2012-2013 University Catalog archived
Art and Art History (ARTH, ARTS)
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Professors Bent, Olson-Janjic, Stene
Associate Professor Bowden
Assistant Professor Lepage
Instructor Beavers
Staniar Gallery Director Archer
HONORS: Honors Programs in art history and studio art are offered for qualified students; see department head for details.
Major
Minor
ARTH 101 - Survey of Western Art: Ancient to Medieval
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
First-year and sophomore standing or instructor consent. Chronological survey of Western art from the Paleolithic Age through the Middle Ages in Italy and Northern Europe. Examination of cultural and stylistic influences in the art and architecture of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Consideration of distinct interests of Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Europe. Focus on major monuments and influential images produced up to circa 1400. Lepage.
ARTH 102 - Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to the Present
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Chronological survey of Western art from the Renaissance through the present. Topics include the Renaissance, from its cultural and stylistic origins through the Mannerist movement; the Baroque and Rococo; the Neoclassical reaction; Romanticism and Naturalism; the Barbizon School and Realism; Impressionism and its aftermath; Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, and the Postmodern reaction to Modernism. Lepage.
ARTH 140 - Asian Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
An introduction to the study of traditional architecture, sculpture, painting, prints, and decorative arts of India, China, Korea, and Japan. Staff.
ARTH 141 - Buddhist Art of South & Central Asia
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years
This course investigates the multivalent world of Buddhist art from South and Central Asia, particularly areas that now fall within the modern-day boundaries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China, Tibet, and Nepal. We study the nascent forms of Buddhist imagery and its ritual functions from the Indo-Pak subcontinent, focus on monumental sculpture and cave architecture of Central Asia (Afghanistan and the Tarim Basin)and issues of iconoclasm, and study the art and iconography of the Himalayas, as well as current-day production and restoration practices of Tantric Buddhist art. Kerin.
ARTH 170 - Arts of Meso- and South America
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2013 and alternate years
Survey of the art and architecture of Meso- and South before the arrival of the Europeans, with a focus on indigenous civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca. Art is contextualized in terms of religious, social, political, and economic developments in each region under discussion. The class includes a trip to Dumbarton Oakes in Washington, DC. Lepage.
ARTH 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Fall 2012 topic:
ARTH 180: FS: Portraits, Politics, and Propaganda (3). First-year seminar. In this seminar, students examine the most common form of self-commemoration -¬ the portrait -¬ from a variety of intellectual perspectives. Motives for commissions, specific themes, and symbolic messages, and even stylistic choices are addressed as we trace the evolution of this highly charged art form from its origins in Antiquity through the modern period and the development of the camera. (HA) Bent.
ARTH 200 - Ancient and Classical Art
(CLAS 200) FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
A survey of art and architecture in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the pre-Classical Aegean world, as well as an introduction to Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, and architecture. Staff.
ARTH 240 - Arts of China
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years.
A survey of traditional Chinese art from its beginnings through the Qing dynasty. Includes architecture, sculpture, bronzes and ceramics, as well as painting. Staff.
ARTH 241 - Arts of Japan
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years.
A survey of Japanese art from its beginnings through the Edo period. Includes architecture, gardens, sculpture, prints, ceramics and other decorative arts, as well as painting. Staff.
ARTH 242 - Arts of India
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years.
A survey of traditional Indian art from its Indus Valley beginnings through the period of Mughal domination. Includes architecture, sculpture, and painting, as well as decorative arts. Staff.
ARTH 243 - Imaging Tibet
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years.
An examination of images and imaging practices of the early 1900s to the present in order to define and analyze the ways in which both Western and Asian (particularly Tibetan and Chinese) artists have imagined Tibet and its people. Kerin.
ARTH 244 - 20th-Century Arts of Asia
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years
This course examines art of the 20th century from South and East Asia, primarily through the lenses of larger socio-political movements that informed much of Asia’s 20th-century cultural discourses: Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Socialism, Communism, and Feminism. We also address heated debates concerning “non-Western” 20th-century art as peripheral to the Western canons of Modern and Contemporary art. The art and artists’ lives and works we study challenge us to engage broader and more inclusive concepts about transnational identity, artistic production, and art-historical taxonomy. Kerin.
