2000-01 Bulletin Entry for:
Objectives
Undergraduate Concentration
The fine arts department offers programs in studio art and art history for the undergraduate student who wishes to study the visual arts as a creative artist or as a humanist.
Art History
Art is the visual record of human history (and the expression of our finest aspirations). The history of art is a discipline that critically examines that record and achievement in the broadest cultural and intellectual context. The art history program offers a wide array of courses. Some courses provide a survey of major developments in Western and Asian art, while others examine in greater detail major themes or movements in art (such as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the Age of Cathedrals, and the History of Photography). Students are able to complement these offerings by taking advantage of the proximity of the Rose Art Museum and the wealth of other art museums and cultural institutions in the surrounding area. This comprehensive program exemplifies the ideals of a liberal arts education and thereby enhances any individual course of study. It also prepares students to enter graduate programs in art history, museum studies, and arts administration, or to begin careers in the arts.
Studio
Art is a language of its own making and as such a student is educated in visual thinking and creativity through the fundamental process of direct experience. The studio department offers diverse approaches in painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, and drawing. The studio program fosters a student's ability to make an informed judgment and it is supplemented through a distinguished visiting artist program, a strong pedagogical link with the Rose Art Museum, and trips to important museums and galleries in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the Boston area. Through the core of studio classes the student is able to realize, with excellence, his or her potential for expression and informed vision. Studio is an appropriate vehicle for an intellectual experience within the liberal arts context, and students are assisted in the preparation for B.F.A. and M.F.A. graduate programs.
Post-Baccalaureate Program in Studio Art
The fine arts department offers a post-baccalaureate certificate program for students with a bachelor's degree who are interested in extending their experience in studio art. The program's structure emphasizes independent work with assistance achieved through critical interaction with faculty and visiting artists. Students can prepare portfolios for admission to graduate school, or achieve the self-sufficiency necessary for continued studio work outside an academic environment.
How to Become a Concentrator
Art History
The art history concentrator is offered a variety of courses in ancient to contemporary Western art and Asian art. The student may specialize in a given area and choose a faculty advisor who will guide his or her work. The Honors Program in art history requires the completion of a Senior Thesis written under the close supervision of an advisor and a faculty committee. In addition to the courses given at Brandeis, the art history concentrator may enroll in special seminars given by the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These courses range from Egyptian art to American landscape painting to the preservation and scientific examination of works of art and all of them involve contact with art objects in the Museum's world-famous collection. Students may also receive academic credit for internships taken in off-campus museums and art galleries.
Minor in Art History
A minor in art history is offered in addition to the major. This gives the student majoring in another department the opportunity to flexibly construct a program of six art history courses that reflect his or her own personal or academic interests.
Studio
It is recommended that students considering a studio art concentration enroll in a beginning painting or sculpture course in their sophomore year to allow time to develop their work in a sequence of courses taken over a period of three years. Studio concentrators are expected to take art history classes as an important component of their concentration requirement and to deepen their creative experience. Concentrators are encouraged to extend their intellectual and creative involvement through summer art programs and participation in full studio faculty reviews of their work during sophomore, junior, and senior years.
How to Be Admitted to the Post-Baccalaureate Program
An undergraduate concentration in studio art is not required of applicants, but students should be working beyond the beginning level in painting or sculpture. Applicants will be required to submit a group of slides of their work. GMAT or GRE scores are not required. (For more information applicants should contact the fine arts department.)
Faculty
Charles McClendon, Chair
Medieval art and architecture.
Pamela Allara
Modern and contemporary European and American art. History of photography. Film history. Women's art history.
Gerald Bernstein
American art and architecture.
Tom Bills
Sculpture.
Graham Campbell
Painting.
Susan Lichtman, Undergraduate Advising Head
Painting.
Nancy Scott
Late 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century European and American art, from the French Revolution to World War II.
Aida-Yuen Wong
Asian art.
