual reality" We will explore the themes, styles and contexts of Gothic sculpture with special emphasis upon reception and performance.

AHIS G4373. Late Gothic Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. From the transformation of Rayonnant Gothic architecture in the latter part of the 13th century to an exploration of 14th- and 15th-century architecture organized on a regional basis, with emphasis upon France, England and Germany.

AHIS W4455. Byzantine Art From Justinian To the Palaeologan Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The major patrons and themes in the art of the Byzantine (East Roman) empire from the 6th to 14th centuries. Topics to be examined include the patronage of Justinian, the theology of icons, the classical system of Byzantine church decoration, the concept of renaissance in the middle Byzantine period and the question of provincial Byzantine art.

AHIS G8150. Art, Architecture, and Urban Identity: Constantinople and Thessaloniki. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

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AHIS G8220. Byzantium and the West. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar examines Western perceptions of Byzantine art and culture from the time of Charlemagne through the collapse of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Emphasis on the role and function of Byzantine art in the development of the arts of Medieval Europe.

AHIS G8222. Exhibiting Byzantium. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8313. Ottonian Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores the development of art and architecture in Germany during the reign of the Saxon or Ottonian kings and emperors from the beginning of the 10th through the middle of the 11th centuries. Emphasis on the role and function of the visual arts in the emerging Holy Roman Empire

AHIS G8328. Medieval Art: Theories and Methods. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: equivalent of 4000-level course in medieval art. Critical readings in the recent historiography of the visual arts of the Middle Ages

AHIS G8332. Studies In Medieval and Byzantine Manuscripts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Consideration of the contents, style, and function of pictorial illustration in selected masterpieces of book painting.

AHIS G8333. Matter of Faith: The Cult of Relics of the Middle Ages. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This graduate seminar explores the Christian cult of relics from Late Antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Given their importance as manifestations of the presence of Christ and his saints on earth, relics were treasured by the Christian faithful, who kept them in precious containers known as reliquaries. If these vessels preserved their sacred contents, the forms and materials used in their construction gave physical expression to the divine nature of the matter they enshrined. It is the goal of this course to investigate the strategies and approaches taken to the preservation and veneration of sacred relics and their artistic presentation in Byzantium and the Medieval West.

AHIS G8335. Romantic Image of Gothic. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Some knowledge of Gothic Architecture. This class explores the problem of the representation of Gothic buildings through words and images. The seminar will focus on post-medieval images, exploring the possibility of an exhibition of the Voyages pittoresques in the Wallach Gallery.

AHIS G8339. The Basilica of San Marco In Venice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the stylistic, iconographic, and ideological questions arising from the interior and exterior decoration of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice

AHIS G8342. French High Gothic and Rayonnant Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A consideration of the major monuments between 1220 and 1260, within the context of contemporary political and economic history.

AHIS G8360. Problems In Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1260. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on monumental sculpture, exploring problems relating to portal design, figure style and iconographic program.

AHIS G8361. Problems of the Body In Gothic Sculpture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: some background in medieval art history, French, German. An exploration of Gothic monumental sculpture concentrating on the period from the mid-12th to the mid-13th century. The significance of the revival of interest in super-life-sized statues in the context of the eschatological themes that dominate most Gothic portal programs.

AHIS G8362. Theory and Historiography of Gothic. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar on the theoretical writings relating to Gothic on three different levels: contemporary (12th and 13th centuries) sources; the polemics of the Gothic Revival and the relevance of post-modern theories to an understanding of Gothic.

AHIS G8365. Problems In Gothic Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of the theoretical and historiographic issues attending the study of Gothic archtecture coupled with a review of the great monuments of the period 1130-1250. A program of readings that touch on issues such as Marxist interpretations of Gothic and the semiotic understanding of the cathedral and a review of the monuments themselves prepares participants to develop research topics in Gothic theory and practice.

AHIS G8372. Art and Liturgy In the Middle Ages. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores the ways in which art (architecture, painting, glass, sculpture and the sumptuous arts) shaped and were shaped by liturgical practices from the early Christian to the Gothic period.

AHIS G8378. Notre Dame, Paris Cathedral and City. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: strong background in medieval art. The cathedral of Notre Dame in the 12th and 13th centuries provides the focus for an exploration of the emergence of Gothic Paris as preeminent cultural, political and economic center.

AHIS G8379. Paris: the Medieval City. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Exploring all aspects of cultural production; focussing especially upon Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame.

AHIS G8402. Interpreting Romanesque Wall Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to the historiography and the contextual interpretation of Romanesque wall painting in light of contemporary theology, liturgy and politics

AHIS G8537y. Cultural Production and the Creation of Medieval France. 3 pts.

This seminar provides a case study of the complex relationship between architectural production and the emergence of French national identity in the twelfth century. It is hoped that some of the content developed by participants may be used in an interactive database called "Mapping Gothic France."

AHIS W4109. Vision and Imagination in Chinese Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G4112. Chinese Painting of the Ming Dynasty. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Topics include regional centers of painting, painting in the context of social and economic history and urbanization, art collecting, and art theory. Special emphasis on the painters Dai Jin, Shen Zhou, Qiu Ying, and Dong Qichang.

AHIS G4113. Chinese Painting of the Northern Song Period. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the major genres of painting with special emphasis on landscape, imperial patronage, texts on painting, relationships between painting and urban life, and the rise of the scholar-artist tradition.

AHIS G4116. Chinese Painting of the Qing Dynasty. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Topics include painting at the imperial court, Chinese encounters with Western pictorial art, painting Yangzhou and other urban centers, and painting in Shanghai during the 19th century. Special emphasis on the painters Shih-t'ao, Lang Shining (G. Castiglione), Jin Nong, and Ren Xiong.

AHIS G4117. Chinese Painting of the Southern Song Period. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:AHIS V3201. An examination of painting at the imperial court, with special emphasis on the relationship between words and images, the relationship between the environment of Hangzhou and landscape representations, genre painting, and the rise of Chan Buddhist painting.

AHIS G4119. Early Chinese Painting: Han Through Tang. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The early history of Chinese painting, with special emphasis on art produced for tombs, narrative illustration, Buddhist painting, imperial patronage, and the beginnings of art theory and criticism in China.

AHIS G6117y. Early Chinese Calligraphy. 3 pts.

The history of calligraphy from earliest times through the Song dynasty, with special emphasis on the interaction of the state and the innovations of individual calligraphers.

AHIS G6120. Copies, Replicas, and Allusions in Chinese Art. 1.5 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Please note, this course will run from March 23- April 30, 2007.An examination of how artists in China have copied, imitated, and alluded to earlier works of art. Topics include the role of tracings and rubbings in the transmission of calligraphy, copying in pedagogy and workshop practice, the tradition of fang or creative imitation in painting, and the use of allusions and appropriation in contemporary Chinese art.

AHIS G6124y. Modern and Contemporary in China. 3 pts.

In what ways does the existence of a 'contemporary art' or contemporary situation in art require us to rethink the very idea of 'modern' (or 'postmodern') art, its methods and its geographies? In this lecture we take Mainland China as a focus and laboratory for this question, at once critical and curatorial. We look back to the peculiarities of the 'modern' period (since the Boxer Rebellion), the intellectual debates about modernity, the Cultural Revolution and its current aftermath. We examine a current sinological surrounding the nature and fate of 'traditional' Chinese painting and look at the problem of urbanism in contemporary work. In the process, we examine a series of methodological questions involved in the study of a 'contemporary Chinese art' with the participation of historians, curators, and critics working in this emerging field. Related lectures and events in New York are suggested. The Seminar is open to qualified students in different disciplines and departments.

AHIS G6125. Painting in the Song Dynasty. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The goals of this course are to study major works of painting from the Song dynasty (960-1279) and to master art historical and sinological methods that can be used for research in any field of Chinese art. Among the topics that will receive special attention are the rise of landscape painting, imperial patronage, urban life and painting, the art of scholar-officials, and the relationship between words and images, especially during the Southern Song period.

AHIS G6127x. Painting and Calligraphy in the Northern Song Dynasty. 3 pts.

An examination of painting during the Northern Song period (960-1127), with special emphasis on issues of patronage, the relationship between words and images, the ritual uses of painting, and the relationship between pictorial style and visual experience.

AHIS G8103. Copies and Replicas In the History of Chinese Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of how artists in China have copied, imitated, and alluded to earlier works of art. Topics include the role of tracings and rubbings in the transmission of calligraphy, copying in pedagogy and workshop practice, the tradition of fang or creative imitation in painting, and the use of allusions and appropriation in contemporary Chinese art.

AHIS G8112. The Art of the Han Dynasty. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The funerary art of the Han dynasty, with special emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.

