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ments in paintings, sculpture, and architectures from prehistoric to medieval times in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Islamic world. (Tinkler, offered annually) ARTH 102 Renaissance to Modern This course is a chronological study of principal monuments and developments in painting, sculpture, and architecture from Renaissance Italy to contemporary America. (Leopardi, Szymanek, offered annually) ARTH 103 Introduction to Asian Art This course presents a topical study of the arts and architecture of East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. We will examine developments in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, prints, and installations, through a series of case studies. Broad topics will include connec- tions between art, politics, philosophy, and religion; text-image relationships; artistic practice, patronage, and collecting; and international art movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, students will learn to analyze two- and three-dimensional works of art and architecture. (Blanchard, offered annually) ARTH 201 Black Arts in America Using a loosely chronological framework, this course presents a series of topics on Black American art and its crucial role in the shaping of the history and development of American visual arts and culture. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance, we will study the discourse around so-called “New Negro” art as it was formulated throughout the 1920s and the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s through contempo- rary practice. Importantly, this course will simultaneously engage with questions pertaining to the very category of “Black Arts.” In our study of arts made by artists of the African and Caribbean diaspora in the U.S., we will be careful to consider the politics of identification across race as well as class, sex, and gender difference. (Szymanek, offered occasionally) ARTH 202 Art Internship: Catalog This curatorial practicum will involve choosing and researching pieces in the Colleges’ permanent collection of art and developing research components necessary for adequate publication, whether in a formal catalog or in an internal record. Research into various types of metadata and museum best prac- tices of documentation will be included. Choices of works will be linked to gallery topics, and curated by the interns. Interns will be involved in documenting, conserving, and researching these works over the course of a term. This is a half-credit course. (Jordan, offered occasionally) ARTH 203 Art Internship: Exhibition This internship involves studying chosen pieces from the Colleges’ permanent collection of art and developing components necessary for adequate exhibition of those art works. Interns will be involved in designing the exhibition from hanging to labeling over the course of the term. The term will result in an exhibition of these works from the collection. This is a half credit course. (Jordan, offered every Spring) ARTH 204 Art Internship: Acquisition This practicum involves choosing a section of the Colleges’ permanent col- lection of art and developing an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses providing a knowledge base to justify any acquisitions decisions. Interns will develop an overview of the period of art chosen and compare it to our collection over the course of a term. The term will be used to identify and purchase a work which enhances the collection in the chosen section. This is a half credit course. (Jordan, offered occasionally)

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HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 70 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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ARTS/GSIJ 301 Feminist Oral History

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eth-century until the present, this course will ask students to critically engage with questions of how visual culture works to either confirm or reject the often violently oppressive concepts of masculinity and femininity that have come to shape Western ideology and lived experience. As they are inextricably linked to multiple formulations of HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 100 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 156 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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in Florence, Rome, and a few North Italian cities. Students explore the evolution of the two styles in the work of painters and sculptors, such as Raphael, Pontormo, Correggio, Cellini, and Anguissola, with special emphasis on Michelangelo. Attention is also given to the new ideologies of art as Art and to the cult of genius, as well as the pro- pagandistic aesthetics of the court of Cosimo I de’ Medici in Florence. (Leopardi, offered alternate years)

