Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Art and Labor: The Visual Culture of Work in Early Twentieth-Century United States Course Number: R1B Section 2 | CCN: 21700
Monday, Wednesday: 9:30-11:00am
In the early twentieth century, millions of Americans entered the workforce for the first time. Artists and producers of visual culture depicted and documented these workers, some of whom engaged in jobs that had not existed previously, while others labored...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Image and/as Identity in Mexico Course Number: R1B Section 3 | CCN: 21701
Monday, Wednesday: 11:00-12:30pm
This course explores how visual and material culture both reflect and construct Mexican identities over time by considering the role images play in the formation of a shared imagined community. By looking closely at select objects from the sixteenth century...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Tracing Religion and Spirit in the Art of Southeast Asia Course Number: R1B Section 5 | CCN: 21703
Monday, Wednesday: 2:00-3:30pm
In Southeast Asia, religion permeates everyday life. This pervasiveness is informed by a long history of indigenous beliefs as well as exposure to world religions through centuries of maritime trade and the rapid movement of peoples in the contemporary era....
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Writing on East and Southeast Asian Ceramics Course Number: R1B Section 6 | CCN: 21704
Monday, Wednesday: 3:30-5:00pm
Ceramics are tools for use, surfaces for ornament, feats of technology, and carriers of meaning across cultural and geographic borders. Ceramics produced in east and southeast Asia are considered among the world’s first global commodities. They are also fascinating works...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Visions of Resistance: Film, Folklore, and Fiber Arts Course Number: R1B Section 7 | CCN: 21705
Monday, Wednesday: 5:00-6:30pm
This course explores themes of social, political, and ecological justice in contemporary film and textile art. Specifically, we will examine how modern folkloric adaptations, both in the form of narrative scripts and traditional material practices, act as potent vehicles of...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Depicting Food and Drink in Mediterranean Antiquity Course Number: R1B Section 8 | CCN: 24599
Tuesday, Thursday: 5:00-6:30pm
Illustrations of food — sumptuous, simple, half-consumed, or yet to be hunted — have been central to human art for at least forty thousand years. The centrality of food and drink to cultural identity and survival has lent it this...
Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Art and Crisis in Neoliberal Senegal Course Number: R1B Section 9 | CCN: 32839
Tuesday, Thursday: 11:00-12:30pm
Senegal has long been a beacon of art and culture on the continent. In the 1960s, the government of Leopold Sedar Senghor—poet, philosopher, and first president of independent Senegal—famously claimed to have dedicated 25% of the state budget to art...
Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present Course Number: HA C11 | CCN: 25367
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...
Extinction And/As Visual Culture Course Number: HA 16 | CCN: 33457
Tuesday, Thursday: 11:00-12:30pm
This course brings the critical study of visual culture to the study and response to species extinction. What does the extinction of a species look like? Few of us see extinction happening right in front of us, in our own...
Cities and the Arts: Rome and Constantinople Course Number: HA 108 | CCN: 26602
Tuesday, Thursday: 12:30-2:00pm
This lecture class explores the ways in which urban dwellers in the ancient Mediterranean imagined, decorated, and designed their cities. The ancient cities of Rome and Constantinople will be the focus of these explorations, though the class will also engage...
Art, Architecture, and Design in the United States (1800 to the Present) Course Number: HA 185A | CCN: 31112
Mon, Wed, Fri: 2:00-3:00pm
Looking at major developments in painting and architecture from Romanticism to Post-modernism (with some attention to sculpture, city planning, design, and photography), this course addresses art and its social context over the last two and a half centuries in what...
The Shock of the Modern: European Art, 1900-1940 Course Number: HA 186A | CCN: 31113
Tuesday, Thursday: 5:00-6:30pm
*This course will not meet for section*
In this course, for which no prior art history experience is required, we will look at the major developments, movements, and paradigms of European modernism from the turn of the century to the beginning...
Illusion, Memory and Prosperity: The Painted Walls of Ancient Italy Course Number: HA 190B | CCN: 25897
Christopher Hallett, Lisa Pieraccini
Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30-11:00am
The art of painting was highly valued in ancient Italy. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that pre-Roman cultures of Italy made extensive use of painting. This course seeks to examine the relationship between Italian wall painting of the Roman period and the...
Contemporary African Art in Transnational Perspective Course Number: HA 190T.1 | CCN: 31114
Tuesday, Thursday: 2:00-3:30pm
*This course will not meet for discussion section.
