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  • ARHI 60481: Art After Video

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The introduction of video as an artistic medium in the late 1960s revolutionized the ways in which artists could address their audience. It also brought a newly literal dimension to artists' relationship with their own projected images. Much of the early literature in artists' video references its self-reflexive element: the "feedback loop" that was initially intrinsic to the medium itself. This course examines video art as it expands from these beginnings. The objects of its inquiry are not strictly bounded by definitions of medium; rather, this course will consider video in addition to other durational media, such as TV and film, which were influenced by artists' video practices. Artists working in video posed a series of thought-provoking questions in the medium's first decades: what is the relationship between performance and document? How is the mediated nature of video inflected by the art market's emphasis on luxury commodities? How do the qualities of a medium affect its content in a postmodernist period? This course will address such questions by drawing upon aesthetic theories of temporality, site-specificity, identity, performance, and institutional critique - as well as by screening numerous artists' videos dating from 1967 until recent times. It has a substantial reading and writing component.
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  • ARHI 60490: Arch Now:Trends in Contemp.Arc

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This is a survey of contemporary trends in global architecture with a focus on recent developments in design theory and building technologies. The course will examine a broad spectrum of architecture produced in the past decade.
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  • ARHI 60520: Anthropology of Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will examine art as a functional part of culture from an anthropological point of view. Attention is given to evolution of art as part of human culture and to evolution of the study of art by anthropologists. Open to graduate students.
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  • ARHI 60521: The Art of Mythology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This cross-disciplinary class is an exploration of the representation of classical myth in Western art and literature, ranging from the seventh century B.C.E. to the 18th century C.E. Beginning with mythological subjects in the political and religious sculpture, temple architecture and vase decoration of Ancient Greece, we will move on to study Roman painting and sculpture, medieval Ovidian allegory, the Renaissance reinvention of classical types and 18th-century neo-classicism. We will compare literary and visual narratives, evaluating the discursive modes of each, and analyzing how and why poets, philosophers, artists, sculptors, and architects selected and adapted the episodes that they did. Primary readings will include selections from Greek and Roman epic, lyric and dramatic poetry, Greek and Roman philosophical mythology, and early analyses of the relationship between art and myth such as Philostratus' Eikones. Among the artistic works that we will examine will be Raphael's Roman cycles, Bellini and Titian's poesie, and Bernini's sculpted dramas. We will consider the erudite contexts for such works, including gardens, drawing rooms, princely residences, and civic institutions. We will discuss the connection between political power and myth, and concepts such as heroism, metamorphosis, and earthly and divine love. One aim of this class will be to identify the explanatory character of myth, and of story-telling within culture, as means of historical self-understanding, self-revelation, and catharsis.
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  • ARHI 60522: Fashioning Identities in Colonial America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will focus on dress and material/visual culture in Colonial North America. It will provide an introduction to methodology, and offer an overview of key themes in the history of dress and sonsumerism within the framework of gender studies. In our focus on the Colonial period (especially in the 18th Century), we will analyze the economics of dress (the production, marketing and acquisition of cloth and clothing) and will assess the importance of fashion and commerce and politics. We will evaluate the role of dress in the construction of colonial identities, and we will examine the ways that dress operated as a visual locus for racial, class and ethnic encounters.
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  • ARHI 60550: History of Photography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course deals with the development and use of photography as an artistic medium from time of its invention in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present moment. Besides viewing slides, the student will be able to view a large number of original photographs from the Snite Museum of Art.
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  • ARHI 60555: History of Photography: 19th Century

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course deals with the development and use of photography as an artistic medium from time of its invention in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present moment. Besides viewing slides, the student will be able to view a large number of original photographs from the Snite Museum of Art. Regular visits to view original images from each period will take advantage of the Snite Museum's extensive holdings of photographs from the various periods studied.
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  • ARHI 60560: History and Theory of 20th Century Photography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course seeks to introduce students to the difficulties of writing the history and criticism of photography as a separate discipline that operates simultaneously outside and inside the history of modernism: since photographic practices are defined by an extraordinary diversity of social functions and institutions (e.g. fashion and political documentary, advertisement, and avant-garde art), the impossibility of such a cohesive approach clearly poses a central methodological problem. This condition has been confronted by photographers, artists, and photography historians and critics with a wide range of responses.
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  • ARHI 60580: History of Design: Form, Values, and Technology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course will provide a historical perspective on the development of industrial, product and graphic design in the 19th and 20th centuries. More than the aesthetic styling of products, design mediates the intersection of technology and cultural values in the modern era. The role of the modern designer as both a faculitator and a critic of industrial technology will be examined.
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  • ARHI 60860: Latin American Art and Architecture: 1491-1821

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course introduces the student to the rich visual and religious culture of the peoples of Latin America at the arrival of the Europeans and thereafter. The course deals with Mexico and the Andean region from 1491-1821 and the encounter of Aztecs and Incas with Christian artistic culture, and vice versa. Attention will be paid to the indigenous art forms on the eve of the Spanish invasion, the cooperative work of natives and clergy in the construction and decoration of churches, and in the development of a hybrid multicultural, multiracial society. Late medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art forms, as reinterpreted in the Spanish-speaking Americas, are the focus. Questions of religious syncretism and conscious inculturation through the arts are raised. Issues of colonialism, race, gender and class will also be dealt with in the context of the visual religious cultures of the Latin American past and present. A reading knowledge of Spanish would be helpful but is not required.
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