printer friendly pageARTHIST 1: Introduction to the Visual Arts
Multicultural rather than historical approach. WIM
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ARTHIST 2: Asian Art and Culture (JAPANGEN 60)
The religious and philosophical ideas and social attitudes of India, China, and Japan and how they are expressed in architecture, painting, woodblock prints, sculpture, and in such forms as garden design and urban planning.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
ARTHIST 3: Introduction to the History of Architecture
From antiquity to the 20th century, mostly Western with some non-Western topics. Buildings and general principles relevant to the study of architecture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ARTHIST 11: Arts Immersion, New York
Focus is on arts and culture in New York designed for students participating in the Arts Immersion trip to New York over spring break 2011. Co-sponsored by SiCa, the course includes discussions with New York-based artists as well as explorations into the cultural history of the city and a behind-the-scenes look at how New York came to be the art capital of the United States.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Wolf, B. (PI)
ARTHIST 99A: Student Guides at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts
Open to all Stanford students. Public speaking, inquiry methods, group dynamics, theme development, and art-related vocabulary. Introduction to museum administration; art registration, preparation and installation; rights and reproduction of images; exhibition planning; and art storage, conservation, and security. Students research, prepare, and present discussions on art works of their choice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Young, P. (PI)
ARTHIST 101: Archaic Greek Art (ARTHIST 301, CLASSART 101, CLASSART 201)
The development of Greek art and culture from protogeometric beginnings to the Persian Wars, 1000-480 B.C.E. The genesis of a native Greek style; the orientalizing phase during which contact with the Near East and Egypt transformed Greek art; and the synthesis of East and West in the 6th century B.C.E.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
ARTHIST 102: Empire and Aftermath: Greek Art from the Parthenon to Praxiteles (ARTHIST 302, CLASSART 102)
The course explores the art and architecture of the Athenian Empire in the age of Pericles, and then considers the effects of civil war and plague on Greek art and society in the later 5th and early 4th centuries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
ARTHIST 106: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306, CLASSART 106, CLASSART 206)
Art-historical developments, and monuments and works of art. Topics include: the transition from naturalism to abstraction; imperial art and court culture; pilgrimage and cult of saints; and secular art and luxury objects.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Pentcheva, B. (PI)
;
Apotsos, M. (TA)
ARTHIST 107A: St. Petersburg, a Cultural Biography: Architecture, Urban Planning, the Arts (ARTHIST 307A)
The most premeditated city in the whole world, according to Dostoevsky; created in 1703 by Peter the Great as a counterpoise to Moscow and old Russian culture; planned as a rational, west-European-appearing capital city of the Russian Empire. St. Petersburg's history through works of its artists, architects, urban planners, writers, and composers.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ARTHIST 112: EARLY EUR ART
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