Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Theorizing the Global Early Modern, South Asia 1550-1850 Course Number: HA 192A | CCN: 05055
The recent past has seen a renewed scholarly focus on the mobility and global circulation of people, objects, and ideas across the early modern world. Historians have now come to understand the early modern as fundamentally transcultural, a form of...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: African Bodies in Film, Art, and Fashion Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 04965
Ivy Mills
In this course, we will explore the politicization of the African body in a variety of visual media, including film, photography, sculpture, and fashion. We will begin by examining how visual representations of the African body have worked to “other&rdquo...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: African Bodies in Film, Art, and Fashion Course Number: R1B Section 10 | CCN: 04980
Ivy Mills
In this course, we will explore the politicization of the African body in a variety of visual media, including film, photography, sculpture, and fashion. We will begin by examining how visual representations of the African body have worked to “other&rdquo...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Representing Urban Modernity Course Number: R1B Section 9 | CCN: 04977
Sharone Tomer
In this course we will study art and architecture as mediations on the struggles inherent in urban modernity. We will work from the premise that one of the fundamental aspects of modernity is persistent transformation of society and space –...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: From Los Caprichos to Charlie Hebdo: History, Memory, and Politics in Image-Text Forms Course Number: R1B Section 8 | CCN: 04974
Aubrey Gabel
With the popularization of the graphic novel in the 21st century, readers and viewers have become more and more accustomed to seeing historical violence represented in pop culture forms, whether it be an animated film about the First Lebanese War or...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Writing on and Critiquing Fashion Today: Art History, Theory, and Practice Course Number: R1B Section 7 | CCN: 04971
Elizabeth McFadden
This course introduces students to the varied discourses and theories on dress and fashion from the nineteenth-century to contemporary times (with a focus on European and North American cultures). Each week will take as its case study the oeuvre of...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Writing about Portraiture: 18th century to the present Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 04962
Caty Telfair
“There is no more fascinating surface on earth than that of the human face.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The portrait is one of the most common forms of depiction in Western art history. From era to era, its basic formats have...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Writing about Portraiture: 18th century to the present Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 04959
Caty Telfair
“There is no more fascinating surface on earth than that of the human face.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The portrait is one of the most common forms of depiction in Western art history. From era to era, its basic formats have...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Visual Murmurs Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 04956
Suzanne Li Puma
"I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence." – Plato, Phaedrus
Are visual experiences...
Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art/ The Italian Renaissance Course Number: HA 62 | CCN: 04995
Henrike Lange
This new survey will present examples from Italian art and literature from circa 1300 to circa 1600 as mirrors and motors of cultural change. Italy will be shown in its unique position...
Early Chinese Art and Archaeology Course Number: HA 130A | CCN: 05027
As the first part of a multi-semester overview of the history of Chinese art, this course focuses on visual and material culture in what is now China from the 5th millennium BCE to the end of the Han dynasty (220...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Religious Images and the Quest for God, 300-800 Course Number: HA 192C | CCN: 05106
This undergraduate seminar (open also to graduate students) explores the emergence of Christian religious art and its role in the teaching the stories recounted in the sacred books of Christianity, understanding theology, and approaching the divine through contemplation. Topics covered...
Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America Course Number: HA 171 | CCN: 05054
The epithet "Golden Age" is commonly used to describe the art and literature of seventeenth-century Spain. Ironically, the complex paintings of Diego Velázquez, harbingers of Manet’s modernity, were produced during the decline of Spain and its Empire in Europe and...
Introduction to Islamic Art Course Number: HA C121A | CCN: 05027
This course introduces students to the art, architecture, and visual and material cultures in Islamic contexts, from the 7th through the 19th centuries. In the first half of the course, we examine the aesthetic manifestations of Islam within the context...
Art and Architecture in Japan Course Number: HA 35 | CCN: 04983
This introductory lecture course poses a challenge: to look and think critically about the art and architecture of Japan. We will study a range of artistic/architectural works situated across a long historical span: objects and structures of the Neolithic and...
