Introduction to Art History
An introduction to art and architecture in Western culture.

TR 1:00-2:15, rm 211
MW 12:30-1:45, rm 211
MW 7:00-8:15 pm, rm 211

Art & Culture of Japan

Art of Britain
A survey of art produced in Britain. Emphasis on the so-called golden age of British painting from Hogarth to Turner, and on the art of the Pre-raphaelite brotherhood.

TR 2:30-3:45, rm 211

Komp

Prehistory of Art

MW 11:00-12:15, 209 Blake

Radovanovic

Italian Renaissance Art
A survey of the art and architecture of Italy from c. 1300 to 1550.  Special emphasis will be placed on regional styles and the private, political, and devotional contexts in which works of art and architecture functioned. Some of the artists whose works will be considered are Giotto, Duccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.

MW 3:00-4:15, SMA Aud

Cornelison

Japanese Prints

MW 12:30-1:45, rm 208

Kaneko

Representing the Nation/Represented by the Nation: Institutionalizing Japanese Art
This course will examine the interactive relationships between state power and the practices of art and art history, specifically focusing on the administration of arts in modern Japan. Each class will closely look at a specific art institution run by the Japanese government, and examine its history, system and function. The institutions to be dealt with in this course include: the kokuho (National Treasure) system, the National Art Salon, and state-run museums and art schools. We will also address broader art historical issues, such as the social life of art works, the formation of cannons, the production of taste, and the relationships between art and nationalism.

TR 9:30-10:45, rm 208

Kaneko

Community and Contemplation
This course is an introduction to the architectural tradition of monasticism in western Europe and an exploration of architecture’s role in sustaining community and spiritual life. We will consider monasteries in the context of the life they were built to serve, from early experiments in Egypt to modern designs for monasteries, investigating the parts and functions of a monastery, the major monastic orders, the particular traditions of nunneries, and selected works of art made by and for monasteries.

TR 2:30-3:45, rm 208

Evalds

Ancient Sanctuaries

MW 3:00-4:15, rm 208

Younger

Baroque Spectacle: The Art and Architecture of Rome

W 2:30-5:00, rm 103

Huppert

Roman Wall Painting

R 1:00-4:00, rm 103

Stinson

Greek Archaeology and Art

TR 11:00-12:15, SMA Aud

Stinson

Renaissance Art in Italy: The 15th Century
The focus of this course is the history of Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from 1400 to 1500. Special emphasis is placed on the diverse artistic styles and functions of works of art, as well as on the artists and patrons that produced them. Domestic art and the art and architecture of the 15th-century Italian courts are also discussed.

MW 11:00-12:15 , rm 211

Cornelison

European Art 1900-1945

MW 12:30-1:45, SMA Aud

Pultz

Art Since 1945
An international survey of modern and postmodern art since 1945.

TR 11:00-12:15, rm 211

Eldredge

Art of Buddhism

MW 11:00-12:15, rm 208

Fowler

Medieval Chinese Art

TR 11:00-12:15, rm 208

McNair

Chinese Painting

TR 1:00-2:15, rm 208

Haufler

Seminar in Photography-Rethinking Masters of 20th-century American Photography
Despite the art-historical attention given to photography over the last 25 years, many questions, especially of meaning, interpretation, and historical context, remain to be answered satisfactorily, especially with attention to specific photographs or bodies of photographic work. Students in this seminar will pick a canonical photographer (Stieglitz, Strand, Sheeler, Weston, Walker Evans, Frank, Callahan, Minor White, Friedlander, Arbus, Model, and Bourke-White are some possibilities), read earlier and current literature, and think about what important questions remain to be asked and answered about that photographer’s work. (For those students who wish, a theme may replace a photographer as the focus of research.) In addition, those students enrolled at the 870 level will also begin to answer one or more of these questions in their papers. Core readings for the seminar will include essays exemplary of varied methodological and theoretical approaches.

T 2:30-5:00, rm. 212

Pultz

Seminar in 17th-century Dutch or Flemish Art -
Rembrandt

R 2:30-5:00, rm. 212

Linda Stone-Ferrier

Seminar in Japanese Art - Japanese Buddhist Icons
In this seminar we will examine the role of Japanese icons within the religious traditions of Buddhism and Shinto. What elevates an image of sculpture or painting to the status of icon? Some topics to be addressed include miraculous and living icons, hidden images, authentication and animation of icons, the role of icons in ritual, and comparisons to icons in other cultures. 

T 2:30-5:00, rm 103

Fowler

Murphy Seminar: Reading American Pictures
Jointly taught by Profs. David Cateforis and Charles Eldredge, with Dr. David Lubin, Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University, the Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer for Spring 2008. The course will consider various methodologies employed in the examination and interpretation of 19th- and 20th-century American artworks, with Dr. Lubin’s published scholarship as the centerpiece. His publications involve a wide range of approaches, including deconstructive, social-historical, and psychoanalytic, applied to such artists as Thomas Eakins, George Caleb Bingham, Lily Martin Spencer and Andy Warhol. No prerequisite, but prior course work in art history, or American studies, or U.S. history, literature, etc. is recommended.

M 2:30-5:00, rm 212

Eldredge/Cateforis

Seminar in Chinese Art:  From Grand View to Proclaiming Harmony:  Emperor Huizong’s Art World
Based on “Grand View: Painting and Calligraphy of the Northern Sung (960-1127),” the recent exhibition at the National Palace Museum, Taibei, we will examine the painters and calligraphers of the Northern Song dynasty who served as the foundation and milieu for the aesthetic activities of Emperor Huizong (r. 1101-1125) and his court artists.

W 2:30-5:00, rm 212

McNair