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  • ARTH 29700: Reading Course

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: Consent of instructor and Undergraduate Program Chair. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Form. Must be taken for a quality grade. With adviser's approval, students who are majoring in art history may use this course to satisfy requirements for the major, a special field, or electives. This course is also open to nonmajors with advanced standing. This course is primarily intended for students who are majoring in art history and who can best meet program requirements by study under a faculty member' s individual supervision. The subject, course of study, and requirements are arranged with the instructor . Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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  • ARTH 29800: Senior Seminar:Writing Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    Required of fourth-year students who are majoring in art history. This workshop is designed to assist students in researching and writing their senior papers, for which they have already developed a topic in the Junior Seminar. Weekly meetings target different aspects of the process; students benefit from the guidance of the workshop instructors, but also are expected to consult with their individual faculty advisers. At the end of this course, students are expected to complete a first draft of the senior paper and to make an oral presentation of the project for the seminar. Autumn.
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  • ARTH 29900: Preparation for the Senior Paper

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: Consent of instructor and Undergraduate Program Chair. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Form. May be taken for P/F grading with consent of instructor. This course may not count toward the twelve courses required in the major. This course provides guided research on the topic of the senior paper. Students arrange their program of study and a schedule of meetings with their senior paper adviser. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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  • ARTH 42010: Art and Neoplatonism,East and West

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    P. Berlekamp, R. Zorach. Spring.
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  • ARTV 10100: Visual Language I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    ARTV 10100 and 10200 may be taken in sequence or individually. Previous experience in media-based studio courses typically will not be accepted as a replacement for this course. This course meets the general education requirement in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts. Through studio production and analysis of primarily 2D visual images and objects, this course engages the communicative, analytical, and expressive possibilities of the range of images animating contemporary visual culture. The studio is used to explore the principles, conventions, and inventions of image making. Emphasis is placed on the speculative process of making as a means to understand the relationships between the intent of the maker and the content, appearance, and meanings generated by images. Among the issues explored are originality and reproduction, color, surface organization, spatial illusion, the communicative properties of materials, and the recognition of accident and chance as artistic resources. Visits to museums, galleries, and other cultural and commercial sites required, as is attendance at designated events. Lab fee $65. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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  • ARTV 10200: Visual Language II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    ARTV 10100 and 10200 may be taken individually and in any order. Previous experience in media-based studio courses typically will not be accepted as a replacement for this course. This course meets the general education requirement in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts. Through the examination of 3D forms and a series of studio problems, this course develops the formal and conceptual skills necessary to think visually-to "see" and to experience the vast array of objects, spaces, and ideas embedded in the contemporary cultural landscape. Emphasis is placed on the speculative process of making (which may include the construction and analysis of objects, alteration of spaces, or the placement/arrangement/collection of objects) as a vehicle for students to learn how ideas, thoughts, and emotions take physical form and generate meaning. Visits to museums, galleries, and other cultural and commercial sites required, as is attendance at designated event s. Lab fee $65. Autumn, Winter, Spring
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  • ARTV 15000: Art Practice and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    It is recommended that students who are majoring in visual arts enroll in this required course before their fourth year. Open to nonmajors with consent of instructor. This course does not meet the general education requirement in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts. This course examines the place of artistic practice in contemporary culture and the rhetoric of images. Emphasis is placed on the visual arts, examining discourses such as the assignment of value to works, the formation of taste, the relationship between individual production and institutional practices, the role of authorship (intentionality) in the construction of meaning, the gate-keeping functions of curatorial and critical practice, the function and maintenance of categorical distinctions constituting "otherness" (high/low, naive, primitive, outside), the relationship between truth and authenticity, and the uses of art (e.g., transcendence, decoration, activism, therapy, play). Visits to museums, galleries, and other cultural and commercial sites required, as is attendance at designated events. Winter.
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  • ARTV 21000: Figure Drawing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: ARTV 10100 or 10200, or consent of instructor. This class explores approaches to drawing the figure. Drawing from life is the basis of further explorations into various modes of invention. A variety of materials are introduced (e.g., pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, mixed media). Assignments investigate different models of stylistic invention from the realistic to comic expression. Readings, field trips, and assignments address contemporary and classical approaches to portraiture, identity, narrative, and social critique. Class sessions include studio work, criticism, and visits to local collections. Field trips required. Lab fee $70. Winter.
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  • ARTV 22000-22002: Introduction to Painting I,II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: ARTV 10100 or 10200, or consent of instructor. Courses taught concurrently. This studio course introduces students to the fundamental elements of painting (its language and methodologies) as they learn how to initiate and develop an individualized investigation into subject matter and meaning. The class emphasizes group critiques and discussion. Lab fee $70. Autumn, Winter.
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  • ARTV 22200: Introduction to Sculpture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Chicago

    PQ: ARTV 10100 or 10200, or consent of instructor. This course introduces the fundamentals of sculptural practice. Building on the historical, aesthetic, and technical strategies of making and thinking about sculpture, students are directed toward the realization of 3D objects. Assignments are designed to explore materials and process so as to facilitate students' development of an idea to a completed object. Discussions and gallery visits help engender an understanding of sculpture within a societal and historical context. Visits to galleries required. Lab fee $70. Autumn.
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