Undergraduate Seminar: The Un-Chosen Body: Disability in Israeli Literature, Film, and the Arts Course Number: HA 192T.2/ NES 190H | CCN: 34485
Ilana Szobel
Wednesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
This course explores representations of disability within Hebrew and Israeli culture. By focusing on literature, film, dance, and visual art, it looks at personal and socio-political conceptualizations of disability. This course pursues various applications of physical, mental, and emotional disability...
Freshman Seminar: Feminism and Other Life Skills Course Number: HA 24 | CCN: 34046
Monday | 11:00 - 12:00pm
What does it mean to be a feminist now? What is feminism’s lineage? What does feminism look like? How can feminism teach us now? This course is designed to give students an introduction to key texts in feminist theory with...
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 8 | CCN: 15889
Ivy Mills
Tuesday | Thursday: 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 which depicted hyenas as the most anti-social, anti-human...
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 7 | CCN: 15888
Ivy Mills
Tuesday | Thursday: 11:00 - 12:30pm
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 which depicted hyenas as the most anti-social, anti-human...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: The Art of Capitalism Course Number: R1B Section 6 | CCN: 15887
Jason Rozumalski
Tuesday | Thursday: 9:30 - 11:00am
In this course, we will question the relationship between art and economics in Europe during the rise and establishment of capitalism. Why and how did monetization, commodification, and the ideal of profit influence aesthetics, artistic labor, pleasure, and consumption? Why...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Queering the City: Activist Art in the Late Twentieth Century Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 15886
Efstathios Gerostathopoulos
Tuesday | Thursday: 8:00 - 9:30am
In the 1980s and 90s, following wider changes in the art world and in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, queer artists took to the streets. Since then, many waves of queer art and activism have responded to local conditions and...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Myth and the Everyday in Antiquity and the Renaissance Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 15885
Jane Raisch
Monday | Wednesday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
The magic and fantasy of myth might seem to be a world away from the mundane and
routine details of everyday life. But in both works of art and literary texts, we often discover the two in surprising proximity: monstrous demi-gods...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Art for the Masses: Propaganda Art in Twentieth Century China Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 15884
Rosaline Kyo
Monday | Wednesday: 11:00 - 12:30pm
Since the early twentieth century, artists have participated in political movements to disseminate particular messages to the masses in China. Whether through modern interpretations of traditional woodblock prints, or through photography and film, artists have played a pivotal role in...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Writing about Portraiture, 18th Century to the Present Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 15883
Caty Telfair
Monday | Wednesday: 9:30 - 11:00am
“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: Shaping Lovemaking: Depictions of Sex and Sexuality in the Greco-Roman World Course Number: R1B Section 1 | CCN: 15882
Norman Underwood
Monday | Wednesday: 8:00 - 9:30am
This course examines visual and literary representations of sex and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean. As the course will make clear, Greek and Roman society held considerably different attitudes about sex and sexual practices from our own—and from one another....
Rubens Undergraduate Seminar: Renaissance Art and Science: Flemish Scientific Instruments in context Course Number: HA 192D | CCN: 34413
Koenraad Van Cleempoel
Monday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This course starts from the assumption that art and science where strongly related in the Renaissance, which we illustrate by studying a large corpus of scientific instruments, such as astrolabes, globes, sundials and armillary spheres. Representing the concept of ‘materialised...
Undergraduate Seminar: Art in Public Course Number: HA 192G | CCN: 32043
Wednesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
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 performances and ephemeral expression, focusing on how various audiences have...
Undergraduate Seminar: Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) and the Global Hispanic World Course Number: HA 192E | CCN: 32042
Thursday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
The Spanish born artist, who was active in Rome and Naples during the first half of the seventeenth-century, has left a series of works that are remarkable for their repetitiveness. Thumbnail photos of his oil paintings in catalogue raisonées betray...
Undergraduate Seminar: World Heritage and Digital Media Course Number: HA 192DH | CCN: 32898
Justin Underhill
Monday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
This course will investigate foundational principles of cultural heritage and its material preservation, with a particular focus on emerging threats (such as global warming, religious extremism, and armed conflict) and the technologies being utilized to confront these challenges. Students will...
Undergraduate Seminar: Psychologies of Art Course Number: HA 192T.1 | CCN: 33403
Wednesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
"Psychologies of Art” will map important psychological, psychoanalytical, and pathological patterns in art, in the history of art, and in art theory from the late Middle Ages to the present day.
In the first third we will trace themes such as...
