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| AH 202 - Ancient Through Gothic |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course surveys the art of Europe and the Near East from the prehistoric period through the fourteenth century AD. Cultures and styles examined include Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic, with emphasis on how the arts of the ancient and medieval periods interact to form the basis for the later Western tradition. Same as AH 102. Prerequisite: AH 100. |
| AH 201 - Modernism & After |
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| This course offers a survey of avant-garde European and American art from the mid-19th century to the present. Some of the many artistic movements covered include Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, early American Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Postmodernism. Prerequisite: AH 100 or equivalent experience. |
| AH 422 - Greek Art and Architecture |
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| 3 credits. Basile. Offered every third fall. This seminar offers an in-depth treatment of the art and architecture of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. A seminar-style, problem-oriented course, instruction will focus on important topics currently or traditionally discussed in the discipline, including problems of interpretation in Bronze Age art, attributions in Archaic and Classical art, perceptions concerning Hellenistic art, the influence of Greek tradition on later art styles, and the continuation of Greek art as a living tradition within the modern Western consciousness. Student work will concentrate mainly on topical study and in-class presentations. |
| AH 231-IH1 - Italian Renaiss Thought & Art |
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| 3 credits. Houston. Offered occasionally. This course will involve an extended consideration of several patterns of thought in the Italian Renaissance, and of the relationship between the history of ideas and the history of art. Generally, each meeting will involve a close analysis of an artist or groups of artists, of related primary documents, and of the broader implications of both. By the end of the semester, students should be comfortable discussing the work of many of the primary artists and thinkers of the Italian Renaissance as an artistic and intellectual movement. |
| AH 242-IH1 - Ancient Mesoamerican Art &Cult |
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| 3 credits. Basile. Offered occasionally. This course will examine the multiplicity of cultures that flourished in the region we call Mesoamerica, from the development of agriculture to the rise of the remarkable civilizations of the Olmecs; of Monte Alban, Teotihuacan and West Mexico; of the Maya, the Toltecs and Mixtecs, and the Aztecs. Art, archaeology, anthropology, political and social history, and literature will be examined. Texts will include Miller's standard: Art of Mesoamerica, Weaver's archaeology text: The Aztecs, Maya, and their Preddecessors, and the Maya epic: The Popol Vuh. |
| AH 244-IH1 - Wrld Prehist.&Prehistoric Art |
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| 3 credits. Basile. Offered occasionally. This course addresses world prehistory; that is, the period from the rise of hominids in Africa to the development of complex cultures c. 3000 BC (or, as prehistorian Robert Wenke puts it, “mankind’s first three million years”). This era represents the vast majority of humanity’s experience here on earth-the historical period is a mere 5000 years by comparison-yet most people know very little (if anything) about it. Some of humankind’s most important intellectual breakthroughs occurred in prehistory: the development of social systems and subsistence strategies that made human beings the most resilient, adaptable, and ultimately dominant species on the planet; the manipulation of natural materials to make tools and other objects (“material culture”); and the creation of symbolic systems of communication and complex representation (language, writing, and “art”). In the final 4,000 years of prehistory, the development of plant and animal domestication, and of complex and hierarchical social systems (“civilization”) changed the face of the planet forever. |
| AH 302 - Arts of Japan |
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| 3 credits. Elkinton. Offered spring. This course examines the arts of Japan from pre-history to the 20th century with reference to religious, cultural, and literary traditions. Group and individual projects. Maximum Enrollment: 30. Prerequiste: AH 100 and AH 201; or AH 101. Fulfills non-Western art history requirement. |
| AH 310 - Art/Arch of Ancient Near East |
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| 3 credits. Basile. Offered every 3rd Fall. This course examines the diverse artistic traditions of the ancient Near East: pre- and proto-historic Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Bablyonian, Kassite, Middle and Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hittite, Phoenecian, Ugaritic, Syro-Palestinian, Israelite, and the Hellenistic and Roman East. Topic-driven and centered around student exploration and discussion, this course is for those interested in ancient art, archaeology, and Middle Eastern culture. Fulfills non-Western art history requirement. Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 201; or AH 101. l. |
| AH 316 - African Art Forms |
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| 3 credits. King-Hammond. Offered fall. This course examines traditional art forms from the continent of Africa. It deals with conceptual, philosophical, and aesthetic issues in African art, and with the fundamental character of its iconography, movement, and form. Fulfills non-Western art history requirement. |
