UNDERGRADUATE ART HISTORY & ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OFFERINGS – SPRING 2010* Please check the Online COD to confirm the following information. Updates can occur at any time and the information here is to be used as a guideline. Undergraduate students can also register for ARAH 5000 level courses. ARTH 1052 History of Art II
12:30-13:45 TR An introduction to the history and interpretation of Western art from the early Renaissance to the present. Organized as a chronological survey, the course will distinguish artistic eras from the Renaissance and Baroque to the Modern, and will examine major artistic movements such as Realism, Impressionism, and Abstract Expressionism. Oriented to key monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture, we will explore the relationship of art to the cultural and intellectual setting of its initial making. Among the issues to be considered will be transformations in the role and status of the artist, art in the service of politics, and the afterlives of antiquity. In addition, the course will familiarize students with fundamental concepts and tools for reading and writing about visual art. ARTH 2054 Etruscan & Roman Art
11:00-11:50 MWF The development of art in Italy from the time of the Etruscans to Constantine the Great, focusing on the monuments of imperial Rome and on the architecture, sculpture, paintings, and mosaics in Italy and throughout the empire. Also considered are Pompeii, Ostia, major sites of the Roman provinces, and villas, houses, and their decoration. The class format is lecture and discussion. Attendance and participation at lectures are expected. Two quizzes, a mid-term examination, one paper, and a final examination. Texts, aAvailable in the University of Virginia Bookstore: Fred Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, Peter J. Aicher, Rome Alive: A Source-Guide to the Ancient City. ARTH 2153 Romanesque and Gothic Art
2:00-3:15 TR The medieval monk, Raoul Glaber, described Europe in the year 1000 as a place of Christian renewal in which the continent “…[was] clothing herself everywhere in a white garment of churches.” From the Romanesque churches along the Pilgrimage Routes to the new Gothic architecture at St. Denis outside Paris and on to late medieval artistic production in Prague, this course examines profound and visually arresting expressions of medieval piety, devotion, and power made by artists from roughly 1000-1500. In this class, both sacred and secular artworks supply important records of the philosophical, theological, political, and scientific beliefs espoused by their different patrons from disparate time periods and the artists they commissioned to translate their visions into churches, castles, liturgical objects, sculptures, stained glass, tapestries, household items, and illuminated manuscripts. Throughout our investigations, particular attention will be paid to the contributions of important medieval women, who rose above social inequalities, and demonstrated their power and prestige through cultivated programs of patronage. ARTH 2252 High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
12:30-12:45 TR In this course we will survey the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture in sixteenth- century Italy by discussing the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, Rosso, Pontormo, and Parmigianino, among others, in a broad cultural context of social and political history, theology, philosophy, and poetry. ARTH 2559 Early Italian Renaissance
3:30-4:45 MW This course will examine the rise of naturalism in Italian art from the late Middle Ages through the early Renaissance to Leonardo da Vinci, ending with the death of Lorenzo de’Medici in 1492. We will consider art in its changing socioeconomic context, and more specifically in relation to the revival of natural science (especially optics), and to changes in religious practice. We will examine the works of such artists as Giotto, Simone Martini, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Donatello, Botticelli, and Leonardo. Evaluation will be based on midterm and final examinations. ARTH 2752 American Art Since Reconstruction
9:30-10:45 TR This lecture course will examine the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints) of the United States from the late 19th-century to World War II. Particular attention will be paid the cultural, political and social issues that provide a contextual framework for the interpretation and analysis of these works of art. Presented both chronologically and thematically this course will interrogate issues such as artistic identity, American modernism, the role of cultural institutions, and the influence of popular culture on fine art. ARTH 3559 Greek Sculpture
11:00-12:15 TR An overview of styles, artists, workshops, and themes from c. 700-1st century BC. The forms covered will include free-standing and relief, as well as architectural sculpture. Classical texts in translation will be read. ARTH 3781 New York School
3:30-4:45 TR TBA ARTH 4051 Art History: Theory and Practice
1:00-3:30 W This course will review the historiography of the history of art from Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance to modern times. We will read, and read about, Pliny the Elder, Giorgio Vasari, J. J. Winckelmann, G. W. F. Hegel, Alois Riegl, Heinrich Woelffin and others to the present. In addition to reading and discussion, students will present final papers on a work from the University Museum collection. In the library training section of the course students will learn valuable research skills. ARTH 4591 Akrotiri: Aegean Pompeii
1:00-3:30 T The seminar is an in-depth examination of the Late Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri on the volcanic island of Thera/Santorini, Greece. Topics include the debated chronology of the Thera volcano eruption, its impact on Late Bronze Age Mediterranean cultures, archaeological evidence on the legend of Atlantis, aspects of urban design, functional/social organization of space, and vernacular architectural design. The focus of the seminar, however, is on the wall-paintings recovered from the volcanic level of the settlement (e.g. West House, the House of Ladies, Xeste 3), on the basis of which we will discuss Aegean iconography, style, religious symbolism, and more generally, issues of artistic transference and cultural emulation in the eastern Mediterranean. ARTH 4591 Dionysos: Art, Myth, and Cult