Undergraduate Seminar: Art and Evolution Course Number: HA 192F | CCN: 05109
Imogen Hart
This course explores the profound effect of evolutionary theory on modern art in Europe and the United States. Artists explored new ideas about sexual selection, the struggle for existence, the relationship between humans and animals, the expression of the emotions...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Persia and the West Course Number: HA 192B | CCN: 05103
Sabrina Maras
This seminar will take an in-depth look at the relationship between ancient Persia (from the time of Cyrus the Great to the rule of the Sassanians) and its neighbors westward (specifically, Greece and Rome). Beginning with a survey of...
Theories & Methods for a Global History of Art Course Number: HA 101 | CCN: 05026
Simply put, art history is a history of image worlds, objects, and material practices. Could art history, then, help us better understand the haptic and visual potential of the latest iPad, the deification of the natural environment in ancient India...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Mural Painting and the Ancient Americas Course Number: HA 192L | CCN: 05112
In this seminar we will study the wall paintings of palaces, temples, and tombs from pre-Hispanic Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru with an emphasis on the early periods prior to the Aztec and Inca empires. Secondarily, we will examine colonial, modern...
Contemporary Art in the Americas Course Number: HA 186C | CCN: 05055
This lecture course provides a hemispheric overview of contemporary art—starting around 1960—with an emphasis on the contested relationship between art, audiences, and museums. We take the broadest possible definition of “American art” as we look at art spanning North, Central...
Archaic Greek Art and Architecture (750-480 B.C.) Course Number: HA 141A | CCN: 05040
Greek architecture, sculpture, painting, and luxury crafts from the late Geometric period to the Persian invasions. In addition to close study of the major works, we shall be paying particular regard to their cultural context and to key issues such...
Theorizing the Global Early Modern, South Asia 1550-1850 Course Number: HA 236 | CCN: 05221
The recent past has seen a renewed scholarly focus on the mobility and global circulation of people, objects, and ideas across the early modern world. Historians have now come to understand the early modern as fundamentally transcultural, a form of...
Daitokuji’s Art History/Art History’s Daitokuji Course Number: HA 234 | CCN: 05220
In the late nineteenth century, as the art history of East Asia was emerging as an academic field, works of painting, sculpture, calligraphy, and ceramic art preserved at the Zen Buddhist monastery Daitokuji, located in Kyoto, assumed prominence in the...
Human Nature: Between Medieval and Modern Course Number: HA 262 | CCN: 05223
What is Mankind ? How are we placed in the cosmos; what constitutes the fundamental nature of our being; and in what ways can we be elevated, inspired, socialized, and corrupted? Our ways of answering these questions are said to...
Graduate Proseminar in the Interpretation of Art Historical Materials Course Number: HA 200 | CCN: 05211
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the way in which art history developed from the late 19th through the late 20th century, and to allow them to frame art history’s current practices with that development in...
Mellon Exhibition Graduate Seminar: Berkeley Collects! Course Number: HA 290 | CCN: 05225
Margaretta Lovell, Patricia Berger
The University’s vast collections are a treasure trove of extraordinary objects that range from natural history and ethnographic materials to ancient texts and many kinds of art. The gifts of many dedicated collectors over the past century, these collections (in...
Teaching History of Art Pedagogy Course Number: HA 375 | CCN: 05304
Instructor approval required. This seminar satisfies a University-wide requirement that all first-time Graduate Student Instructors take a pedagogy course. It can be taken concurrently with a first teaching assignment or in the semester before beginning teaching. The class will encourage...
Proseminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art Course Number: HA C204 | CCN: 05217
Christopher Hallett, Andrew Stewart
This seminar, which is offered biennially, is intended to introduce graduate students – both archaeologists and non-archaeologists – to the discipline of classical archaeology, its history and evolution, and its research tools and bibliography. Since we cannot cover the entire...
