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ARTS #431 - Visual Studies
Credits:
4.00
Appreciation and understanding of the visual arts. Examines
works from a variety of periods; emphasis on styles, formal
analysis, methods, and materials of art production. For
freshmen and sophomores; open to juniors and seniors by
permission. Not for art dept. major credit. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 431H - Honors/Visual Studies
Credits:
4.00
See description for ARTS 431. Writing intensive.
ARTS 455 - Introduction to Architecture
Credits:
4.00
Study of architectural graphics, design theories, form
determinants, and the architect in society. Includes case
study projects. Lab.
ARTS 480 - Introduction to Art History
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of the central forms and meanings of art history
through intensive study of selected artists and monuments.
The course will include works of architecture, sculpture,
painting, and the graphic arts. Topics will vary but might
include the Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, Michelangelo's
Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rembrandt's self-portraits, Monet's
landscapes, Picasso's Guernica, Frank Lloyd Wright's
Fallingwater, Georgia O'Keeffe's abstractions, ukiyo-e
prints, and Benin sculpture. Writing intensive.
ARTS 487 - Themes and Images in Art
Credits:
4.00
Examination of one or two central ideas embodied in the
imagery of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts
across a wide cultural spectrum. Stress on the
interconnection between visual forms and the symbolic and
philosophical concepts they express. Papers and essay
examinations are required. A) Classicism and its
Discontents; B) Nature and Culture in Art; C) Primitivism
and Modern Art; D) Major Mythic Images of Women; E) Symbols
of Innocence and Experience in the New World; F) Abstraction
and Ideology; H) Portrait, Self, and Society. Descriptions
of sections available in the Art and Art History Department
Office. No more than one section of the course may be taken
for credit. Writing intensive.
ARTS 487H - Honors/Themes and Images in Art
Credits:
4.00
See description for ARTS 487. Writing intensive.
ARTS 501 - Ceramics
Credits:
4.00
Theory and practice of basic ceramics; includes all
methods of basic construction, decoration, glazing, and
kiln firing. Emphasis on each individual's perceptual
development. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 525 - Woodworking
Credits:
4.00
Theory and application of basic woodworking principles;
design concepts, primarily utilitarian, applied to shaping
a mass, constructing volumetric and line/plane forms; use of
a complete range of hand, portable powered, and stationary
powered tools. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 532 - Introductory Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Students deal primarily with observational perspective
problems (still life, architectural interiors, landscape,
etc.), utilizing a full range of drawing materials. Lab.
ARTS 532H - Honors/Introductory Drawing
Credits:
4.00
See description for ARTS 532.
ARTS 536 - Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio
Credits:
4.00
Study of intaglio printmaking techniques, including
etching, dry point, and engraving. Prereq: ARTS 532 or
permission. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 537 - Introduction to Printmaking: Lithography
Credits:
4.00
Study of lithographic processes on stone and aluminum
plate. Prereq: ARTS 532 or permission. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 544 - Water Media I
Credits:
4.00
Transparent and opaque water color. Prereq: ARTS 546. Lab.
ARTS 546 - Introductory Painting
Credits:
4.00
Use of the still life and the figure. Color, value,
composition, and some art history. Slide lectures.
Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab.
ARTS 551 - Photography
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to theory and practice of black and white
photography as an expressive medium. Students provide
their own cameras. Prereq: any studio art course or
permission. Lab.
ARTS 567 - Introductory Sculpture
Credits:
4.00
Theory and practice of designing three-dimensional
compositions using a series of progressive assignments to
develop a practical understanding of visual elements,
including line, form, space, mass, and plane. Special fee.
Lab.
ARTS 570 - Art of the Ancient World
Credits:
4.00
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Following an analysis of Paleolithic
cave painting, the course surveys the beginnings of Western
art and civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Minoan
Crete. Detailed examination of archaic and classical forms
and ideas in Greek art; the course ends with the
transformation and decline of classical ideas in imperial
Rome.
ARTS 571 - Art of the Middle Ages
Credits:
4.00
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in medieval Europe.
Beginning with Early Christian art, the course examines the
interplay between classical traditions and the more abstract
forms and ideas that emerged at the end of the Roman Empire
and then flourished in Byzantine and early medieval art.