1:00-3:30 M This seminar is concerned with the images of the god and his entourage in Greek art, as well the archaeological contexts of his worship. Major themes will include: birth, death and afterlife, mythic and mortal followers, wine and drama, and modern receptions of the god. ARTH 4591 Women and Antiquity
1:00-3:30 R The course will cover the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome as it pertains to women. Themes include, but are not limited to: art, sexuality, ritual, and domestic space. After discussing the approaches to women and gender for ancient art/archaeology and how these approaches have developed over the course of the late 20th c., the student will be able to critically read, assess, and discuss scholarship related to women in the antiquity. ARTH 4591/ARH 4591 Pilgrimage
1:00-3:30 M
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Number of Students Authorized to Enroll: 12 ARTH 4591 Florentine Painting 1470s and 80s
3:30-4:20 M Florence is well-known as one of the most vibrant artistic centers of Renaissance Italy, and it was during the decades of the 1470s and 80s that many artists were creating the paintings that have become emblematic of the city as a site of artistic experimentation, invention, and exchange. This course will examine the works of Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Leonardo, and others, with an emphasis on relationships between these artists’ works, their respective creative processes, and the circulation of ideas among workshops. Satisfies second writing requirement. ARTH 4591 Palladio and Palladianism
3:30-6:00 R The course will survey the distinctive contribution of Andrea Palladio to Italian Renaissance architecture as well as his influence on later architecture in England and America. Among topics considered will be the Renaissance villa, church design, Palladio and urbanism, Palladio's Quattro Libri and Renaissance treatises on architecture, and Thomas Jefferson's debt to Palladio and Palladianism. ARTH 4591 American Landscape and Pop Culture
3:30-6:00 M This seminar examines the relationship between nineteenth-century American landscape painting and contemporary popular culture. Artists such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt will be studied alongside the wildly popular phenomenon of panorama painting. We will consider the exhibition practices of both fine art and popular entertainment at venues varying from the National Academy to P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. This seminar does not require previous study of American art history, and will allow students to pursue research topics of their own interest, relevant to the course. ARTH 4591 Calder Physics and Poetry
3:30-6:00 R American sculptors Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945) and Alexander Milne Calder (1846-1923). His mother Nanette Lederer (1866-1960) was a painter and, like her husband and father-in-law, trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Alternatively the youngest Alexander Calder chose to be trained as a mechanical engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ. From there Calder went on to change the definition and experience of sculpture in the 20th century through his radical conceptions of the "Mobile" and "Stabile". This class will examine the range and depth of Calder's unprecedented body of work. We also will explore the artist's lifestyle and connections with the avant- garde from Brancusi to Miro and Mondrian as well as the artist's collaborations in realms of architecture, theatre, and dance. Assigned readings will inform weekly discussions concerning the changing motivations and assumptions in the world of modern art over a span of sixty years that under gird Calder's remarkably pragmatic inventions. Evaluation will be made on the basis of weekly class participation, an oral presentation, and a 15-20-page research paper. ARTH 4591 Early Indian Art and Architecture
3:30-6:00 W
The principal purposes of the seminar are to survey the development of Indian sculpture and architecture from its beginnings to the 3rd/4th century A.D., paying particular attention to the formation of a visual and symbolic vocabulary that is common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism; and to survey the historiography of early Indian sculpture, with special emphasis on the writings of A.K. Coomaraswamy (1887-1947), a major figure in the development of the study of Indian art in the 20th century. ARH 1010/7010 A History of Architecture: Part II
M/W 10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
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Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 – 1:45
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Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00 - 10:15 Prerequisites Open to both graduate and undergrad students without prior course work required. Course description This is a survey and introductory course on the history of traditional architecture and allied arts of East Asia which includes China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Lectures will be presented to cover the major types of traditional architecture in East Asian countries. Images of the major monuments from East Asia will be shown in class with discussions on how and why they were built in the way that are so much different from the western architecture. Pedagogical intentions Lectures will discuss that how the nobilities and commoners conceived and used their buildings. East Asian architecture stayed thousands of years in timber structural system and many magnificent palaces, temples, castles and gardens were created with this system. This course will present that in what technological concepts the timber frames were employed to serve for the multiple purposes with the similar forms. The traditional folk houses will be introduced to the class with their large varieties of different forms from different climate and cultural conditions. Requirements 1. Term Project: A research paper or a visual project (architectural drawings, models, or computer graphic images) 2. Mid-term Exam and Final Exam.