ARTH 253 - Medieval Art in Southern Europe
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Examination of the art and culture of Italy and Greece from the rise of Christianity to the first appearance of bubonic plague in 1348. Topics include early Christian art and architecture; Byzantine imagery in Ravenna and Constantinople during the Age of Justinian; iconoclasm; mosaics in Greece, Venice and Sicily; sculpture in Pisa; and the development of panel and fresco painting in Rome, Florence, Siena and Assisi. Bent.
ARTH 254 - Medieval Art in Northern Europe
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years.
Survey of the art of France, Spain, Germany, and the British Isles from circa 700 to circa 1400. Discussions include Carolingian and Ottonian painting and architecture, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and French cathedral design and decoration during the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Bent.
ARTH 255 - Northern Renaissance Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
A survey of Northern painting from 1300 to 1600, examined as symbols of political, religious, and social concerns of painters, patrons, and viewers. Among the artists covered are Campin, van Eyck, van der Weyden, Dürer, Holbein, and Brueghel. Emphasis placed on interpretation of meaning and visual analysis. Bent.
ARTH 256 - Italian Renaissance Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Survey of the art and architecture of Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries. The course focuses on innovations of the Early, High, and Late Renaissance through the work of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Alberti, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Images are considered as exponents of contemporary political, social, and religious events and perceptions. Bent.
ARTH 258 - Baroque and Rococo Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
A survey of the art and architecture of Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. The course focuses on the stylistic and ideological issues shaping western art during the age of Religious Wars. This course considers the stylistic innovations of Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Poussin, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and Tiepolo, as well as the function of- and interest in-artistic production within the context of 17th- and 18th-century society. Lepage.
ARTH 259 - The Art and Architecture of England
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
The painting, sculpture and architecture of England from the medieval period to the 20th century. Simpson.
ARTH 261 - History of Photography
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
An introduction to the technical, aesthetic, and social history of photography within a cultural context in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary movements in the medium. Course includes weekly lectures, readings, films, and discussions, as well as gallery and museum visits throughout the term. Bowden.
ARTH 262 - 19th-Century European Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Sculpture and painting in Europe from the French Revolution to 1900. Staff.
ARTH 263 - 20th-Century European Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Sculpture and painting in Europe from 1900 to 1950. Simpson.
ARTH 266 - American Art to 1945
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Sculpture and painting in the United States from Colonial times to the mid-20th century. Simpson.
ARTH 267 - Art Since 1945
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Art in Europe and America from 1945 to the present. Staff.
ARTH 271 - Arts of Colonial Latin America
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
A survey of the art and architecture of Latin America from the 16th through early-18th centuries, this course begins with an exploration of the art of Aztec and Inca before the arrival of Europeans. Classes then explore the cultural convergence that resulted from the conquest in the 16th century, focusing on the role of indigenous artists and traditions in the formation of early colonial culture. Later lectures consider the rise of nationalism and its effect on the arts. Lepage.
ARTH 273 - Arts of Modern Latin America
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
This lecture course surveys the art and architecture of Latin America from circa 1900 to the present. Students explore the relationship between the arts in Europe and Latin America, trace the development of modern art in Latin America, and consider topics such as the rise of modernismo in Latin America, art in service of nationalism, indigenismo, and the growing Chicano movement in the United States. Among the artists covered are Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Tarsila do Amaral, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Wilfredo Lam, Lygia Clark, and Francisco Botero. Lepage.
ARTH 274 - Art and Revolution: Mexican Muralism
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
This course fulfills the Arts and Humanities requirement for the LACS minor. This lecture course surveys public monumental art produced by Mexican artists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico and the United States from 1910 to the 1970s. These artists used art to promote the social ideals of the Mexican Revolution (1911-1920). Through this muralist movement, they attempted to build a new national consciousness by celebrating the cultural heritage of the Mexican people. Quickly, the muralists and their patrons came into conflict with one another concerning how to best achieve their utopian goal of equality for all Mexicans. This course examines the various ideologies of the Mexican muralists and considers reactions to muralism by other artists as well as the public. The class also examines the impact of muralism throughout Latin America and the United States. Lepage.
ARTH 276 - Chicano Art and Muralism: From the Street to the (Staniar) Gallery
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and every third year
Open to all students. This class examines the process by which Chicano/a artists have garnered public attention and respect, and have taken their artworks from the peripheries of the art world to more traditional museum and gallery spaces. Using the Great Wall of Los Angeles as a connecting thread, this class considers the broad theme of identity creation and transformation as expressed by Chicano/a artists from the 1970s to the present. Lepage.