AHIS G8114. Art of the Tang Dynasty. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and decorative arts associated with the Tang imperial court. Emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries

AHIS G8116. Landscape and Representation in China. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The landscape of China is marked by sites that have acquired lasting cultural significance through the interactions of myth, ritual, literature, and the visual arts. Representations of these sites, which include sacred mountains, scenic areas, and tourist destinations, promoted habits of viewing that directed visitors to seek out unusual vistas, strange rock formations, or ancient monuments. Memories of historical events or famous people associated with the sites added to their mystique. Among the most notable sites that will be covered in the seminar are Mt. Tai, a mountain sacred in both Confucian and Daoist thought; Mt. Huang, an area of spectacular, rugged peaks that became a popular tourist site in the 17th century; and Tiger Hill, a frequent destination of literati visitors from the Suzhou area. The seminar will require a broadly interdisciplinary approach, and students will be encouraged to draw on methodologies from art history, anthropology, the history of religion, and other fields. Readings in the history and theory of landscape in the West also will be included in the seminar in order to broaden the range of questions that can be asked about the experience of landscape in China.

AHIS G8120. The Art of Xu Bing. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar explores the career of the first Chinese artist to reach a truly international audience. Issues raised by Xu Bing's art to be addressed include the instability of language and writing, the functions of various media he has used, and the reaction of his work to concepts of "Chinese Art" in china and beyond. Students will visit to artist's studio and also hear presentations by invited critics.

AHIS G8733. Art of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Secular and religious art of the 3rd to 6th centuries under the southern courts and the non-Chinese dynasties in the north. Emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.

AHIS G4108. Painting of the Edo Period. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of the paintings of the Edo period from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with emphasis on the development of the various schools of the period

AHIS G4121. Art and Architecture of the Heian and Kamakura Periods. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A survey of Buddhist arts and architecture from the 11th through the 13th centuries.

AHIS G4123. Japanese Screen Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Surveys the history and development of the folding-screen format in Japanese painting from the 8th to 17th centuries. Through a series of case studies, explores art historical issues for which the folding screen provides a unique perspective, including the relationships between painting and architectural space, poetic practice, religious ritual.

AHIS G4703. Japanese Architecture from the mid-19th Century to the Present. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This class will examine the history of Japanese architecture and urban planning from the mid-19th century to the present.

AHIS G6133y. Eccentricity and Sinophilia in Edo Period Painting. 3 pts.

An examination of Japanese painting of the Edo period (1603-1868) that investigates major texts and modern studies of such artists as Ike Taiga and Itō Jakuchū, and considers how the social background, personal networks, religious faith, and literary expertise of painters found expression in their art. Using Tsuji Nobuo's Kisō no keifu (The Lineage of Eccentricity) and more recent publications in western languages as a guide for weekly discussions, the course will concentrate on painters active in mid-Edo period (late 17th-18th century) Kyoto and Edo.

AHIS G6135. Japanese Narrative Handscrolls. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course explores the narrative handscroll (emaki), a major form of Japanese pictorial art, from its origins in the eighth century through the sixteenth century. Through an investigation of such masterworks as the "Illustrated Scrolls of the Tale of Genji," "Illustrated Legends of Mount Shigi," and "Life of Saint Ippen" (Ippen hijiri-e), the course will address questions of text-image relationships, patronage, and viewing practices in visual depictions of classical literature, hagiographic narratives, and popular tales. Although emphasis will be given to works for which texts and scholarly studies are available in English, reading ability in Japanese is recommended.

AHIS G6140. Japanese Arts of the Momyama Period. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

An investigation of the visual arts of the Momoyama period (1573-1615), Japan's era of political unification. This course will focus on the patronage and participation of provincial warlords in the production of gilded screen and panel paintings, lacquer, ceramics, and textiles. We will also consider the question of how Momoyama period aesthetics would have a lasting impact on all succeeding periods of Japanese art.

AHIS G8116. Gender and Japanese Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Conceptualizations of gender in Japanese pictorial art produced in various cultural spheres including monastic communities, the imperial court, and urban settings.

AHIS G8121. Hokusai. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will explore the work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the painter and printmaker immortalized by his "Great Wave off Kanagawa," an image that has attained an iconic status in Japanese and western visual consciousness. Based for his entire life in the metropolis of Edo, Hokusai produced works spanning an astonishing range of subjects and media beyond the landscape prints for which he is best remembered. Taking advantage of opportunities to study woodblock prints, paintings, and printed books in New York and vicinity, we will attempt to reassess Hokusai's work and its relationship to visual representation in Edo on the eve of Japan's "opening" to the west. We will also consider such broad questions as the modes of production of Hokusai's images, his patrons, the political context of Edo in the early nineteenth century, as well as how Hokusai constructed his own distinctive artistic identity.

AHIS G8126. Tokyo. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will address the history and visual representation of the city of Tokyo from the mid-19th century to the present.

AHIS G8128. Edo Period Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

his seminar will examine visual expressions of sinophilia and eccentricity in Japanese painting of the Edo period. Through an investigation of both original texts and modern studies of such artists as Ike Taiga and Itô Jakuchû, the seminar will also explore how such factors as the social background, personal networks, religious faith, and degree of literacy of Edo-period painters found expression in their art. Using Tsuji Nobuo's Kisô no keifu (The Lineage of Eccentricity) and more recent publications in western languages as a guide for discussions, the course will concentrate on painters active in mid-Edo period (late 17th-18th century) Kyoto and Edo. Students in the seminar will be encouraged to work directly with actual works in the Metropolitan Museum and the Burke Collection in New York, and with the Price Collection, on exhibit through April 2008 at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

AHIS G8323. Ink Paintings of Medieval Japan. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores the origins and development of the ink painting tradition in Japan from the 14th - 16th centuries, paying special attention to Chinese precedents, the format of the poem-picture scroll, and the Japanese Zen monastic milieu in which the genre flourished.

AHIS G8324. The Ashikaga Shogunal Collection and Japanese Ink Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores the collection of Chinese paintings and luxury objects owned by Japan¹s ruling military clan in the 14th and 15th centuries and its relationship to the development of Japanese ink painting.

AHIS G8325. Japanese Cultural Identity and the Problem of. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will examine debates over the meanings of "Japanese Tradition" and its significance for contemporary cultural practices from the mid-19th century to the present.

AHIS G8992. Yamato-E Traditions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examines painting and calligraphy associated with Japan's courtly culture and the ways in which Yamato-e has been defined throughout the ages.

ACLG G4001. Archaeological Theory and Practice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Archaeological theory and practice takes students through process of archaeological thought, from formulation of an idea, through processes of survey and excavation, to analysis of data, and interpretation of results. Archaeologies from several world cultures are included. The many topics covered include: the meaning of archaeology, excavation, conservation, ceramics, the individual and culture groups, and cultural heritage.

AHIS G6009x. Proseminar: Introduction To the Study of Art History. 3 pts.

Required course for first-year PhD Students in the Art History Department

AHIS G6650x. Multiple Modernities. 3 pts.

comparative approach to the vibrant contemporary arts outside the West which seem not to fit easily into current classifications. The aim is to initiate the discourse for the study of modern art and architecture in the countries of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

AHIS G6685x. What is Critical Theory?. 3 pts.

After the Second World War, there was a re-invention of critical theory in which the arts and art-history would play a key role. The idea of critique, going back to Kant and the Enlightenment, became a new question. Focusing on French theories within a larger international framework, this lecture course looks at a series of key topics and problems in this new critical theory, and then asks how it might be re-invented today within the context of the globalization of art and of theory.

AHIS G8009. Integrating Tutorial, History, and Theory Program. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Directed supervision of a substantial critical essay on some some theoretical issue in art history.

AHIS G8014. Drawing. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems in the history, theory, and criticism of drawing

AHIS G8020. Principles of Connoisseurship. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Application not required -- sign up in 826 Sch. The aim of this course will be to discuss and exemplify the continuing importance of connoisseurship for the history of art. The first part of the course will be devoted to the historical and theoretical bases of connoisseurship, while the second will be dedicated to a discussion of concrete instances and controversial examples from Early Netherlandish Painting and from the works of Rubens, Rembrandt and Poussin. The course as a whole will attend to both qualitative and physical issues. It will seek to achieve both theoretical rigor and the development of particular visual skills.

AHIS G8080. Dissertation Tutorial. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: students must have reached the second year of graduate study. Provides a stimulus for second-year students to work closely with a faculty adviser to develop a dissertation proposal. Each student meets with his or her adviser each week to explore historiography, issues and methods pertaining to the proposed dissertation. The proposal that develops from this tutorial may be brought to a conference by the end of the fourth term.

AHIS G8270. Masters Colloquium. 3 pts. Using major theoretical and historical texts as well as presentations by guest lecturers, examines selected topics around the problem of modernism and modernity

AHIS G8404. Paradigms of Art History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A post-structuralist critique of the scholarly literature on the art of the northern Renaissance. What is the status of the grand narratives that structure this field? What narratives might be constructed to take their place? What theoretical and political assumptions might inform these new perspectives?

