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ARTHIST 116: The American Civil War: A Visual and Literary History

Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville - so much great poetry and prose came out of the American Civil War. In the visual arts, the same was the case. Winslow Homer painted sharpshooters poised amid leafy branches. Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan shockingly photographed the dead at Antietam and Gettysburg. In the theater, the famous actress Charlotte Cushman wowed an audience as Lady Macbeth in a one-night charity performance of Shakespeare's play in Washington, DC in 1863. And beyond these art forms, there was the daily round of life, the experience of soldiers and slaves, of women in Richmond, Washington, and elsewhere - all an art form of its own kind, descended to us in diaries, medals, and uniforms; in cemeteries, fragments of shrapnel found in fields; in the haunting space of Ford's Theatre, where John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Together, all these places and pictures and poems and stories create a mosaic of more »
Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville - so much great poetry and prose came out of the American Civil War. In the visual arts, the same was the case. Winslow Homer painted sharpshooters poised amid leafy branches. Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan shockingly photographed the dead at Antietam and Gettysburg. In the theater, the famous actress Charlotte Cushman wowed an audience as Lady Macbeth in a one-night charity performance of Shakespeare's play in Washington, DC in 1863. And beyond these art forms, there was the daily round of life, the experience of soldiers and slaves, of women in Richmond, Washington, and elsewhere - all an art form of its own kind, descended to us in diaries, medals, and uniforms; in cemeteries, fragments of shrapnel found in fields; in the haunting space of Ford's Theatre, where John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Together, all these places and pictures and poems and stories create a mosaic of life between 1861 and 1865 and beyond - a mosaic that's made to this day, in the war's ongoing political and poetic after-effects, most recently, the defacing and removal of Confederate statues in Richmond and other places in 2020. Focusing on poems, paintings, and photographs, but also on the lived experience of Americans during the war, the course is a personal and poetic journey into the past, told by Alexander Nemerov. More than that, it is a chance for students to reflect on their own personal and emotional connection to the American past.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1
Instructors: Nemerov, A. (PI)

ARTHIST 116N: Making Sense of the World: Art, Medicine, and Science in Venice

In 1500 Venice was the place you wanted to be. It wasn't just the capital of the world: it was also its scientific center. This course explores the conversation between the arts and the sciences in Renaissance Venice, and, thanks to remote teaching, it will do so from Venice! Students will discover the oldest anatomical theatre and many of Venice's arresting paintings to reflect on the blurred distinction between art and science, questioning if such a divide makes sense today.
Last offered: Summer 2021

ARTHIST 118A: Space, Public Discourse and Revolutionary Practices (CSRE 95I, GLOBAL 145)

This course examines the mediums of public art that have been voices of social change, protestnand expressions of community desire. It will offer a unique glimpse into Iran¿sncontemporary art and visual culture through the investigation of public art practices such asngraffiti and street art, as well as older traditions of Naghali and Iranian Coffeehouse Painting.nnBeginning Iranian case studies will be expanded in comparison with global examples that spannprojects that include Insite (San Diego/Tijuana), Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) the DMZnProject (Korea), Munster Skulpture Projects (Germany), among others. Students will alsonexamine the infrastructural conditions of public art, such as civic, public, and private funding,nrelationships with local communities, and the life of these projects as they move in and out ofnthe artworld. This encompassing view anchors a legacy of Iranian cultural contributions in largerntrajectories of art history, contemporary art, and community arts practice. Guest artists,ncurators, and researchers with site visits included. Students will propose either new public artnproposals, exhibitions, or research to provoke their own ideas while engaging the ever changingnstate of public discourse in these case studies
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II

ARTHIST 119: Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)

Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways poets, songwriters, and especially artists have explored myths and promoted ideas about the coupling of love and seeing. Week by week, we will be reflecting on love as political critique, social disruption, and magical force. And we will do so by examining some of the most iconic works of art, from Dante's writings on lovesickness to Caravaggio's Narcissus, studying the ways that objects have shifted from keepsakes to targets of our cares. While exploring the visual roots and evolutions of what has become one of life's fundamental drives, this course offers a passionate survey of European art from Giotto's kiss to Fragonard's swing that elicits stimulating questions about the sensorial nature of desire and the human struggle to control emotions.
Last offered: Summer 2021 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II

ARTHIST 120: Superhero Theory (AMSTUD 120B, ARTHIST 320, FILMEDIA 120, FILMEDIA 320)

With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, TV, games, toys, apparel. This course centers upon the body of the superhero as it incarnates allegories of race, queerness, hybridity, sexuality, gendered stereotypes/fluidity, politics, vigilantism, masculinity, and monstrosity. They also embody a technological history that encompasses industrial, atomic, electronic, bio-genetic, and digital.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Bukatman, S. (PI)

ARTHIST 127: Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe: The Art World en masse

This course will survey the visual arts in Europe over the course of the long nineteenth century, from history painting of the French Revolution to avant-garde experimentation in the years leading up to World War I. This was a period of dramatic social and artistic change that included revolutionary upheavals, growth of urban centers, expansion of empire, technological developments, and the challenging of artistic conventions and institutions. Looking across media, painting, sculpture, print, photography, decorative arts, textiles, magazines, newspapers, and advertising, the course will introduce students to artists, practices, and key aesthetic movements of the nineteenth century, such as Romanticism, Orientalism, and Impressionism. Engaging with themes of labor, class, gender, and colonialism, the course will expand and reframe existing art historical narratives of this period.
Last offered: Spring 2023

ARTHIST 133E: A Global History of Architecture and Engineering (CEE 33E)

An introduction to the history of architecture and engineering, and to basic concepts about how we construct the built environment. This course asks one simple question: what does it mean to "make place" during different moments in history? The class will attempt to answer this question through a series of case studies from around the world and from 3,500 BCE to the present. These buildings and sites will be examined through a global perspective that emphasizes the analysis of form, structure, and theory in their cultural contexts. The class will also establish connections, contrasts, and influences among different architectural movements and cultures.
Last offered: Autumn 2022

ARTHIST 135: William Blake: A Literary and Visual Exploration of the Illuminated Poetry

An introduction to the illuminated world of William Blake¿poet, prophet, revolutionary, and visionary artist. The course will address Blake's visual iconography, belief system and ideology, unique mythology, and method of relief etching that allowed him to make every illuminated book a unique work of art, among them, The Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; The Book of Thel; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; The Book of Urizen; America a Prophecy; and Europe a Prophecy.
Last offered: Winter 2018

ARTHIST 142: Architecture Since 1900 (CEE 32G)

Art 142 is an introduction to the history of architecture since 1900 and how it has shaped and been shaped by its cultural contexts. The class also investigates the essential relationship between built form and theory during this period.
Last offered: Winter 2023 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

ARTHIST 142A: The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves (ARTHIST 342A)

This course investigates houses, hideaways, and studios that artists and thinkers have designed for themselves with varying degrees of self-consciousness, from subconscious images of the self to knowing stages for the contemplative life. Case studies range from antiquity to the present, from the studio-house of Peter Paul Rubens to that of Kurt Schwitters; from the house-museum of Sir John Soane to the Vittoriale of Gabriele D'Annunzio; from the philosophical dwelling of the Emperor Hadrian to that of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Last offered: Spring 2021
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