Special attention to the development of the Romanesque and
Gothic forms and meanings in the high medieval civilization
of the 12th and 13th centuries.
ARTS 572 - Art of the Age of Humanism
Credits:
4.00
European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the 15th
to the 17th centuries. The course focuses on the
revolutionary character of early Renaissance art in Italy
and the Netherlands and the heroic age of High Renaissance
classicism that followed around 1500. Examines the
subsequent crisis of 16th-century Mannerism and realism, and
the ruptures and continuities underlying the diverse forms
and meanings of Baroque art in the following century.
ARTS 573 - Art of the Modern World
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe and
America from the French Revolution to the present. Surveys
the rapidly changing currents and countercurrents in modern
art, including Neo-classism and Romanticism, Realism and
Impressionism, the Cubist revolution, and various forms of
20th century abstraction. In addition to the individual
artists ans movements, discussion of the cultural upheavals
that have driven modernism's pervasive sense of crisis and
pursuit of the "new."
ARTS 574 - Architectural History
Credits:
4.00
A survey of the cheif and representative buildings from
the entire history of architecture. Analysis of buildings
with regard to structure, form, and symbolic content,
concentrating on major works such as the pyramids, the
Roman Patheon, the Gothic cathedral, the Renaissance
palace, the Baroque church, and the modern skyscraper.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 580 - History of Art to 1400
Credits:
4.00
A chronologically and geographically broad introduction to
the history of art and architecture and to the discipline of
art history. The first semester of the two-semester sequence
ranges from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 581 - History of Art from 1400 to the Present
Credits:
4.00
A chronologically and geographically broad introduction to
the history of art and architecture and to the discipline
of art history. The second semester of the two-semester
sequence ranges from the Renaissance to the present.
ARTS 580 is recommended as preparation for, but is not a
formal prerequisite for 581. Writing intensive.
ARTS 585 - History of Islamic Art
Credits:
4.00
This course examines the main monuments and issues in the
history of Islamic art. It is intended as a general
introduction to the field and no prior knowledge is
required. Although the course focuses on the period between
the rise of Islam and the Mongol invasions, students will be
encouraged to explore later periods of Islamic art in their
papers. Particular attention will be paid to patronage,
form, and legislation of pilgrimage sites, and other forms
of sacred architecture. (Also offered as HIST 600.)
ARTS 598 - Sophomore Seminar
Credits:
4.00
Encourages experimentation by integrating verbal and
plastic understandings through readings, discussions,
studio work. Field trips. Prereq: two art history courses
and two studio arts courses.
ARTS 600 - Internship
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Election to take an internship in the following areas within
the Department of Art and Art History: (600A) Painting,
Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture, Woodworking,
Ceramics, and Graphic Design; (600B) Art History; (600C)
Architecture; and (600D) Museum Work. Cannot be used to
satisfy one of three electives in the Studio B.F.A. Program
and one of the two electives in the Studio B.A. Program. In
art history, it can be taken as an elective above the
11-course major requirement. May be repeated up to 8
credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS 601 - Ceramics Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Application of new ceramic materials and techniques, with
emphasis on ideas and their expression through form and
content. Experimentation encouraged. May be repeated for a
maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 501. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 608 - Arts and American Society: Women Writers and Artists, 1850-Present
Credits:
4.00
Team-taught course studying the impact of gender definitions
on the lives and works of selected American artists.
Considers lesser-known figures such as Fannie Fern, Lilly
Martin Spencer, and Mary Hallock Foote, as well as
better-known artists such as Willa Cather and Georgia
O'Keeffe. Prereq: permission or one of the following:
WS 401, HIST 566, ENGL 585, 586, 685, 785, or a 600-level
art history course. (Also offered as AMST 608, ENGL 608,
HIST 608, and HUMA 608.) Studio art majors who take this
course for major credit will not receive major credit for
ARTS 610. Writing intensive.
ARTS 610 - Regional Studies in America: New England Culture in Changing Times
Credits:
4.00
Team-taught course investigating some of the major
contributions New England has made to American life.
Focusing on three periods: the Puritan era, 1620-90; the
Transcendental period, 1830-60; and the period of emerging
industrialism in the late 19th century. (Also offered as
AMST 610, ENGL 610, HIST 610, and HUMA 610.) Studio art
majors take this course for major credit will not receive
major credit for ARTS 608. Writing intensive.