In 2018, British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor announced she was suing hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar, whose music video for “All the Stars” – one of the hit songs on the Black Panther soundtrack...
Art and Authorship: Theory of the Copy Course Number: HA 190T.2 | CCN: 32794
Mon, Wed, Fri: 10:00-11:00am
*This course will not meet for discussion section.
The course surveys critical controversies surrounding fakes, forgeries, multiples, counterfeits, imitations, and appropriations from the Late Renaissance to the present day, in European, American, Australian and Chinese art. Each of the images and...
Undergraduate Seminar: Global Modernism/s: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia Course Number: HA 192A.1 | CCN: 33295
Monday: 2:00-5:00pm
The idea of “global modernism” has now gained significant currency within the academy. But what exactly does this term connote? When appended to “modernism” does the term “global” merely serve as a moniker for what was formerly described as the...
Undergraduate Seminar: Space, Time, and Chinese Architecture Course Number: HA 192A.2 | CCN: 19548
Wednesday, 2:00-5:00pm
This seminar offers a set of introductions to basic aspects and elements of built environments in China. It is not a chronological survey. Each of the thematic sections incorporates a variety of perspectives, theoretical and technical, aesthetic and historical. Our...
Undergraduate Seminar: Etruscan Pasts, Present and Future: An Art of Many Faces Course Number: HA 192B | CCN: 19549
Tuesday, 2:00-5:00pm
This seminar will explore the material culture and art of the Etruscans through the lens of indigeneity and colonialism (both ancient and modern) with a special emphasis on reception studies. We will approach this subject from a variety of perspectives...
Undergraduate Seminar: Giotto: History, Theory, Practice Course Number: HA 192D | CCN: 32691
Friday, 2:00-5:00pm
Focusing on Giotto’s life, works, and historiography, this seminar will guide students systematically through the history of Western art and architecture in its Vasarian and post-Vasarian construction from a critical point of view of 2023 Berkeley: Giotto’s biography and legend...
Undergraduate Seminar: Visions of Women’s Suffrage Course Number: HA 192G | CCN: 33753
Thursday, 10:00-1:00pm
Beginning with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and ending in 1920 with the successful passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the movement for female suffrage united, but also divided American women, particularly along lines of race. This...
Undergraduate Seminar: African Diasporic Art from 2000 to now, with focus on New York (and beyond) Course Number: HA 192H | CCN: 33190
Monday, 10:00-1:00pm
In 2001, “Freestyle”, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9-11 pre-Obama world. How to...
Undergraduate Seminar: Black Consciousness & The Black Arts Movement: Mid-Twentieth Century Resistance Art Movements in Southern Africa and the United States Course Number: HA 192T | CCN: 31118
Zamansele Nsele
Friday, 2:00-5:00pm
This seminar will be historical and comparative in its approach by engaging the visual traditions of resistance art movements between Southern Africa and the United States. A comparative analysis will consider the similarities and differences between the iconography of Black...
Graduate Seminar: Economy, Energy, Exhaustion: Modernism’s Unstable Bodies Course Number: HA 285 | CCN: 33053
Wednesday, 2:00-5:00pm
The human body was central to the modernist project. At the same time, the body itself was being undone, remade, and reimagined: think, for instance, of the invention of the X-Ray in 1895, the technologized violence of World War I...
Graduate Seminar: Demystifying Funerary Landscapes, Identities and Receptions in Egypt and Etruria Course Number: HA 290.1 | CCN: 31120
Thursday, 2:00-5:00pm
This seminar focuses on the vast and complex issues of the Egyptian and Etruscan underworlds and sheds light on two ancient Mediterranean cultures known predominantly by their funerary practices and beliefs in the afterlife. For centuries there has been a...
Graduate Seminar: Black Melancholia an Exhibition Course Number: HA 290.2 | CCN: 32892
Tuesday, 10:00-1:00pm
This exploratory graduate seminar focuses on Black Melancholia an exhibition that has taken place at the Center for Curatorial Studies NY IN 2022. The exhibition introduced Black Melancholia as a critical practice that ruptures narratives of art histories and the...
Stronach Travel Graduate Seminar: Material Culture: The Interpretation of Objects Course Number: HA 291 | CCN: 33747
Wednesday, 9:00-12:00pm
This seminar looks at both material culture theory and the many ways scholars understand, ‘read,’ and interpret objects. It draws on the practices and questions of multiple disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, folklore, and art history. It considers painting...
