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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.251 (01)
Medieval Spaces: Site, Image, and Viewer in the Middle Ages
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Lakey, Christopher
Gilman 177
Medieval Spaces: Site, Image, and Viewer in the Middle Ages AS.010.251 (01)
This course serves as an introduction to medieval art by analyzing the formal relationships between architecture and images at important cultural sites between the third century and the fourteenth century. The course will focus primarily on how those relationships structured viewers’ experiences of the divine and other ideological forces by understanding how works of art functioned for specific audiences in a particular spatial context. Along the way we will encounter a wide array of geographical sites and histories, including early Christian examples in Rome and Byzantium (e.g. the Roman catacombs and Hagia Sophia); monastic settlements in France and Germany during the eighth and ninth centuries (e.g. St. Gall); the interaction of Islamic and Christian visual culture in Spain and North Africa; twelfth century architectural sculpture along the pilgrimage routes; French, German, and Italian Romanesque and Gothic churches; and monumental painting cycles in Italy (e.g. the Arena Chapel in Padua).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/16
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.102 (04)
Introduction to the History of Western Art II
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Warnock, Molly
Hodson 311
Introduction to the History of Western Art II AS.010.102 (04)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.212 (01)
Mirror Mirror: Reflections in Art from Van Eyck to Velázquez
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Merback, Mitchell
Mirror Mirror: Reflections in Art from Van Eyck to Velázquez AS.010.212 (01)
Explores the different ways Early Modern painters incorporated mirrors and optical reflections into their works for the sake of illusion and metaphor, deception and desire, reflexivity and truth-telling. By exploding the boundaries of sense perception and human knowledge, embedded mirror images often made claims about the nature of the self, the powers of art, and the superiority of painting in particular.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 20/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.102 (02)
Introduction to the History of Western Art II
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Warnock, Molly
Hodson 311
Introduction to the History of Western Art II AS.010.102 (02)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.103 (01)
Introduction to the Art of Asia
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
ISLM-ISLMST
Introduction to the Art of Asia AS.010.103 (01)
A survey of the art and architecture of Asia, from the ancient world to the present and including the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/25
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.210 (01)
The Art of Colonial Latin America
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 119
HART-RENBAR
The Art of Colonial Latin America AS.010.210 (01)
This course offers a broad introduction to the arts of colonial Latin America: students will become familiar with the artistic production in the areas of Latin America invaded and controlled by the Spanish Crown from the time of the conquests in the sixteenth century to independence movements in the early nineteenth century. We will explore a wide range of materials from maps to featherwork, paintings to urban grids, cathedrals to mummy bundles. The course is thematically organized, such that students will not only become familiar with the art of Latin America, but will come to understand critical topics related to the study of early modern colonialism: conquest, race, missionary control, literacy, extraction, and indigenous and imperial systems of governance.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/25
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR
AS.010.104 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Investigating Gender and Sexuality in Mesopotamian Art
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Feldman, Marian
Gilman 177
Freshman Seminar: Investigating Gender and Sexuality in Mesopotamian Art AS.010.104 (01)
Specifics of gender and sexuality are not universal norms, but rather are the product of particular cultural formations. Works of art are especially critical in shaping and conveying these particularities. This seminar examines how artistic products expressed and constructed gender identities and notions of sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia from the 4th millennium to the Hellenistic period. As a group, we will explore a variety of case studies, through which students will be introduced to ancient Mesopotamian culture and will develop skills in specific research skills such as critical reading, analysis, and interpretation.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.102 (01)
Introduction to the History of Western Art II
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Warnock, Molly
Hodson 311
Introduction to the History of Western Art II AS.010.102 (01)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.102 (03)
Introduction to the History of Western Art II
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Warnock, Molly
Hodson 311
Introduction to the History of Western Art II AS.010.102 (03)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.260 (01)
By the Book: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages
M 1:30PM - 2:45PM, W 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Gilman 177
By the Book: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages AS.010.260 (01)