AHIS G8721. Critical Theory and History of the Museum. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The social, political, and aesthetic role of the museum in history and contemporary culture. Reviews the transformation of princely into national collections following the French Revolution, and the museum's function as both a repository and a source of knowledge. Emphasis on the exclusion of certain classes and genders, as well as to nationalist and colonialist agendas. Reviews recent attempts to alter the nature of the museum's relation to its surrounding culture in light of the criticism of the traditional paradigms of museological practice.

AHIS G8725. Environmental History: the Cultural History of Landscape. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A two-term exploration of the methodology, literature, and sources of both environmental history and landscape history (meaning the cultural design of nature.) Readings from both European and American history and also include material on the Western response to non-European landscapes (in Australia and the South Pacific, for example).

AHIS G8737y. How Images Think. 3 pts.

If the social history of art dedicated its work to the way in which works of art were produced and received within their own historical context, there is a new interest in how the image escapes its original circumstances and structures its reception over the course of time. This approach uses "art" to question some of the received assumptions that underlie our conception of "history." We will discuss texts drawn from a number of different fields in the humanities (e.g. philosophy, anthropology, philosophy of history, science studies, visual studies, and art history), that address the "work" of the image. How do images shape their own reception? Can sensitivity to the "presence" of the image be reconciled with approaches that stress its ideological and political function? What is lost and what is gained when images are treated as if they had "lives" of their own?

AHIS G8743. Monument and Historical Consciousness. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8770. Critical Theory In Art History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to critical theories that have led to a re-examination of the assumptions underlying art historical scholarship. Centers around discussions of deconstruction, semiotics, ideology, and theories of the subject.

AHIS G8771. Sacrifice: Theory and Representation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The various theories used to explain the function and meaning of human sacrifice in chiefdoms and archaic states as well as the nature and purpose of the representation of sacrifice in the visual arts.

AHIS G8772. Motivating History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An analysis of the role of objectivity claims in art historical historiography.

AHIS G8774. Theories of the Evolution of Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8865. Theories of Reading, Reception History, and the Visual Arts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Reader/viewer-oriented criticism in the writings of literary theorists, cultural historians, and art historians. Barthes, de Man, Kristeva, Jauss, Iser, T.J. Clark, Michael Fried, Roger Chartier.

AHIS G8880. Gender Theories and the Visual Arts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar on visual arts and gender theories concerning artist identity, gendered content, questions of gender and style, and gender as a factor in audience response

AHIS G8933. Topics In Critical Theory -- The Cinematic. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Application form required by November 24. A close reading of Deleuze's study of cinema is a starting point for a larger critical question as to how the arts deal with space, time, and movement beyond the confines of figure and ground.

AHIS G8990x. Critical Colloquium. 3 pts.

Required course for all first-year Modern Art M.A. students. The structure of the colloquium combines reading and analysis of texts by major theorists and critics. Each week discussions focus on key terms and analytical lenses in the history of art and art criticism. The course is designed to allow for guest presentations on particular issues by critics and writers, just as it draws on the expertise and participation of Columbia faculty. The aim is to develop students' critical thinking and for them to learn directly from leading practitioners writing about modern and contemporary art. In addition to department faculty, writers for Artforum, Grey Room, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and October, among other venues, regularly participate in the colloquium.

AHIS G8991y. MA Curatorial Colloquium. 3 pts.

The Curatorial Colloquium is taken in the second semester of study and is required for the completion of the MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies. The course introduces students to the history, theory and practice of object collection and display as well as to exhibitions such as Documenta and the various international biennials. The course is designed to allow for guest presentations on particular issues by curators and museum professionals, just as it draws on the expertise and participation of Columbia faculty. The aim is to develop students' critical thinking and for them to learn directly from leading practitioners in the exhibition and display of modern and contemporary art. In addition to department faculty, curators from MoMA, the Whitney, the International Center for Photography, and other institutions regularly participate in the colloquium.

AHIS G9090. Dissertation Research Colloquium. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: students must have reached at least the third year of graduate study. Provides a forum for third-year students to present their dissertation proposals to members of the faculty and to their peers. The Director of Graduate Studies divides the class into groups according to methodology and field of interest. Faculty read the proposals written by the members of a particular group and attend the session where the proposals are presented orally and discussed. Students are expected to attend all sessions

AHIS G4523. Foucault & the Arts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

We will explore the work of Michel Foucault in its relations with visual art, its criticism and its history. We examine the development of his historical work, his critical aims, and his methods in and through their relations with the visual arts and art institutions: first, through his own criticism or analysis of Raymond Roussel, Manet, Velasquez, and Magritte, and views on the museum; then through his invention of new sorts of archival work, fictions and other documentary forms, and finally through his reflections on the question of artistic work as a 'technique of subjectivisation' or as 'critical act of enlightenment'. We then consider attempts to extend these aspects of his work today in new ways or in relation to new problems.

AHIS W4562. European Cities and the Discourses of Urban Planning, 1750-1890. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: for undergraduates, a course in modern architecture. The rise of modern town planning theory from the Enlightenment critiques of Voltaire, Laugier, and Pierre Patte to the reappraisal of organic city form by Camillo Sitte. In addition to ideal, the course will focus on the transformation of four European capitals: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.

AHIS G4564. Tradition & Innovation In German Architecture: Schinkel, Semper, Mies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite for undergraduates: course in 19th or 20th century architectural history and instructor's permission. Discussion sections for undergraduates to be arranged. German Architectural design and theory from Winckelmann to the early work of Mies van der Rohe with special emphasis on Schinkel and his contemporaries in Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden. Key texts of architectural theory and contemporary literary or philosophical theories that shaped architectural thought.

AHIS G4569. 18th Century Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines developments and controversies in 18th-century European architecture, urbanism, and landscape design. Topics to be investigated include: the Grand Tour and the vogue for ruins; the development of institutions like prisons, hospitals, and academies; concepts of nature and sensibility; the search for origins; the development of the domestic realm; popular spectacles, urban fetes, and the rise of the public sphere.

AHIS G4570. French Architecture In the 18th Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Architectural theory, beginning with Claude Perrault in the 17th century and continuing through to J.-B. Rondelet and J.-N.-L. Durand in the early 19th century, related directly to the buildings in which ideas were given form. Focus on a series of works by architects such as M.-J. Peyre and C. De Wailly, E.-L. Boullee and C.-N. Ledoux.

AHIS W4575. Robert Adam and the Architecture of the Late 18th Century In Britain. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The work in architecture of Robert Adam and his brothers in the social, political, and aesthetic contexts of 18th-century England and in relation to that of their rivals and imitators, architects such as William Chambers, Henry Holland, and the Wyatts.

AHIS G4588. Jacques-Louis David: Art, Virtue and Revolution. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of French. Exploration of the relationship between art and political engagement through the career of Jacques-Louis David.

Junior & Senior Art History Majors and Art History and GSAPP Graduate Students only. Limited Enrollment.

AHIS G4600y. Identities and Resistances in Contemporary Non-Western Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Junior & Senior Art History Majors and Art History and GSAPP Graduate Students only. Limited Enrollment. The proposed course is a critical introduction to the issues and personalities that are shaping the built environment today in much of the postcolonial, non-Western world. It is a cultural approach to the architecture, urban planning and design produced in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and certain countries of Latin America.

AHIS G4601x. Origins of Modern Visual Culture. 3 pts.

Major developments in the emergence of modern visual culture in Europe and North America, 1750-1900. Topics include the panorama, diorama, photography, painting, world's fairs, early cinema; issues in technology, urbanization and consumer society.

AHIS W4626. Tourism and the North American Landscape. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will look at the relationship between 19th century landscapes (paintings, photographs, illustrations, and other forms of visual culture) and tourism in North America. Several class sessions will be devoted to case studies of different tourist destinations including the Catskills, Niagara Falls, Mayan ruins, the Antebellum South, Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. We will read representations of these American landscapes against nineteenth-century travel literature, guidebooks and other visual documents to obtain a richer understanding of the historical context in which such imagery circulated.

AHIS G4629. History and Modernity In 19th Century Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Junior or senior art history majors or concentrators, and graduate students only. Selected problems in nineteenth-century art, with an emphasis on work before 1870.

AHIS W4630. Feminist Theories and Art Practices, 1960-1990. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Self-defined feminist artists' practices since the 1960s, examined in relation to changing feminist theories: the alleged split between essentialist body-based feminism of the 1970s and the theorizing of gender in the 1980s as a cultural construction; the return to the body in the feminist art works and theory of the 1990s; feminism and radical politics; modernism and avant-garde strategies of social and political engagement.