ARTH 285 - Art of the Cities of Northern Italy, 1250-1550
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. The art and culture of the cities of the north during the Renaissance. Examines important churches, museums, galleries, palaces, villas, public buildings, and plazas of Milan, Como, Parma, Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Mantua, Florence, Siena, Cortona, Arezzo, Perugia, Assisi and Rome. Staff.
ARTH 287 - Supervised Study Abroad: Athens
(CLAS 287) FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Classics, art history, and/or studio in Greece. The credits may be distributed in any way between art and classics, or three credits may be earned in an approved independent study course in any department including classics. Staff.
ARTH 295 - Special Topics in Art History
Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring
Selected topics in art history with written and oral reports. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
ARTH 342 - Love, Loyalty, and Lordship: Court Art of India, 1500s to1800s
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years.
During the 16th-19th centuries, India’s Hindu and Islamic courts, as well as British imperial forces, vied for political authority and control over the subcontinent. Despite the political and economic volatility of the time, the regional courts commissioned spectacular secular and religious arts in the form of illustrated narratives, miniature paintings, and architectural masterpieces. This course is focused on this rich artistic heritage. As we analyze the courts’ painted and built environments, we investigate three recurring themes: love (of court, God and, in some cases, an individual); loyalty (to courtly values, religious ideals, and ruler); and lordship (over land, animals, and people). Kerin.
ARTH 347 - Forget Me Not: Visual Culture of Historic and Religious Memorials
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
No prerequisites. Appropriate for students of all class years. This class analyzes the visual material of memorial sites that shape social identity. Whether simple or elaborate in their construction, these creations allow people the space to connect with and/or honor a person or event from the historic or even mythological past. This global and thematic examination of memorials considers three primary foci: the built environment of a memorial; the performative role of visitors; and the function of memory at these sites. Kerin.
ARTH 348 - Chinese Export Porcelain and the China Trade, 1500 to 1900
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
This course covers the development and history of Chinese export porcelain made for the European and American markets and its role as a commodity in the China Trade. Students examine Chinese export porcelain from several different perspectives, including art history, material culture, and economic history. Fuchs.
ARTH 350 - Medieval Art in Italy
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years.
Prerequisite: ARTH 253 or 256 or instructor consent. Art and architecture of the Italian peninsula, from circa 1200 to 1400. This seminar addresses issues of patronage, artistic training and methods of production, iconography, and the function of religious and secular imagery. Topics of discussion include the construction of Tuscan cathedrals and civic buildings; sculpture in Siena, Pisa, and Rome; and painting in Assisi, Padua, and Florence. Bent.
ARTH 351 - The City as a Work of Art: Paris
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
This course considers the designs and appearances of major European cities that were originally created in antiquity, that managed to survive (and even flourish) during the Middle Ages, and that then reached a newer, fresher, and more ideologically cohesive appearance during the modem age. Students will travel to the city of Paris, France and examine its origins and evolution, with particular attention paid to its development during the 17th , 18th , and 19th centuries. Bent.
ARTH 353 - Gothic Art in Northern Europe
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ARTH 254 or instructor consent. This seminar focuses on artistic, intellectual, and cultural developments in France and England during the 12th and 13th centuries. Stylistic, iconographic and theoretical issues in the visual arts are studied within the context of scholastic thought, mass pilgrimage, and monarchical consolidation. Bent.
ARTH 354 - Early Renaissance Art in Florence
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years.
Prerequisite: ARTH 256 or instructor consent. Examination of the intellectual, cultural, and artistic movements dominant in Florence between ca. 1400 and ca. 1440. Images and structures produced by Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, and Fra Angelico are considered within the context of Florentine social traditions and political events. Bent.
ARTH 355 - The High Renaissance in Italy
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ARTH 256 or instructor consent. This seminar addresses issues of patronage, artistic production, criticism and art theory, and the uses and abuses of images during the High Renaissance. Works by Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Bramante are considered as emblems of larger cultural movements popular in Italian courts between 1470 and 1520. Bent.