This course aims to introduce students to Western medieval book painting from the birth of the codex to the advent of the printed book, between 400 and 1500 C.E. Each week we will study a theme of particular importance for the period. Besides learning about questions central to medieval art and history (artistic practices, patronage, gender, race, and representation of power), we will pay particular attention to the issue of how these manuscripts were read, perceived, and used. To this end, the course will have an interdisciplinary approach to codices. Beside art history, we will mobilize the tools of history, history of religion, manuscript and book studies, anthropology, and psychology. Taking advantage of the rich collections of Johns Hopkins and Baltimore, we will study original manuscripts, facsimiles, and incunabula every week.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.316 (01)
Venice: Art, Architecture and Ecology from the Late Middle Ages to the Present
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Campbell, Stephen
Gilman 119
Venice: Art, Architecture and Ecology from the Late Middle Ages to the Present AS.010.316 (01)
This course is an investigation into the fashioning of Venetian identity in architecture and the visual arts, with a particular address to the encounter with Byzantine and Islamic traditions and exchanges with other centers of the Italian peninsula.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.309 (01)
The Idea of Athens
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Gilman 177
HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
The Idea of Athens AS.010.309 (01)
This course will explore the art, architecture, material culture, and textual evidence from the ancient city of Athens, the many cultures and social positions that made up the ancient city, and the idea of the city as something far beyond its reality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.423 (01)
Modern and Contemporary Art in South Asia
M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
HART-NW, HART-MODERN, ISLM-ISLMST
Modern and Contemporary Art in South Asia AS.010.423 (01)
How does modernism operate in the colonial context, work with and against the nationalisms of new countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh), challenge existing norms of the art world and the art market, engage with the difficult and violent upheavals of Partition and sectarian conflict, and allow for experimentations and new forms all the while? This course will explore the history of the art of the subcontinent from c. 1880 to the present by critical engagement with the art, artists, and theories at play in the South Asian region.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): HART-NW, HART-MODERN, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.364 (01)
Babylon: Myth and Reality
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Feldman, Marian
Gilman 177
ARCH-ARCH
Babylon: Myth and Reality AS.010.364 (01)
Babylon – the name resonates even today, from the biblical whore of Revelation to sci-fi. It evokes exotic places and time long past. But what do we really know about the ancient city and the civilization that flourished there thousands of years ago? The first part of this course examines the archaeological city of Babylon, located in the modern state of Iraq, and considers its artistic and architectural achievements in the context of Mesopotamian history. The second part of the class explores the ongoing impact of Babylon in the cultural imagination of later periods, from the Classical and biblical authors, to European artists, Hollywood movies, science fiction, and contemporary political movements.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/20
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.413 (01)
Historical and Conceptual Bases of Art History
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Merback, Mitchell
Gilman 119
HART-THRY
Historical and Conceptual Bases of Art History AS.010.413 (01)
Critical readings in the intellectual foundations of the modern discipline of art history, with close attention to its most influential figures and innovative practitioners. Texts by Wölfflin, Riegl, Warburg, Benjamin, Panofsky, Schapiro, Gombrich, Baxandall, Alpers, Clark, and others. There will be two papers and short weekly writing assignments; no exams.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/20
PosTag(s): HART-THRY
AS.010.398 (01)
Tombs for the Living
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Deleonardis, Lisa
Hodson 305
ARCH-ARCH
Tombs for the Living AS.010.398 (01)
Centering on the tomb as the unit of analysis, this course examines the cultural and material aspects of death and funerary ritual. Case studies are drawn from North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Collections study in museums.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/35
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.407 (01)
Ancient Americas Metallurgy
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Deleonardis, Lisa
Hodson 305
ARCH-ARCH
Ancient Americas Metallurgy AS.010.407 (01)
This course addresses the technology, aesthetics, and social significance of metals. Case studies are drawn from North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Collections study in museums.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/25
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.409 (01)
Theories and Works of “The Baroque”
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 177
HART-RENBAR
Theories and Works of “The Baroque” AS.010.409 (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: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR
AS.010.415 (01)
Interrogating the Material Turn