AHIS W4631. Feminist Theory and Art Practices, 1960s - Present. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Self-defined feminist artists' practices since the 1960s, in relation to changing feminist theories: essentialist body-based feminism of the 1970s; the 1980s theorizing of gender as a cultural construction; the return to the body in the 1990s; the women's movement and radical politics; feminist art, modernism, postmodernism, and avant-garde strategies of engagement; the current state of art world feminism.

AHIS G4640x. German Art in the European Context, 1760-1920. 3 pts.

The class will examine the development of German painting and sculpture from the rise of Neoclassicism to the formation of Expressionism. It focuses on the tension, on the one hand, between a developing nationalist sensibility and the concomitant search for a national style, and, on the other hand, German art's intense engagement with the international art context. Given the particularities of German history, the question of periphery and center assumed a crucial role in the making of the German art world. Focusing on this problem will not only allow us to examine the love-hate relationship of Germans and their art, and the culture of France and England, but also to shed light on the role of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, East Prussia, and Poland in the creation of German (artistic) identity. Periphery and center will also be key concepts for thinking about another vital issue of the period: religion. In an age characterized by burgeoning confessionalism and the rise of an anti-semitism now grounded in racist theories, religion served as an arbiter for inclusion and exclusion, and was thus inseparably intertwined with the debates about German national identity.

AHIS G4650. Post-War Critical Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS W4848. Neo-dada and Pop Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Corequisites: Junior & Senior Art History Majors & Concentrators; Grad students

This course examines the avant-garde art of the fifties and sixties, including assemblage, happenings, pop art, Fluxus, and artists' forays into film. It will examine the historical precedents of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneemann and others in relation to their historical precedents, development, critical and political aspects.

AHIS W4855. African American Artists in the 20th and 21st Centuries. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is a survey of visual production by North Americans of African descent from 1900 to the present. It will look at the various ways in which these artists have sought to develop an African American presence in the visual arts over the last century. We will discuss such issues as: what role does stylistic concern play; how are ideas of romanticism, modernism, and formalism incorporated into the work; in what ways do issues of postmodernism, feminism, and cultural nationalism impact on the methods used to portray the cultural and political body that is African America?

AHIS G4870x. Minimalism & Post-Minimalism. 3 pts.

This course examines minimalism-one of the most significant aesthetic movements-during the sixties and seventies. More than visual art, the course considers minimal sculpture, music, dance, and "structural" film, their historical precedents, development, critical and political aspects. Artists include: Carl Andre, Tony Conrad, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Anthony McCall, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson.

AHIS W4900. Modern Landscape: Histories and Theories. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of the histories and theories of landscape in art from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with a focus on 19th-century Europe.

AHIS G6322. British Architectural Theory In the 19th Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The reading of a series of books and lectures by architects and critics who effectively developed a theory of architecture that served as a springboard for radical theories of the 20th century.

AHIS G6642. Modern Art and Tradition. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The influence of older European art, as well as of oriental, tribal, popular, and naive art, on the work of modern artists from Cézanne to Mondrian.

AHIS G6644. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Modernism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The discourse on Modernism in the visual arts examined in relation to the theoretical positions of structuralism and post-structuralism, specifically the work of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida.

AHIS G6655x. Art & Architecture & Art.

The struggle between art and architecture seems to be one of the most unresolved issues of modern history of art. There are several different questions that need a new critical approach: Can we consider architecture as an artistic practice? How and why do the different artistic practices mutually influence each other? Can we still consider architecture as the synthesis of different artistic expression? How can we describe the changing attitudes in modern time (XIX and XX century)? Does the present globalization process transform the meanings and sense of that problem? How can we interpret the repeated experiments of collaboration between architects and artists? The lecture will address these issues through a series of introductory lectures, general discussions, and analysis of case-studies.

AHIS G6670. Interwar Photography and Film. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

At the center of the avant-garde imagination-and the interwar period in Europe more broadly-were photography and film. Long relegated to the margins of art history and rarely studied together, photography and film were variously the guiding light and mass dissemination of avant-garde images and techniques. This lecture course delves into interbellum photography, film, and writing as it surveys a range of avant-garde movements and national cinemas; seminal artists and theorists; and topics such as montage, abstraction, advertising, sites of reception, and the arrière-garde. Film screenings will take place most Tuesday evenings.

AHIS G6680. Realism and Impressionism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Painting in France between 1830 and 1880. Emphasis on Corot, Millet, Daumier, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne.

AHIS G6687y. Dada & Surrealism. 3 pts.

Long neglected, Dada and Surrealism have emerged as twin pillars in recent revisionist histories of modern art. This graduate lecture course puts the two movements in dialogue through a unique pedagogic structure: consecutive lectures by Professors Krauss and Elcott will converge on related topics-e.g. psychotechnics and psychoanalysis, Surrealist photography and Dada montage. Each lecture will be followed by an exchange between the professors and will open onto a discussion with the students. Readings include seminal historical and critical texts as well as recent scholarship. Additional topics include: origin myths and manifestos, obsolescence and mediums, women in Dada and Surrealism, and Marcel Duchamp.

AHIS G6690. Surrealism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Surrealism examined less as an art historical movement than as an exclusion from and an irritant within art history itself. The dynamics of this paradoxical relationship are explored through surrealist objects and texts organized around conceptual markers such as: the informe, the uncanny, fetishism, repetition, compulsion. The works of André Breton and Georges Bataille.

AHIS G8016. Dada and Surrealism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Dada and surrealism in relation to new methodological possibilities that have reorganized the historical field.

AHIS G8040 (Section 001). History of Architectural & Design Exhibitions & Installations at MOMA. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

From it's first seminal exhibition on the International Style curated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932 to the "Light Construction" and "Un-private House" exhibitions organized by Terence Riley in the 1990s, the Architecture & Design Department at MOMA has played an important role in defining architecture both for practicioners and a wider public. This course will examine the history of the department, of its role in designing and conceiving exhibitions at every scale from photography displays to the houses built in the garden by Breuer and Ain, and of it's reception and influence. Students will work directly in MoMA's own archives to research seminal exhibitions. Guest speakers and gallery visits.

AHIS G8542. The Battle over Modernity: Art and Culture in the Wilhelmine Empire, 1871-1919. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The class investigates art and culture in Germany between German unification in 1871 and World War I. Exploring major artistic trends - from academic history painting, the Berlin Secession and Impressionism to Symbolism and Expressionism - the course will map out the tensions between official art policy advanced by Emperor Wilhelm II, the budding modernist avant-gardes, and the collecting habits of both official state museums and private collectors. In our examination of Wilhelmine culture we will consider factors such as the role of urbanization and mass culture, new technologies, the capitalist market system, the academy, the increasing number of women artists, the rise of anti-Semitism, the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism, and the intersection between nationalism, art, and art criticism.

AHIS G8547. The Public Sphere and the Rise of New Building Types, 1760-1850. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8573. 18th-Century French Architectural History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the change in approach to the matter of architectural design, starting with the rationalism of the 17th century, gradually transformed and enlarged by the concepts of character and conceptual interests.

AHIS G8573. 18th-Century French Architectural Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8574y. Labrouste & French Architecture. 3 pts.

AHIS G8582. Landscape and Esthetics in Eighteenth-Century England. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar examines the development of landscape aesthetics in eighteenth-century England through a detailed examination of key texts including Locke, Addison, Burke, Gilpin, Price, and Payne-Knight. Topics to be explored include natural history and topography, the rise of domestic tourism, debates on the sublime and picturesque, and the relationship between the environment and the self.

AHIS G8585. The Theory of the Picturesque In 18th-Century England. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8621. Black British Art & Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course considers the development of visual culture in this European outpost of the African Diaspora. Of interest is the way the discipline of cultural studies, which evolved in postwar Birmingham, intersected with the rise of black consciousness throughout Britain in the 1980s. How did the interactions of intellectuals and artists at this moment in the late 20th century lead to the creation of strong postcolonial theory and practice? Readings include works by Bhabha, Carby, Gilroy, Hall, Maharaj, and Mercer. We will look at visual production by Bhimji, Boyce, D-Max, Fani-Kayode, Julien, Kempadoo, Piper, and Pollard among others. We will also discuss selected exhibitions and publications that supported this movement.

AHIS G8622. The Aesthetic Movement. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler, and related artists active in England ca. 1860-1890.

AHIS G8623. Postwar European Art II. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Presenting and analyzing selected figures and groups (Independent Group, Vienna Actionism, COBRA), the seminar focuses on the intersections between Pre-War avantgardes, the chasms of WW II and the rising impact of American art on newly emerging artistic formations between 1955 -1968 in Great Britain, Austria and the Northern European countries.

AHIS G8625. Society and Visual Culture In Britain Since 1945. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of (primarily) visual culture in Britain from Hockney to Hirst, with emphasis on the relationship between tradition and innovation in a post-imperial nation and the place of spectacle in modern British life.

AHIS G8627. Ruskin. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of aesthetics and social theory; the perception of landscape, and the language of art criticism through a close study of the work and influence of Ruskin.