ARTH 356 - Science in Art: Technical Examination of 17th-Century Dutch Paintings
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: CHEM 156 in the preceding winter term. Spring Term Abroad course. A survey of 17th-century Dutch history, art history, politics, religion, economics, etc., which links the scientific analysis of art to the art and culture of the time. The course begins on campus and then history, etc., will occur for a few days in Lexington and then proceed to Center for European Studies, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. Students visit numerous museums, hear guest lectures from faculty at Universiteit Maastricht, and observe at conservation laboratories at some of the major Dutch art museums. Students are graded by their performance on two research projects involving presentations and journals. Though students are not required to learn a foreign language to participate in the program, they are expected to learn key phrases in Dutch as a matter of courtesy to citizens of the host country. Uffelman.
ARTH 357 - Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years.
This seminar focuses on the work of Baroque painters Caravaggio (1573-1610) and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1653). We explore Caravaggio’s intense naturalism and the controversy it caused, his sense of drama, and supernatural light. Gentileschi was deeply influenced by Caravaggio but developed her own unique style. Seminar themes include the 1612 rape trial and its impact on Gentileschi’s career, issues of attribution, and proto-feminism. Lepage.
ARTH 361 - American Architecture
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years.
Building in the United States from Colonial times to the present. Simpson.
ARTH 362 - Vernacular Architecture
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
An exploration of the approaches used to study common building types. Architecture is considered a form of material culture that invites a study of its cultural and ideological meaning. From log cabins to golden arches, all forms of the built environment are open to contemplation. Simpson.
ARTH 363 - Surrealism
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2013 and alternate years
A study of the development of surrealist art and thought. For its practitioners, surrealism was–and remains–foremost a revolution, striving to “transform the world” (Marx) and “change life” (Rimbaud). We examine writings and ideas underlying key works by artists such as Dali, Magritte, and Max Ernst; watch surrealist films; and play surrealist “games of chance”. King.
ARTH 364 - Seminar on Art of the 1960s
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years.
An exploration of the art produced during the decade of the 1960s. A seminal period, it includes Pop Art, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Minimalism, Earth Art, Performance Art, and socially conscious and politically oriented art reflecting feminism and black radicalism. Weekly lectures, readings, essays, films and discussion. Simpson.
ARTH 366 - African-American Art Seminar
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
An exploration of the art produced by African-Americans from the Colonial period to the present. Weekly lectures, readings, essays, films and discussion. Simpson.
ARTH 367 - Seminar on Women Artists
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
An intensive exploration of the roles women artists have played in the history of western art from the renaissance to the present. Special attention is given to the strategies women used for survival and success, and to contemporary theoretical approaches to the subject. Lectures, discussions, readings, papers, and a research project. Simpson.
ARTH 375 - Tropical Baroque: The Arts of Colonial Latin America
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
A seminar devoted to the Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture of Colonial Latin America (1492-1820), including New Spain, the Andean region, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Students learn about the people and societies who produced and used this art and architecture and who came from a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds. Lepage.
ARTH 376 - Visual Culture in the Hispanic World, ca. 1500-1700
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: ARTH 103 or instructor consent. The 17th-century Golden Age was a period of unparalleled artistic achievement in the Hispanic world. This seminar investigates painting, sculpture and architecture of Spain and the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru from ca.1500 to the death of the last Spanish Habsburg king in 1700. Artists highlighted in this course include Titian, Juan de Herrera, El Greco, Velázquez, Guaman Poma, Miguel de Santiago, and Goya. Lepage.
ARTH 384 - Renaissance Art in Venice
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: ARTH 102 or 256. This course addresses issues of patronage, artistic production, uses of ancient themes and sources, criticism and art theory, and the uses and abuses of images during the High Renaissance. We focus our attention on the art and architecture of Northern Italy from about 1460 to 1575, with particular emphasis placed on images and structures produced in Venice and its territorial possessions (“The Veneto”) and by those who considered la serennissima their home. Bent.
ARTH 385 - Leonardo da Vinci: Art, Science and Innovation in Renaissance Europe
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years.
Leonardo da Vinci has for years been considered the consummate “Renaissance Man,” equally skilled as a painter, anatomist, engineer, and military scientist. This course examines the contextual background from which this true genius was sprung, the works he produced, the people for whom he produced them, and the visions of the artist both realized and unrealized that have captured the imaginations of people around the world since Leonardo ‘s death in 1519. Bent.
ARTH 390 - Seminar in East Asian Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ARTH 140 or instructor consent. Selected topics in East Asian art. Includes guided research, reports, term paper, and possible visit to the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTH 394 - Seminar in Art History
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter, Spring
Prerequisites: Three credits in art history and instructor consent. Research in selected topics in art history with written and oral reports. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTH 395 - Senior Seminar: Approaches to Art History
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Senior art history major. An exploration of bibliography in preparation for the thesis, and of methodology, criticism and contemporary issues in a capstone seminar. Topics include biography and formalism, iconography and iconology, social history and Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and deconstruction. Lepage.
