Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Picturing Absence: The Silence and Excess of Trauma Course Number: R1B Section 1 | CCN: 22519
Katherine Guerra
Monday | Wednesday: 8:00 - 9:30am
In this course, we will examine films that have critical reputations marking them as either bombastic and fast-paced, or restrained with very little dialogue. We will investigate the ways in which films from generic traditions can represent marginalized bodies/experiences/voices...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Medicine and the Art of Observation Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 22520
Eva Allan
Monday | Wednesday: 9:30 - 11:00am
Increasingly over the past 20 years, medical schools have started to integrate art observation courses into their curricula. The visual tools of art history–observation and questioning; careful, critical looking; and noticing details in relation to the whole–have been shown to...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Monsters and the monstrous, eighteenth century to the present Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 22521
Caty Telfair
Monday | Wednesday: 11:00 - 12:30pm
Modern culture is bristling with monsters: vampires, werewolves, zombies and Frankensteins galore have taken over our big and small screens, haunt our bookshelves, and stalk the halls of our museums and galleries. We don’t believe in monsters, per se –...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Monsters and the monstrous, eighteenth century to the present Course Number: R1B Section 4 | CCN: 22522
Caty Telfair
Monday | Wednesday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
Modern culture is bristling with monsters: vampires, werewolves, zombies and Frankensteins galore have taken over our big and small screens, haunt our bookshelves, and stalk the halls of our museums and galleries. We don’t believe in monsters, per se –...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Computing the Visual Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 22523
Nick Gutierrez
Monday | Wednesday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
In this course, we will practice the skills of college level reading, writing, and research through a critical investigation of the impact of digital images on twentieth and twenty-first century visual cultures. We will analyze digital images in the...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: The Architecture of Home – Artistic Representations from Levittown to the Co-house Course Number: R1B Section 6 | CCN: 22524
Ioana Chinan
Monday | Wednesday: 3:30 - 5:00pm
The architecture of the home is the result of a historically constructed juxtaposition between visual representations (advertisement, marketing) and the social manifestations of domestic life (everyday practices, housing policy among other manifestations). In twentieth-century America, the abstract notion of home...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Weapons of Mass Seduction: Modern Chinese Encounters with Propaganda Course Number: R1B Section 7 | CCN: 22525
Julia Keblinska
Monday | Wednesday: 5:00 - 6:30pm
Propaganda is often dismissed as obvious and heavy-handed political messaging that suppresses individual expression and artistic creativity in the name of a violent regime. Today, it is hard to take Chairman Mao—whose rhetoric turned culture into a weapon—at his word...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Visions of Empire, Voices of Resistance: Rome and Iberia Through Image, Text and Myth Course Number: R1B Section 8 | CCN: 32744
Keith Budner
Tuesday | Thursday: 8:00 - 9:30am
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 – a king, a prince, an emperor, a president. But if art can...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: The Dot and the Line in East Asia Course Number: R1B Section 9 | CCN: 33356
Jon Soriano
Monday | Wednesday: 8:00 - 9:30am
Throughout centuries of dynastic change in East Asia, mastery over ink and brush could reliably be used to advance one’s position in society. Specific ethical, educational, and aesthetic attainments could be read through an individual’s abilities in calligraphy and...
Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present Course Number: HA 11 | CCN: 22526
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 during...
Beauty and Truth in Islamic Art Course Number: HA 21 | CCN: 31962
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 2:00 - 3:00pm
This course is an exercise in thinking about human perception and knowing in relation to the history of Islamic art and visual culture. It tracks the expression of theories of beauty and truth in great works of art and architecture...
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Humanists on the Move Course Number: HA 39G | CCN: 32392
Wednesday | 10:00 - 12:00pm
This class is about renaissance humanists and how we can use digital means, as well as traditional ones, to study them. Our particular focus is on the ways people were connected in the renaissance — as patrons, as readers, as...
Introduction to Italian Renaissance Course Number: HA C62/ Italian C62 | CCN: 32308
Tuesday | Thursday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
This new version of Berkeley’s interdisciplinary Italian Renaissance survey presents moments from Italian art and literature from circa 1300 to circa 1600. Considering artworks and texts as mirrors and motors of cultural change, Italy will be shown in its unique...
AsiaAmerica: Asian American Art and Architecture Course Number: HA 132AC | CCN: 32587
Tuesday | Thursday: 5:00 - 6:30pm
This course focuses on modern and contemporary Asian American art and architecture from the mid-1800s to the present. It is not intended to be an encyclopedic survey of Asian American art. Rather, each class uses case studies—the work of a...
Hellenistic Art (ca. 336-30 B.C.) Course Number: HA 141C | CCN: 30044
Tuesday | Thursday: 12:30 - 2:00pm
“Hellenistic” means “late Greek,” and this class is about Greek art after the classical period. Completely restructured and revised, and including weekly sections with a GSI, it covers Greek architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and luxury crafts from Alexander the Great...
Pre-Colombian Art History Course Number: HA 188A | CCN: 30472
Molly Fierer-Donaldson
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 3:00 - 4:00pm
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 early...
Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age Course Number: HA 190B/Classics 172 | CCN: 26532
Kim S. Shelton
Tuesday | Thursday: 2:00 - 3:30pm
Introductory overview of the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations of the Bronze Age (3000-1100 BCE) Aegean: Crete, Cyclades, Mainland Greece, and Western Anatolia. Intended to expose to the sites, monuments, art, and artifacts of these cultures and understand the...
Venice in the Early Modern World Course Number: HA 190E | CCN: 30048
Tuesday | Thursday: 9:30 - 11:00am
The artistic heritage of Venice is the combined result of unique local geographic conditions and extensive engagement with a larger multi-cultural world. The material cultures of the Mediterranean – from the Islamic marble intarsia of the Ottoman Empire to the...
