Graduate Courses

Spring 2019

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (03)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Painting and Subjectivity
AS.010.632 (01)

Readings from a range of theoretically and philosophically interesting texts on painting and the visual arts. Among our authors: Cavell, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, Lyotard.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (02)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a

Periodization and its Discontents
AS.010.629 (01)

This seminar scrutinizes the problem of periodization between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (or, the “Renaissance”). Topics include various medieval “Renaissances” (e.g. the Carolingian & 12th century); early modern attitudes toward the Middle Ages; the relationship between arts north and south of the alps during the late fifteenth century; the persistent use of medieval techniques and materials during the Renaissance; the problem of perspective; Nicholas of Cusa; and, the “International Gothic Style”. Readings include Panofsky, Belting, Nagel & Wood, Nagel, Campbell, Gombrich, Da Costa Kaufmann, and Kubler.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a

Interrogating the Material Turn
AS.010.638 (01)

This course considers the turn to centering materials and materiality in the history of art. Since the publication of Michael Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy (1972) and in particular since the turn of the millennium, critical engagement with the materiality of art has proliferated. This seminar will tackle renewed investment in materiality within the discipline of art history and draw on perspectives from archaeology, philosophy, anthropology, conservation science, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial studies, among others. Particular emphasis will be placed on the polycentrism of materiality as a theoretical lens that cuts across seemingly disjunct cultural, social, and political frames and subject positions. While this course focuses on the art of the ancient Mediterranean, students will be encouraged to bring their own subfields to bear on the material turn and to pursue research topics related their individual research goals. Open to interested students from all disciplines.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/6
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (01)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Theories and Works of “The Baroque”
AS.010.633 (01)

There is perhaps no more confounding, though also no more persistent, art historical concept than that of “the Baroque.” This course introduces students to foundational histories and critiques of “the Baroque” while exploring works of art that have proved central to these formulations. That is, this course will balance careful reading of historiography with close examination of works of art (both digitally presented and visited in local collections). Students will come away with a layered understanding of the Baroque objects—from relatively small-scale museum works to major architectural and sculptural monuments—and their place within the broader evolution of the history of art. Particular attention will be given to newer global and (post-)colonial approaches to notions of the Baroque, ultra-Baroque, and neo-Baroque.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR

1525: Prints and Politics in the German Reformation
AS.010.702 (01)

Examines the involvement of prints, print culture, and the professional activity of the German painter-printmaker with the patterns of social and religious dissent, propagandizing, and political confrontation that marked the first decade of the Protestant Reformation, with a special focus on the revolutionary year 1525. Seminar includes planned visits to the print collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and the National Gallery in Washington.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR

Rethinking the Renaissance: Alternatives to "Early Modernity"
AS.010.634 (01)

"The Renaissance" as a periodization under attack, and its persistance; the hermeneutics of the Pre-Modern Image since Panofsky; the critique of Eurocentrism; challenges to and recuperations of iconology, assessing the contributions of semiotics, psycholanalysis and queer theory.

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (04)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (06)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (05)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (07)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (09)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (08)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (11)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Special Research/Problems
AS.010.802 (10)

This course is for students who wish or need special instruction in areas of art history not included in the currently offered course

Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a

Individual Work
AS.010.804 (07)