Requirements for Concentration
Concentration may be elected in either applied arts (studio) or art history. A minimum of 12 semester courses is required of all students to fulfill the departmental concentration.
Applied Arts
Studio concentrators are required to take:
A. Any two of the following courses: FA 1a, 1b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b; FA 103a, FA 103b, FA 106a in any combination.
B. FA 110d, Senior Studio.
C. Four additional semesters of studio electives.
D. Four semesters of art history, from among the FA and cross-listed courses, consisting of one course in ancient or medieval art, one course in Asian art, and two courses in Renaissance to Modern art. Studio concentrators may take either FA 76a or FILM 100a for an elective, but not both.
Art History
Art history curriculum general requirements: 10 required courses from among the FA and cross-listed course offerings, plus two electives.
A. FA 17a or one course each in ancient and medieval. Students who take FA 17a must take one additional elective from the FA and cross-listed courses to fulfill 10 required courses.
B. FA 18b plus two electives in Renaissance through Modern or three courses selected from the following four fields: Renaissance, Baroque, Modern, Architecture/American.
C. One course in Asian art.
D. FA 197b, Seminar in Methods and Approaches in the History of Art.
E. One research seminar or readings course.
F. Two semesters of studio work.
G. The remaining elective courses may be selected from department and cross-listed offerings, or with permission of the faculty advisor, may be taken in related areas outside of the department. Concentrators may take either FA 76a or FILM 100a for an elective, but not both. Prospective graduate students in the history of art are advised to acquire skills in foreign languages, which are necessary for graduate study.
Studio
The studio faculty has developed the studio courses listed in the catalog in the belief that the artist-teacher stands at the center of the syllabus of the studio courses. Their presentation is structured through interaction with the individual student. In the best interest of the students' development it is advised that they utilize all the studio faculty, so as to enrich their educational experience through the diverse offerings of the department. In the event that a student wishes to enter a full-year course at mid-year and feels that work previously accomplished evidences a competency that is equivalent or superior to that course, the student may request that his or her work be viewed by the instructor. Enrollment prerequisite is the consent of the instructor.
Requirements for Minor in the History of Art
Six courses are required in art history:
A. One pre-Renaissance or Asian art course.
B. Five additional art history courses, which may include FA 76a or FILM 100a, but not both.
Studio fine arts courses do not count toward the history of art minor; no more than two courses taken abroad (or off campus) and no advanced placement courses may be counted toward the minor.
Requirements for the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Studio Art
A. Students enroll in two courses each semester:
1. An independent study or tutorial with a faculty advisor. The advisor and student meet each week in the student's studio for a critique of his or her work.
2. A studio class from the fine arts curriculum deemed appropriate to the student's needs and interests.
B. Students receive a full studio faculty review of their work mid-year and at the end of the academic year. The Post-Baccalaureate Program culminates in a special student exhibition in a gallery on campus.
C. There is a one-year residency requirement that may be extended to an additional year with permission of the program chair.
Courses of Instruction
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
STUDIO
All studio courses are semester classes with the exception of 107d, 108d, 110d, 111d, and 112d, which are full-year classes.
FA 3a Introduction to Drawing I
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Enrollment limited to 20. Beginning-level course. No previous drawing experience necessary. Preference to first-year students and sophomores. May be repeated once for credit if taught by different instructors. Studio fee: $20 per semester.
Introduces students to theories of visual art through the practice of drawing. Translation of perceptual experience into pictorial language is fundamental to this course. Students may draw from still-life situations, from landscape and architectural spaces, and from the human figure. Offered every year in multiple sections.
Ms. Krchmar, Ms. Lichtman, Ms. Nuss, and Staff
FA 3b Introduction to Drawing II
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 20. Beginning-level course. No previous drawing experience necessary. Preference to first-year students and sophomores. May be repeated once for credit if taught by different instructors. Studio fee: $20 per semester.