AHIS G8629. Neo-Impressionism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Neo-Impressionism and related divisionist styles from 1885 to 1910 and their philosophical, scientific, and social background. Emphasis on Seurat and the visual culture of the 1880s and 1890s with attention to various manifestations of a crisis in representation in art practice and in contemporary science, literature, art theory, and epistemology.

AHIS G8635x. Degree Zero: Language and the Arts in Paris 1945-1968.

This seminar will examine artistic production in Paris in relation to models of language, understood as both writing and speech. In the immediate aftermath of the war, artists were coping with the memory of language's propagandistic deployment. Accordingly, some artists staged the impossibility or futility of authentic communication, while others struggled to invent a new "universal" language. By the mid-50s, with the turn to an increasingly consumer-oriented society, language was regarded as largely commodified. This shift similarly prompted a range of responses in the art and theory of this time: from unfettered optimism to explicit critique. The seminar begins with the prospective radio broadcast of Antonin Artaud's screams in 1947-48 in order to trace the changing notions of language and communication in the arts and concludes with a discussion of the events May '68 and the attendant claim to a prise de parole (capture of speech).

AHIS G8645. Pastiche: Modernism's Enemy Within. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Pastiche, modernism's purported other examined both in terms of its role in the theorization of modernism and in the practice of some of the central figures of modern art, from Manet through Picasso to contemporary figures such as Gerhard Richter.

AHIS G8650. Picasso. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Discussion of selected problems, with emphasis on the development of his imagery.

AHIS G8653. The Bauhaus in America. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar focuses on architects, designers, and theorist associated with the Bauhuas School who relocated to the United States after 1933 and radically transformed many domains of architectural practice in this county. Focus will be on Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe.

AHIS G8659. Post-War European Art, 1948-1968. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. Seminar examines two decades of post-war European avant-garde production: its attempts at historical continuity, its contestation of American hegemony and the emerging confrontation with the culture industry conditions

AHIS G8662. Frank Lloyd Wright. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on Wright's lesser known dimensions of his oeuvre; the public buildings, skyscrapers, and urban projects. Wright's relationship with modernity and his conflicted response to the machine, mass production, the city, automobility, and other aspects of modern life.

AHIS G8664. Historicism In 19th-Century Architecture and Architectural Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The relationship between changing views of historical process and structure and the forms and strategies of eclectic and revivalist architectural practice. Topics to be addressed include the term historicism, the relationship between architectural historiography and architectural practice, the political nexus and institutional framework of historicist styles in 19th-century Europe and America.

AHIS G8667. Romanticism In Art and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8671. The Russian Avant-Garde. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Russian avant-garde art and theory and its relation to Soviet revolutionary culture of the 1920s, including mass culture material culture, everyday life and technology. The avant-garde and political engagement; artistic modernism and the Soviet version of modernity; new models of avant-garde intervention into production, consumption and bodily experience of art into life; the avant-garde's relation to Socialist Realism.

AHIS G8672. Ornament and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8677. Planning Paris. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Particular emphasis on the impact of the Revolution on the legal mechanisms, economics, and class interests of Parisian urban planning; and on the key episode of Haussmann's work during the Second Empire. Readings in major theorists from Pierre Patte to Le Corbusier and discussion of the implications of the work of Benjamin, Foucault, and contemporary French urban geographers and architects, accompanies student work on analyzing the form of the 18th-and 19th-century city.

AHIS G8678. From Pop Art To Conceptualism: American Art: 1958-1968. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines American art from 1958 to 1968 in the context of four formations: performance, photography, language and architecture. Covers the heritage of the 1960s. The legacy of such practices as conceptual art and photography, installation, and performance.

AHIS G8685. Art and Technology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Selected problems in the history and theory of relations between art and technique, from the Renaissance invention of perspective and printing to contemporary artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies. Panofsky, Benjamin, Francastel, Mumford, Kracauer, Heidegger, Adorno, McLuhan, Virilio, Foucault, Deleuze, Kittler, Haraway, and Koolhaas.

AHIS G8686. Methods Seminar: Picasso. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Four major exhibitions are taking place in Spring 2009 devoted to Picasso et les maitres. This seminar will explore art-historical treatments of Picasso and cubism, as well as the vexing issue of pastische. Reading will include Gérard Gennette, Jean-Joseph Goux, and René Girard, among others.

AHIS G8687. Modern Art Outside the West. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A theoretical examination of modern art created outside the West in the context of 20th-century primitivist thought. Case studies

AHIS G8694y. Spectral Modernity/cinematic specters. 3 pts.

This course will evaluate a range of recent arguments about the spectral relation of cinema to its own past and to crucial features of 20th century modernity. It will consider some of the aesthetic, technological, and political elements which constituted the century of cinema in the light of the so-called "death of film," the spread of digital media, and of corporate-led globalization. Films by Godard, Kluge, Syberberg and Debord will be core objects for discussion of the unstable status of cinema and its relation to the catastrophes of recent history. Related topics may include work by Pedro Costa, Claire Denis, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Tsai Ming-Liang, Manoel de Oliveira, Jia Zhang-ke, Lucrecia Martel, Amos Gitai, Chantal Akerman, Harun Farocki and others. Limited to 15 students. Required screening meets Wednesdays 4-6. The content of this course changes each time it is offered.

AHIS G8696x. The Persistence of Futurisms.

One hundred years ago, F.T. Marinetti published the Futurist manifesto in Paris's Le Figaro. Hailed as the first avant-garde, condemned for its fascist leanings, Futurism remains a bête noire in the history of modern art. With particular emphasis on Futurist writings and practices across media-not only painting and sculpture, but also photography, film, theater, and machines of all kinds-we will take advantage of recent publications and translations as well as a host of scholarly and artistic events that are being held in conjunction with the centennial anniversary (including Performa09, "Beyond Futurism" symposium at CU, etc). Readings will be drawn from Futurist manifestos, contemporary scholarship on Futurism (in English and French or Italian), and recent media theory (Virilio, Kittler, McLuhan, Hayles, et. al.), but students are encouraged to write on related topics from the late-nineteenth century to the present.

AHIS G8697. Modernism Without Organs: John Cage and the Visual Arts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

John Cage-known as one of the West's most avant-garde composers, who delivered his music over to chance and made compositions without any sounds-is routinely invoked as an important "influence" on contemporary art. His artistic connections include Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol; Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Morris, La Monte Young and the general areas of happenings, fluxus, and early minimalism; the cinematic endeavors of Stan VanDerBeek; the dance of Merce Cunningham, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, and more. Nevertheless, the understanding of Cage's role within the arts has been more often marginalized or repressed than investigated or explored. In this course, we will seek to flesh out the Cagean "paradigm" in its historical and theoretical specificity and to pursue a genealogical investigation into the operation, impact, and implication of ideas such as silence, space, chance, indeterminacy, and multiplicity as they were adopted, adapted, and/or resisted within the post-War development of the visual arts.

AHIS G8698y. Problems in Contemporary Art. 3 pts.

Problems in Contemporary Art focuses on a particular movement, or moment, within contemporary art practice in the post-War period. This year will focus on pop art-Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and others-revisiting and questioning its canon from a theoretical and historical perspective predicated on its reception in the work of figures such as Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, and Hélio Oiticica.

AHIS G8702y. Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity. 3 pts.

This course studies what contemporary art might mean today. Is it a new kind of artistic production? A new type of spectatorship? Or should one look to new patterns of patronage, or new forms of distribution and exhibition, when trying to come to grips with contemporary art? Particular attention will be paid to the role of the past within contemporary art. Is contemporary art the name of an art historical period that has succeeded modernism? Or is it a kind of modernism that has outlived its time?

AHIS G8710. Abstract Art & Its Legacies in Latin America. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will consider the impact of abstract art on practices of painting, sculpture and architecture in Latin America in the mid-twentieth century. Particular attention will be placed on the various ways in which artists in Latin America appropriated elements of the form of abstraction known as Concrete art, only to break with them on their way to developing new art movements. We will begin with an overview of the recent literature on abstract art. Then we will investigate the ways in which the Constructivist and Neo-Plasticist avant-gardes explored the possibilities of abstract art in the second and third decades of the century. This will set the stage for the second part of the course, which will study the history of nonrepresentational art, first in the Rio de la Plata region in the 1940s, and then in Brazil and Venezuela in the 1950s and 1960s. Emphasis will be placed on the ways in which these developments overlapped with each other, as well as on the impact they might have had on European and North American art. The third part of the course will examine the contributions of Latin American abstract artists on the development of kinetic and optical art in Europe in the mid-twentieth century, as well as the effect of these modes of art practice on late modern and contemporary art

AHIS G8716. American Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Selected topics stressing the American cultural context; research on interrelations with Europe, and on interdisciplinary developments in philosophy, social history, religion, literature and science. Development of various methodological models for dealing with American art history.

