printer friendly pageARTHIST 458: Warhol and After
This seminar focuses on the wide-ranging career of Andy Warhol as a means to consider the broader history of American art and culture since 1950. It examines little-studied aspects of Warhol¿s visual production (e.g. his career as a commercial artist in the 1950s, his everyday photographs of the 1970s and 1980s) as well as now-canonical Pop paintings of the early-to-mid 1960s. Warhol¿s critical and scholarly reception will be scrutinized in detail, as will published interviews of and writings by the artist. Finally, we will consider Warhol¿s legacy and influence on American art in the decades since his death in 1987.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Meyer, R. (PI)
ARTHIST 461: The American Civil War: An Experiential History
Can one write a history of lived experience, of ephemeral states that never were represented? Can one look at representations of paintings, photographs, and literature to see where these ephemeral states might be trapped, or might otherwise be pictured? Feeling that the real war did not get in the books (for the most part), the course examines those books and other representations and so many things that never attained so exalted a form to look at the war anew. Methodological readings as well as readings about the Civil War.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
ARTHIST 463: Grad Seminar: American - Ekphrasis
Description is a prime skill for an art historian. How to make a reader (or listener) see a work, whether it is illustrated or not, is arguably the most fundamental and important task and pleasure in this discipline. How to make a world--both for oneself and for one's audience--is the larger purpose of such imagistic writing. Considering historical and more recent examples of ekphrasis, the course will concentrate on works of art in the Cantor Arts Center, requiring each student to select a work that will become the basis for a quarter-long writing project.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Nemerov, A. (PI)
ARTHIST 465: Media Technology Theory (COMM 384)
This course surveys major theoretical approaches to the study of media technologies, including Frankfurt School critical theory, media archaeology, actor network theory, science and technology studies, platform studies and theories of critical making. By the end of the course, students should have a rich familiarity with the literature in this area, as well as with exemplary empirical studies conducted within each tradition. Preference to Ph.D. students in Communication and Art and Art History. Consent of instructor required for non-PhD students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Lee, P. (PI)
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Turner, F. (PI)
ARTHIST 470: Globalization and the Visual Arts
Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Globalization as the most important paradigm for the production, circulation, and reception of contemporary art since the 1990s. The expanding terrain of the art world; biennial culture; new economies of scale and the art market along with its critique in the discourses of empire and multitudes. Debates on the thematics of hybridity; post-Fordism; the flat world and capital flows; exteriority and site specificity; and new models of collectivism in recent art.
ARTHIST 484B: Studies in in Yuan and Ming Dynasty Chinese Painting
Selected topics in studies of Yuan and Ming dynasty Chinese painting, print culture, and art theory: the impact of collecting on art production, interplays of print imagery and painting, and relationships between cultural and discursive geographies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-5
Instructors:
Vinograd, R. (PI)
ARTHIST 485A: Exhibiting East Asian Art
This seminar will explore the history, conceptual approaches, design, and practicalities of museum-based exhibitions of East Asian art. Through readings, field trips, and site-based exercises the seminar will look to inform the planned reinstallation of the Cantor Center's East Asian galleries. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with interests in art history, museology, design, and cultural representation. Permission of the instructor required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
Instructors:
Vinograd, R. (PI)
ARTHIST 487X: Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture (ARTHIST 287, JAPANLIT 287)
Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books (ehon) and popular broadsheets (kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through images. The borders of the acceptable and censorship; theatricality, spectacle, and slippage; the construction of play, set in conflict against the dominant neo-Confucian ideology of fixed social roles.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Takeuchi, M. (PI)
ARTHIST 502: Methods and Debates in Art History: The Writer's Voice
This course introduces graduate students to a range of interpretive methods within art history and visual culture studies. In addition to scrutinizing multiple schools of thought and critical debates within the field, the seminar pays particular attention to the style and strategies of writing taken up by individual critics and scholars. How¿and to whom--does the art historian¿s voice speak in different moments, visual contexts, and interpretive communities?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Meyer, R. (PI)
ARTHIST 600: Art History Bibliography and Library Methods
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Blank, P. (PI)
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