Undergraduate Art History & Architectural History Offerings Spring - 2012

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Undergraduate students can also register for ARAH 5000 level courses.

ARTH 1052 - History of Art II

Singerman
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM Wilson Hall 402

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 2052 - Egyptian Art

Dakouti-Hild
TR 9:30AM - 10:45AM Campbell Hall 160

Survey of Egyptian art and architecture (Predynastic-New Kingdom, 4000-1100 BC). The course introduces students to the great monuments and works of art, and to the beliefs that engendered them. While the focus is on pharaonic 'visual' culture, neglected 'others' (women, cross-gendered persons, foreigners, commoners) and their material/visual cultures are brought to attention to provide a nuanced understanding of Egyptian society and culture.

ARTH 2054 - Etruscan and Roman Art

Dobbins
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Campbell Hall 160

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

Ramirez-Weaver
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM Campbell Hall 160

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 2251 - Italian Renaissance Art

Summers
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Campbell Hall 160

This course will concentrate on the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance, from Giotto di Bondone(1266-1337) to the first works of Leonardo da Vinci, around 1480. Giotto was a Florentine, but he worked throughout Italy, and this course will be different from most such courses in treating the art of Padua (where Giotto did some of his most important surviving painting) and Siena, as well as Rome and Florence. There were many connections among these cities, and consideration of the art of Siena will be complemented by an exhibition at the University Art Museum. There will be a midterm and a final.

ARTH 2252 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art

Barolsky
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM Campbell Hall 160

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 2282 - Age of Reubens and Rembrandt:Baroque Art

Goedde
MW 5:00PM - 6:15PM Campbell Hall 160

A survey of the art of the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age, including such artists as Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Hals and Vermeer. The course examines innovations in style and new subjects like landscape, still life and daily-life genre in relation to major historical developments, including the revolt of the Netherlands, the rise of the Dutch Republic, and the Counter-Reformation. The course includes a survey of Dutch architecture.

ARTH 2361 - Nineteenth Century European Art

Betzer
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM Campbell Hall 160

A thematic survey of European art in the long nineteenth century, the course examines the work of German, French, Italian, British and Scandinavian artists, among them Boucher, Vien, David, Friedrich, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Whistler, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch, and others. Key course themes will include artistic training and practice, exhibition, and art-theoretical debates of the period.

ARTH 2491 - History of Photography

Affron
TR 11:00AM - 12:15PM Campbell Hall 160

General survey of the photographic medium from 1839 to the present. Emphasizes the technical, aesthetic, and critical issues particular to the medium.

ARTH 2862 - Arts of the Buddhist World India to Japan

Ehnbom
TR 3:30PM - 4:45PM Campbell Hall 160

Surveys the Buddhist sculpture, architecture and painting of India, China and Japan. Considers aspects of history and religious doctrine.

ARTH 3254 - Leonardo da Vinci

Fiorani
MW 3:30PM - 4:45PM Campbell Hall 160

An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, drawings, and notes, giving special attention to his writings and drawings on human anatomy, the theory of light and shade, color theory, and pictorial composition. His work is considered in relation to the works of fellow artists such as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo as well as within the context of Renaissance investigation of the natural world. Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.

ARTH 3559 - Chinese Painting

Yeung
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM Campbell Hall 135

This course studies the history of Chinese painting in its artistic and historical context, spanning from the Neolithic period to the present. The evolution of Chinese painting, as the major part of Chinese art history, has been lasting and unique. Following chronological sequence, the course examines major periods, styles, schools and individual artists and works of the visual art in relation to political, social, economic and philosophical history. It seeks to discuss major topics and issues including authenticity, realism, symbolism, literati tradition, relationship between painting and calligraphy, the Western approaches and media, and the contemporary challenges.

ARTH 4591 - Hadrian's Village

Frischer
M 3:30PM - 6:00PM Fayerweather Hall 208

Hadrian's Villa is the best known and best preserved of the imperial villas built in the hinterland of Rome. A World Heritage site, Hadrian's Villa covers ca. 200 acres and has 30 major building complexes, extensive gardens, and a complex system of underground pedestrian and vehicular tunnels. The purpose of this seminar is to study the site in all its aspects, including geology, topography, design and décor, operation as a government retreat, and its influence on modern architects.