American Architecture: UCB Campus Course Number: HA 190G | CCN: 30049
Mon. | Wed. | Fri. | 10:00 - 11:00am
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 and in envisioning a landscape of learning....
Undergraduate Seminar: Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Transcripts: Modern & Contemporary Art of South Asia Course Number: HA 192A | CCN: 19979
Monday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
Do extra-aesthetic conditions exert pressure on artistic form? Do political processes impact art history writing? We will enter these questions via the modern and contemporary art of South Asia.
Our deliberations will begin in the nineteenth century, when the Indian subcontinent...
Undergraduate Seminar: “Brimming with the Muses’ Gifts”: Ancient Mediterranean Cities in Images and the Imaginary Course Number: HA 192B.1 | CCN: 30050
Monday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This undergraduate seminar has two goals. First, it explores the ways in which ancient urban dwellers imagined and designed their cities. Second, it investigates the notion of the city as an actor and inspiration for ancient artistic and literary production....
Undergraduate Seminar: Etruscan Wall Painting: From Here to Eternity Course Number: HA 192B.2 | CCN: 33466
Friday | 1:00 - 4:00pm
For centuries artists, archaeologists, scholars, and poets have been captivated by the phenomenal images found on the painted walls of Etruscan tombs. These wall paintings offer an extraordinary look at the earliest examples of monumental painting in ancient Italy (a...
Undergraduate Seminar: AR/VR Development for Art History (and Beyond) Course Number: HA 192DH | CCN: 33293
Justin Underhill
Tuesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
-William Blake
In this course, we will collaborate to build several AR and VR apps of art historical significance. A series of case studies will explore how museums and cultural heritage specialists use technology...
Undergraduate Seminar: Global Tudors Course Number: HA 192E/ English 165.1 | CCN: 19980
Friday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This seminar challenges us to look back to a time before England’s colonial period and consider how people of the 16th century began to perceive of themselves as part of a truly global world. The class will begin by thinking...
Undergraduate Seminar: African Power Course Number: HA 192M | CCN: 30051
Tuesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
Following a troubled postcolonial era in which the figure of the grotesque, corrupt dictator came to represent African state power in the global imaginary, the 2018 blockbuster film Black Panther revived images of dignified and elegant African monarchs whose legitimate...
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar: Selecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting “Queer Art” Course Number: HA 192T.1/ 290.2 | CCN: 30052
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
This seminar builds from a pioneering exhibition surveying the history of "Queer British Art 1861 – 1967" in Britain, held at Tate Gallery (London) in 2017. The date range was set by significant legal developments affecting same-sex relationalities in Britain...
Undergraduate Seminar: Global Surrealisms Course Number: HA 192T.2 | CCN: 30056
Wednesday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
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...
Proseminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art Course Number: HA C204/ Classics C204 | CCN: 30055
Christopher Hallett, Andrew Stewart
Friday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
This seminar, which is offered every two or three years, 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 it is both impossible...
Graduate Seminar: In the Nature of Things? Japan, Art History, and Ecology Course Number: HA 234 | CCN: 30066
Thursday | 9:00 - 12:00pm
This seminar focuses on the visual-material cultures of the Japanese archipelago in relation to emerging practices of eco-critical inquiry. At first glance, Japan may appear to be an important case for such investigation given the notion of Japanese (and “Oriental”)...
Mellon Exhibition Graduate Seminar: Diaspora | Migration | Exile Course Number: HA 290.1 | CCN: 19972
Lauren Kroiz, and Leigh Raiford
Wednesday | 10:00 - 1:00pm
This is the second semester of a two semester sequence.
Co-taught by professors in History of Art and African Diaspora Studies, this year-long graduate seminar will curate an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) focused on...
Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar: Selecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting “Queer Art” Course Number: HA 290.2/ 192T.1 | CCN: 32775
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
This seminar builds from a pioneering exhibition surveying the history of "Queer British Art 1861 – 1967" in Britain, held at Tate Gallery (London) in 2017. The date range was set by significant legal developments affecting same-sex relationalities in Britain...
Graduate Seminar: Infrastructure Imaginaries: Informal Urbanism, Creativity, and Ecology in Lagos, Nigeria Course Number: HA 290.3 | CCN: 19974
Ivy Mills, and Charisma Acey (City and Regional Planning)
Thursday | 2:00 - 6:00pm
“Lagos, the city where nothing works but everything happens.” Nnedi Okorafor
Lagos is notorious for its ever-expanding population, massive infrastructural challenges, and controversial practices of state-sanctioned land capture. Neighborhoods branded as undesirable slums are razed—their inhabitants violently displaced and economies destroyed—as...
(Visual and Material) Conversion in the Early Modern World Course Number: HA 290.4 | CCN: 32776
Thursday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
The notion of conversion exerts some pressure on the given terminology of trans-cultural encounters of early modern maritime capitalism and European empires (hybridity, diffusion, transmission, circulation, convergence, etc.). In addition to studying religious conversion and the visual/performative cultures of missionary...
Graduate Seminar: COLOR! Course Number: HA 290.5 | CCN: 32858
Wednesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
How strange is our attempt to write about the visual, and color is perhaps the most challenging visual quality to describe, even to name. Art historians have devoted books upon books to perspective and to drawing, but color is too...
Stronach Travel Graduate Seminar: Indian Ocean Art Histories: Goa; Bombay; Kochi Course Number: HA 291 | CCN: 30054
Tuesday | 2:00 - 5:00pm
Bringing together art history, environmental humanities, and maritime 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...