See FA 3a for course description. Offered every year in multiple sections.
Ms Krchmar, Ms. Lichtman, Ms. Nuss, and Staff
FA 4a Three-Dimensional Design I
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 20. Beginning-level course. Preference to first-year students and sophomores. May be repeated once for credit if taught by different instructors. Studio fee: $25.
Exploration of three-dimensional aspects of form, space, and composition utilizing a variety of materials and sculptural techniques. Emphasizes students inventing images through the use of modern materials and contemporary ideas about sculpture. Assignments are based on abstract thought and problem-solving. The intent of this course is to give students a rich studio experience and promote a fresh and meaningful approach to visual concepts. Usually offered every semester.
Mr. Bills, Ms. Krcmar, and Staff
FA 4b Three-Dimensional Design II
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 20. Beginning-level course. Preference to first-year students and sophomores. May be repeated once for credit if taught by different instructors. Studio fee: $25.
See FA 4a for course description. Usually offered every semester.
Ms. Krcmar and Staff
FA 98a Independent Study
Prerequisites: Normally open only to fine arts concentrators in their junior and senior years. Appropriate prerequisites. As the number of times FA 98a may be taken is limited by department regulations, the interested student should consult the department advising chair and/or his or her advisor. Signature of the instructor is required. Appropriate studio fees will be charged for studio courses.
Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 98b Independent Study
See FA 98a for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 99d Senior Research
Prerequisites: A grade point average in fine arts courses of 3.00. Studio students petition in the spring of their junior year, art history students at the beginning of their senior year. Signatures of the instructor and fine arts chair are required for enrollment. Appropriate studio fees will be charged for studio courses.
Usually offered every year.
Staff
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
FA 103a Intermediate Drawing I
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: Any introductory studio course or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $20.
Investigation of drawing issues. Basic training in various media and methods of visual articulation. Usually offered every year. Course may be repeated for one semester.
Ms. Fair
FA 103b Intermediate Drawing II
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: Any introductory studio course or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $20.
See FA 103a for course description. A continuation of FA 103a. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fair
FA 104a Advanced Drawing I
[ ca ]
Prerequisites: FA 103a and 103b or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $15.
Offers a wide range of experience in drawing. Perceptual and conceptual issues will be pursued, and students will be encouraged to concentrate on the more complex personal and creative aspects of drawing. Usually offered every year. Course may be repeated for one semester.
Mr. Campbell
FA 104b Advanced Drawing II
[ ca ]
Prerequisites: FA 103a and 103b or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $15.
See 104a for course description. A continuation of FA 104a. Usually offered every year. Course may be repeated for one semester.
Mr. Campbell
FA 106a Workshop in Printmaking: Intaglio
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: Either FA 1 or FA 3. May be repeated once for credit. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $30. Students with experience in printmaking should enroll in Section 2 of this course.
Exploration of various methods of intaglio printmaking. Usually offered every semester.
Ms. Nuss
FA 107d Beginning Painting
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $20.
Introduction to the basic language of painting and a thorough investigation of painting materials and methods. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Lichtman
FA 108d Intermediate Painting
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: FA 107d or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $20.
An intermediate-level painting course, emphasizing the plastic and formal means necessary to creating work that will become an increasingly personal statement. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 110d Senior Studio
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: FA 108d, 112d, or permission of the instructor. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $20.
Heuristic in nature, this is a year-long course culminating in a final studio faculty review of the work produced. Review will take the form of an exhibition. Student work can be undertaken in sculpture or painting or a combination of both. Usually offered every year.
Messrs. Bills and Campbell
FA 111d Beginning Sculpture
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: FA 4a and FA 4b, or permission of the instructor. Beginning-level course. Preference to first-year students and sophomores. Studio fee per semester: $30.
