Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Shaking the Western Canon: Depictions of the Human Body and Disability Studies Course Number: R1B Section 1 | CCN: 14934
Alexandra Courtois de Vicose
Monday | Wednesday: 8:00 - 9:30am
Depictions of the human body have been central to western art history, a discipline largely concerned with corporeality and embodiment. Established art historical narratives trace how representations of the body have changed over time from European academies advocating the emulation...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Hauntings Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 14935
Caty Telfair
Monday | Wednesday: 9:30 - 11:00am
“There is no place that is not haunted by many different spirits hidden there in silence … Haunted places are the only ones people can live in.”
Michel de Certeau
Ghosts, literal and metaphorical, are found in the blurry boundaries of understanding...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Hauntings Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 15053
Caty Telfair
Monday | Wednesday: 11:00 - 12:30pm
“There is no place that is not haunted by many different spirits hidden there in silence … Haunted places are the only ones people can live in.”
Michel de Certeau
Ghosts, literal and metaphorical, are found in the blurry boundaries of understanding...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Hyenas, Donkeys, and Dirty Diesels: Figures of Social Death in Children’s Animation, Folktales, and World Art Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 15054
Ivy Mills
Monday | Wednesday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
When artists working on the animated Disney film The Lion King came to study the spotted hyenas in UC Berkeley’s research colony, scientists begged them to break with a transnational, millennia-long tradition that depicted hyenas as the most anti-social, anti-human...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Visual Culture, Authority, and Identity in Colonial Latin America Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 15055
Jessica Stair
Monday | Wednesday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
Indigenous cultures of Latin America endured profound and violent changes in the years immediately following Spanish invasion. Religious practices were suppressed, and those who engaged in such practices were persecuted. Socio-political systems were reconfigured, and sacred, historical, and ceremonial objects...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Truth, Text, and the Indexical Photograph Course Number: R1B Section 6 | CCN: 15056
Bessie Young
Monday | Wednesday: 3:30 - 5:00pm
What does it mean to say that we can “read” a photograph? Victor Burgin writes that "the intelligibility of the photograph is no simple thing; photographs are texts inscribed in terms of what we may call ‘photographic discourse,’ but this...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Aesthetic Language of Southern Renaissance Art Course Number: R1B Section 7 | CCN: 15057
Matthew Culler
Monday | Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:30pm
Where do the words we use to talk about art come from? Many of our modern aesthetic ideas and sensibilities find their birthing ground in the language utilized to write and talk about art during the Renaissance or the Early...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Reading the Crowd: 19th- century Texts and Images Course Number: R1B Section 8 | CCN: 22721
Margot Szarke
Tuesday | Thursday: 8:00 - 9:30am
This course provides an introduction to reading and interpreting works of art as well as literary texts that explore visual experience. Its primary goal is to help students develop analytical writing techniques and gain research skills so that they can...
Undergraduate Seminar: French Art and Revolution: from the 18th- to the mid-19th century Course Number: HA 192F | CCN: 52221
Wednesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This seminar will focus on the politics of French art during a period characterized by multiple revolutions and regimes changes (the Bourbon monarchy, the Revolution of 1789, the Napoleonic empire, the Bourbon monarchy’s restoration, the Revolution of 1830, the Revolution...
Undergraduate Seminar: Breaking Images: Iconoclasms, Past and Present Course Number: HA 192T.2 | CCN: 46145
Monday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
Purposeful destruction has occurred many times in the history of art. This undergraduate seminar examines the causes and theorization of such Iconoclasms through a number of case studies, including Christian destruction of pagan images; the Byzantine Iconoclasm; Maya breaking and...
Undergraduate Seminar: Approaches to the “Origins of Art” Course Number: HA 192T.1 | CCN: 22590
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
In this practice- and results-oriented seminar, in group work, team work, and individual research we will explore current cross-disciplinary scholarship (and relevant artifacts and archives) on seven topics commonly understood to bear on the question of "the origins of art":...
Undergraduate Seminar: Urban Africa Course Number: HA 192M | CCN: 46142
Ivy Mills
Thursday | 9:30 - 12:30pm
Outside the continent, Africa is overwhelmingly imagined as a rural space, albeit one that can take different forms – a green savannah teeming with exotic animals; a dark jungle where danger lurks behind twisting vines; or an impoverished village inhabited...