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Gilman 177
HART-ANC
Interrogating the Material Turn AS.010.415 (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: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/6
PosTag(s): HART-ANC
AS.040.420 (01)
Classics Research Lab: The Symonds Project
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Butler, Michael Shane, Dean, Gabrielle
Gilman 108
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
Classics Research Lab: The Symonds Project AS.040.420 (01)
This course gives participants a unique opportunity to engage directly in empirical research and its interpretation and dissemination. Topics vary. This semester’s offering is organized around a project to reconstruct digitally the library of the nineteenth-century writer John Addington Symonds, author of one of the first studies of ancient sexuality. No prerequisites, but potential students should contact instructor for permission to enroll.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 2/12
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
AS.389.340 (01)
Critical Issues in Art Conservation
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Balachandran, Sanchita
Gilman 150A
ARCH-ARCH
Critical Issues in Art Conservation AS.389.340 (01)
The course examines recent controversies in the conservation of major global art works and sites, raising questions concerning the basic theoretical assumptions, practical methods and ethical implications of art conservation. Cross-Listed with History of Art and Anthropology
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.303 (01)
World of Things
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 313
World of Things AS.389.303 (01)
The course introduces and applies new concepts about materials, and materiality to museum objects. It treats the museum as a site for investigating the relationship between people and things.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.211.305 (01)
Revolution in European Theater & Film
M 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Ketteler, Christiane
Ames 218
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-GERM, INST-GLOBAL
Revolution in European Theater & Film AS.211.305 (01)
Contemporary local and global social movements such as the uprisings in Egypt, Gezi Park, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter create modes of non-hierarchical politics beyond established institutions of representation. Artists continue to join this venture by critically examining institutional as well as aesthetic forms of representation and by searching for artistic expressions that accompany and inspire politics in new public spaces. Concomitantly, art institutions – from film festivals to galleries and museums – display a certain hunger for ‘political art’. But what makes art political? Is only socially engaged art political? And how can we characterize the specific forms and modes of engagement? In order to assess these questions, the course will take you onto a journey into the rich history of art and political movements in Europe after World War II with a special emphasis on Germany. We will focus on theater and film as genres that presuppose and promote collective experiences, and discuss how artists such as Chris Marker, Bertolt Brecht, Helke Sander, Christoph Schlingensief, the Black Audio Collective and others reflected upon, represented, transformed and performed ideas of ‘revolution’. You will practice the analysis of film and theater, will examine key words of the debate on art and politics (such as “autonomy”, “realism”, “documentary” and fiction”) and will explore ideas that continue to shape and inspire contemporary aesthetic practices and notions of “revolution”
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-GERM, INST-GLOBAL
AS.389.420 (01)
Curatorial Seminar
Th 4:15PM - 6:45PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 277
Curatorial Seminar AS.389.420 (01)
In collaboration with a local museum, conceptualize and develop an exhibition, potentially including but not limited to: checklists, exhibition texts, interpretive strategies, and programming. Exhibition theme varies year to year. Concepts, ethics and practicalities of curation are key concerns. Research visits to regional museums and private collections as relevant.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 7/12
PosTag(s): n/a
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.212 (01)
Mirror Mirror: Reflections in Art from Van Eyck to Velázquez
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Merback, Mitchell
Gilman 177
Mirror Mirror: Reflections in Art from Van Eyck to Velázquez AS.010.212 (01)
Explores the different ways Early Modern painters and printmakers incorporated mirrors and optical reflections into their works for the sake of illusion and metaphor, deception and desire, reflexivity and truth-telling. Connecting sense perception and ethical knowledge, embedded mirror images often made claims about the nature of the self, the powers of art, and the superiority of painting in particular.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/19
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.101 (01)
Intro to History West Art
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Hodson 311
Intro to History West Art AS.010.101 (01)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.101 (02)
Intro to History West Art
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Hodson 311
Intro to History West Art AS.010.101 (02)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.101 (04)
Intro to History West Art
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Hodson 311
Intro to History West Art AS.010.101 (04)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.208 (01)
Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Workshop in the Formation of Scientific Knowledge
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Campbell, Stephen
Gilman 119
HART-RENBAR, MSCH-HUM
Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Workshop in the Formation of Scientific Knowledge AS.010.208 (01)
How does a notary’s son trained as a painter come to claim expertise in the construction of machines and acquire knowledge of the principles of optics, human anatomy, the flight of birds, the dynamics of air and water? The course will focus critically on the myth of Leonardo’s singularity and explore his achievements with regard to the artisanal culture of his time, as well as the problems of authority in the recognition of artisanal knowledge as scientific discovery.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/19
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR, MSCH-HUM
AS.010.101 (03)
Intro to History West Art
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Stager, Jennifer M S
Hodson 311
Intro to History West Art AS.010.101 (03)
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval culture.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.110 (01)
Art of the Islamic World
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 1:00PM - 1:50PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 55
ISLM-ISLMST
Art of the Islamic World AS.010.110 (01)
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world, covering a geography that stretches from Spain to India and a chronology that extends from the seventh century into our own time. Within this rich and varied continuum, we will look at a range of art forms—including architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and calligraphy—in relation to such themes as patronage, production, function, and audience. A number of the artworks will be viewed firsthand in local collections. We will also explore the intersection of Islamic art with today’s political realities.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.222 (01)
Freshman Seminar: Representing Roman Power: Sculpture as Political Rhetoric from Republic to Empire
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Miranda, Amy Christine
Hodson 315
HART-ANC
Freshman Seminar: Representing Roman Power: Sculpture as Political Rhetoric from Republic to Empire AS.010.222 (01)
Rome created one of the world’s most powerful empires that dominated the Mediterranean from the 3rd century BCE into the 4th century CE. As Rome expanded its borders, its cities saw a proliferation of sculptural monuments that produced a visual political rhetoric and expressed imperial ideologies. This class examines the close relationship between Roman sculpture and politics from the Republic through the Severan principate. Through close visual analysis of the ancient materials and critical readings of scholarship, this course will examine the role of sculpture in the formation, reproduction, and attenuation of imperial rule.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/18
PosTag(s): HART-ANC
AS.010.307 (01)
Diplomats, Dealers, and Diggers: The Birth of Archaeology and the Rise of Collecting from the 19th c. to Today
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Feldman, Marian
Gilman 119
ARCH-ARCH
Diplomats, Dealers, and Diggers: The Birth of Archaeology and the Rise of Collecting from the 19th c. to Today AS.010.307 (01)
The development of archaeology in the Middle East – its history of explorers, diplomats, missionaries and gentlemen-scholars – profoundly shaped the modern world, from the creation of new museums and the antiquities market to international relations and terrorism.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/19
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.319 (01)
Medieval Art and Architecture of the Holy Land
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
ISLM-ISLMST
Medieval Art and Architecture of the Holy Land AS.010.319 (01)
The course focuses on art and architecture in the political and religious contexts of the Middle East, from the 4th to the 14th c. The three monotheistic religions all claimed specific territories -- in particular the city of Jerusalem -- for cult practices. This situation resulted in military conflicts that had an impact of Jewish, Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art in the Holy Land. The political conflicts, which still plague the region today, are rooted in the complex situation of the medieval period. The Roman, Arab, Byzantine, and crusader invasions resulted however in exciting eclectic styles that characterize the art and architecture of the region. We will discuss concepts behind political and religious leadership, as they intersect with the power of the arts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.209 (01)
Art since 1945
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Warnock, Molly
Gilman 119
HART-MODERN
Art since 1945 AS.010.209 (01)
Critical survey of developments in the visual arts primarily in Europe and the United States from 1945 to the present, ranging from painting and sculpture to performance, photography, and video, with emphasis on the critical concepts and the aesthetic, social, and historical implications of new forms of artistic production and dissemination. Visits to the BMA and Special Collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/19
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.010.110 (02)
Art of the Islamic World
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
Rustem, Unver
Gilman 55
ISLM-ISLMST
Art of the Islamic World AS.010.110 (02)