ARTH 398 - Museum Studies
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: ARTH 102 or ARTH 140, or instructor’s consent; and sophomore, junior or senior standing. An exploration of the history, philosophy and practical aspects of museums. Topics of discussion include governance and administration, collections, exhibitions and education. The course alternates weekly readings and class discussion with field trips to regional museums. Requires short papers and a major project. Grover and Hobbs.
ARTH 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Individual or class study of special topics in art history. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTH 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Individual or class study of special topics in art history. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTH 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Individual or class study of special topics in art history. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTH 453 - Internship in Arts Management
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Supervised off-campus experience in an art gallery, art dealership, museum, or auction house approved by the Art Department. Requires a paper in addition to projects devised in advance by the instructor and student. Archer, Simpson.
ARTH 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: ARTH 395. An art history thesis. A thesis abstract with a written statement of objectives must be presented to the department for consideration by September 30. Staff.
ARTH 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Prerequisites: ARTH 395, 3.500 cumulative grade-point average, honors candidacy and senior standing. An art history thesis. Application for the honors candidacy must be made by May 1 of the junior year. A thesis abstract with a written statement of the objective must be presented at this time. The culmination is an oral defense of the thesis project. Staff.
ARTS 111 - Drawing I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Development of skills and visual awareness through the study of the basic elements of drawing. Variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, ink and crayon. Lab fee required. Staff.
ARTS 112 - Drawing II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and instructor consent. Continuation of Drawing I. Lab fee required. Beavers.
ARTS 120 - Photography I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. An introduction to the technical and creative principles of black-and-white photography as a fine art medium, with an emphasis on composition, exposure, and darkroom technique. Course includes a combination of image presentations, technical demonstrations, studio instruction, and group critiques. Lab fee required; cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
ARTS 131 - Design I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
An introduction to the elements and concepts of two-dimensional design within the context of current digital technology, with an emphasis on contemporary computer software programs. Stene.
ARTS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Staff.
ARTS 211 - Figure Drawing I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and instructor consent. Drawing from the human figure using a variety of media. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 212 - Figure Drawing II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 211 and instructor consent. Continuation of ARTS 211 with emphasis on the use of the human figure as a compositional element. Lab fee required. Staff.
ARTS 213 - Drawing Italy
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and instructor consent. Living and drawing on site in Rome, Florence, Umbria, and Tuscany and with day trips to Pompeii, Assisi, and other important art sites in Italy. Students explore Italy’s vast artistic heritage within its cultural context, then apply this experience to their own art while working in the distinctive Mediterranean light. Media include pen and ink, pastel and acrylic. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 214 - Drawing in Place
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: ARTS 111 or instructor consent. This drawing course is intended for intermediate drawing students. The goals of this intensive course are to practice drawing skills, learn about the tradition of art of place, and to produce a series of drawings based on a specific place. We spend the first two weeks brushing up on the basics of drawing while reading and discussing writings about place and site-oriented art. Image presentations and group discussion support the readings. Beavers.
ARTS 217 - Painting I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and instructor consent. Emphasis on color, design and spatial relationships. Work from observation and imagination in oil and acrylic. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 218 - Painting II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: ARTS 217 and instructor consent. Continuation of ARTS 217. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 219 - Painted Light: Interpreting the Landscape
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisite: ARTS 217 or instructor consent. This course begins with the introduction of en plein air, a French expression which means “in the open air” and is used to describe the act of painting outdoors. We examine artists who have worked en plein air, past and present, study their work and methods, and then apply this knowledge to painting outdoors. Emphasis is on the way light and color define form and space. Students build on their knowledge of color theory through observation and implementation. Beginning with the concept of plein air, we quickly branch out to more interpretive and subjective uses of the landscape in painting, resulting in a cohesive body of work. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 220 - Photography II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: ARTS 120 or instructor consent. A continuation of ARTS 120, with an emphasis on black-and-white craft and creative problem solving through both film and digital processes. Course includes a combination of demonstrations, studio instruction, and group critiques, as well as image presentations, readings, and discussions related to historical and contemporary movements in the medium. Lab fee required; cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
ARTS 221 - Antique Photographic Processes
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Not open to students with credit for courses in alternative photographic processes. Prerequisite: ARTS 120. An exploration of 19th-century photographic processes, learned through demonstration and intensive hands-on lab sessions. Processes covered on campus include cyanotype printing and toning, Van Dyke brown, kallitype, and platinum/palladium printing. Students learn how to make enlarged digital negatives for contact printing from photographs that originate in either film or digital formats. In addition to technique, students will learn the historical background of each process and view images from both 19th-century and contemporary photographers, in order to gain an understanding of the context of the process within the history of photography and current trends in the medium. Additionally, the third week of the Spring 2013 class is spent in New York City, which includes a two-day, wet-plate collodion workshop, in which we use large-format cameras and antique lenses to learn the ambrotype, tintype, and glass plate negative processes. A third class day in New York is spent visiting museums and galleries. Bowden.