A continuation of various ways of thinking about building sculpture through the use of materials. Assigned readings and museum visits required. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fair
FA 112d Intermediate Sculpture
[ ca ]
Prerequisites: Both semesters of FA 111d or FA 4a and b. Signature of the instructor required. Studio fee per semester: $45.
Exploration of diverse sculptural concepts utilizing various materials and techniques. Emphasis on personal motivation and development. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 114a Intensive Studio: Painting
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: Students wishing to enroll should submit a slide portfolio of current work. Signature of the instructor required.
Intensive studio course dedicated to developing a student's visual ideas as expressed in painting, supported by printmaking, and drawing. Daily instruction with full-time faculty and visiting artists, participation in individual and group critiques, workshops, lectures, and gallery and museum visits. Usually offered every summer.
Mr. Campbell
FA 115a Intensive Studio: Sculpture
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: Students wishing to enroll should submit a slide portfolio of current work. Signature of the instructor required.
Intensive studio course dedicated to developing a student's visual ideas as expressed in sculpture, supported by printmaking and drawing. Daily instruction with full-time faculty and visiting artists, participation in individual and group critiques, workshops, lectures, and gallery and museum visits. Usually offered every summer.
Mr. Campbell
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
ART HISTORY
FA 12a History of Asian Art
[ nw ca ]
Enrollment limited to 40.
A selective survey of the art of the three major Asian areas: India, China, and Japan. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 13b Buddhist Art
[ cl48 nw ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
The history of Buddhist art in India, China, and Japan, including Zen art. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 1997.
Staff
FA 14a When Tokyo was called Edo: Japanese Art from Edo to Meiji
[ cl33 nw ca ]
Enrollment limited to 25.
The art and culture of the Edo period (1600-1867) as reflected in its major urban centers, Edo and Kyoto. Emphasis on the popular arts and the Japanese woodblock print. The course culminates in Japan's opening to the West and modern technology in the Meiji Restoration. Usually offered in even years.
Staff
FA 17a History of Art I: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
A survey of major styles in architecture, sculpture, and painting from prehistoric times to the Gothic cathedral. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McClendon
FA 18b History of Art II: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60. Open to first-year students and sophomores.
A study of the major styles in architecture, painting, and sculpture of the West from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Allara
FA 19b Lives of the Artists
[ cl5 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 35.
Integrates the study of works of art with the literature of artists' lives, which serves as the foundation to understanding the genesis of human creativity. Diverse historical periods and varying levels of fame will be reflected in the choice of artists to be studied. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Scott
FA 20b Introduction to Visual Culture
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 100.
Analyzes the visual culture in which we live, examining the tangible products of our mass culture and the media of advertising, television, and cyberspace. Usually offered every second year. Will be offered in the spring of 2001.
Ms. Allara
FA 21b Survey of Western Architecture
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60. Especially recommended for first-year students, sophomores, and fine arts concentrators.
A historical survey of Western architecture from prehistoric times to the present. Traces the various stages of architectural development in Europe and America in a chronological format. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 22b History of Boston Architecture
[ cl33 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
A survey of the history of Boston architecture and urban planning from the first settlement in 1630 to the contemporary city. The presentation will be chronological and divided into four sections: Colonial, Federal, Victorian, and Modern. Usually offered in odd years.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 41a Art and the Origins of Europe
[ cl17 cl39 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Eastern and Western Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire to the Crusades. Usually offered in odd years.
Mr. McClendon
FA 42b The Age of Cathedrals
[ cl39 cl45 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 35.
Architecture, sculpture, and painting (including stained glass) in Western Europe from the 12th to the 15th century with particular attention to the great churches of medieval France. Usually offered in even years.
Mr. McClendon
FA 43a The Art of Medieval England
[ cl39 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 40.
A survey of art and architecture from the end of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. Particular concern for the synthesis of native and foreign cultures and their artistic styles, resulting from the barbarian invasions, the Norman conquest, and political rivalry with France. Usually offered in odd years.
