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 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 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: Classical and 4th-Century Greek Art (ARTHIST 302, CLASSART 102)
The formation of the classical ideal in 5th-century Athenian art, and its transformation and diffusion in the 5th and 4th centuries against changing Greek history, politics, and religion.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
ARTHIST 105: Introduction to Medieval Art (ARTHIST 305)
Chronological survey of Byzantine, Islamic, and Western Medieval art and architecture from the early Christian period to the Gothic age. Broad art-historical developments and more detailed examinations of individual monuments and works of art. Topics include devotional art, court and monastic culture, relics and the cult of saints, pilgrimage and crusades, and the rise of cities and cathedrals.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Pentcheva, B. (PI)
;
Thomas, J. (TA)
ARTHIST 106: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306)
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.
Last offered: Winter 2007
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ARTHIST 111: Introduction to Italian Renaissance, 1420-1580 (ARTHIST 311)
New techniques of pictorial illusionism and the influence of the humanist revival of antiquity in the reformulation of the pictorial arts in 15th-century Italy. How different Italian regions developed characteristic artistic cultures through mutual interaction and competition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hansen, M. (PI)
;
Johnson, S. (TA)
ARTHIST 112: EARLY EUR ART
ARTHIST 113: Western Art: Renaissance to Modern (ARTHIST 313)
Currents of western European and N. American art from the Renaissance, baroque, rococo, neoclassical, romantic, and modern periods. Major works of painting, sculpture and architecture analyzed within their historical, sociopolitical, theological and cultural contexts; the evolution of styles and techniques. Masters examined in detail include Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Van Eyck, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dürer, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Vermeer, David, Delacroix, and Monet.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Grossman, M. (PI)
ARTHIST 114: Vision and Emblem: Netherlandish Painting from Van Eyck to Brueghel (ARTHIST 314)
How 15th-century pictorial illusionism transformed the devotional image and portraiture, calling for a new kind of engagement with the image on the part of the beholder. How 16th-century humanist knowledge influenced the creation of new pictorial subjects and representational forms. The reflection of religious crises triggered by the Reformation in art. GER:DB-Hum
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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