ARTS 625 - Wood/Furniture Design Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Design and construction of the major furniture forms, using
a broad range of techniques (including lamination, bending,
and molding) to execute a series of concept areas relevant
to furniture. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits.
Prereq: ARTS 525. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 632 - Intermediate Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on three major topics: 1) linear perspective,
2) anatomical and/or structural aspects of the human figure,
and 3) special materials (painterly and/or mixed media).
Outside assignments encourage original thinking about
image making. Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab.
ARTS 633 - Life Drawing
Credits:
4.00
A continuation of the more formal aesthetic issues
introduced in introductory and intermediate drawing with
an emphasis on drawing the human figure from life. Prereq:
ARTS 632. Lab.
ARTS 636 - Printmaking Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Emphasis on development of the individual's imagery in
lithography and/or intaglio, including an introduction to
multicolor printmaking. May be repeated for a
maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 536 and/or
ARTS 537. Lab.
ARTS 645 - Water Media II
Credits:
4.00
Continuation of ARTS 544; introduction to other water-based
media. Prereq: ARTS 544. Lab.
ARTS 646 - Intermediate Painting
Credits:
4.00
More complex issues of the visual language. Still life and
the figure continue as dominant subject matter. Slide
lectures. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Prereq: ARTS 546. Lab.
ARTS 651 - Photography Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Individualized projects involving creative methods,
including color, manipulative, and documentary techniques,
Students provide their own cameras. Prereq: ARTS 551. May be
repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. Lab.
ARTS #654 - 17th and 18th Century American Architecture
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings from
the European colonization to the birth of the American
republic. A study of religious, public, and domestic
architecture and of the settlement patterns of the Spanish,
French, Dutch, and English colonies, culminating in the
revolutionary classicism of the new republic. Typical works
include the California mission church, the New Orleans
raised cottage, the Dutch farm house of the Hudson Valley,
the plantations of Virginia, and the Boston State House.
Field trips. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 655 - Early Modern Architecture: Revolution to World War I
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings in
Europe and America from the visionary Neoclassicists of the
late eighteenth cenutry and the revival styles of the
Victorian era to the birth and proliferation of the
skyscraper. A study of the religious, public, commercial,
and domestic architecture and of town planning during the
rise of the modern nation-state and market capitalism.
Typical works include the University of Virginia campus, the
Houses of Parliament, the Eiffel Tower, the Chicago
skyscraper, and Prairie House of Frank Lloyd Wright. Field
trips. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 656 - Contemporary Architecture: The Buildings of Our Times
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings in
Europe and America from the International Style and Frank
Lloyd Wright to the rise of postmodernism. A study of
20th century religious, public, commercial, and domestic
architecture and of town planning that emphasizes the
important formal, technological, and theoretical
developments of high modernism and its aftermath. Typical
works include the Bauhaus, Wright's Fallingwater,
Le Corbusier's visionary town plans, the Air Force Academy,
and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Field trips.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 667 - Sculpture Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Design and production of sculpture focusing on various
materials and techniques and how they relate to composition
and content. Emphasis on understanding visual language while
developing an individual style. May be repeated for a
maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 567. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 673 - Egypt and Nubia: Art, Architecture, and Rediscovery
Credits:
4.00
An examination of the art and architecture of Egypt and
Nubia from the ancient, Christian, and Islamic periods to
the modern era. Specific topics inlude: Egyptian religion
and the major funerary complexes of the pharaohs; art and
culture in Nubia; Egypt under the Ptolemies and the Romans,
Christian monastic reform and the Copts; the spread of Islam
under the Fatimids and Mamluks; travelers and archaeologists
in the nineteenth century. Through field trips, the course
will take advantage of the extensive collection of Egyptian
art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as the
collections of Coptic and Islamic art at the Harvard
University Art Museums in Cambridge, MA. Writing intensive.
ARTS 674 - Greek Art
Credits:
4.00
Greek art and architecture from the Bronze Age civilizations
of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece to the late classical
period of the 4th century B.C. Emphasis on the interplay of
narrative and abstraction in the development of a
distinctively Greek aesthetic consciousness, on the forms
of art and thought in the Archaic Period, and on the
flowering of the classical style in the 5th century B.C.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 675 - Roman Art
Credits:
4.00
Art and architecture in the ancient Mediterranean world
from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Emphasis on the interplay between the Greek and Etruscan
traditions between public and private in Roman life and art,
and the breakdown of classical ideals in the late empire.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing
intensive.