| AH 5417 - Africans In The New World |
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| AH 325 - Art of the Pilgrimage Roads |
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| 3 credits. Houston. Offered occasionally. This course, aimed at upper-level students with experience in art history, will examine the relations between Romanesque visual culture and the industry of pilgrimage, often viewed as a dynamic force in the development of architectural forms in the years after 1000. Through a study of relevant primary sources and recent work on medieval pilgrimage routes, this class will investigate the ways in which 11th and 12th century art and architecture anticipated and responded to a rising tide of pilgrimage. By the end of the class, students should have a familiarity with the seminal works of the Romanesque era, and an ability to relate them to contemporary economic and artistic patterns. Prerequisite: AH 202 |
| AH 326 - History of Prints |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered alternate years. This course examines the evolution of modern printmaking through the 19th and 20th centuries using the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, particularly those from the Lucas and Cone collections. The first part of the course will focus on the technical innovations of 19th century printmakers including the invention of lithography and seriagraphy. With these innovations and a growing recognition of the print’s artistic significance, the stage was set for rapid growth of the print in the 20th century. Vans provided to most local venues. Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 201. |
| AH 321 - Asia On Line |
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| 3 credits. Elkinton. Offered occasionally. This thematic approach to the Arts of Asia is presented in on-line format with five on-the-ground meetings in Baltimore museums. The museum objects will serve as the basis for the four assigned projects. There are weekly on-line lectures and discussion board exchanges. Pre reqs: AH100 Art Matters and Anti-requisite: AH 320 |
| AH 327 - Oceanic Arts and Cultures |
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| 3 credits. Fernstrom. Offered occasionally. Oceanic Arts and Cultures will examine cultures from each of the major geographic regions of the Pacific: Melanesia, Indonesia, Australia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Each region will be examined in terms of the form and content of artistic expression, and the roles of art forms in their respective societies. Specific areas will be used to illustrate the importance of art forms to trade, religion, social reproduction, and social authority. The purpose of this course is to enable students to differentiate visually between artistic forms from various parts of Oceania, to broaden their factual knowledge about Oceania, and to enable them to understand the variety of ways in which people express history, cosmology, and identity. Prerequisites: AH 100 and 201. |
| AH 335 - History of "New" Media Art |
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| 3 credits.staff. Offered fall. Many 'new' medias haunt modern culture. Photography, cinema, gramophone, radio, television, video, electronic music, computers, networks (among many others) have made daring claims for newness, radicality, and an art renewed within a progressive assimilation of technology as a driving force. Indeed, 20th century art was fueled by both radical theories of representation and by technologies that would reshape both the meaning and the production of art. By establishing a clear historical trajectory for the role of both technology and creativity, the course will demystify the "revolutionary" claims of so-called 'new media' and will demonstrate that the cumulative effects of twentieth century technologies is a pivot on which the contemporary imagination turns. The course will focus on presenting major works in the history of electronic art with emphasis on developing the essential trajectories and thematic issues and their intricate relationship with art history. These will include the broad areas of screen, installation, immersive, and network environments. |
| AH 5340 - Islamic Art History |
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| 3 credits. Bier. Offered spring. Throughout the Islamic world, historically from Spain to Indonesia, pattern making served as a primary form of expression for organizing two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. This course explores the roles of symmetry, asymmetry, and symmetry breaking in Islamic art, as building blocks for all patterns in nature and in art. Class readings and discussions focus on Islamic architectural decoration and the arts (including ceramics, metalwork, wool, textiles). Critical distinctions are made among perception of pattern, analysis and construction. Student projects explore pattern making in several media; museum visits and a final project are required. Fulfills non-Western art history requirement. |
| AH 337 - Photography & the Avant-Garde |