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world, covering a geography that stretches from Spain to India and a chronology that extends from the seventh century into our own time. Within this rich and varied continuum, we will look at a range of art forms—including architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and calligraphy—in relation to such themes as patronage, production, function, and audience. A number of the artworks will be viewed firsthand in local collections. We will also explore the intersection of Islamic art with today’s political realities.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/19
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.010.422 (01)
Challenge to Painting: Collage, Montage, Assemblage
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Warnock, Molly
Gilman 177
HART-MODERN
Challenge to Painting: Collage, Montage, Assemblage AS.010.422 (01)
The invention of Cubist collage is generally regarded as a watershed in twentieth-century art. This seminar will examine key junctures in the rapid proliferation and redefinition of collage strategies primarily in Europe and the United States, including but not limited to Futurist “words in liberty”; Dada and Constructivist photomontage; the Surrealist exploration of desire; Situationist "détournement"; and selected varieties of postwar assemblage. Frequent meetings in Special Collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/8
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.010.424 (01)
Art and Colonialism: Nineteenth-century India
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 177
HART-NW, HART-MODERN
Art and Colonialism: Nineteenth-century India AS.010.424 (01)
This seminar explores the technologies of colonial power, from small ephemeral watercolor images of religious processions to massive multi-volume photographic projects documenting the “people of India,” and extending to the establishment of new urban and architectural spaces, archaeological museums, and art schools, the circulation of diplomatic art collections, and the commissioning of survey data. We will engage with the anti-colonial movements of resistance and uprising that took place across this century, examining the central participation of modern artists with these political movements, and explore the way this period fundamentally shaped the foundations for the study of South Asian art and archaeology. Readings will include colonial and postcolonial theory, Orientalism, historiography; we will be actively working with materials in the library’s Special Collections.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/10
PosTag(s): HART-NW, HART-MODERN
AS.010.325 (01)
Arts of the Spanish Empire
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Hyman, Aaron M.
Gilman 119
HART-RENBAR
Arts of the Spanish Empire AS.010.325 (01)
From the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, visual forms and practices linked such far-flung places as Mexico City and Naples, Manila and Lima, Cuzco and Antwerp, Quito and Madrid: all cities in the Spanish Empire. This course is conceived as a voyage, moving city by city to explore objects that connected Spain’s vast holdings. We will investigate how the Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church used visual strategies to consolidate political power and instill religious faith across the world; and, alternatively, we will consider how local conditions, concerns, and resistance reshaped those efforts. This course surveys a diverse range of artistic production: religious paintings and sculptures; maps used for imperial surveillance; luxury goods crafted from shimmering feathers, ceramics, ivory, and precious metals; urban design and architecture from the ports of Europe to the highland outposts of the Andes; ephemeral cityscapes for civic performances. In examining such materials, students will be introduced to the art historical methods and theoretical concerns used to study a wide diversity of objects within an imperial frame.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/19
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR
AS.040.420 (01)
Classics Research Lab: The Symonds Project
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Butler, Michael Shane, Dean, Gabrielle
Gilman 108
Classics Research Lab: The Symonds Project AS.040.420 (01)
This course gives participants a unique opportunity to engage directly in empirical research and its interpretation and dissemination. Topics vary. This semester’s offering is organized around a project to reconstruct digitally the library of the nineteenth-century writer John Addington Symonds, author of one of the first studies of ancient sexuality. No prerequisites, but potential students should contact instructor for permission to enroll.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.365 (01)
Art of the Ancient Andes
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Deleonardis, Lisa
Hodson 216
ARCH-ARCH
Art of the Ancient Andes AS.010.365 (01)
The ancient visual arts of Andean South America and their respective cultural contexts form the basis of this course. In conjunction with the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum students will have access to collections for study.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/25
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.201 (01)
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Shriver Hall 104
HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Cross-listed with History and History of Art.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 23/30
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.327 (01)
Asia America: Art and Architecture
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Brown, Rebecca Mary
Gilman 119
HART-NW, HART-MODERN
Asia America: Art and Architecture AS.010.327 (01)