ARTS 223 - Photography and the City
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 120. Spring Term Abroad course. Several major cities, including Paris and New York, play an important role in the medium of photography. Students are introduced to the historical context of photography and photographers of a particular city, as well as contemporary artists and exhibitions. Field trips to museums, galleries, and relevant sites play an integral role in the course. The geometry of the city provides a sharp visual contrast to the bucolic landscape of rural Virginia. Each student undertakes a substantial photographic project based upon a particular visual element or conceptual idea of the city, shooting for their project every day of the first three weeks while in the one of these cities, with regular group critiques. The last week of the course is spent printing the project and curating an exhibition of the work. Bowden.
ARTS 224 - Color Photography
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: ARTS 120 or instructor consent. An introduction to the visual and technical principles of color photography, as applied in the digital realm. Students learn the concepts of color photography through applied projects, as well as image presentations, readings, and discussions of methods and artists, historical and contemporary. Students photograph in digital format, and learn the craft of fine color printing in the digital darkroom. Lab fee required, cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
ARTS 226 - Introduction to the Book Arts
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
A creative exploration of the tradition of the handmade book. Students learn to make several styles of binding, including accordion books, pamphlets, and Japanese bindings, developing some skill in letterpress printing, paper decorating, and simple printmaking techniques to create original handmade books. Readings, discussions, and slide lectures introduce students to the ingenious history of books and printing. Besides constructing imaginative, individual book art projects, students create one collaborative project. Lab fee required. Merrill.
ARTS 227 - Printmaking I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: ARTS 111 or instructor consent. A survey of fine art printmaking media, with emphasis on beginning techniques and the artistic potential of the print. Media include a selection of techniques from intaglio, relief, and planographic printmaking. Beavers.
ARTS 228 - Printmaking II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: ARTS 227 and instructor consent. Continuation of Printmaking I, with emphasis on one of the major media of printmaking (intaglio, relief, lithography). Students gain experience both with technique and the creative ability to solve visual problems and present compelling images in two dimensions. Beavers.
ARTS 231 - Sculpture I
FDR: HA
Credits: 3 in winter; 4 in spring
Planned Offering: Winter, Spring
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. An introduction to sculpture techniques, tools and materials. Studio problems develop skills in working with wood, stone, clay, and metal. Lab fee required. Stene.
ARTS 232 - Sculpture II
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 231 and instructor consent. Studio problems concentrate on one medium, e.g., stone, wood, clay, or metal. Contemporary concerns in sculpture are explored through readings and presentations by students. Lab fee required. Stene.
ARTS 235 - Art: Site and Situation
FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Students design, construct, and install environmentally friendly site specific art. Design work is conducted in the computer lab, construction done in the art studios, and installation is on campus or at a selected site in the Lexington area. Stene.
ARTS 291 - Special Topics in Painting
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ARTS 111 or 217 or instructor consent. Intermediate and advanced study in painting with emphasis on specialized media and topics. Examples of media offered include acrylic, oil, mixed media, and encaustic with subject matter ranging from the figure and landscape to non-objective imagery. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 292 - Special Topics in Photography
FDR: HA
Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring
Prerequisite: ARTS 120 or instructor consent. Advanced study in photography, with an emphasis on a specialized topic within the medium. Lab fee required.
ARTS 297 - Special Topics in Studio Art
FDR: HA
Credits: 1 or 3
Planned Offering: Fall or Winter
Prerequisite: ARTS 111 or instructor consent. In various years the topics and media change, given the interest of the faculty and presence of visiting artists. May be repeated when topics are different. Lab fee required. Staff.