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focus on the Renaissance Court Culture of the cities of Milan, Mantua, Ferrara and Rome. The course is meant to examine art production within the strict confines of noble patronage by Italian princes. Particular attention will be paid to female patronage of Italian duchesses. All media will be taken under consideration - painting, sculpture and architecture - while paying particular attention to the ways in which artists responded to their patrons and intro- duced innovations eventually imitated by the merchant middle classes throughout the Italian peninsula. (Leopardi, HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 101 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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tombs to reveal the strong sensual qualities encoded in the symbolism and iconography of funerary art. A careful analysis of artifacts will help us understand how encoded images were seen as a form of power and a means to ob- tain immortality. While the course will provide a chronological survey of Egyptian art, it will mostly focus on the New Kingdom period because most of the tomb wall paintings to have survived belong to that specific period. (Leopardi, offered alternate years) ARTH 249 Islamic Art and Architecture Students examine Islamic art and architecture from its beginnings in classical Mediterranean media and forms to the expression of autonomous stylistic developments and the impact of colonial- ism and post colonialism. They consider the myth that Islam prohibits imagery and examine the use of the abstract decorative technique often dismissed in western criticism as the “arabesque.” The western colonialist response to the Islamic world, the subsequent Islamic response to western art styles, and the contemporary search for an au- thentic Islamic style in art and architecture conclude the course. (Tinkler, offered occasionally) ARTH 250 Modern Art 1900-1960 This course is a study of the history of Western art produced from 1900 until 1960. Loosely chronological, this course examines various stylistic movements and the political and social factors that shape each successive era of avant-garde art including Expressionism, Surrealism, Dada, and Constructivism, among others. Every week we will cover a significant period in the history of modern art and study the ways in which both the principal figures from each period and the corresponding movements challenged the limits of art as it is shaped by and through modern life. We will study how the form, material, and contents of art reflect or communicate the political, philosophical, and personal implications of “modernity” as it is taking shape in parts of Europe and the U.S. throughout the 20th century. (Szymanek, offered alternate years) ARTH 252 Japanese Art and Culture This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the arts and culture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the twentieth century. Students consider examples of visual media in the context of Japanese literature, history, society, and religions. Topics include Shinto architecture, Buddhist art (including Pure Land and Zen), narrative picture scrolls, traditional and western-style paintings, shoin architecture, gardens, tea ceremony ceramics and ukiyo-e prints (pictures of the floating world). Students read primary sources in translation, including Shinto myths, Buddhist texts, and selections from literature. (Blanchard, offered alternate years) ARTH 253 Buddhist Art and Architecture This course will examine Buddhist architecture, painting, and sculpture from South Asia, Southeast Asia, The Silk Road, and East Asia. We will consider five important movements in Buddhist practice: Theravada, Mahayana, Pure Land, Esoteric, and Zen. Topics will include images of the life of the historic Buddha and tales of his previous lives; the role of the stupa on Buddhist worship; the expansion of the Buddhist pan- theon; associations between art and patronage; representations of multiple realms of existence; the development of the mandala; the role of mediation in artistic practice. When appropriate, students will read Buddhist texts in transla- tion. (Blanchard, offered alternate years) ARTH 254 Islamic Art at the Crossroads: The Western Mediterranean 12th to 16th Centuries This course examines the artistic production of Islamic culture in the Western Mediterranean throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by taking into account cross-cultural exchanges. Themes under consideration will include: the relationship between art and literature; the rise of court culture; women’s role in Islamic art, and Venice and Islam. (Leopardi, offered occasionally) ARTH 270 Early Medieval Art This course covers the beginnings of Christian art and architecture in the cities of Rome and Constantinople and follows the diffusion of forms into the fringes of the Mediterranean world. The course is organized chronologically around the adaptation of classical forms for new purposes and the invention of new HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 102 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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“Michelangelo for form and Titian for colour” is a classic trope that has its origin in Renaissance culture and that has led numerous historians and critics to note and comment on the heightened sensual qualities of Venetian art. With this in mind, this course will examine the development of venetian art during its golden age, 1500-1600. The course is designed to examine all manners of visual production of that period covering artists like Bellini, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Palladio, yet the course will greatly focus on paintings since this genre distinguished itself for its emphasis on pictorial light and tactile values. Particular attention will be paid to the representation of the reclin- ing female nude, a typology that found great fortune with patrons throughout Italy and beyond, and influenced gen- erations of artists afterwards. Such representations will further be analyzed by examining renaissance conceptions of beauty, eros and gender construction. (Leopardi, offered occasionally) ARTH 332/432 Roman Art, Architecture and Power In this course students consider the use Roman politicians made of art and architecture to shape public understanding of Roman imperial ideologies - to make Romans of the whole Mediterranean world. The course concentrates on three periods - the time of Augustus, the adoptive Antonine dynasty, and the Late Empire - and three art types - the imperial portrait (including the portraits of imperial fami- ly members), commemorative monuments (triumphal arches, columns and temples), and the Roman colony cities throughout the Empire. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Tinkler, offered occasionally) ARTH 333/433 Art Since 1960 This course engages with the histories and theories of art produced from 1960 until the 2000s. Structured in a loosely chronological order, this course we will study a variety of stylistic movements and the political, artistic, social, and intellectual stakes that are claimed with each successive and simultaneous evolu- tion that pushed/s forward the history of art. The innovative and often critical deployment of particular mediums and forms will be examined within the broader context of social histories that give these practices impact while also looking to the institutions that help shape these histories. Moreover, a critical examination of the parameters of art and its publics will be housed within the frameworks provided by a number of artists and theorists. This course will ask not only what is created and/or reformulated within the discourses of art production but, perhaps more tellingly, HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 103 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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ARTH 495/496 Honors

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CMST 214 Introduction to Museum Studies This course is an introduction to the history and theory of museums, and to institutional collecting and the interpretation of culture. The focus will be on the role of museums in colonization and nation building, involvement in globalizing processes as well as the opportunities museums offer for social ad- vocacy. Aiming to provide a wide-ranging and challenging introduction to the theoretical issues involved in contem- porary museum practice as a sociologically-informed and socially-situated discipline, this course will encourage the development of critically aware perspectives on professional practice and research processes. The aim of this course is to familiarize students from a range of subject specialisms with current issues in museology, and the ways in which museums have been developing from storehouses of culture and centers of authority to flexible places which engage with communities and invite audiences to author their own museum experiences. This course will be offered every spring. STUDIO ART COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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