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| 3 credits. Amor. Offered occasionally. This course is divided in two parts. During the first half of the semester we will explore the roles played by photography within the leading avant-garde movements: Futurism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus and Surrealism, where photography was used as a way of undermining conventional modes of representation and developing a "new vision" in tandem with the utopian ideas that were pervasive among avant-garde artists in Europe. During the second half of the semester we examine the uses of photography in postwar artistic practices such as Pop and Conceptual art, as well as in the work of specific artists such as Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, and Robert Smithson, where the photographic image was incorporated as a means of rethinking artistic production and coping with fully industrialized processes of inscription and communications |
| AH 240 - History of Graphic Design |
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| 3 credits. Lupton. Offered spring. This course aims to help students understand the connections between design and a broader history of objects and ideas. Students are exposed to a wide array of images as well as a broad range of reading materials, including primary texts by designers and cultural critics. The course focuses on twentieth-century design in Europe and the United States. Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 201; or AH 101. |
| AH 346 - History of Material Culture I |
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| 3 credits. Wilson. Offered occasionally. Material culture is the tangible evidence of those things created by man including categories of site, place, architecture, fiber, ceramics, as well as theater, music, literature and art in general. This material evidence has direct links to the socio-economic and political influences under which it was created. In this class the impact of the industrial revolution on the design and production of material culture and specifically the work developed in the Arts and Crafts Movement will be discussed. The lectures will look at work across the disciplines of fine-arts and design, with particular emphasis in the areas of environmental design, fiber, ceramics and sculpture. Weekly lectures will be augmented by a series of guest speakers and are organized to reflect the range of interdisciplinary interests in this material culture course. |
| AH 347 - History of Material Culture II |
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| 3 credits. Wilson. Offered occasionally. A survey of material culture from the late Baroque period through the first half of the 20th century. The course covers all aspects of material culture including architecture, furniture, painting, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, transportation, clothing and decorative arts as it relates to influences of time, place and use in the human experience. Topics covered are socio-political/economic factors as well as important designers who have influenced each period to make them uniquely characteristic to a given time and place and in turn provided inspiration to later and future artists and designers. |
| AH 348 - Medieval Art and Architecture |
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| 3 credits. Houston. Offered spring. This course will offer a generally chronological overview of European medieval art and architecture, with side glances at Byzantium and Islam. Through a series of period-based lectures and discussions of relevant primary documents, students will gain a flexible, fluent knowledge of primary works made between 300 and 1348 a.d. Secondary readings will also suggest a variety of applicable methodologies, and two visits to the Walters collection will allow students to view original works in person, and to consider the difficulties of treating medieval art outside of its original context. |
| AH 5375 - Arts of Native America |
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| AH 366 - History of Animation |
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| 3 credits. Arcaidas. Offered occasionally. This class will explore the history of animation from its very beginning to the present within the social, artistic and political context in which those films were created. |
| AH 390 - History of Film |
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| 3 credits. Wright. Offered Spring. This course will examine both narrative and non-narrative silent works. Histories of early cinema often focus solely on the development of storytelling conventions, treating deviations as tangential. The invention and commercialization of narrative film will be explored through the works of D. W. Griffith, Oscar Micheaux, Buster Keaton and Robert Flaherty. Non-narrative projects will include works by Hans Richter, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacobs. Students will be required to attend both a weekly screening and a lecture. Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 201 |
| AH 403 - 20th Cent. Latin American Art |
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| 3 credits. Garrigues. Offered occasionally. Explores the emergence of the Latin American aesthetic in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries within the context of cultural nationalism. Examines the pre-Hispanic and African heritage, the colonial past, as well as political and religious themes in Latin American art and their relationship to European and North American cultures. |
| AH 405 - Exhibition Dvlpmnt: Curatorial |
