Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: The Medieval City Course Number: R1B Section 7 | CCN: 04971
Andrew Sears
This course will explore the rise of the great medieval cities of Western Europe. We will focus largely on architecture, learning how to discuss and analyze buildings and floor plans, though we will also learn about the overall visual culture...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Representing Power, Rights and Liberty Course Number: R1B Section 10 | CCN: 04980
Keith Budner
The relationship between art and power is no secret. Go to any museum and you’re likely to see a host of artworks that depict a political leader, perhaps in celebratory glory, perhaps with critical derision. In this course, we’ll start...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: African Bodies in Film, Art, and Fashion Course Number: R1B Section 9 | CCN: 04974
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 8 | CCN: 04974
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: the Camera and the City Course Number: R1B Section 6 | CCN: 04968
This course will examine the often complex, often contradictory ways photography was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to capture the development of the modern city. That is to say, the course will approach photography and modern urban...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: the Camera and the City Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 04956
This course will examine the often complex, often contradictory ways photography was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to capture the development of the modern city. That is to say, the course will approach photography and modern urban...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Art and Architecture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Course Number: R1B Section 1 | CCN: 04953
Eva Hagberg
Art and architecture have long been bedfellows, to varying degrees of likelihood. Ever since Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in 1998, put a small Basque town on the global culture map, and ushered in the era of the celebrity...
Undergraduate Seminar: Pieter Bruegel’s Renaissance Course Number: HA 192E | CCN: 05121
Undergraduate Seminar: A) Europe and Mediterranean; II) 1200-1800. This course looks at the artistic production of Pieter Bruegel as a particular window onto some of the biggest issues of Renaissance thought: the place of man in the cosmos, selfhood and self-knowledge...
Undergraduate Seminar: Love in Ancient and Medieval Art Course Number: HA 192B | CCN: 05118
Undergraduate Seminar: A) Europe and Mediterranean; I) prehistoric-1200, II) 1200-1800. This class explores the concept of romantic love in ancient (Greek and Roman) and medieval (Byzantine and western medieval) art and literature. The material covered encompasses two different religious contexts (pagan...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Modern Art and the Modern Imagination Course Number: HA 192F.2/290.3 | CCN: 05126
This seminar is open to qualified undergraduates and to graduate students. Undergraduate Seminar: A) Europe and Mediterranean, E) transcultural; I) prehistoric-1200, III) 1800-present. It explores the historiography of the study of ancient arts and more broadly the reception of ancient arts...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Human Rights and the Arts in Modern China Course Number: HA 192A.2/HA 230 | CCN: 05117
Upper Division Seminar: B) Asia; III) 1800-present. The internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s exhibition @large opened on Alcatraz in late September and runs through April 2015. Ai designed the show around the theme of freedom of speech and expression, which...
Undergraduate Seminar: Art in Public Course Number: HA 192G | CCN: 05127
Upper Division Seminar: A) Europe and Mediterranean; C) Americas; III) 1800-present. This seminar explores art’s public presence in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Class sessions will consider works ranging from monumental sculptures and murals to...
Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to the Present Course Number: HA 11 | CCN: 04983
Lower Division Survey; western. An introduction to art and visual culture produced mainly in Europe and the United States between the fourteenth century and the present, this course will focus on broad themes explored in various artistic media and subjects....
Undergraduate Seminar: Picturing the New World: Illustrated Manuscripts from Early Colonial Mexico and Peru Course Number: HA 192L | CCN: 05130
Upper Division Seminar: C) Americas; II) 1200-1800. In this seminar we will delve into the texts and images of four remarkable illustrated manuscripts created during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Created by various agents—Spanish friars and indigenous authors and artists—these four...
Promiscuous Gods, Gendered Monsters, and Other Urban Beasts: Art in Early India Course Number: HA 136A | CCN: 05061
Upper Division Lecture: B) Asia, E) Transcultural; I) prehistoric-1200. Tricksters. Multiple realities. Androgynes. Animals. Monsters. Evil. Bestiality. Nirvana. Early India is a rich source of creative myths, literary texts, and visual practices that offer a glimpse into the social, cultural, and...
Undergraduate Seminar: Maximum City: Visualizing the South Asian Metropolis Course Number: HA 192A.1 | CCN: 05115
Upper Division Seminar: B) Asia, E) transcultural; II) 1200-1800. Every city feels different, sounds different, smells different, and has distinctive urban cultures. We walk, we stroll, we see. But what do we see when we walk in the city? To what...
Hellenistic Art (ca. 336-30 B.C.) Course Number: HA 141C | CCN: 05073
Upper Division Lecture: A) Europe and Mediterranean, D) Middle East/Africa; I) prehistoric-1200. “Hellenistic” means “late Greek,” and this class is about Greek art after the classical period. Now completely restructured and revised, it covers Greek architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Music and the Visual Arts Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 04965
From fifteenth-century Flanders to present-day California, music has had a rich and varied relationship with the visual arts. This course will consider a range of topics in musical-artistic contact, including representations of music making, composers who painted and who sought...
