29 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 101History of Art I3.0
This course explores the history of visual culture from a global perspective from ancient times to the advent of the early modern period, ca. 1400. Selected cultures from around the world will be examined in terms of their regional traditions as well as their impactful interactions with other cultures. The historical use, value, and meaning of images, buildings, and artifacts will be analyzed in relation to social, political, economic, religious, intellectual, technological, and aesthetic developments. Attention will also be paid to how various cultural constructs affect the ways we interpret art.
This course explores the history of visual culture from a global perspective during the early modern period, ca. 1400-1850. Selected cultures from across the world will be examined in terms of their regional traditions as well as their impactful interactions with other cultures. The historical use, value, and meaning of visual images, buildings, and artifacts will be analyzed in relation to social, political, economic, religious, intellectual, technological, and aesthetic developments. Attention will also be placed on how various cultural constructs affect the ways we interpret art.
This course explores the history of visual culture from a global perspective from the onset of Modernism, ca. 1850, to the present. Selected cultures from across the world will be examined in terms of their regional traditions as well as their impactful interactions with other cultures. The historical use, value, and meaning of visual images, buildings, and artifacts will be analyzed in relation to social, political, economic, religious, intellectual, technological, and aesthetic developments. Attention will also be placed on how various cultural constructs affect the ways we interpret art.
This course introduces students to hands-on methods of object study and to research methods that guide the physical, contextual and interpretive analysis of fabricated objects and structures.
This course will critically examine the interpretive principles and methods that have been used in the discourse of art history from the Renaissance to the present day.
Examines the products of applied design during the past 150 years, including examples of furnishings, industrial design, fashion, and graphic design, in relation to demand, technology and production, standards, fine art, social reform, and the dynamics of consumption.
Explores the diverse visual languages and cultures of Asia including the Buddhist and Hindu traditions from India and Southeast Asia, the imperial art of China with its refined taste for ceramics and painting, and the Japanese.
This course explores the diverse artistic traditions of the Indian subcontinent from ancient times to the modern period, focusing on the art of the Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic communities. The survey ends with an examination of the colonial, post-colonial and contemporary art scene.
From the first empires to modern times, this course explores the art of painting ceramics, as well as the sculptural and architectural traditions of China.
This course examines the art of Japan from the Shinto traditional forms to the creation of a Buddhist Japanese idiom, from the courtly and military art to the Zen aesthetics and the establishment of a modern urban culture.
This course is an introduction to European art of the late nineteenth century, from roughly 1850 to 1900—the decades when modernism exploded. Beginning with a close look at the Realist and Impressionist movements in Paris, we will study the artistic styles, techniques, and materials characteristic of the modern era, as well as the changing social, historical and political circumstances that helped shaped artistic production.
This course will critically examine the development of Modernism in Western art during the first half of the 20th century in light of socio-economic and political factors, philosophical and scientific ideas, technological developments, stylistic movements, and art theories.
This course will survey current global art production in light of socio-economic and political factors, philosophical and scientific theories, and new approaches to media and technology.
This course traces the history of African American art, beginning with the African-inspired material culture of slaves, and, later, encompassing the works of formally-trained as well as self-taught painters, sculptors, photographers, and artists working in multimedia up to the present. These works will be situated within the contexts of critical race theory, social and political movements, collectors and patrons, early critics and theorists of the black avant-garde, influential exhibitions, and the opposition between elite and popular cultures.
This course will explore historical and contemporary African sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, photography and mixed media in relationship to particular themes such as religion, trade, political power and healing. With emphasis on select objects from West and Central Africa, the course will also consider the visual arts in relationship to ideas of improvisation, aesthetics, identity and self-representation.
This course serves as an introduction to modern and contemporary art from Latin America. Throughout the term we chart how artists across the Americas have responded to political catalysts like revolution, imperialism, dictatorship, and globalization.
This course explores how global artists since 1960 have used distinctive materials toward conceptual, political, and aesthetic purposes. Each class focuses on a material or object—whether newspaper, gold, or mirrors—in order to investigate how artists have harnessed that material’s qualities, limitations, and associations.
This class examines how Pop artists around the world have grappled with capitalism, mass media, political violence, imperialism, racism, homophobia, and sexism. We ask what roles Pop Art played in the mainstream and counterculture as well as in oppressive and liberatory messaging.
This course will survey the art produced by the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, from the archaic period to the fall of the Roman Empire. The art will be considered as an expression of the social, political, economic and intellectual histories of these two civilizations.
This course will survey paintings, sculpture, architecture and graphic art from Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries. Artworks will be analyzed not only in terms of their formal characteristics, but also as expressions of concurrent social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical developments.
This course will survey paintings, sculpture, and graphic arts from Northern Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Artworks will be analyzed not only in terms of their formal characteristics, but also as expressions of concurrent social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical developments.
Understanding “global” geographically and as a method of material culture analysis, this class examines how artifacts accrue new meanings, forms, and agencies as they circulate across cultures, and the social, political, and aesthetic implications of these processes.
ARTH 335[WI] History of Costume I: Preclassical to 18003.0
Traces the rise of Western costume from the ancient world through 1800, including political, economic, and social influence on aesthetic development in dress.
ARTH 337History of Costume III: 1920 to Present3.0
Examines fashion and dress trends from 1920 through the 21st century within their sociocultural, political, and economic contexts. The course also explores how globalization, technology, and mass media impact the aesthetics of dress.
A historical survey of the art created by women in Western civilization, with a special focus upon the art created since the women's movement of the 1970s. Objects are analyzed in relation to the sociopolitical and psychological context of Western, patriarchal culture.
An optional research project written during the senior year under the advisement of a thesis director from among the art history faculty. The thesis student will meet at least once every week with the advisor who will provide direction for their research by helping them to develop a topic, identify appropriate resources, discuss interpretive strategies, determine the expository structure of the paper, and provide clarity on specific requirements for bibliography, illustrations, and a citation system.
This course examines the products of the decorative arts and applied design during the past 150 years. Material includes examples of furniture, household objects, industrial design, fashion, and graphic design. The emphasis is not upon a particular design profession or medium, but rather upon how design functions in relation to political, economic, and social history.