Mr. McClendon
FA 45a St. Peter's and the Vatican
[ cl30 cl33 cl45 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
The history, growth, and development of Christendom's most famous shrine, with particular concern for the relationship between the design and decoration of the Renaissance/Baroque church and palace complex and their early Christian and medieval predecessors. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McClendon
FA 51a Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
[ cl17 cl30 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
Major painters, sculptors, and architects in Rome, Florence, and Venice from Masaccio to Leonardo da Vinci. Usually offered in odd years.
Staff
FA 54b Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
[ cl30 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
A survey of the art of the Netherlands, Germany, and France in the 15th and 16th centuries. Cultural developments such as the invention of printing, the Protestant Reformation, and the practice of alchemy and witchcraft will be considered through the work of major artists. Usually offered every fourth year. Last offered in the spring of 1999.
Staff
FA 58b High and Late Renaissance in Italy
[ cl17 cl30 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 50.
A study of 16th-century painting, sculpture, and architecture from Leonardo da Vinci to Tintoretto. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 60a Baroque in Italy and Spain
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
A study of the art of Italy and Spain in the 17th century. Major masters (Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez) will be studied in depth, and Rome will be viewed as the great artistic center of the 17th century. Usually offered in odd years.
Staff
FA 61b Inventing Tradition: Women as Artists, Women as Art
[ cl7 cl15 cl35 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
The role of women in the history of art, as creators of art, and as the subject of it. Issues of gender and representation will be discussed, using the lives and art of women from the Renaissance to contemporary art. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Allara
FA 70a Paris/New York: Revolutions of Modernism
[ cl26 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 50.
A chronological survey of painting and sculpture from the French Revolution to World War II. Emphasis on the rise of modernism with Manet and the Impressionists, Picasso and the language of Cubism, and the Abstract Expressionist generation in America. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Scott
FA 71a Modern Art and Modern Culture
[ cl26 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 50.
A thematic study of the arts of the 20th century, emphasizing three trends: primitivism, spiritualism, and the redefinition of reality. Individual artists and art movements will be examined in the context of literature, politics, and aesthetic theory. Artists include Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, and Duchamp. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Allara
FA 75a High Art/Low Art: Modern Art and Popular Culture
[ cl35 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 50.
Examines the relationship between high, or elite, culture and popular culture in the 20th century. How have major modernist movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, and Pop Art been influenced by mass culture? What happens to traditional definitions of art in the age of mass communication? Topics include caricature, comics, advertising, and "the image world" of film and television. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Allara
FA 76b History of Photography
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
The history of photography from its invention in 1839 to the present, with an emphasis on developments in America. Photography is studied as a documentary and as an artistic medium. Topics include Alfred Stieglitz and the photo-secession, Depression-era documentary, Robert Frank and street photography, and post-modern photography. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Allara
Seminars in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The following seminars are offered by the curators of the Museum of Fine Arts to a few selected graduate and undergraduate students of Boston University, Brandeis University, Boston College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College.
FA 83a Medieval Sculpture in the MFA: Technique, Production, and the Cultural Market
[ ca ]
Restricted to students with concentrations in fine arts. Enrollment limited at the discretion of the fine arts chair and the instructor. Signature of department chair required. Interested students are required to consult the fine arts chair in regard to this course. Prerequisites: General familiarity with European art and culture, and a reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
Throughout the Middle ages, architectural sculpture, cult images, and devotional objects were produced for a variety of public and private settings. They issued from workshops whose structure was based on media but whose practices reflected complex responses to the demands of patrons and building sites. Medieval sculpture at the MFA serve as the focus for an investigation of these matters and for individual studies combining an understanding of technique with research into means of production and the cultural market. Will be offered in the fall of 2000.
Ms. Gillerman
FA 83b Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
[ ca ]
See FA 83a for restrictions and necessary signatures.