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| 3 credits. Ciscle. Offered Fall. In this second year of a two-year seminar students continue examining the curatorial process through the research, planning and production of the exhibition At Freedom’s Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland to be presented collaboratively with MICA in February 2007 at the Maryland Historical Society and the Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. The project is a unique partnership between art students, curators, historians, artists and museum professionals. Enrollment in both Fall and Spring semesters is required to form a consistent curatorial team and is open to undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies students in all majors. Students will produce last year’s proposals for graphic and exhibition designs, interpretive texts, public programs, community outreach, website, publications, and the public relations strategy. Students will install and light the exhibition and conduct all educational, community outreach and public programs. Pre-requisite: Enrollment in first year seminar (2005-06) or permission from instructor. |
| AH 409 - Art Since the 1960'S |
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| 3 credits. Ward, Demos. Offered Fall. This course examines important developments in American and European art and criticism from the 1960s until the present. Topics include Minimalism, Pop, Conceptual Art, Earthworks, the art of institutional critique, performance, feminism, site-specificity, appropriation and commodity art, activism, and postmodernism. Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 201; or AH 101. |
| AH 414 - Art in Nature: Listen the Wind |
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| 3 credits. Garrigues. Offered spring. This seminar examines artists whose works belong to the original "Earth Art" movement and monumentally-scaled land masses (Smithson, Heizer, De Maria, Turrell, Ross, etc.) - artists whose works emphasize the transitory and the ephemeral (Vicuña, Oppenheim, Goldworthy, Long) and artists whose works are sited in nature and acted out in the body (Mendieta, Metson, Abramovic, etc.). Special focus will be given to kinds of relationships between art and nature (transforming, interpreting, invading, interrupting, defining, marking, reversing, etc.), materials, significance of site, documentation of work, environmental and ecological consciousness, time, space and scale, and spirituality. Slides, videos, readings, lots of open discussion, student on-site in-nature projects, a paper and a journal constitute the essence of the course. |
| AH 5428 - Way of Tea |
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| 3 credits. Elkinton. Offered spring. A course based in both the theoretical and the hands-on aspects of the Japanese Tea ceremony. It is cross-disciplinary, including museum visits, historical background, aesthetic theories; and hands-on participation in making: tea bowl, purifying vloth, calligraphy and design for tea space; and serving as tea host and guest, using traditional gestures. Japanese Chanoyu or Chado, the Way of Tea, is a participatory performance art, a discipline, and a meditiaiton. The experience of Teais designed to involve and awaken all six senses: seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, consciousness. Prerequisite: AH 100 and 201 |
| AH 424 - The Artist's Studio Ren.-1855 |
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| 3 credits. Carson. Offered Spring. This course will explore how the artist's studio evolved from the 15th century to the modern era. We will see how the studio's evolution sheds light on the artist's changing role/status in society; how artists have promoted/marketed their works over the centuries; how methods of art-making evolved; what effect the modernization of art materials had on the studio space; how art has been defined over the years, and the history of artistic collaboration. Specific areas we will cover are the itinerant vs. the professional artist; problems of attribution related to the studio workshop model; use of the nude model and plaster casts in the studio; art education (apprentices and assistants) in the studio; use of optical and perspectival instruments in art production; and the history of the process of art production as espoused by manuals and treatises over the centuries. Importantly, the class will spend time in area museums studying works of art and learning about methods of connoisseurship from area experts. Students will be encouraged to explore areas/periods that are of particular interest to them, including the contemporary artist's studio Prerequisite: AH 100 and AH 200. |
| AH 5434 - Dada and Surrealism |
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| In the 1920's and 1930's, artists, writers, and filmmakers of all nationalities produced work that was rooted primary in notions of non-rationality and intuition. Rejecting Enlightenment "reason" as complicit with systems that had used logic to justify the mass destruction of WW II, these cultural producers celebrated instead the marvelous, the irrational, and the accidental. This course examines diverse output of these so-called Dadaists and Surrealists. Should time provide, we will also reflect upon the Dada revival of the 60's, and its similiar roots in an anti-authoritarian age. |
| AH 472 - Women in the History of Art |
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| 3 credits. King-Hammond. Offered occasionally. This course explores the role women have played in the visual arts as artists, patrons, critics, and historians. |
| AH 448 - Jewish Art in Antiquity |
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| 3 credits. Schenk This course will focus on the major monuments of Jewish art produced in the ancient and medieval periods. It will consider issues such as the function and (sometimes the problem) of "the image," interaction with surrounding cultural and religious traditions (such as Hellenism, Christianity, and Islam), the decoration of the synagogue and the illumination of manuscripts. |