Arts of China Course Number: HA 34 | CCN: 05013
Ping Foong
Lower Division Survey: non-western. An introduction to the arts of China, designed for newcomers to the history of art or to the study of Chinese culture. Lectures will survey six millennia of Chinese art thematically and chronologically, including the burial...
Relics, Reliquaries, and Cult Images. The Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Western Course Number: HA 155A | CCN: 05073
Upper Division Lecture: A) Europe and Mediterranean; I) prehistoric-1200. This lecture course is an introduction to Western medieval art. It explores the origins and transformations of Christian visual culture. It will focus on monumental free-standing sculpture, which largely disappeared from...
Methods and Theories of Art History Course Number: HA 100 | CCN: 05034
This course is required of undergraduate majors in History of Art, but it is also open to other interested students. It reviews some of the principal methods of art historical analysis and theories of art history, including connoisseurship, “formalism,” iconography...
American Architecture: The U. C. Berkeley Campus Course Number: HA 190G | CCN: 05097
Upper Division Lecture: C) Americas; III) 1800-present. This course takes as its subject the U. C. Berkeley campus as a product of many disparate visions about the nature of the institution and the role of the built environment in instruction...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Ambiguities Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 04959
Caty Telfair
"As for myself, … I prefer to spend my time creating clouds rather than dispersing them, questioning opinions rather than forming them…" – Diderot
Much of the study of art history involves the identification and categorization of objects, and the resulting...
Undergraduate Seminar: Art and Evolution Course Number: HA 192F | CCN: 05124
Upper Division Seminar: A) Europe and Mediterranean, C) Americas; III) 1800-present. 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...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Spitting Image: the Avant-Gardes For/ Against the Image Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 04962
Caty Telfair
"As for myself, … I prefer to spend my time creating clouds rather than dispersing them, questioning opinions rather than forming them…" – Diderot
Much of the study of art history involves the identification and categorization of objects, and the resulting...
Mosque Lamps and Electric Hearts: Modern Art in the Middle East, 1834-1954 Course Number: HA 190M | CCN: 05100
Upper Division Lecture: D) Middle East/Africa; III) 1800-present. This lecture course explores the images, objects, and spaces of a century of efforts to make art and visual culture modern – often radically so – in the geopolitical territory called the...
Buddhist Images in the Modern & Contemporary World: Icons, Art, and Popular Visual Culture Course Number: HA 134C | CCN: 05049
Upper Division Lecture: B) Asia; III) 1800-present. This course explores the Visual Cultures of Buddhist Modernism, namely the visual forms, materials, places, ideas, and powers associated with Buddhist imageries in diverse situations and communities of the global modern and contemporary...
Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar: Human Rights and the Arts in Modern China Course Number: HA 230/HA 192A.2 | CCN: 05178
This course is open to qualified undergraduates and to graduate students. The internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s exhibition @large opened on Alcatraz in late September and runs through April 2015. Ai designed the show around the theme of freedom...
Graduate Seminar: the Cold War Contingent Course Number: HA 290.1 | CCN: 05187
This seminar is devoted to interrogating the Cold War image – painted, projected, planted, or proclaimed – in the art worlds spanning multiple ‘fronts’ of global conflict from the end of the Second World War to the...
Graduate Seminar: Daumier, Caricature, Medium, and Politics Course Number: HA 290.2 | CCN: 05190
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Todd Olson
Honoré Daumier (1808-79) produced hundreds of cheap, mass-produced lithographic caricatures for the ephemeral newspaper Charivari, making him one of the consummate (Baudelairian) Modern artists. In addition, Daumier transposed his graphic facility to painting and sculpture. Yet he also used the...
Stronach Travel Seminar: Istanbul – The City and its Art from Antiquity to the Present Course Number: HA 291 | CCN: 05196
This seminar seeks to examine the urban development, art, and architecture of Istanbul, from its origins as a modest Greek colony in the seventh c. BCE to the present- day megapolis of close to 14 million people. Continuously inhabited for...
Graduate Seminar: Ancient Art and the Modern Imagination Course Number: HA 290.3 | CCN: 05193
This seminar is open to qualified undergraduates and to graduate students. It explores the historiography of the study of ancient arts and more broadly the reception of ancient arts in the disciplines of history, art history, archaeology, and anthropology and...
Graduate Seminar: the Possibilities of Eco-Art History Course Number: HA 234 | CCN: 05181
What is eco-art history or, perhaps, eco-critical art historical inquiry? I take it that it has to be more than resource conservation, driving an electric vehicle, and so forth, and one might start with questions such as the following. How...