This course examines a set of case studies spanning the last century that will enable us to explore the shifting landscape of Asian transnational art and architecture. Each week will focus on a different artist, group, exhibition, architect, urban space, or site to unpack artists’ and architects’ engagements with the changing landscape of immigration policies, movements to build solidarity with other artists of color, and campaigns for gender and sexual equality. The course will situate these artists within American art, and build an expansive idea of Asia America to include the discussion of artists whose work directly addresses the fluidity of location and the transnational studio practice.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/19
PosTag(s): HART-NW, HART-MODERN
AS.010.390 (01)
Workshop in Object Analysis: Ancient Americas Collection
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Deleonardis, Lisa
Gilman 150A
HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
Workshop in Object Analysis: Ancient Americas Collection AS.010.390 (01)
Direct analysis of ancient Americas objects in the JHU Archaeology Museum to include methods and theory of description, classification, cataloging, exhibition.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.332 (01)
Jade, Turquoise, Feathers, and Gold: Valued Materials in Aztec Art
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Staff
Gilman 119
HART-NW, ARCH-ARCH
Jade, Turquoise, Feathers, and Gold: Valued Materials in Aztec Art AS.010.332 (01)
This seminar (which meets twice weekly) introduces students to the art of the Aztec Empire (1428-1521 CE) through the lens of the production of art from valued materials. The issue of value—how it is constructed, conceptualized, and deployed—provides key insights into the political, religious, economic, and conceptual life of a society. Throughout this course, we will examine these questions by focusing on the major themes of art’s social functions, materiality and artistic process, historicity, and cross-cultural exchange. Special emphasis will be placed on in-person examination of objects in local museum collections and the study of writings by indigenous authors.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/18
PosTag(s): HART-NW, ARCH-ARCH
AS.100.331 (01)
Reading through Things: Early Modern Chinese Medicine, Technology, and Art
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Ji, Xiaoqian
Gilman 413
HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
Reading through Things: Early Modern Chinese Medicine, Technology, and Art AS.100.331 (01)
This course introduces the history of late imperial China from the perspective of medicine, technology, and the arts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/18
PosTag(s): HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.010.431 (01)
Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome
M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Zchomelidse, Nino
Gilman 177
HART-MED
Obsessed with the Past: the Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome AS.010.431 (01)
In antiquity, Rome became the capital of an empire, its growing status reflected in its sophisticated urban planning, its architecture, and the arts. While an abundance of studies explores the revival of this glorious past in the Renaissance, this seminar discusses various ways of the reception of antiquity during the medieval period. We address the practice of using "spolia" in medieval architecture, the appropriation of ancient pagan buildings for the performance of Christian cult practices, the continuation of making (cult)images and their veneration, the meaning and specific visuality of Latin script (paleography and epigraphy) in later medieval art. We discuss the revival and systematic study of ancient knowledge (f. ex. medicine, astronomy, and the liberal arts), in complex allegorical murals. As we aim to reconstruct the art and architecture of medieval Rome, this course discusses ideas and concepts behind different forms of re-building and picturing the past, as they intersect with the self-referential character of a city that is obsessed with its own history.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
PosTag(s): HART-MED
AS.130.219 (01)
The Art of War and Peace in Ancient Mesopotamia
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Taylor, Avary Kathryn
Gilman 219
NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
The Art of War and Peace in Ancient Mesopotamia AS.130.219 (01)
Ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Syria, and Iran, is the “cradle of civilization.” It witnessed new inventions previously unknown to the ancient world: urban cities, writing systems, kingship,
and empires. This course examines the close relationship between war and peace and art in ancient Mesopotamia (ancient Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria) from 3500 to 539 BCE. During the semester students will be introduced to the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia. This course is aimed at students without a previous background in art historical or archaeological approaches to Mesopotamia, but more advanced students are welcome.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/18
PosTag(s): NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.010.334 (01)
Problems in Art of the Ancient Americas
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Staff
Gilman 119
Problems in Art of the Ancient Americas AS.010.334 (01)
Following a historical narrative that traces the formation of princely collections in the sixteenth century, to the establishment of national museums in the nineteenth, this course surveys the acts of collecting, preserving, interpreting, and appropriating ancient American art. Draws on case studies from North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Collections study in museums.
