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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 342.) The development of competing versions of modern and postmodern architecture and design in Europe and America, from the early 20th century to the present. Recommended: 141. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 343A.) A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre- Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How these ideas are being transformed in today's globalized world. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 349.) Historical avant garde movements and anti-modernist tendencies such as socialist realism and Nazi art. Issues: artistic responses to wartime trauma; attempts to develop the progressive potential of technology and the political utility of art; and attempts to reorder relations between body and machine, art object and commodity, and private and public life. Artists: Richter, Heartfield, Tzara, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Bellmer, Man Ray, and Ernst. Readings: the modern subject, mass culture, the modernism/antimodernism debates of the 30s, and the uses of art in totalitarian regimes. GER:DB-Hum GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 351.) Modernism in the American arts at home and abroad, emphasizing transatlantic expatriation, cultural politics, and creative alliances. Painters and sculptors are the focus. Literary figures who interacted with artists such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes. Topics and artists: the Armory Show, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Futurism, Fernand Léger, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keefe,Gerald Murphy, the Harlem Renaissance, John Storrs, and Florine Stettheimer. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 353A.) Painting, sculpture, photography, and design. Focus is on the emergence of diverse cultural forms in the search for a modern, American form of artistic expression. Topics include: Robert Henri and the Ash Can school; the Armory Show and the influence of European modernism; Marcel Duchamp and plumbing; futurism, cubism, and the machine aesthetic; Stuart Davis and jazz; Dorothea Lange and documentary photography; Alfred Stieglitz and his Seven Americans; Thomas Hart Benton and regionalism; the arts of the WPA; and the role of artists in wartime propaganda. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 355.) Major figures, movements, and concepts of American art with examples from Europe from WW II to the present. Topics: the ideology and aesthetics of high modernism, the relationship between art and popular culture, the death of painting, the question of postmodernism. Artists: Pollock, Newman, Stella, Johns, Warhol, Andre, Rainer, Smithson, Hesse, Serra, Kruger, Sherman. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, Aut (Lee, P)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 358A.) From its invention in 1839 to the present. Emphasis is on the evolution of photography as a fine art. Photographs as a universal democratic art form to record familial events and express personal creativity. Development of photography as it relates to other art forms, journalism, architecture, portraiture, landscape, documentation, time, and personal expression. The technology of photography; photographic techniques. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, Win (Dawson, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 359A.) The history of American photography as fine art and social tool. Topics include: defense of photography as a legitimate art form; role of portraits and photo albums in social selffashioning; technological and market aspects of photography; politics of straight or documentary aesthetics; role of women; and how the idea of America has been shaped by photographs. Artists include Matthew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, and Mary Ellen Mark. GER:DB-Hum GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 360A.) Paintings, sculptures, photography, and mixed media works. Styles, cultural and social histories, patronage, and critical reception. The problems of studying the production of artists of color as a separate field; alternatives to the category of African American art; and the outlook for new critical methodologies. 4 units, Spr (Staff)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 373.) Major figures, themes, and movements of contemporary art from the 80s to the present. Readings on the neoavant garde; postmodernism; art and identity politics; new media and technology; globalization and participatory aesthetics. Prerequisite: ARTHIST 155, or equivalent with consent of instructor. GER:DBHum 4 units, Spr (Lee, P)
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