49 courses with the subject AAH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
AAH 101Islamic Art and Architecture1.0
Course A broad and select survey of the art and architecture of Islamic cultures from the 7th through the 16th centuries that will stress the religious, social, economic, and historical contexts within which Islamic arts and architecture developed. We will study a variety of arts in addition to the traditional architecture, painting and sculpture familiar to students in Western art history surveys, including calligraphy and book painting, metalwork, ceramics, glass, carpets and textiles, and gardens and landscape design. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AIS, REL
AAH 102Medieval Art and Architecture of Northern Europe, 5th-15th Century1.0
Course An introductory survey of sculpture and decorative arts, manuscripts, painting and architecture from the seventh through fourteenth centuries north of the Alps. Examines the emergence of western medieval culture and attitudes toward the arts, as well as western European views of its Byzantine and Muslim neighbors. In addition to introducing major monuments and patrons, students will be introduced to the materials and techniques used to produce the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. The art of medieval Italy is covered in a separate course, AAH 300 CC:
Course This survey covers works of art and artistic traditions in China from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century. Lectures will focus on representative works in various media - calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts - within the contexts of the tomb, court production, literati culture, Buddhist and Daoist temples, and interactions with other cultures. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AIS
Course This introduction to the arts of Japan from the Neolithic period to the 20th century will focus on key monuments of sculpture, architecture, painting, calligraphy, gardens, printing, and other arts within their historical and
Course This course is designed as an introduction to ways of seeing, understanding, and questioning the visual arts in India. You will learn how the visual arts (cities, architecture, monuments, statues and painting) have informed us about the history, culture, and religion of India from the rise of civilization to the colonial period. It is important to approach the works we will study not simply as objects of aesthetic taste, but as meaningful and functional to those who commissioned, used, created, and experienced them. In addition to studying the social and political nature of the arts, a large portion of this course looks at works that served to activate the sacred within and across several religious belief systems, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AIS, REL
AAH 160Art and Architecture of the United States1.0
Course An introductory survey of the visual culture of the United States from colonial times through the present including painting, sculpture, architectural structures, photography, folk traditions and objects more recently defined as "material culture." Artists and media are situated and studied within the context of broader cultural, political and social themes. Emphasis on visual and textual analysis. CC: HUM ISP: AMS
AAH 163Latin American and Caribbean Art of the 19th and 20th Century1.0
Course An examination of the major aspects of Latin American and Caribbean art from the early 19th through the 20th century. Emphasis is placed on integrating the social and political background of the various cultures with the key artists, artistic issues and movements of particular countries and periods. Topics to be covered include: the influence of the major art academies in Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador, the strong links between art and politics, indigeneity, woman as artist and subject, and the ongoing dialogue with the art of Europe and later the United States. CC: LCC, HUM, JCAD, JCHF ISP: AFR, LAS
AAH 194Visual Culture of Communist China, 1919 to Present1.0
Course This course explores the relationship between ideology and visual culture in China, from the founding of the Communist Party in 1919, to Mao Zedong's prescriptions at the 1942 Yan'an Conference of Literature and Art, to art policy after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Readings and discussion will cover the range of adherence and resistance to the official party line by art workers. Topics include expressionism, socialist realism, peasant art, "wound art," cynical realism, political pop, and the avant-garde, as seen in painting, sculpture, architecture, posters, advertising, video, performance, and the material culture of quotidian life. CC: LCC, HUM, WAC ISP: AIS
Course A historical and chemical grounding in the topic of painting and its impact on society, with a focus on the 14th to the 17th centuries. Topics include inorganic and organic pigments and binders used in late medieval workshops, fresco painting, the tempera tradition, and oil painting in the Renaissance (properties of oil, mixing pigments, glazing, drying). Students will work with primary sources and secondary literature, and engage in laboratory experimentation. Cross-Listed: CHM 090 CC: SET, HUM ISP: STS
AAH 208The Business of Visual Art and Contemporary Entrepreneurship1.0
Course In this course students will study and learn the business of the art world and entrepreneurship in the visual arts from the early 20th century through today. Topics to be covered include the economics of the art market and the commodity of art, auction houses, private collectors, art fairs, gallery ownership, art foundations, non-for-profits, and art criticism. Group assignments, field trips and guest lectures form a large component of the course. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AMS
Course This course will cover the major European art movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. It will be structured chronologically and treat the art of the Catholic Counter-reformation, the "Golden Age" in the Netherlands, the art under the absolute monarchy in France, the Rococo period, and the rise of Neo-classicism during the Enlightenment. We will examine the stylistic characteristics of these major movements, and explore the relationships between art and religious, political, and cultural history. CC: LCC, HUM Note: Course was previously titled "European Baroque Art and Architecture: 17th and 18th Century.