Much of ancient Egyptian art was created to serve ritual or symbolic purposes. Among the most important was facilitating the passage of the deceased into the afterlife. Kings and well-to-do commoners were laid to rest in tombs decorated with elaborately planned and executed scenes rich in religious symbolism. They were accompanied by some of the finest and most characteristic works of Egyptian art--reliefs, statuary, coffins, shrines, sarcophagi, masks, painted papyri, amulets, and figurines. We examine Egyptian art in the context of mortuary beliefs and practices and explore the function and meaning of individual works of art. Will be offered in the spring of 2001.
Ms. Doxey
FA 86a Methods and Masterpieces: American Art in the MFA, Boston
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See FA 83a for restrictions and necessary signatures. Prerequisite: A previous survey of American art is highly recommended.
Each session is dedicated to the detailed examination of a pair of major objects in the Museum's collections of American art. The pairs--a painting and a work of decorative arts or sculpture of roughly the same period--are employed to present a survey of American art up to 1925 and to introduce a variety of methods useful for the study of objects. Pairs may illuminate qualities of a period style or the coexistence of contrasting styles. Biographical information, the role of the object in social and cultural history, and questions of condition and patronage are also used to interpret these objects as works of art and as documents of history and material culture. Will be offered in the fall of 2000.
Ms. Troyen
FA 89b Twentieth-Century American Crafts
[ ca ]
See FA 83a for restrictions and necessary signatures.
Using ceramics, furniture, glass, metalwork, turned wood, and jewelry, as well as contemporary writings and studio visits, we review the contextual basis for craft in the 20th century. Topics to be discussed include late-19th century societal impulses that valued hand craftsmanship, the ambivalent relationship between craft and design in the early modern period, and recent developments in materials, methodology, and subject matter.
Will be offered in the spring of 2001.
Ms. Falino
FA 98a Independent Study
See FA 98a listing under studio section for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 98b Independent Study
See FA 98a listing under studio section for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
FA 99d Senior Research
See FA 99d listing under studio section for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
FA 102a American Avant-Garde Film and Video
[ ca ]
Prerequisite: FILM 100a. Enrollment limited to 20.
The tradition of independent film and video art in the United States from 1920 to the present. Artists include Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Bill Viola, and Yvonne Rainer. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Allara
FA 120a Modern Architecture
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
Survey of 19th- and 20th-century architecture. Usually offered in odd years.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 121a Contemporary Architecture
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
A study of stylistic and technological developments in post-World War II architecture. Usually offered in even years.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 123a American Painting
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
A survey of American painting from the colonial period to the present. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the fall of 1994.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 130a Twentieth-Century American Art
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 60.
A chronological survey of American art from 1900 to 1990. Movements studied include social realism, abstract expressionism, and pop art. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Allara
FA 131b Center Stage: Women in Contemporary American Art
[ cl42 ca ]
Prerequisite: FA 18b or FA 61b.
This course will examine the contribution of women artists to American painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance art from 1960 to the present. The reciprocal influences between artists, critics, and political activists will be analyzed. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Allara
FA 170b Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture
[ cl23 cl43 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 25.
A survey of movements in painting and sculpture from the French Revolution through the periods of Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Scott
FA 171a Impressionism: Avant-Garde Rebellion in Context
[ cl23 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 25.
Focuses on the major artists from the period 1863-86, from the time of Manet and the Salon des Refusés, through the eight group exhibitions of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Pissarro, Morisot, and Cassatt and company. The antithesis of Impressionism, its academic rivals, the backdrop of the sociopolitical context, the Second Empire, and the Third Republic, will be provided, as well as the roots of the movement's dissolution. Offered every third year.
Ms. Scott
FA 171b Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
[ cl23 ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
Developments in painting and sculpture since World War II, with emphasis on American art. Consideration of major trends of the period, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Color Field Painting, and Realism. Usually offered in even years.
