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Regularly Taught Courses:

Art-Arch 111EQ. Introduction to Asian Art
Selected topics in the arts of South and East Asia from earliest time to the present. Emphasis on the cultural setting and roles of the arts in Asian societies. Attention to cross-cultural comparisons and to media and technique. Classroom lectures, smaller biweekly discussion sections.
3 units.

Art-Arch 112E. Introduction to Western Art
A discussion f painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Western world from classical Greece to the present, with emphasis on the relationship of art to society and to political and cultural events. Classroom lectures; smaller biweekly discussions sections.
3 units.

Art-Arch 211. Introduction to Modern Art
A survey of major developments in European and American from the late 19th century to the present. Focus is on both the aesthetics of modernism and its evolving cultural and political context. Major movements to be discussed include Impressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postmodernism, conceptual art, and issues in contemporary art. Classroom lectures; smaller biweekly discussion sessions. No prerequisite.
3 units.

Art-Arch 232E. Myths and Monuments
An introduction to the ancient world (circa 3500 B.C. to A.D. 400) based on masterpieces of art and architecture from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The monuments are accompanied by a selection of myths and documents representing the cultural life of these ancient societies and constituting their legacy to our modern world.
3 units.

Art-Arch 241Q. The Arts of China
Historical introduction to the arts of China, from earliest times to the modern age. Major media, styles and subjects considered in relation to developments in society and culture.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3211. Art in the Egypt of the Pharaohs.
A penetrating study of the artistic achievements in ancient Egypt during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms (circa 3000 to 1100 B.C.). The great monuments of Egypt are considered both for their aesthetic importance and as expressions of the superior culture developing, flourishing, and declining in the pristine valley of the Nile. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the department.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3301. Homeric Archaeology
The art and culture of prehistoric Greece as reflected in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer. The course examines, analyzes and researches the Minoan/Mycenean civilization and its legacy that resulted in the renaissance of the 8th century B.C. Topics range from the 20th to the 8th centuries V.C. and focus on major sites such as Knossos, Phaistos, and Mycenae, burial customs, trade, warfare, and the emergence of the Greek city-state. No prerequisite.
3 units.

Art-Arch 331. Greek Art and Archaeology
A survey of the artistic achievements and material culture of the Greeks from circa 1000 B.C. through the Hellenistic period. Development of architecture, sculpture, and painting, as well as minor arts and utilitarian objects, with emphasis on the insight they offer into Greek society.
3 units.

Art-Arch 334. Roman Art and Archaeology
The art and archaeology of the Romans, with emphasis on the late Republic and the Imperial period. Major monuments of sculpture and architecture, as well as town planning, domestic architecture, and the minor arts are used as evidence for reconstructing ancient life.
3 units.

Art-Arch 336. Ancient Sanctuaries: The Archaeology of Sacred Space in the Ancient Mediterranean.
Like the Vatican today, ancient sanctuaries were both the focus of religious activities and repositories for artistic treasures. Marked off from the secular world by physical boundaries, the sanctuary provided a common ground where gods and humans came together through sacrifice, shared meals, and other rituals. Shrines were often spectacularly sited and adorned with splendid architecture with both temples for the divinities and treasuries for the gifts they received. The course focuses on the great shrines of ancient Greece: Eleusis, the setting of the mysteries of Demeter, Olympia, home of the Olympic games.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3401. Chinese Art and Culture
Chinese art and culture from prehistory (circa 5000 B.C.E.) through the Tang dynasty (9th century C.E.). Using new archaeological findings and new interpretive strategies, the long-term history of the arts within changing configuarions of society and economy, and to the role of ideology. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 111EQ or permission of instructor.
3 units.

Art-Arch 361. Art of the Early Italian Renaissance
A survey of Italian Renaissance art from its origins to the end of the 15th century, examining artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Votticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E.
3 units.

Art-Arch 362. High Renaissance Art
A general survey focusing on such outstanding figures of the period as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian.
3 units.

Art-Arch 365. Baroque Art
A survey of the development of painting and sculpture in 17th century Europe. Emphasis on the works of Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E or permission of the department.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3671. Michelangelo: Painter, Sculptor, Architect.
An examination of his life, his work, and his time. A consideration of the artist’s painting, sculpture, and architecture in relation to his contemporaries and to the broad historical, political, and artistic currents of his day. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E or permission of the department.
3 units.

Art-Arch 368. Rembrandt van Rijn
An examination of the art of Rembrandt in relation to Dutch culture and art of the 16th and 17th centuries. Emphasis on exploring the unique quality of the artist’s personality. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E or permission of the department.
3 units.

Art-Arch 371. American Art, Part I
A survey of broad social, cultural, and nationalist themes in the visual arts from European contact with the New World to 1900. Topics include the encounter of New World cultures with European colonizers and the ongoing relationship between America and Europe; the changing image of the artist; and the role of art in the formation of national identity. Prerequisite: art-Arch 11E or permission of instructor.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3712. Art and Culture in America’s Gilded Age
Developments in American culture from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century: novels, buildings, images, public and private spaces of this transitional period- a time of new class formation, of unparalleled social diversity, and of new urban forms. The connections between art, literature, and social experience. Representative figures include Henry James, Henry Adams, Louis Sullivan, Stanford White, Thomas Eakins, Louis Tiffany.
3 units.

Art-Arch 372. American Art, Part II
From the beginnings of Modernism in the visual arts of the United States, around 1900, to abstract expressionism and the Beat aesthetic. Focus on the cultural reception and spread of modernism, the native currents of modernist expression, from organicism to machine imagery, the mural movement and the art of the WPA, the creation of a useable past, abstraction and figuration, regionalism and internationalism, photography and advertising.
3 units.

Art-Arch 376. American Modernism, 1900 to 1940
American modernism: What is it? What is the nature of its encounter with mass culture? What happened to modernism as it migrated from its “high” European origins to its “middlebrow” version in America between the turn of the century and the eve of World War II? What was the rhetoric of modernism in everyday life- its impact on design, photography, and advertising? In addition to the fine arts, the course looks at popular media, film, and photography. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: 300-level course in 20th-century European art history, or literature.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3831. Art in the Age of Revolution: 1789 to 1848
European painting, sculpture, and printmaking from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century; French, English, German, and Spanish artists discussed in social and aesthetic context, with a focus on links between art and ideology in times of political turmoil. The style of classicism and romanticism, the rise of history painting, and the development of realism in both landscape and genre painting. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E or Art-Arch 211, or permission of instructor.

Art-Arch 3833. Realism and Impressionism
An examination of the development of European art from approximately 1848 to the mid-1870s with a focus on the development of realism in England and France. Issues to be explored include the breakdown of academic art, the rise of landscape and naturalist themes, the emergence of alternative exhibition spaces and patronage systems, and the relationship between gender and avant-garde practice. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112E or Art-Arch 211, or permission of instructor.
3 units.

Art-Arch 3838. Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880 to 1907
This course examines artistic production at the turn of the century in France, Belgium, England, and Scandinavia; the Aesthetic Movement in Britain; the rise of expressionist painting in French art (particularly with the Fauvism of Matisse and Derain); and the juncture of modernist primitivism and abstraction in early Cubism (Picasso).
3 units.