AHIS G8720. Museum Studies: Topics and Problems In American Art History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: familiarity with history of American art helpful. Topics and problems in American art history based upon The Brooklyn Museum collections.

AHIS G8722. Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Investigations of subjects and methodologies, social and cultural contexts, and attitudes to silence, time and identity.

AHIS G8725. Museum Studies: Problems In 19th-Century American Painting In the Context of the Brooklyn Museum Collections. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Given at the Brooklyn Museum.

AHIS G8729. Conceptual Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar engages the development and legacy of conceptual art and certain theoretical ideas (like the "death of the author") associated with it. Work from the 1960s to now will be included from such artists as Mel Bochner, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozloff, Martha Rosler, Vito Acconci, and others. Particularly important will be the art's political context and implications.

AHIS G8730. The American 1870s. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Explores the visual culture of the 1870s in the United States in relationship to both domestic and international developments in aesthetics and visuality. Topics include artists Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Candace Wheeler and William Henry Jackson and institutions including the Centennial Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Society of American artists as well as an investigation of arts relationship to the historical events of reconstruction and the Gilded Age.

AHIS G8738. The Temporal Revolution: Natural History and Architectural Theory and Practice In the 19th Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An exploration of intersections between theories of classification, evolution, organic form, and development in the natural sciences (geology, biology, paleontology) and architecture. Key theoretical statements in architecture from J.N.L. Durand and Karl Friedrich Schinkel to John Ruskin, Léonce Reynaud, E.E. Viollet-le-Duc, and Gottfried Semper and Victor Horta. Focus on the exploration of ideas through architectural practice, notably in the designs of natural history museums and their installations.

AHIS G8750. Informe/Informel. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The post-war avant-gardes in both America and France, as abstract-expressionism developed on the one hand and art informel on the other. The role of the concept informe, which had served as an important idea for many French thinkers in the interwar period. The archaeology of this concept is examined from the perspective of the reception of art in the 1950s. Writers: Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Jacques Lacan, Jean Paulhan, Michel Tapié, Jean Dubuffet. Artists: Dubuffet, Fontana, Woles, Klein, Pollock, Kline, Gorky, De Kooning, Twombly, Rauschenberg.

AHIS G8765x. Issues in Performance Art. 3 pts.

Wedged between the rudiments of theater and the gestures of visual art, performance art came to prominence at the end of the twentieth century. Our concentration in this course will be on artists and practices after 1960. However, we will also consider the roots of this form in the first part of the twentieth century. Central to our investigations will be discussions surrounding performance as catalytic process, as temporal art, and issues of the body as form. African American performance will be the focus for this semester. We will also take advantage of Performa09, The Third Biennial of New Visual Art Performance which takes place November 1-22 and will be held at various venues around the city.

AHIS G8773. Photography: Histories and Theories. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. The major moments in 20th-century photography history and the theoretical models and critical methods developed in the literature.

AHIS G8820. Social(Ist) Realism In 20th-Century Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Political realist art of the 1930s to the 1960s-Soviet socialist realism, fascist art, the various forms of Eastern and Western European socialist realism under communist party directives, as well as American social realism of the 1930s and beyond-all form the repressed other to the history of 20th-century modernism. Considers socialist- (and national- socialist-) inspired mimetic art as an oppositional category within modernism, both theoretically and historically.

AHIS G8830. Earth Art: Art and Nature In the 20th Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the fate of landscape in this century since WW II. Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash and Christo.

AHIS G8835. Expanded Arts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course examines the movement of "expanded arts" as they developed in the mid-1960s in the realm of happenings, Fluxus and "expanded cinema" the sixties and seventies. The course considers art/cinema hybrids, the notion of intermedia, and the associated methodological and theoretical challenges their investigation poses.

AHIS G8940y. On Spaces: A Seminar. 3 pts.

The notion of "space" is very peculiar for architecture in modern time: in a certain sense it could be described as a modern architectural neologism. Space addresses in a very direct way the issue of human perception -and experience- of the world. It was the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper who proposed that "spatial enclosure" was the fundamental feature of architecture and therefore was able to provide a solution to the growing anxiety which was worrying architecture since the "crisis" of classical orders around the eighteenth century. This seminar will discuss the different phases, the changing theories, protagonists and representations of space. Introductory lectures and student presentations on specific study-cases will support a discussion in depth.

AHIS G8995. Whitney Seminar. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G4084x. Mesoamerican Art and Architecture. 3 pts.

Aesthetic, historical, and archaeological problems are discussed.

AHIS G4085y. Andean Art and Architecture. 3 pts.

Survey of the art of the Andes from earliest times until the Spanish conquest. Emphasis on the nature of Andean tradition and the relationship between art and society.

AHIS G8088. The Literature of Pre-Columbian Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The various theories of pre-Columbian art from the First World art history in which it was included beginning in 1841 until the present time. The writings of George Kubler considered in depth. Theories of art are related to archaeology and literature.

AHIS G8096. Mayan Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Examination of Mayan art in the context of archaeological and aesthetic theory.

AHIS G8099. Native American Landscapes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The idea that Native American culture is inherently tied to land has been both embraced and critiqued as the U.S. and Canada have eradicated Native control over territory and limited indigenous peoples' movement through space. This seminar looks at Native North American art from the pre-Columbian period through the present in relationship to various notions of land and its representation.

AHIS G8632. The Classical and the Exotic: Ancient Monuments In 18th- and 19th-Century Representation and Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The discovery, illustration, aesthetic appreciation, and scientific study of the ruins of various ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Greek, and Mayan, and their role in the creation of art history as a discipline.

AHIS G4385. Renaissance Architecture: History & Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A survey of Renaissance Architecture in Italy through its buildings and its theory, from Brunelleschi to Palladio and the influence to other European country.

AHIS G4417. Italian Renaissance Architecture From Brunelleschi To Michelangelo. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The work of Brunelleschi, Alberti, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, the Sangallos, Sansovino, Michelangelo and Palladio, integrated into the study of urban history, villas and gardens, liturgy, war and fortifications, palace culture and perspective. Frequent use of rare materials in Avery Library.

AHIS G4418. Italian Baroque Architecture: Michelangelo To Piranesi. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The protagonists of baroque architecture in Rome, Piedmont, Naples and Sicily. Emphasis on the history of urban planning, garden design, and the evolution of the architectural profession.

AHIS G4422. Painting in Early Renaissance Florence. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course surveys developments in Florentine painting form the late 14th to the late 15th centuries. It will place special emphasis on monumental fresco painting on the relationships among panting, sculpture, and architecture; and on the shaping of individual styles in a period of intense competition.

AHIS G4425. Topics in Italian Renaissance Sculpture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This is a "bridge" course whose primary pedagogical goal is to improve the students' ability to see and understand works of Italian sculpture from the 15th to the 17th centuries with what one might call "curatorial eyes." That is to say, the emphasis will be on long, careful, and discriminating visual examination and analysis of works of art themselves. Accompanying this primary training will be extensive exposure to sculptural materials and techniques of manufacture; and students will also visit conservation laboratories where sculptures are undergoing treatment. Because so many class meetings will be off-campus, the course will meet only once a week.

AHIS V4436. Florentine Sculpture From Donatello To Michelangelo. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The origins of Renaissance sculpture in Florence, beginning with the competition of 1401 for the Baptistry doors. The art of Donatello, Ghiberti Desiderio, Bernardo Rosselino, Verrocchio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Benedetto da Maiano and Michelangelo examined in detail.

AHIS G6450. Titian. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Lectures on the art of Titian and its resonance, the position of the artist and his achievement within a Venetian context and beyond. Topics will include: issues of style and technique, the development of oil painting and a pittura di macchia; the altarpiece; religious narrative; mythological narrative; portraiture; the graphic arts and printing in Venice; Titian's circle of friends (Aretino and Sansovino); patterns of patronage; politics and religion; Titian's legacy.

AHIS G6466. Venetian Painting of the Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Selected topics on painting in Venice from ca. 1450 to the end of the 16th century, with special attention to problems of context and interpretation; emphasis on major painters-Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano.

AHIS G8327. Seminar On the Revival of the Antiquity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Medieval spolia, Renaissance Vitruvianism, the afterlife of Hadrian's Villa, and the archaeological studies of Mantegna, Francesco di Giorgia, Guiliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Peruzzi, Ligorio, Montano and Piranesi. Reference also to antiquarian studies of Britain and Greece.

AHIS G8331. Architectural Drawings of the Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Modern convention of architectural drawing before the coming of the digital era started during the Renaissance when drawing was recognized to be the tool through which an idea of architecture is transformed into a feasible construction. The scope of this seminar is to analyze the architectural drawing under different aspects including that of its function to express the design process from the early sketches to the working drawings and as a tool of analysis of existing buildings, ancient and modern. Attention will be paid also to the graphic techniques and the architectural drawing as an artistic form. Real Renaissance drawings will be directly analyzed as well as the Renaissance literature on the issue included in Architectural treatises.