Undergraduate Seminar: Where is Home? Issues of Tradition and belonging in Contemporary Asian arts Course Number: HA 192A | CCN: 32037
Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
The seminar will look into questions provoked by modern practices of Asian artists that take their homes, exhibitions, and workshops across continents. While in the world of globalization we all are uprooted in one way or another, a question of...
Latin American Art: Before Columbus Course Number: HA 188A | CCN: 32906
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 10:00 - 11:00am
The Western Hemisphere was a setting for outstanding accomplishments in the visual arts for millennia before the arrival of Europeans in the so-called “New World.” This course explores the indigenous artistic traditions of what is now Latin America, from the...
Etruscan and Roman Painting Course Number: HA C145A/Classics C175F | CCN: 33100
Christopher Hallett, Lisa Pieraccini (Classics)
Tuesday | Thursday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
The art of painting was highly valued in ancient Italy from the earliest times. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that the pre-Roman cultures of Italy—such as the Greeks, Leucanians, and Etruscans—all made extensive use of painting in various contexts. This course...
Buddhist Temple Art & Architecture in Japan Course Number: HA 134A | CCN: 31997
Tuesday | Thursday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
This course introduces the art and architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan. The Buddhist temple (tera)—monastery, convent, private chapel, hub of devotion and popular culture, and so forth—has been a key religious space in Japan and has had an enduring...
Digital Travels Course Number: HA C109/English C181 | CCN: 33562
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 11:00 - 12:00pm
This course introduces tools and methods of the Digital Humanities as they can be used in studying the art and literature of the early modern period. Our focus is on how, around 1600, things were in motion: people, but also...
Methods and Theories of Art History Course Number: HA 100 | CCN: 15903
Monday | Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:30pm
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...
Visual Cultures of California, 1500-Present Course Number: HA 87AC | CCN: 33526
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 2:00 - 3:00pm
This class introduces the diverse visual cultures of the geographic area now known as California. The course will consider how space and race are culturally represented and reproduced over a broad span of time and across California’s shifting political designations...
Art and Architecture in Japan Course Number: HA 35 | CCN: 31991
Tuesday | Thursday: 8:00 - 9:30am
This introductory survey poses a challenge: to look and think critically about the art and architecture of Japan, ancient to contemporary. We will study a range of artistic/architectural categories and styles across a long historical span: objects and structures of...
Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present Course Number: HA 11 | CCN: 15890
Tuesday | Thursday: 9:30 - 11:00am
This course is an introduction to visual art in Europe and the USA since the 14th century with the main emphasis on painting and sculpture. Rather than attempting to offer a sweeping synthetic narrative of the development of art...
Stronach Travel Graduate Seminar: Art and Memory in Peru Course Number: HA 291 | CCN: 32064
Monday | 1:00 - 4:00pm
This graduate seminar will explore the ways in which forms of memory (personal, social, historical, etc.) have been recorded, made visual and material, contested and re-made in art and visual culture produced during critical times in Peruvian prehistory and history....
Graduate Seminar: Visibility, Virtuality, and Visuality Course Number: HA 290 | CCN: 15958
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
Based on recent work by the instructor, the seminar develops and tests a comprehensive framework for analysis of pictoriality in the visual field, deploying certain traditions of art-historical reasoning in combination with intellectual resources drawn from philosophical psychology (especially the...
Graduate Seminar: Ornament and Alterity Course Number: HA 270 | CCN: 15955
Tuesday | 9:30 - 12:30pm
This seminar will explore the early modern origins of three closely interrelated stylistic categories, the Gothic, grotesque, and arabesque, and the ways in which they engage with the perceived alterity of ornament. Both the Gothic and grotesque were defined...
Mellon Graduate Seminar: Greek and Roman Art in the Hearst Museum: The Neuerburg Bequest Course Number: HA 240 | CCN: 32045
Christopher Hallett, Andrew Stewart
Friday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This is an object-based course held under the auspices of the Mellon Curatorial Preparedness Program. It will focus on the bequest to U.C. Berkeley in 1997 of almost two dozen boxes of ancient artifacts by the distinguished classical archaeologist, architectural...
Graduate Seminar: Dunhuang Course Number: HA 230 | CCN: 32044
Wednesday | 10:00 - 1:00pm
This graduate seminar will focus on Dunhuang, the richest Buddhist cave site in China. Over the course of the semester, we will trace shifts in the design and construction of its nearly 400 devotional caves over a millennium, from the...