ARTS 309 - Studio Seminar: Methods in Contemporary Art Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Studio art major and instructor consent. This course is a critique-based studio seminar designed to prepare students for the senior thesis in studio arts and built around a term-long visual arts project responding to current trends in contemporary art. This seminar introduces a theme or topic, supported by readings, films, and image presentations, as the focus of class discussions exploring and highlighting the work of relevant contemporary artists. Students develop and plan a body of work inspired by or in response to this theme. Group and individual critiques assess each student’s progress towards this goal. Bowden.
ARTS 317 - Painting III
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall or Winter
Prerequisites: ARTS 218 and instructor consent. For studio art majors. Continuation of the formal structure of painting with emphasis on developing the expression and style of the individual student. Expand awareness of contemporary concerns in art. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 318 - Painting IV
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall or Winter
Prerequisites: ARTS 317 and instructor consent. Continuation of ARTS 317. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
ARTS 320 - Photography III
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Arts 220 or instructor consent. A project-based course, with a particular focus on large format photography, the craft of fine printing, and the process for creating a body of work. Course will include an emphasis on group critique, as well as images, readings, and discussion related to historical and contemporary movements in the medium. Lab fee required; cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
ARTS 321 - Photography IV
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Arts 320 or instructor consent. Advanced studies in fine art photography and the photographic print, with an emphasis on creating a substantial term-long project. Students may work in traditional, digital, or alternative process techniques in either black-and-white or color, and larger film and print formats will be encouraged. Lab fee required; cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
ARTS 327 - Printmaking III
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 228 and instructor consent. Students concentrate on producing a body of work through deeper exploration of one of the printmaking techniques. More emphasis on critical evaluation in the planning and execution stage. Seminar style discussion of contemporary issues in printmaking. Beavers.
ARTS 328 - Printmaking IV
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 327 and instructor consent. Tutorial/critique course for advanced students in printmaking. Term project. Beavers.
ARTS 329 - Special Topics in Printmaking
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 227 and instructor consent. This course focuses on a problem or theme in printmaking, such as sequential or series of images, production of large-scale prints, simple alternative technique, digital processes, image with text, etc. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Beavers.
ARTS 331 - Sculpture III
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 131 and instructor consent, with ARTS 211 highly recommended. Problems are designed to develop an awareness of form relationships in the human figure and to gain an understanding of how they relate to design principles and elements. Lab fee required. Stene.
ARTS 332 - Sculpture IV
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2011-2012
Prerequisites: ARTS 232 and instructor consent. A continuation of ARTS 331 with emphasis on in-depth studio problems. Further readings and presentations in contemporary sculpture. Lab fee required. Stene.
ARTS 421 - Directed Studio Projects
Credits: 1
Prerequisites for projects in sculpture: ARTS 231 and instructor consent, Stene. Prerequisites for projects in painting: ARTS 217 and instructor consent, Olson-Janjic. Prerequisites for projects in photography: ARTS 120 and instructor consent, Bowden. Prerequisites for projects in printmaking: ARTS 227 and instructor consent, Beavers. Guided studio work for the art major. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTS 422 - Directed Studio Projects
Credits: 2
Prerequisites for projects in sculpture: ARTS 231 and instructor consent, Stene. Prerequisites for projects in painting: ARTS 217 and instructor consent, Olson-Janjic. Prerequisites for projects in photography: ARTS 120 and instructor consent, Bowden. Prerequisites for projects in printmaking: ARTS 227 and instructor consent, Beavers. Guided studio work for the art major. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTS 423 - Directed Studio Projects
Credits: 3
Prerequisites for projects in sculpture: ARTS 231 and instructor consent, Stene. Prerequisites for projects in painting: ARTS 217 and instructor consent, Olson-Janjic. Prerequisites for projects in photography: ARTS 120 and instructor consent, Bowden. Prerequisites for projects in printmaking: ARTS 227 and instructor consent, Beavers. Guided studio work for the art major. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
ARTS 453 - Internship in Studio Art
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Supervised off-campus experience in an artist’s studio approved by the Department of Art and Art History. Requires a follow-up, on-campus project, devised in advance by the instructor and student. Staff.
ARTS 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: ARTS 396. A studio art thesis. Creative work and a portfolio with a written statement of objectives must be presented to the department for consideration by September 30. Staff.
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