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  • ART 208a: Printmaking:Introduction

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    A variety of printmaking concepts and procedures are explored through a series of assignments in monotype and collagraph. Mr. Bosman. Corequisite: Art 102a. Two 2-hour periods.
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  • ART 209b: Printmaking:Intaglio

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    The intaglio techniques of line etching, aquatint, and drypoint, as well as their variations, are applied to making both black and white and color prints. Mr. Bosman. Prerequisite: Art 102a. Two 2-hour periods. Alternate years.
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  • ART 210b: Greek Art and Architecture

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Classics 210). An introduction to the visual arts, particularly sculpture, vase painting, and architecture, of the ancient Greek world from the beginning of the Protogeometric (1050 BCE) to the end of the Hellenistic period (31 BCE). Critical issues of study include materials, techniques, functions, connoisseurship, iconographic analysis and iconological interpretation. New archaeological discoveries and on-going debates will be highlighted. Immediate first-hand experience and study of artworks is encouraged through trips to regional collections, including the recently reinstalled galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Abbe. Prerequisite: Art 105106 or Classics 216 or 217, or by permission of instructor. One weekly two and half hour period.
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  • ART 211b: Roman Art and Architecture

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Classics 211) Sculpture, painting, and architecture in the Roman Republic and Empire. Topics include: the appeal of Greek styles, the spread of artistic and architectural forms throughout the vast empire and its provinces, the role of art as political propaganda for state and as status symbols for private patrons. Ms. D'Ambra. Prerequisite: Art 105106 or Classics 218 or 219, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2008/09
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  • ART 212a: Photography

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    An investigation of the visual language of black and white photography. The technical and expressive aspects of exposing film, developing negatives, and printing in the darkroom are explored. No previous photographic experience is necessary. Students are required to provide their own camera, film and photographic paper. Ms Linn. Prerequisites: Art 102-103. One 4-hour period.
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  • ART 213b: Photography II

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course explores the development of an individual photographic language. Technical aspects of exposure, developing and printing are taught as integral to the formation of a personal visual esthetic. All students are required to supply their own camera, film, and photographic paper. Ms Linn. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. One 4-hour period.
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  • ART 214a: Color Digital Photography

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines how color in light delineates space and form. The goal of this class is to record this phenomenon as accurately as possible. Scanning traditional silver gelatin film and digital capture systems are utilized. Digital color prints are produced using Photoshop and inkjet printing. Some of the topics covered are the documentary value of color information, the ability of the computer program to idealize our experience of reality, and the demise of the latent image. Ms. Linn. Prerequisite: Art 212 or 213 and/or permission of the instructor. Two 2-hour periods.
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  • ART 220a: Medieval Architecture

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    A survey of the greatest moments in Western, Byzantine and Islamic architecture from the reign of Constantine to the late middle ages and the visual, symbolic and structural language developed by the masters and patrons responsible for them. Particular attention is paid to issues of representation; the challenge of bringing a medieval building into the classroom, that of translating our impressions of these buildings into words and images, and the ways in which other students and scholars have done so. Mr. Tallon Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or Medieval Studies, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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  • ART 221b: The Sacred Arts of the Middle Ages

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    A selective chronological exploration of the art of western Europe from early Christian Rome to the late Gothic North, with excursions into the lands of Byzantium and Islam. Works of differing scale and media; from monumental and devotional sculpture, manuscript illumination, metalwork, to stained glass, painting and mosaic are considered formally and iconographically, but also in terms of their reception. Students work directly with medieval objects held in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and with manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Vassar Library. Mr. Tallon Prerequisites: Art 105, or Medieval Studies, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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  • ART 230a: Northern Renaissance Painting

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Early Netherlandish and German painting and printmaking from Campin and van Eyck to Bruegel, Holbein, and Dürer. The course examines northern European attitudes toward nature, devotional art and portraiture that developed in the early fifteenth century and their evolution up to and through the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Ms. Kuretsky. Prerequisite: Art 105-106, or by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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