20 courses with the subject ARTH, 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.
ARTH 111Survey African and African American Art3
Hour(s) The first half of the course will provide a general introduction to the arts of several African cultures from the 12th through 20th centuries, primarily in West and East Africa, and focusing on metalwork, sculpture, architecture and fiber arts. Diverse subjects will be explored, including the representation of religious/spiritual themes, pattern, abstraction and the representation of the human figure. In the second half of the course, the arts of the African Diaspora as represented in the United States will be surveyed, through several historical periods and the work of many important individual artists.
Hour(s) This course will focus on the visual arts of South and Central America, from the Ancient period to Modern. The first half of the course will cover the work of several Pre-Columbian civilizations, to include the Olmecs, Maya, Inca, and Aztecs. The second half of te course will survey the Eurocentric arts of the Colonial period (18th and 19th centuries), followed by a study of several 20th century artists from the Modern period, especially the Muralists– artists who chose to combine Europe influences (Constructivism, Surrealism) with indigenous and political themes.
Hour(s) Continued introduction to the history and interpretation of architecture, sculpture and painting in the West from prehistoric times to the present.
Hour(s) In this course, we will explore Japan’s “coolest” export: global manga and anime. Students will read, view, and analyze classic examples of Japan’s early visual literature while developing an awareness of Japanese visual culture. A focus will be placed on works produced following the end of World War II, especially the books of Osamu Tezuka, whose compassion and talent led him to seek a new beginning for a society left in the shadows of the atomic age. His manga were full of exciting possibilities and promise for children of the war, and mark the beginning of a new modern branch of literature with global appeal. Manga became a leading industry in Japan, and an important part of Twentieth Century Visual Literature.
Hour(s) This course gives students the opportunity to explore and analyze contemporary Japanese Manga. Recent publications will be chosen for significant cultural and global content as well their popularity with otaku, (Manga fans). Topics may include: Trans-Humanism and Post Modern Theories, Social Issues, Politics, Robotic Science and Vision Quests. Readings will change over time, and may include: Tsugumi Ohaba’s Death Note, Tadashi Agi’s The Drops of God, and Inio Asano’s Solanin.
Hour(s) A course taught using contemporary graphic novels from Western Europe and America. Students will focus on the development of skills of empathy, as they learn to ‘read’ the visual storytelling effects of this vibrant ‘new’ art form. Panel and character design, the placement of text within panels, the way in which characters’ faces and bodies move, and many other features all contribute to the narrative and provide opportunities to ‘join’ the characters, empathize with them, in the unfolding story-experience their emotions, become part of their fictional life journey. As in the fine arts, graphic novels are about joy, love, sorrow, fear, pride, hope, despair, ecstasy, anger, surprise; power, triumph, generosity, conflict, faith, spirituality, heroism, domesticity. The main question for this course: how do artists express these deeply human feelings-and how can we recognize and share them when we see them in these works of sequential art? The roots of graphic novel storytelling techniques will also be explored in the visual culture of many pre-modern periods, from Egypt to the Baroque, as well as in early graphic media and comic books.
Hour(s) This course explores ways in which women have been portrayed in art, and also provides an introduction to women artists from the ancient world to modern times. Feminist art history/feminist discourse is introduced as a way of analyzing representations of women in art, with focus on Renaissance and Baroque art, and their underlying - too often negative - assumptions. Models for this work will be provided by such classic feminist art historians as Nochlin, Munro, Garrard, Broude and Russell. The second half of the course will focus on women as producers of art and offers an empowering alternative to the too frequent neglect of women artists in modern art history.
Hour(s) Independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to students with a 3.0 cumulative average and permission of the chair of the department. Independent study may take the form of readings, research, conference, project and/or field experience. Independent study may be taken for a total of two courses, the maximum in any one term being one course credit.
Hour(s) A course which explores the representation of physicians, their equipment and activities, from Ancient times, through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods, to the end of the 19th century. Doctors are sometimes shown as respected figures–scientists, healers–and sometimes caricatured as frauds and quacks, reflecting changing attitudes towards the medical profession and how it was practiced in various periods.
Hour(s) Architecture, city planning, sculpture, painting and related arts from the beginning of civilization in the Near East until the fall of the Roman Empire. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of visual arts to other aspects of intellectual history.
Hour(s) Architecture, sculpture and painting from the beginning of the Christian era to the Renaissance. Emphasis upon the relationship between the visual arts and other aspects of intellectual history.
Hour(s) Art of Northern Europe from ca. 1350 to ca. 1560. The paradoxical emphasis on naturalistic observation and Christian mysticism of the period will be special themes of discussion. The development of new art forms, such as oil painting and printmaking, and the appearance of new genres, such as portraiture, landscape and still life, will also be considered. Focus will be made on the work of van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer and Bruegel.
Hour(s) Starting with early movements in modern art: Impressionism, Cubism, Symbolism, Dada and Expressionism students will be guided into late Modern Art movements from the 1930s to the present, including: abstract expressionism, minimal art, pop, post-painterly, photo realism and postmodernism.
Hour(s) A course taught using works from Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art. Students will focus on the development of skills of empathy, as students learn to ‘read’ the visual storytelling of the past. The history of art concerns itself with the representation of the great stories of Western and other civilizations, from the Bible, myth and history. These visual stories cover the full range of human experience: they express a vast range of deeply human emotions and themes. Art is about joy, love, sorrow, fear, pride, hope, despair, ecstasy, anger, surprise; about power, triumph, generosity, conflict, faith, spirituality, heroism, domesticity. The main question for this course: how do artists express these deeply human feelings-and how can we recognize and share them when we see them in works of art?
Hour(s) Advanced independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Normally open to juniors and seniors with a 3.5 average in art. Subject to the approval of the department chair. Honors work may be taken for a maximum of two courses.
Hour(s) This course is intended to give students experience in carrying out a major research project in art history on a topic of their choice. Readings on the history and methods of our discipline will be included to promote a deeper understanding of the field.