AHIS G8356x. Roman Art and Catholic Reform. 3 pts.

This seminar examines the impact of the Council of Trent, new religious Orders, and new devotional practices on art and architecture made in Rome during the century between the opening of the Council of Trent in 1545 to the death of Pope Urban VIII Barberini in 1644.

AHIS G8359. Painting and the Mendicant Orders. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The seminar focuses primarily on large-scale painting in Tuscany and Umbria, beginning with the Basilica of San Francesco at Assisi in the late 13th century; they conclude with a consideration of several late-15th-century fresco programs reflecting the growing crisis that led a few decades later to the fracture of the Western Church with the outbreak of the Reformation in 1517. Included in these lectures on monumental painting will be discussions of large-scale altarpieces, which can be veritable billboards of the various Orders' ideology of the religious life. Prefacing the main body of lectures will be introductory ones on the organization of religious life in the Latin West and on the conundrums of the representational arts inherent in Christian theology. As a coda, the course finishes with some case studies of the chiastic reciprocity of painting and personal piety in the period.

AHIS G8416. Andrea Palladio: Architecture, Theory, and Legacy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The seminar is organized in such a way to analyze Palladio under four different aspects: his buildings, his theoretical production, his drawings and his legacy. The first part will investigate the architectural features of a selection of meaningful construction in order to cover all the typologies: the city hall of Vicenza, private palaces including Thiene, da Porto, Chiericati and Valmarana. Country villas including villa Godi, Pisani at Bagnolo, Badoer at Fratta Polesine, Emo at Fanzolo, Barbaro at Maser, Poiana at Poiana, Cornaro at Piombino d'Ese, Malcontenta. Churches such as the Redentore and S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The monastery of the Carità in Venice, The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and the Bridge at Bassano. The second part of the seminar will focus on the theory and literature and will use the Rare Book Collection at Avery Library. Working on the original first edition of the "Four Books on Architecture", "Guide of Rome" and the "Julius Cesar's Polybius", it will be possible to grasp his architectural thought and, in general, the sense of Renaissance theory of Architecture.

AHIS G8417. Paragone: Art Theory & Studio Practice in the Italian Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar focuses on the conventions of comparison as the dialectical root of art criticism and stylistic development in Italian Renaissance art. Case studies of specific instances of artistic rivalry or competition will alternate with close readings of the primary texts, including Ghiberti's Commentarii, Manetti's Life of Brunelleschi, Leonardo's treatise on the paragone, and its deployment in the famous "disegno/colore" discussions found, for example, in Dolce's Aretino and, of course, Vasari's Vite.

AHIS G8427. Art Theory and Criticism of the Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Theories of art and the artist, with special attention to the development of an aesthetics of painting. Focus will be on texts by Cennini, Alberti, Michelangelo, Pino, Dolce, and Vasari-with consideration as well of non-artistic texts, such as those by Castiglione and Ariosto

AHIS G8433. Mid-Quattrocento Italian Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Selected problems with emphasis on the role of Donatello during the period.

AHIS G8434. The Venetian Scuole. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8435. Veronese. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8436. Renaissance Venice. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Topics in Venetian art and architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries. Seminar examines the monuments that shaped and defined Venice at the height of its political power and cultural achievement. Focus on governmental and corporate institutions such as the Ducal Palace and the religious confraternities, their architecture, and pictural decoration, as well as on the urban renewal of the city and its public presentation. Topics include the iconography of the state, the guild system; and the social status of the artist; printing and publishing; patterns of patronage; chapels and altarpieces.

AHIS G8439. Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi and the Origins of the Renaissance. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The personalities of Filippo Brunelleschi, the architect, Donatello, the sculptor, and Masaccio, the painter, working in part together, and certainly with knowledge of each other, set into motion an entire new formal language that is called the Renaissance in the 15th century.

AHIS G8442. Leonardo Da Vinci. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Emphasis on his personality, as revealed in his paintings, drawings and writings.

AHIS G8444. Graphic Art of the Italian Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8446. Giorgione. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems of interpretation in the art and culture of an elusive painter and an enigmatic oeuvre.

AHIS G8447. Leonardo Drawings. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Topics in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with special attention to both theory and function of drawing and its emergence as an art in the Renaissance

AHIS G8449. Topics In the Urban History of Rome. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Town planning in Rome from Nicholas V to Alexander VII (1447-1667), with emphasis on papal streets and piazzas as well as the urbanism generated around large institutions. The leitmotif is comparative analysis with other major European and Italian cities.

AHIS G8450y. Michelangelo and his Rivals: Problems in 16th-century Sculpture. 3 pts.

This seminar investigates the instances and character of Michelangelo's encounters with other artists from his earliest years until his old age. In particular it examines the notion, largely invented by Michelangelo himself, that he was the greatest, as well as most influential, sculptor of his day. In particular, we investigate Michelangelo's mature dialogues with other sculptors: Andrea and Jacopo Sansovino, Benvenuto Cellini, Baccio Bandinelli, Bartolomeo Ammanati and Niccolo Tribolo.

AHIS G8453x. Italian Architectural Drawings, 1480-1700. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Drawings will be analyzed primarily as a tool of the architect to represent the design path that goes from the idea (sketches) to the final project and the actual building. Through the study of architectural drawings it will be possible to understand the process of design and if and how it develops from early modern architecture to the coming of neoclassicism. The seminar is based mainly on direct analysis of drawings, at times real.

AHIS G8455. Baroque Architecture and the Natural World. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The points of contact between architecture and the natural sciences in the 17th century. Architecture in Rome, Naples, Turin, Paris, the Hague, and London are examined in light of collections of natural curiosities, of the rise of the virtuoso, and of early scientific societies.

AHIS G8456. Borromini.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Analysis of building documents, architectural drawings, patronage, history of the profession, 17th-century architectural books, urban context, ritual and function in architecture, stylistic analysis, and the transmission of Borromini's ideas to later 17th-century design.

AHIS F8457. Palace Culture and Collecting In Early Modern Europe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Palaces from the points of view of design, function, ceremony, urban context, political context, material culture, and collections. Focus on Renaissance and Baroque Italy, and parallel developments in England, France, and Spain.

AHIS G8466. Titian. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores the dimensions of meaning in Titian's art. Address problems of interpretation of the work and figure of the artist. Among the issues considered are the reading of pictures; the Venetian contexts of artistic production: workshops, guilds, and patronage; and the phenomenology of painting and critical response.

AHIS G8468. Tintoretto. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems of interpretation of style and content, with special attention to the Venetian context.

AHIS G8490. The Architecture of Libraries. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The libraries of Renaissance and Baroque Italy, with reference to ancient and medieval prototypes, and also to the libraries of France, England, Germany, Austria and Bohemia.

AHIS G8521. Paris and Rome In the 17th Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A comparative study in the exchanges between the two capitals in the fields of urbanism, architecture, and political ideas expressed in art.

AHIS G8554. Poussin's Mythologies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Focus on the interpretive debates surrounding works of art and on several important recent publications on Poussin and 17th-century art theory.

AHIS G8701. Problems in Style. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The central problem for study and discussion will be the "late style" of artists, testing the notion of "old-age style." Preliminary topics for discussion will include: concepts of "style" and models of its assumed development; the "life" of styles and the life of the artist. The focus will be on particular cases, individual artists in several traditions, west and east, ancient and modern.

AHIS G8790. Eye On the Early Modern City. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Theories and problems of town planning in Europe, with case studies ranging from medieval Siena to northern European cities in the 18th century

AHIS G4472. Functions of Mimesis: Piety and Power in Early Netherlandish Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G4524. 17th-Century French Paintings. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Emphasis is placed on such masters as Poussin, Claude, La Tour, the Le Nains, Le Brun, and on the development of French classicism and academic theory.

AHIS G4544. French Architecture, 1500-1700. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A study of architecture, urban planning, and theory between the reigns of Francois I and Louis XIV.

AHIS W4565. Flemish Painting: Bruegel To Rubens. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Starting with the various trends which can be distinguished in Flemish art in the early 16th century, traces the development of painting in Flanders to the middle of the 17th century, with special emphasis on Bruegel and Rubens.

AHIS W4567. Dutch and Flemish Painting From Bruegel To Rembrandt. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of the principal painters active in the Netherlands from ca. 1560 to ca. 1670. Special attention to Bruegel, van Dyck, and Rubens; to Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Vermeer; and to the most important painters of landscape and genre.

AHIS G4568. 17th-Century Painting In the Netherlands: the Problem of Realism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A survey of genre and landscape painting from the point of view of old and new interpretations. The issues of realism, notional accuracy, and selectivity are assessed, while the merits of the newer iconographic and symbolic approaches are examined. Genre painters will range from Dou to Steen and Vermeer; landscape painters from Esaias van de Velde to Rembrandt and Jacob van Ruisdael.