Readings: will be posted on UVa collab ARH 3802/7802 MODERN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE (1850 –2000)
Thursday 12:30 – 15:15 Prerequisites Open to both graduate and undergrad students without prior course work required. Course description This is a lecture course open to both graduates and undergraduates to learn about the development of modern Japanese architecture. The “modern” history in Japan started from the mid-19th century Meiji period when Japan was opened to the Western world. The government-patronized projects showed a strong tendency of “Westernization” in architecture and they involved a number of western professionals for design. The new period began after Frank Lloyd Wright and later Le Corbusier built their projects in Tokyo. Since then the native architects, both domestically trained and foreign trained, contributed towards establishing a new architecture in Japan. Pedagogical intentions This course is to expose the class to various aspects of modern Japanese architecture: its cultural roots, its main social driving forces and its major movements. The approaches would be both historical and projects-analysis oriented. The main representative projects and their designers will be introduced with discussions on their design philosophy. While the course will provide a brief but complete history of modern Japanese architecture, the emphasis will be the post-WWII developments. The major architects with fames as Maekawa, Tange, Maki, Kurokawa, Ando and Takamatsu are to be introduced. Requirements 1. Term Project: A research paper or a visual project (architectural drawings, models, or computer graphic images) 2. Mid-term Exam and Final Exam.
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Wednesdays, 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. This special topics class will focus on the university and the surrounding community of Charlottesville with a special emphasis on issues of race. Students will explore the history of the University from its founding and construction to the late twentieth century, exploring both the documented history and the community’s perception of that history. Topics include: • the early role of the enslaved in both building and maintaining the quality of life for students and faculty; • U.Va.’s position and role during the Civil War; • the evolution of the student body and surrounding communities in the era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow; • the values of southern Progressivism; • the place of eugenics at U.Va.; • early efforts at racial and gender diversity and administrative responses; • the acceptance of African American students and the responses of the Black Charlottesville community; employment practices during the twentieth century; • issues of growth and their impact on communities; and • how that history has and has not been represented on grounds and throughout the built environment. This course will invite and encourage community members who have worked or lived in the surrounding area to help construct the forgotten or buried histories of university/community relations from their perspective. Students enrolled in the course will develop projects that actively engage members of the community, and will develop final products that serve the wider community needs for revealing and understanding this history. Course goals: • Broaden the understanding of the practice of slavery, segregation and discrimination and efforts to address those practices within the University; • Broaden the understanding of the community impact and continuing legacy of the University’s practice of slavery, segregation and discrimination as well as efforts to address those practices; • Explore the mythology of Jefferson’s image and the marketing of that image; • Offer community members a sense of welcome to the University; • Understand and validate community knowledge of issues such as employment, housing, education, health, and neighborhood history; • Bring discipline of historical research to University-Community relations. A reading packet will be available at the bookstore.ARAD 3559-001 - Arts in Context - The Arts and Technology
Tuesday / Thursday 5:00 – 6:15 PM Campbell 153
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The Arts and Technology is the 4th in a series of courses called “Arts in Context.” For Spring, 2010, we will use guest faculty from Arts & Sciences, Engineering, the Curry School and elsewhere to explore ways in which the arts and technology (both broadly defined) have, and continue to, influence each other. The course will examine the present, look at selected historic moments, then leap into projections about the future. A hands-on creative project is planned.
The goal is to broaden our thinking by presenting thematic threads interwoven with selected topic. Threads will include: The course, with a maximum enrollment of 95, seeks a diversity of students from Schools and majors across Grounds. ARAD Arts Development (fundraising) – Boards & Trustee Management
Wednesdays, 3:30 – 6:00 PM Fayerweather 208 Topics: Design and implementation of Development (fundraising) Strategies; Grant Writing; Board and Volunteer Management & Leadership This course will explore the techniques and rationales involved with the giving and the raising of funds and the closely related skills of leading and managing trustees, boards and volunteers. The course will examine these fields using both theory and practical applications. Both in-class discussions and distinguished guest speakers will be utilized. Topics will be grant writing, corporate, government and individual giving, legacies of trusts and bequests, the preparation of organizations and creation of strategies for development campaigns, and other aspects of what are some of the most important elements of managing processes surrounding the arts and other non-profit organizations. First admission preference will be given to students who have taken other Arts Administration courses, but others admitted by instructor permission. This course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. INST 1550 - 002 Egyptology and Egyptomania
Tuesdays 6:00- 7:30 in FHL 208 Fayerweather 208 This seminar will explore topics related to the study of and fascination with ancient Egyptian art in Western culture. Each week, we will discuss issues and questions arising from assigned readings on selected topics in Egyptology, including Egypt’s role as a cultural and artistic ancestor to the West, the appropriation of Egyptian culture to support modern political and social movements, popular interest in Egyptian cosmology and the afterlife, the effects of scholarly and technological evolution on the study of Egyptian art, and the political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of archaeological and scholarly methods. This seminar will explore topics related to the study of and fascination with ancient Egyptian art in Western culture. Each week, we will discuss issues and questions arising from assigned readings on selected topics in Egyptology, including Egypt’s role as a cultural and artistic ancestor to the West, the appropriation of Egyptian culture to support modern political and social movements, popular interest in Egyptian cosmology and the afterlife, the effects of scholarly and technological evolution on the study of Egyptian art, and the political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of archaeological and scholarly methods.
Please note that INST courses are taught only on the CR/NC basis.    | |||