ARTS #676 - History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Credits:
4.00
During the Middle Ages manuscripts were the primary locus of
the painting tradition. After a consideration of the
development of the manuscript book and our method of study,
this course will consider the major works of manuscript
illumination and their painted cycles of miniatures. Such
important works as the Book of Kells, the Winchester Bible,
the Psalter of St. Louis, and the Tres Riches Heures of Jean
de Berry are considered in their cultural and historical
contexts. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 677 - Early Medieval Art
Credits:
4.00
Development of Christian art from 300 to 1000 A.D. Study
of the formulation of a new visual language via the
intersection of Mediterranean and northern European
traditions. Major focus on early Christian catacombs,
Byzantine mosaics, insular manuscripts, and Carolingian
imperial art. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 678 - Romanesque and Gothic Art
Credits:
4.00
The culmination of medieval artistic development through
examination of major architectural monuments and their
sculptural programs, as well as important centers of
manuscript illumination. The period from the year 1000 A.D.
through the beginnings of the Renaissance in the early 15th
century will be stressed. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level
art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 679 - Northern Renaissance Art I
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and manuscript
illumination in France, Germany, and the Netherlands in
the 14th and 15th centuries. Emphasis on the development
of the traditions of Northern naturalism and the emergence
in 15th-century Flanders of a distinct Renaissance
consciousness, which runs parallel to contemporary trends
in Italy. Major figures include the Limbourg brothers,
Claus Sluter, Jan van Eyck, and Hugo van der Goes. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS #680 - Northern Renaissance Art II
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts in Germany and the
Netherlands in the 16th century. Emphasis on the encounter
of the Northern tradition with the classical and humanistic
culture of the Italian Renaissance and on the impact of the
Protestant Reformation. Major figures include Bosch, Durer,
Holbein, and Bruegel. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art
history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 681 - Early Renaissance Art in Italy
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy during the
14th and 15th centuries. The emergence of Renaissance style
in the art of such masters as Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello,
Bellini, and Piero della Francesca. Attention is also given
to the broad cultural developments to which they belong.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 682 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art in Italy
Credits:
4.00
Continuation of ARTS 681. Primary focus on the formation of
High Renaissance classicism in the art of Leonardo,
Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante, and Titian. Attention is
also given to the subsequent crisis of the classical ideal
in 16th-century mannerism. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level
art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 683 - Baroque Art in Southern Europe
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy, France, and
Spain during the 17th century. Emphasis on the diverse and
innovative character of art in this period of crisis between
the Renaissance and the modern era. Intensive analysis of
the works of such major masters as Bernini, Caravaggio,
Poussin, and Velazquez. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level
art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 684 - Baroque Art in Northern Europe
Credits:
4.00
Dutch and Flemish painting in the 17th century. Examination
of such major figures as Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and
Vermeer. Attention is also given to the development of the
genres and to the many little masters who practiced them.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 685 - Graphic Art of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
Credits:
4.00
The availability of paper and the invention of the printing
press made it possible for drawings and prints to become
fundamental elements in the western artistic tradition.
Prints have been called major instigators of the production
of secular art and of overtly experimental art. They were
the first art made with an elite by relatively broad class
of collectors in mind, and--in different examples--the first
art that could be owned even by the poor. Examination of
anonymous works, works by artists famous only as
printmakers, and the printed work by or after Mantegna,
Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Bruegel,
and Rembrandt, as well as drawings of the period. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 686 - Neo-Classicism to Romanticism
Credits:
4.00
European painting and sculpture in its socio-political
context, with emphasis on the relation of idea to image,
from David and the French Revolution to the romantic
landscapes of Friedrich and Runge, and the romantic-classic
debate involving Delacroix and Ingres. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 687 - Realism and Impressionism
Credits:
4.00
Focus on the political, cultural, and physical changes in
Paris in the second half of the 19th century and their
relation to Impressionism. Work of Courbet, Millet, Monet,
Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot, Renior, Cezanne, van Gogh,
Seurat, and others examined in the context of the rise of
landscape painting and the establishment of the avant-garde
in the visual arts. Concentration on the great collections
of the Harvard University Art Museums and the Boston Museum
Fine Arts. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 688 - 20th Century Art I
Credits:
4.00
An examination of European and American art from
symbolism to surrealism. The course focuses on art and
theory from the 1890s to World War II in relation to the
political, social, and scientific upheveals of the era.