AHIS G8410. The Idea of the Renaissance. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Classic texts on the Renaissance by Vasari, Burckhardt, Panofsky, Huizinga, and others, and revisionist perspectives that question the normative idea of the Renaissance; topics focus on problematic images that challenge Renaissance norms and interpretive procedures, including anatomical studies, representations of female beauty and power, perspective, rhetoric and narrative lapses in devotional imagery, reception aesthetics, and the Renaissance in a national context.

AHIS G8473. Bruegel and his Times. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will survey all aspects of Bruegel's artistic production, from the paintings to the drawings and prints. His work will be placed in the context of the major social and political upheavals of his time. Particular attention will be paid to the prelude to and outbreak of the Revolt of the Netherlands, as well as the great iconoclastic movements of the mid 1560s.

AHIS G8541. The Renaissance In France: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar on the arts in 16th-century France, focusing on the courts of François I, Henri II, and Catherine de Medici. Classicism in a national context, Gothic traditions and reception of Italian forms, châteaux of the Loire, school of Fontainebleau, Delorme, Ducerceau, Pilon, Caron.

AHIS G8543. Ancients & Moderns: Cultural Ruptures and Debate in the Baroque Age. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Seminar on aspects of architecture, urbanism, art theory, and representation in France during the early modern period. Topics include urban planning in Paris; the chateau and classical garden; Versailles; ritual forms of the monarchy; ideology and iconography of Louis XIV; the rise of the Academies; the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns.

AHIS G8544. Patronage and Art Markets for Early Netherlandish Painting. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Maximum student enrollment: 12-priority given to graduate students in art history with coursework done on Northern Renaissance. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's early Netherlandish paintings collections investigated from the points of view of patronage and marketing of art. This approach aims to join recent evaluations of economic and political determinants for art production with new information from the technical examination of paintings.

AHIS G8545y. Rubens. 3 pts.

An examination of the life and works of Peter Paul Rubens in light of the most recent scholarship.

AHIS G8546. The Making and Marketing of Early Netherlandish Paintings. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An in-depth study of workshop practice in early Netherlandish painting, particularly as it was influenced by changing art market conditions and patron demands in the 15th and 16th centuries.

AHIS G8550. Poussin. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The paintings of Poussin studied in their social and historical context, their place in the scientific and antiquarian culture of 17th-century Rome, and their stylistic independence.

AHIS G8567. Rembrandt. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems of connoisseurship and interpretation.

AHIS G8569. French Painting in Paris during the Reign of Louis XV. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

An opportunity to examine in some depth the period generally known (and often dismissed) as the rococo. The seminar will focus on the major figures of the period--Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze and Fragonard (up to the Progress of Love)--while also consider the larger themes of the Academy, the Salon and salon criticism, institutional and private patronage, and notions of interior decoration and display. Less familiar artists such as Lemoyne, De Troy, Lancret, Natoire and saint-Aubin will also be introduced. While the majority of sessions will be held in the classroom, the seminar will include at least four site visits to museums.

AHIS G8572. Housing and Social Life In Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Presentation of three themes: treatises, methods and issues, and buildings.

AHIS G8580. Seminar In the Theory of French Classical Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G8587. English Baroque Architecture: Wren, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Three master architects of early modern England; traditions of classicism and medievalism English court culture, the rebuilding of London after the 1666 fire, the Neo-Palladian critique, the country house tradition, and English landscape gardens. Study trip to England during spring break.

AHIS G8608. The Iconic Turn. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Affirmations that images are endowed with a life of their own have become a commonplace in recent art historical literature. Older approaches to the life of images based on phenomenology, have been supplemented by fresh initiatives drawn from philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and science studies. This course will examine the claims made for the "presence" of objects--their power over their reception--made by a variety of recent authors in both art history and visual studies. Is it possible to wed this sensitivity to the agency of objects with interpretations that stress their ideological and political social function?

AHIS G4106x. The Indian Temple. 3 pts.

This course explores the emergence and development of the Indian temple, examines the relationship between form and function, and emphasizes the importance of considering temple sculpture and architecture together. It covers some two thousand years of activity, and while focusing on Hindu temples, also includes shrines built to the Jain and Buddhist faiths.

AHIS G4126. Rock-cut Architecture of India. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

For a period of over a thousand years, a favored mode of architecture across India was to create monuments by excavating into the rock of the mountainside. This course examines the rock-cut mode of architecture, adopted by Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains, that remained popular right up to the tenth century when it yielded precedence to structures built by piling stone upon stone.

AHIS G4128. Visual Narratives of India. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Proposes the existence of distinct modes of visual narration used by India's artists to present stories visually, both in the medium of relief sculpture, and that of watercolors on paper or plastered walls. Considers the rich corpus of Buddhist narrative reliefs, and the relationship of text and image in the manuscript tradition of India.

AHIS G6150x. The Genesis of Buddhist Art. 3 pts.

The course is related to the emergence of art related to Buddhism, commencing with emperor Asoka's (3rd century B.C.E.) rock and pillar edicts erected from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Amaravati in South India. Focus on the vibrantly carved stupa complexes constructed and decorated between the 1st century B.C.E. and the 5th century C.E., the many cave monastery complexes, with their rich sculpted and painted decoration, and the image of the Buddha.

AHIS G8094. Mamallapuram & the Origins of the South Indian Style. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This seminar seeks to arrive at a well-grounded "reading" of the enigmatic site of Mamalla-puram, port of the Pallava dynasty, that holds the key to the origins of the South Indian style. It then examines the development and flowering of South Indian architecture and sculpture under the aegis of the Chola monarchs.

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AHIS G8805. Woman, Goddess, Power: India's Images of the Feminine. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Explores the representation of the female figure in the artistic tradition of India, making use of literary extracts from the major texts of ancient India, as well as selected modern writings. While inter-disciplinary in approach, the emphasis is on the visual material. No attempt will be made to survey the material across the ages; rather the seminar will focus on specific periods and topics chosen because they present challenges to the viewer-reader. Emphasizing that there is no single over-arching way of presenting female imagery in India, nor indeed a single way of understanding or explaining it, each body of visual material will be placed within its specific socio-economic, historical, religious, and artistic milieu. In the first half of the semester, each class will consist of two sections. A class discussion in which all students will be expected to have read the material and participate, even though individual students may have been assigned the task of presenting prepared critiques, will be followed or preceded by a professorial presentation.

AHIS G8807y. The Body in the Art of India. 3 pts.

This seminar explores the centrality of the human form, male and female, human and divine, in the artistic tradition of India. It focuses on the idealized and stylized body which was never based on studies from life, and establishes the vital importance of adornment, a concept associated with auspiciousness. It raises questions about the use of the phrase "sacred space," pointing out that such spaces invariably carried imagery that had little or nothing to do with the sacred.

AHIS G9320. Problems In Indian Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G4005. Archival Internship. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: GSAS G4008. Practicum in archival management; preparation of a substantial inventory (160 hours). Past topic: producing inventories for components or units of Malcolm X papers.

AHIS G4008. Archives and Manuscripts In Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Archival theory and practice; optional 50-hour practicum.

AHIS G8010. Research for Advanced Students. 3-6 pts.

ACLG G8991. Curatorial Seminar: Women Artists at MoMA. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Developed in conjunction with a major publication project which will survey the work of women artists in MoMA's collections of painting & sculpture, drawings, prints & illustrated books, architecture & design, film & new media, and photography, this seminar is designed for students in the MA-Moda Curatorial program and open to other graduate students with permission of the instructor and the Director of MA programs. Sessions will take place at MoMA. In addition to taking up the issues of researching women artists, students receive instruction in object-based research, produce research dossiers, write practice catalogue entries, and make presentations. Instructors: Deborah Wye, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints & Illustrated Books (contact person); Susan Kismaric, Curator of Photography; Anne Umland, Curator of Painting & Sculpture.

AHIS G9010. Research for Advanced Students. 3-6 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9012. Problems In Chinese Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9055. Problems In Pre-Columbian Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9115. Problems In Japanese Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9200. Problems In Greek and Roman Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9302. Problems In Near Eastern Art and Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9307. Problems In Aegean Bronze Age Art and Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9309. Problems In Mediterranean Bronze Age Art and Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9311. Problems In Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9312. Problems In Medieval Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9390. Problems In Renaissance Art and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9400. Problems In Baroque Art and Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9410. Problems in Islamic Art & Architecture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9418. Problems in 15th Century Flemish and Dutch Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9420. Problems In 16th- and 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9570-G9571. Problems In the Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9610. Problems In Modern Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9620. Problems in Art & Neurosciences. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9660. Problems In Modern Architecture. 3-6 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

AHIS G9700. Problems In American Art. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.