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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of the art and visual culture of the last decade with a strong emphasis on the current American and international scene. The primary focus will be on living artists and artists who remain crucial to contemporary debates with special attention paid to recent, current, and forthcoming exhibitions, their methodological frameworks and historical context, as well as the key critics and curators who are shaping the visual culture of the present. (2039-225, 2039-226,2039-227 and 2039-365 or 2039-375 or permission of instructor) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
This course is an inquiry into the artistic investigation of the literal human body and the texts that give them meaning. The class will focus on the history, theory and problems of performance art in the latter part of the 20th century. (2039-225, 2039-226 and 2039-227) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the widely infl uential mid-1960s art movement which questioned the fundamental nature of art itself by renunciating the material art object as well as the phenomenon of art-making. The defi nition of art as well as its institutional framework was thereby expanded, and the idea, concept, or intellectual dimension of the work was underscored. Students will be acquainted with the philosophical foundations and critical implications of this global movement across a wide spectrum of works and practices (paintings, performance, installations, books and texts, photography, fi lm, and video) and its relevance to contemporary concerns. Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the links between art and technology in 20th century visual culture with special focus on historical, theoretical, and ideological implications. Examples from fi lm (Modern Times, Metropolis, Man with the Movie Camera, Blade Runner) and literature (Frankenstein) will be discussed, as well as a wide range of artists and philosophers. Topics include the industrial revolution, utopia, dystopian, and fascist appropriations of the machine, the machine aesthetic (of Leger and Le Corbusier), engendering the body and machine-eroticism, the principles of scientifi c management, mass production and the art factory, the technological sublime, Raucshenberg and E.A.T., cyborgs, cygerpunk, and the posthuman. (2039-225, 2039-226, 2039-227 or permission of instructor) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on artists using their work for the purpose of changing society. Students will consider work by both individual artists and artists working in groups that cause critics, art historians, other artists and the viewing public to ask if what they are doing is art. Although there will be forays back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, most of the time will be dedicated to artists of the last three decades. We will examine texts that propose art to be a form of activism and persuade artists to be responsible for the way they represent the world and maybe even determine if the goal of art is not to represent it in the fi rst place. The artists we discuss are concerned with problems in our society that affect gender, race, sexuality, poverty, labor issues, and the environment. (2039-225, 2039-226, 2039-227) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
The subject of this course is painting, sculpture, and architecture in Central Italy from the middle of the 13th century to the end of the 14th century. We will approach this material in more or less chronological order as we focus upon different types and media, including the altarpiece, the private devotional image, the pulpit, the tomb, the chapel, the monastic church, the cathedral, the town hall, the private palace, and the urban setting. Questions for consideration will include: Franciscan devotion, the rivalry between Sienna and Florence, early humanist thinking about the arts. Giotto as the paradigmatic Florentine painter, the nature and meaning of the Italian proto-Renaissance, and the impact of the Black Death upon the arts. (2039-225, 2039-226 and 2039-227) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus upon Italian artists working in Rome from circa 1590 to circa 1660. Although we will explore painting, sculpture, and architecture in this sequence and more or less chronologically, we will often have the chance to consider how these different media coalesce to create an overwhelming visual experience. We will pay particular attention to major commissions given to Annibale Carracci, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Francesco Borromini, as we seek to defi ne the nature and meaning of the Roman Baroque. (2039-225, 2039-226 and 2039-227) Credit 3
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3.00 Credits
A focused, in-depth study and analysis of a selected advanced topic in Art History. Specifi c topics vary according to faculty assigned. Credit variable 3-6
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2.00 Credits
An introduction course with an overview of historical perspective, hands on projects and demonstrations, slide talks, introduction to vocabulary and terminology, and discussion of career opportunities. Credit 2
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3.00 Credits
An elementary course in design and techniques in ceramics. Each quarter different techniques are taught, including wheel, handbuilding glaze, and decorating. Materials fee required. Credit 3
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