Particular emphasis will be placed on Gauguin in the South
Seas, Rodin and modernist sculpture, Matisse and
expressionism, Picasso and cubism, Kandinsky and the
Russian constructivists, Hoch and dada photomontage,
O'Keefe and American modernism, and Dali and Freud. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS #689 - 20th Century Art II
Credits:
4.00
Examines abstract expressionism as a framework for
analyzing art since World War II. Focus on "Action Painting"
and Color Field Painting, minimalism and conceptual art,
pop art, earthworks and sited sculpture, new image painting,
post-modernism, and related critical theory. Prereq: one
400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 690 - Women Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Credits:
4.00
Examination of the works of women artists of the past two
centuries. After considering current scholarship related to
some of the theoretical issues involved in studying art by
women, the works of women artists from the Middle Ages
through the early 19th century will be surveyed briefly.
Focus will then shift to works by women artists of the past
150 years and their relationship to and impact on major
movements in modern art. Prereq: one art history and
another appropriate course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 691 - A History of Venetian Art
Credits:
4.00
The artistic culture of Venice from Byzantine times through
Tiepolo and Canaletto. Course emphasis will be on
Renaissance Venice, including topics such as the reclining
female nude, the courtesan portrait, and the origins of
landscape painting. Artists to be studied include Bellini,
Giorgione, Titian, and Palladio. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 692 - History of Photography
Credits:
4.00
History of the photograph from its origins in the aesthetic
and technological context of the early 19th century to the
present. Lectures and discussions on such topics as the
impact of early photography on painting, 19th-century
landscape and travel photography, pictorialism, abstract
photography, the photograph as metaphor, photojournalism
and the interpretation of war, and postmodernism and
photography. Critical reading of texts by Beaudelaire,
Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag, and Sekula. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 693 - American Art
Credits:
4.00
A chronological survey of American painting and sculpture
from the European colonization to the New York Armory Show
of 1913, with emphasis on portraiture, narrative,
still-life, and landscape painting. Examination of stylistic
and thematic developments from the Puritan and Georgian
New England portrait, the heroic narrative of the
Revolutionary era, the romantic landscape to the realism of
the post-Civil War era and the birth of modernism. Typical
works include Copley's Portrait of Paul Revere, Cole's
Course of Empire, Homer's Fog Warning, Cassatt's At the
Opera, and Eakin's Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 695 - Special Problems in the Visual Arts
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
registration. May be repeated with permission of the
instructor. Lab.
ARTS 695I - Problems in Visual Arts/Italy
Credits:
4.00
Part of the ITAL 685/686 study abroad program held in Italy.
Co-requisites:
ITAL 681, ITAL 682
ARTS 697 - Topics in Asian Art
Credits:
4.00
A thematic study of the major artistic achievements in
India, China, and/or Japan from pre-history to the
twentieth century. Works of art in various media, including
painting, sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy, prints,
architecture, and gardens, will be examined in relation to
philosophical concepts and to their cultural/historical
contexts. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course
or permission of the instructor. Writing intensive.
ARTS 699 - Museum Studies
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to the history and practices of American
museums, including their purposes, organization,
interpretation, policies and practices. Use of the Art
Gallery, with occassional visits to other museums, art
conservators. This course may not be used by studio art
majors and B.F.A. candidates to fulfill the art history
requirement. Prereq: two courses in art history or
permission. Writing intensive.
ARTS 700H - Honors Seminar
Credits:
4.00 or 8.00
Requires successful completion of a written thesis
supervised by two faculty advisers (one each from
studio and art history faculty) to be reviewed by
members of the department honors committee. The art
history thesis will involve an original problem in art
history and the studio art thesis will examine the student's
own work. Honors students only.
ARTS 701 - Clay and Glaze Calculation
Credits:
4.00
Presentation and practice of scientific method for
calculating glazes, based on the empirical formula
technique. Includes background information on clay and
the chemistry of glazes and glaze materials. Prereq:
ARTS 501. Special fee. Lab. (Not offered every year.)