Course An introductory survey of the history of photography from its pre-history to the present. We will explore the evolution of photographic expression in the period, and focus on relationships between photography and fine art, photography and popular culture, and photography and theory. We will spend time studying first-hand the original photographic works housed in Special Collections, Schaffer Library and in the Union College Permanent Collection. CC: HUM, JCHF, JCAD ISP: AMS, FLM
Course The nude in its art historical and social contexts. Traditionally considered shorthand for abstract concepts such as "truth" or "beauty," the nude is in fact a powerful index to ideas about gender, power, and sexuality in any of the historical periods which produced it. Drawing on recent scholarship, we will examine works produced in Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the Modern Period in social and historical context, and consider ways in which the human body has been both a stylistic vehicle for artistic expression and a social tool for constructing ideas of masculinity and femininity. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: GSW
AAH 251TVisual Culture, Urban Landscape and Politics in Washington, D.C1.0
Course This course focuses on the ways Washington, D.C. residents, writers, politicians and critics have defined the nation's capital, exploring the dichotomy between Washington as the "lived" city, with that as the nation's public capital (and spectacle). The course examines the racial and class shifts over the last century in its residential space, its recent rapid gentrification, and the dramatic racial and class divide in both living space and working space. Moreover, the public space, such as presidential monuments, war memorials, federal museums, the White House, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Mall are contentious political spaces as well as symbolic spaces for tourists viewing the "values" of the United States. Cross-Listed: AMS 251T CC: HUM, Does not get LCC credit; term-abroad not outside the United States.
AAH 265Environmentalism and Globalization in Contemporary Art1.0
Course This course examines artistic practices that meld science, aesthetics, and politics in imaginative and critical ways as they address environmentalism and globalization. The course primarily focuses on 21st century artists whose work takes on such subjects as pollution, biodiversity, sustainability and climate change. We will consider the blurring of the boundaries between art and activism and the many art genres and strategies used to address these issues from photography and sculpture to community collaborations and public art. CC: HUM, GCAD, GCHF, GSPE ISP:
Course Central Asia - broadly defined as the area occupied, from East to West, by present-day western China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, northern India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran - has been characterized as both harsh wasteland and cultural crossroads. This course concerns the visual culture of the Silk Road of Central Asia, focusing on the roles visual culture played in establishing modes of religious imagination in medieval culture. CC: LCC, HUM ISP: AIS, REE, REL
At least one Art History course, or by permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, LCC
AAH 340European Modern Art, 1880-19401.0
Course Major developments in modernism primarily in Europe. Traces the emergence of modernist visual vocabularies in painting, graphic arts, photography, sculpture, architecture, and "decorative arts" ranging from ranging from Van Gogh's post-impressionism, through the cubist art of Picasso and Dali's dream-like surrealism. Topics include the transformations of traditional modes of art making, the proliferation of movements and "-isms," the political functions of art and exhibitions, film as an art, and the rise of abstraction. Visual and textual analysis. Prerequisite(s): At least one art history course, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCC, WAC/S ISP: REE
At least one art history course, or permission of the instructor. CQ: WAC/S ISP: REE
AAH 360Seminar: Visual Culture, Race and Gender1.0
Course A lecture and discussion-based course concerned with how constructions of race and sexual differentiation are played out across art history and visual culture, focusing on the visual arts of Western Europe and the United States. The first half of the course investigates the constructs of gender and race from antiquity to the middle of the 20th century as expressed in art and visual culture. The second half of the course is a close study of female artists of color living and working in the United States, grouped as African- American, Latina/Chicana, Asian and Middle Eastern and Multi-ethnic. CC: LCC, HUM, JCAD, JCHF ISP: AFR, AMS, GSWS, LAS
