Intro to Ancient Art (Western perspective) Course Number: HA 10 | CCN: 23982
Mon, Wed, Fri: 1:00-2:00pm
This course is an examination of ancient art from the Prehistoric through the Medieval periods (with a focus on and questioning of the western perspective). You will be introduced to major (and minor) artifacts and works of art and architecture...
Theories & Methods for a Global History of Art Course Number: HA 101 | CCN: 26589
Tuesday, Thursday: 5:00-6:30pm
This course is designed to guide students interested in art history—that is, the history of image worlds, objects, material practices, and their shifting and contingent meanings—through the acquisition of the methodological tools and knowledge needed for further study of art...
Southern Baroque Course Number: HA 170 | CCN: 30787
Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30-11:00am
“Baroque” is an all-encompassing term that has been used to describe an amazing number of seventeenth-century artists and architects: Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernini, Ribera Rubens, Poussin, and Velázquez to name a few. Rather than trying to convince you that they...
The Transatlantic Gilded Age and Its Discontents Course Number: HA 185D | CCN: 30788
Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30-11:00am
This course considers the linked arts of the United States, the U.K, and France in the period between 1865 and 1918 looking at specific case study artists, structures, social movements, and literary works. We will focus on the arts and...
The Life and Art of an Ancient Town Course Number: HA 190B | CCN: 30789
Mon, Wed, Fri: 10:00-11:00am
What does Pompeii tell us about Roman art, culture and society? How does the material culture of this city communicate ideas and concerns that are characteristically Roman? By studying the private homes, villas, and public buildings, we will examine ancient...
Soviet Art and Architecture Course Number: HA 190F | CCN: 32659
Tuesday, Thursday: 2:00-3:30pm
This course explores a wide variety of artistic forms and experiments undertaken over the history of the Soviet Union from the October Revolution to 1991, including histories of the early avant-garde, socialist realism, and underground art. Looking at projects in...
Undergraduate Seminar: Berkeley’s Built Environment: Two Residential Neighborhoods, a Writing-intensive Seminar Course Number: HA 192G | CCN: 25323
Wednesday, 9:00-12:00pm
Students in this upper-division seminar will investigate Berkeley’s residential history with case studies of two distinct neighborhoods, one in the hills and one in the flats. The hills section includes Native American sites, a Southern Pacific Railroad tunnel, and topographically-sensitive...
Undergraduate Seminar: African Modernisms: The Black Visual Cultures Of Pan-Africanism & Negritude Across Continents Course Number: HA 192H | CCN: 30866
Monday, 2:00-5:00pm
In this seminar, the exploration of Modernism in Africa and in the African diaspora will be framed by the visual art and cultures of Negritude and Pan-Africanism. While Negritude began as a Francophone modernist avant-garde and Pan-Africanism as its Black...
Undergraduate Seminar: Global Surrealisms Course Number: HA 192T.1 | CCN: 30867
Wednesday, 2:00-5:00pm
This seminar explores surrealist ideas and their legacy in the visual arts of the global twentieth century. We will take advantage of a recent proliferation of documentary studies of surrealism outside the West to consider a wide distribution of historical...
Undergraduate Seminar: PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINT, COLOR: when photographic prints were painted and handcolored Course Number: HA 192T.3 | CCN: 32797
Friday, 9:00-12:00pm
Taking each of these words as our subject we will initially think about them separately and then focus on the pervasive but neglected practice of hand-coloring photographs. Emphasizing amateur, not professional, practices, this seminar will explore my extensive collection of...
Graduate seminar: Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art Course Number: HA 290.1 | CCN: 30873
Thursday, 2:00-5:00pm
Nuclear disasters. Acid rain. The mass extinction of animal and plant species. The devastating environmental crisis that the planet faces today has fundamentally transformed the way we perceive human interaction with the natural environment. New forms of thinking such as...
Graduate Seminar: rock, PAPER, scissors: early modern works on paper Course Number: HA 290.2 | CCN: 32657
Friday, 1:00-4:00pm
Paper is a surface subject to inscription by direct manual intervention (pen, brush, pencil) or indirect technological processes (woodcut, engraving, etching). From fig tree bark to papyrus and from skin (parchment) to rag (emulsified cloth), paper supported or absorbed viscous...
Graduate Seminar: The Work of Art and History in the Age of Decolonization Course Number: HA 290.3 | CCN: 32930
Monday, 2:00-5:00pm
What does decolonization entail for our practice as historians of art and architecture? By way of approaching this question, this seminar will explore intertwined filaments of creative practices, representational form, the function of art history, and the processes of decolonization...
Seminar in History of Art Teaching Course Number: HA 375 | CCN: 30872
This seminar satisfies a University-wide requirement that all first-time Graduate Student Instructors take a pedagogy course, and it qualifies for the GSI Teaching and Resource Center’s Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. It can be taken concurrently with...