ARTS 725 - Wood Multiples
Credits:
4.00
Development and construction of prototype furniture designs
intended for more than one-of-a-kind production; jig and
production strategies. (Offered concurrent to
I.W.F.-sponsored biennial National Student Furniture Design
Competition.) Prereq: ARTS 625 (4 credits.). Lab.
Special fee.
ARTS 732 - Advanced Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Treatment of more complex compositional problems;
application of a broader range of solutions to pictorial
problems to reinforce and expand individual concepts of
image and technique. May be repeated for a maximum of
12 credits.Prereq: ARTS 633. Lab.
ARTS 746 - Advanced Painting
Credits:
4.00
Development of a higher degree of technical skill to handle
more advanced conceptual problems. Class assignments may be
more individually directed. May be repeated for a maximum
of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 646(8 credits).
ARTS #767 - Bronze Casting
Credits:
4.00
Practice of designing, building, and maintaining a working
sculpture foundry. Emphasis on a thorough understanding of
the lost-wax investment casting process, including pattern
making, mold making, wax working, investing, casting,
chasing, and patination. Prereq: ARTS 667 (8 credits.).
Special fee. Lab. (Not offered every year.)
ARTS 784 - Dutch Genre Painting
Credits:
4.00
An intensive study of Dutch genre painting in the 17th
century, focusing especially on the art of Vermeer and his
contemporaries in the third quarter of the century. In
addition to individual artists and their works, attention
will be paid to aspects of their social background such as
the emergence of privacy and the nuclear family, to
parallels with the early novel, and to general themes
governing realism as an artistic mode. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course and instructor's permission.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 786 - European Colonialism and Visual Culture
Credits:
4.00
An examination of the interrelationship of European
colonialism and the visual arts from the late eighteenth
to the twentieth century. The approaches of Said, Bhabha,
Nochlin, Solomon-Godeau, Pinney, and others provide the
theoretical foundation for unmasking the pictorial
strategies and cultural biases in visual representations of
non-European peoples and places. These visual
representations and their dissemination will be studied in
relation to imperial history and to the changing concepts of
race, from Rousseau's "noble savage" to the racial "types"
created for anthropology, ethnography, and geography.
ARTS 791 - Art Education (Elementary)
Credits:
4.00
Children's creative growth as revealed through their visual
expression. Development of elementary art education
programs with emphasis on objectives, methods, materials and
techniques to foster creativity. Suggested prereq: EDUC 500.
ARTS 792 - Art Education (Secondary)
Credits:
4.00
The creative process in the visual arts in relation to the
development and skills of middle and high school students in
the public schools; mechanics of beginning and maintaining a
secondary art program; exploring resources for art education
programs on the secondary level. Suggested prereq: EDUC 500.
ARTS 795 - Methods of Art History
Credits:
4.00
Essential bibliography and the methodology of research;
the variety of approaches to art historical scholarship.
Readings, discussion, and projects in connoisseurship,
iconography, and other art historical methods. Open to
advanced students with a strong art history background.
Required for art history majors. It is strongly recommended
that students take this course in their junior year. Prereq
(for non-art history majors): permission. (Usually offered
fall semester only.) Writing intensive.
ARTS 796 - Independent Study in the Visual Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 8.00
A) Photography; B) Sculpture; C) Drawing; D) Painting;
E) Printmaking; F) Water Media; G) Architectural Design;
H) Curatorial Assistant; I) Art History; J) Ceramics;
K) Wood Design. Open to highly qualified juniors and
seniors who have completed the advanced level courses in the
chosen medium. May be repeated to a total of 8 credits.
Prereq: permission of department chairperson and
supervising faculty member or members.
ARTS 798 - Seminar/Senior Thesis
Credits:
4.00 to 8.00
Readings and discussions oriented toward the intellectual
premises of art. Culminates in mounting an exhibition of the
student's work. Required of all students in the B.F.A
program. Other advanced students may elect with instructor's
permission. A year-long course; an IA grade (continuous
course) will be given at the end of the first semester. Lab.
Variable credit; may be repeated to a total of 8 credits.
B.F.A. majors must take 8 credits total.
ARTS 799 - Seminar in Art History
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before registration
May be repeated with permission of instructor. Writing
intensive.