ARTX 140 Introduction to History of Art I Art and architecture from many eras, from Paleolithic cave paintings to French cathedrals, will be seen. In between are monuments in Egypt, the Ancient Near East, the Aegean, Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe: Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic. Comparisons of cultures, patrons, and purposes show why the works look the way they do. AOS (History); CR (Europe) ARTX 145 Introduction to History of Art II This course examines major monuments and movements from 14th through 17th-century Europe and Asia, focusing on painting, sculpture, textiles, prints, and architecture. We will take a comparative, topics-based approach to examine how artists working in different cultural contexts expressed and responded to the world around them. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Annually: Winter ARTX 150 Introduction to History of Art III Artistic revolutions from the 18th through 20th centuries in the East and West caused radical visual and institutional transformation. This course surveys the development of modern art from a global perspective, tracing the influence of East and West upon one another from the Rococo to the Neoclassical, from Romanticism to Realism, to Cubism, Expressionism, and Postmodernism. We will examine how artists interpret the world around them and how these interpretations change over time. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Annually: Spring ARTX 205 Religious Art/Material Culture This course explores the relationship between religion and art. The arts, whether in the form of painting, sculpture, architecture, or kitsch, are often vehicles for religious devotion and expression. At the same time, devotion to a divine figure has inspired some of the world’s most beautiful pieces of art. Religion and art form a symbolic relationship which can simultaneously be in tension and/or cohesive. Looking at various primary and secondary sources from a variety of religious traditions, we explore this tension and cohesion, which can be a window into larger societal and cultural issues. Given that we live in a mechanical age, special attention will be paid to the material production of religious kitsch and the place of religious art in the market. (Also listed as RELG 205); AOS (PHIL or RELG); CR (Comparative) ARTX 208 Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology This introduction to the multidisciplinary field of Greek archaeology examines the art and architecture of the Greek world from a contextual perspective. The course traces Greek material culture from Bronze Age origins through Hellenistic transformations. (Also listed as CLAS 208) AOS (History); CR (Mediterranean) Offered Annually: Fall ARTX 209 Introduction to Roman Art and Archaeology This introduction to the multidisciplinary field of Roman archaeology examines the art and architecture of the Roman world from a contextual perspective. The course traces Roman material culture from Iron Age and Etruscan origins through Early Christian transformations. (Also listed as CLAS 209). AOS (History); CR (Mediterranean) Offered Annually: Spring ARTX 215 A History of Photography Photography was invented at two different geographic locations more or less simultaneously, which coincided with the rise of the modern political state and the industrial revolution in Western Europe. This course is a survey of that medium, and its cultural implications, from the beginning in France and England in the early 19th Century, through the high modern era in the early part of the 20th Century, to touch upon postmodern trends as we enter the new millennium. AOS (History); CR (Comparative) ARTX 221 Renaissance Art I In late medieval Italy, new approaches to depicting the natural world by Giotto and others led to the 15th-century Renaissance, whose artists and architects both revived classical forms and created innovations such as one-point perspective. The cultural context as well as style and meaning of works by artists, primarily in Florence, will be closely examined, ending with Leonardo. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Biannually: Even Numbered Years, Winter ARTX 222 Renaissance Art II A strong papacy and its patronage in 16th-century Rome brought Michelangelo, Raphael, and many others from Florence and other cities to work there. They established an idealized classical style that was soon transformed into elegant, anti-classical Mannerism in much of Italy. At the same time, Venetian painters developed a distinctive style, less classical but more sensual. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Biannually: Odd Numbered Years, Winter ARTX 223 19th-Century Art Some credit Jacques-Louis David, the painter of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, as the father of modern art, while others cite Courbet or Edouard Manet. But all agree that Paris was the center of innovation; most of the course will examine the Parisian experience in both art and society. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Biannually: Odd Numbered Years, Spring ARTX 224 20th-Century Art European and American painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography from 1900 to the present, as well as the artistic practices that have challenged them since the 1960’s, will be surveyed. The emphasis will be on evaluating art and movements from both a formal and a socio-historical standpoint, using some manifestos and writings of artists and critics. In the process, the notions of “modern” and “postmodern” art will be critically assessed. AOS (History); CR (Comparative) Offered Biannually: Even Numbered Years, Spring ARTX 227 Seeing and Perceiving in the Modern Museum The modern art museum is not just a repository of the past, but and institution with the ability to shape and create meaning. Its version of history can be simultaneously inclusionary and exclusionary, simply by the manner in which it displays its artists, artworks, and art movements. This course explores the role of the museum from the 19th century to the present, considering a diverse range of issues, including the transition from the private interior to the public space; the politics of exhibiting and viewing; and the shaping of personal, national, and global identities through the museum site. CR (US) (Europe; North America; East Asia) (Comparative) Offered Biannually: Odd Numbered Years, Winter ARTX 260 Baroque Art In 17th-century Europe, exploration and scientific discovery expanded the world. Similarly, beginning in Rome, artists such as Caravaggio and Bernini both expanded and modified Renaissance innovations. Artists from all over Europe flocked to Rome, and Flemish, Spanish, French, and even some Dutch painters were transformed there, but political, religious, and cultural differences modified the styles they practiced when they returned, and those of other painters who had never left. AOS (History); CR (Europe) Offered Biannually: Even Numbered Years, Spring ARTX 290 Art and Gender This course explores the role of gender, through the work of women artists and the critical discourse surrounding the construction of gender in art and art-historical writing. CR (Comparative) Offered Biannually: Even Numbered Years, Winter
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