ARTH 4591 - Early Indian Sculpture

Ehnbom
M 1:00PM - 3:30PM Fayerweather Hall 215

Principal purposes of seminar are to survey the development of Indian sculpture & arch from its beginnings to the 3rd/4th c. A.D., paying particular attention to the formation of a visual & symbolic vocabulary that is common to Hinduism, Buddhism, & Jainism; and to survey the historiography of early Indian sculpture, with special emphasis on writings of A.K. Coomaraswamy (1887-1947), a major figure in development of study of Indian art in 20th c.

ARTH 4591 - Art and Myth

Barolsky
W 1:00PM - 3:30PM Fayerweather Hall 208

A study of mythological art form classical antiquity to the modern period in relation to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with emphasis on the Renaissance and Baroque periods. We will discuss work by Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, Velazquez, Picasso and many others.

ARTH 4591 - Prints and Drawings

Goedde
R 1:00PM - 3:30PM Fayerweather Hall 208

Working with original old-master drawings and prints in the collections of the University of Virginia Art Museum, this seminar explores the fundamental issues of the history, evaluation, physical analysis, and care of prints and drawings from about1450 to 1850.

ARTH 4591 - Leonardo Art and Science

Fiorani
R 1:00PM - 3:30PM Fayerweather Hall 208

The seminar examines Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, drawings, and notes from the point of view of the history of art, literature, and the history of science. Special attention is given to the relations between word and image, the artist’s thought process, networks of knowledge, and the investigation of the natural world in the Renaissance.

ARTH 4591 - Culture of the Renaissance Village

Hara
T 3:30PM - 6:00PM Fayerweather Hall 208

This seminar explores the art, architecture, and ideas that shaped the Renaissance villa as a space for delight. Focusing mainly on central Italian examples, we will examine themes such as urbanism, garden design, antiquarianism, literary culture and architecture, domestic space, artistic invention, concept of leisure, and secular art. Students will read canonical modern scholarship on the topic as well as primary sources from the Renaissance.

ARTH 4591 - Alexander Calder Physics and Poetry

Turner
R 3:30PM - 6:00PM Fayerweather Hall 215

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 - Art Now

Cozzi
M 3:30PM - 6:00PM Fayerweather Hall 215

Art Now is an upper-level seminar course surveying the most recent trends in contemporary art, focusing on developments that have occurred within the last five years. We will discuss not only the artists that populate the art world, but also the institutions and theories that structure it. Each class will be largely discussion based, but will integrate a variety of sources including digital images, text, and video.

ARTH 4591 - World Art

Summers
W 3:30PM - 6:00PM Fayerweather Hall 215

This seminar will be conducted around my book Real Spaces. World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. The book was written to provide the theory and practice for an intercultural art history, making it possible for students to begin to address art from any number of traditions. The chapters of the book are Facture, Places, Rule, Images, Planarity, Virtuality (seeing three dimensions in two) and Modernism. For their part, students will select works from any tradition of their interest, and discuss them in the terms we will discuss, first in an oral report, then in a final paper. The grade will be based on participation and on the final paper. n a final paper. The grade will be based on participation and on the final paper.

ARTH 4952 - University Museums Internship

Affron
F 10:00AM - 12:30PM Fayerweather Hall 206

The University of Virginia Art Museum, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, the Department of Art History, and the program in Global Development Studies offer University undergraduates a two-semester six-credit internship course, ARTH/GDS 4951-4952. This course combines a museum internship (8 – 10 hours per week) and an academic curriculum drawn from art history, anthropology, and museum studies. We can host 6 – 8 students per year. Students apply for entrance into the course during the Spring pre-registration period.

Admission process: applicants submit a copy of their transcript and a one-page essay explaining their interest in museum work, their skills, and what they expect to get out of an internship. Entrance into ARTH/GDS 4951-52 is by permission only; instructors are Matthew Affron (UVA Art Museum and Art History), Richard Handler (Anthropology and Program in Global Development Studies) and Margo Smith (Anthropology and Kluge-Ruhe).

Submit applications in the spring to Richard Handler (rh3y); deadline is May 1.
Note: students must be willing to commit to their internship for the entire academic year.