Staff
FA 172a History of Modern Sculpture
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
Nineteenth- and 20th-century sculpture, its processes, methods, materials, and problems, from Rodin to recent trends. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the fall of 1996.
Ms. Scott
FA 173a Georgia O'Keeffe and Stieglitz Circle
[ cl12 cl36 ca ]
Enrollment limited to 30.
The focus of this lecture course will be the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, her stylistic evolution, sources, and collaboration with contemporaries, especially Stieglitz, Strand, Dove, Demuth, Marin, and Hartley. Their collective aesthetic aspirations will be set against early 20th-century Modernism and important recent trends from Europe. Usually offered in odd years. Last offered in the spring of 1998.
Ms. Scott
FA 173b Picasso
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 15.
The major contributions of all periods of Picasso's career, from Blue and Rose to the innovative language of Cubism and Surrealism, are studied in conjunction with the work of contemporaries Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and the poets Apollinaire and Breton who inspired, challenged, and competed with this most prolific artist of our century. Usually offered in odd years.
Ms. Scott
FA 174b Post-Impressionism and Symbolism 1880-1910
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 40.
The course curriculum will cover Post-Impressionist artists, Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin and more broadly, Symbolist trends, Expressionism and art nouveau at the end of the 19th century. These trends will be followed through chronologically to the early 20th century in the art of Matisse and the Fauves, and in German Expressionism. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Scott
FA 175b Duchamp to Deconstruction
[ cl23 cl35 ca ]
Prerequisite: FA 18b. Enrollment limited to 25.
The Modernist roots of Postmodernism in the visual arts and art criticism. The art and writings of Dada and Surrealist artists such as Duchamp and Magritte, the criticism of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, and postmodern American artists such as Warhol, Sherman, and Koons are linked. Usually offered in even years.
Ms. Allara
FA 181b The Art of Japan
[ cl41 nw ca]
Enrollment limited to 25.
A survey of Japanese traditional arts, including Buddhist art, screen and scroll paintings, and Japanese prints. One aim of this course is to define Japanese taste in the arts. Usually offered in odd years.
Staff
FA 182a The Art of China
[ cl41 nw ca ]
Enrollment limited to 25.
A survey of Chinese art from antiquity to the Ch'ing dynasty. Usually offered in even years.
Staff
FA 184a Studies in Asian Art
[ ca ]
Usually offered every third year. Will be offered in the fall of 2001.
Staff
FA 185b Japanese Pictorial Traditions
[ ca ]
Enrollment limited to 25.
A history of Japanese pictorial art that will focus upon native characteristics such as design and color, brushwork and composition, realism and abstraction. Usually offered in even years.
Staff
FA 191b Studies in Renaissance Art
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 1995.
Staff
FA 192a Studies in Modern Art
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
An undergraduate seminar, open to concentrators and minors, that will analyze artists, stylistic movements, and the cultural and social background of various artistic periods from the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics may vary from year to year and the course may be repeated for credit. Qualified nonconcentrators admitted with the permission of the instructor. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Allara or Ms. Scott
FA 194b Studies in American Art
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
Usually offered in even years.
Mr. Bernstein
FA 197b Methods and Approaches in the History of Art
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required. A library intensive course.
Usually offered every year.
Mr. McClendon (fall)
FA 198b Introduction to Museum Methods and Procedures
[ ca ]
Signature of the instructor required.
Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 1996.
Staff
(200 and above) Primarily for Graduate Students
FA 200d Post-Baccalaureate Tutorial/Independent Study
Mr. Bills and Ms. Lichtman
FA 204d Advanced Drawing
Geared towards the advanced painter or sculptor, who is already involved in independent work. Structured in the format of a seminar involving the activity of drawing and the analysis of other drawings (including those produced in class). This course is not driven by a particular mode of drawing, but by the desire to move each individual's work to a deeper and more meaningful place.
Mr. Campbell
Cross-Listed Courses
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome
Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
Introduction to the Moving Image