Undergraduate Seminar: From SFMOMA to the Ghost Ship: Exploring Bay Area Arts Ecosystems Course Number: HA 192CU.2 | CCN: 44431
Jon Winet
Friday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
The Bay Area is home to a vibrant and diverse art scene, fueled by thousands of creative artists working in a wide range of media – and with an impressive array of interests. At the same time local and national...
Undergraduate Seminar: Hands on at the Hearst: Greek and Roman Art Course Number: HA 192CU.1 | CCN: 21873
Friday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This is a hands-on seminar designed to introduce qualified students to the "nuts and bolts" of Greek and Roman art, in the form of intensive study of selected objects in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology on campus.
We shall...
Undergraduate Seminar: Art Across the High Seas: Maritime Trade and the Global before Globalization Course Number: HA 192A | CCN: 15120
Thursday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
Bringing together maritime history, environmental humanities, and art history, this seminar will examine the social, cultural, and economic significance of oceanic waters. Our deliberations will be situated around the Indian Ocean, the third largest water body and the world’s oldest...
Contemporary Art in the Americas Course Number: HA 186C | CCN: 46144
Tuesday | Thursday: 3:30 - 5:00pm
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...
Renaissance Art in Venice Course Number: HA 162 | CCN: 46217
Eva Allan
Tuesday | Thursday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
This course surveys the rich production of art from Venice, 1450-1600. We will study the development of the particularly Venetian style of painting, from the innovations of Giovanni Bellini and the Arcadian painting of Giorgione, through the long and influential...
Sacred Arts in China Course Number: HA 131A | CCN: 44351
Tuesday | Thursday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
This course will cover two millennia of art produced in China to serve ritual purposes and will focus on the role that the visual arts played in defining doctrine and belief in two traditions: Daoism and Buddhism. Major themes will...
Interactive Media: History, Theory, Practice Course Number: HA 109 | CCN: 44348
Justin Underhill
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 12:00 - 1:00pm
This course will introduce students to interactive media and provide a developmental chronology of its digital implementation from 1963 (when Ivan Sutherland developed the first Graphic User Interface) to the present. We will look at the history of computer graphics...
Methods and Theories of Art History Course Number: HA 100 | CCN: 44344
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 10:00 - 11:00am
This course is required of majors in History of Art. It reviews major paradigms of art-historical method and theory in relation to relevant developments in philosophy, aesthetics, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. Topics include antiquarianism, the legacy of critical idealism...
Introduction to Greek and Roman Art and Architecture Course Number: HA 41 | CCN: 44336
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 2:00 - 3:00pm
This introduction to the arts of ancient Greece and Rome is designed for newcomers to the history of art and/or to the study of the ancient Mediterranean. The lectures survey 1500 years of Greek and Roman art and architecture both...
Asia Modern: Art + Architecture, 1800-present Course Number: HA 36 | CCN: 46143
Atreyee Gupta
Tuesday | Thursday: 9:30 - 11:00am
This course offers an introduction to the art and architecture of modern South, Southeast, and East Asia from 1800 to the present. Asia, of course, is as vast as it is diverse. Keeping this in mind, this course will not...
Seminar in History of Art Teaching Course Number: HA 375 | CCN: 14987
Tuesday | 2:00 - 4:00pm
This class is both a pedagogy course and a pre-professional workshop. It will encourage you to think both broadly and pragmatically about the function of pedagogy in art history in particular: what we learn, how we teach, and who we...
Graduate Seminar: Futurism and Futurity Course Number: HA 290 | CCN: 44381
Wednesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
We art historians know to interrogate "history" and the ways we draw connections between past events, persons, and things, but how might we also interrogate accounts of the future? This course explores a number of future-oriented speculations in the practices...
Graduate Seminar: CREOLE PORTRAITS: France, Saint-Domingue/Haiti, New Orleans (18th to 19th centuries) Course Number: HA 281 | CCN: 44380
Monday | 1:00 - 4:00pm
This seminar will grapple with the unique indeterminacy of the term “creole,” defined by one dictionary as: “ in the West Indies and parts of America- a. a native-born person of European, especially Spanish, ancestry; b. a native-born person of...
Proseminar in Art History: Genealogies, Methodologies, Practices, Horizons Course Number: HA 200 | CCN: 15075
Wednesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
The Proseminar is required of first-year PhD students in History of Art and is open to students from other programs interested in engaging with the visual. In the last three decades, a range of political and methodological interjections have substantively...
