Staff. Open to especially qualified juniors and seniors with approval
of instructor and chair of department.
A student may enroll only with approval of department, instructor,
and Honors Committee.
Staff. An introduction to the history of painting, sculpture and architecture
from the Old Stone Age through the ancient Mediterranean world to
the end of the medieval period in Western Europe. Considers issues
including technique, style, iconography, patronage, historical context,
and art theory. Required for majors in the history of art.
Staff. An introduction to the history of Western European and American
painting, sculpture and architecture from the Renaissance through
the baroque, rococo, and early modem periods to the late 20th century.
Considers issues including technique, style, iconography, patronage,
historical context, and art theory. Required for majors in the history
of art.
Ms. Carter. Architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine from the Neolithic through
the Achaemenid period in Persia. Same as Classics 313 and History
313.
Ms. Carter. The cultures of the Cycladic Islands, Crete, and the Greek
mainland during the Bronze Age (ca. 3200-1150 B.C.E). Emphasis will
be on the major and minor arts of the Minoans and Mycenaeans and how
this material can be used to reconstruct the societies, cultures,
and religions of the Aegean Bronze Age. Same as Classics 316 and History
316.
Ms. Carter. Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting from their
sources in the Minoan period to the end of the Hellenistic period.
Same as Classics 317.
Ms. Lusnia. Architecture, sculpture, and painting in Rome and the
Roman Empire, their sources, and their history from the Etruscan period
to Constantine. Same as Classics 318.
Ms Lusnia. This course examines Roman culture through the evidence
provided by the excavation of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum. Through
lectures, slides, films, and discussions, aspects of Roman art,
history, society, politics, religion, daily life, and economy are
surveyed. Same as Classics 319 and History 319.
Staff. A survey of architecture, painting, mosaic, and goldsmith
work from Constantine to the fall of Constantinople.
Staff. An introduction to European art and architecture from A.D.
800 to 1300.
Staff. Painting and sculpture in Italy from 1250 to 1500 with some
attention given to architecture.
Staff. Painting and sculpture in Italy from the High Renaissance
to the Counter Reformation.
Staff. A survey of the major architects and their principal achievements
in theory and design during the period 1400-1600.
Staff. The arts in France, the Low Countries, and Germany, with emphasis
on the graphic arts, from the late 13th to the middle of the 16th
century.
Ms. Walker. The arts in northern Europe with primary emphasis on
painting in the period of 1550 to 1700.
Staff. The background and foundation of modem art. Consideration of
the influence of social, cultural, and political forces on 19th-century
European painting and sculpture from 1789 to 1863.
Staff. The background and foundation of modem art. Consideration
of the influence of social, cultural, and political forces on 19th-century
European painting and sculpture from 1863 to 1900.
Staff. Symbolism, art nouveau, the development of fauvism, expressionism,
cubism, futurism, constructivism, de stijl, dada, surrealism, abstract
expressionism, pop, minimal, conceptual, and the other artistic
styles and movements in the 20th century in Europe and America,
with emphasis on painting and sculpture and the forces and theories
that influenced them. Some consideration of architecture.
Mr. Plante. Analysis of visual and material culture from the first
European contact to the onset of the Civil War. Considers the transformation
of cultural forms from the old world to the new in developments
such as the rise of American urbanism and the formation of a "national"
iconography as seen in portraiture, genre painting, and the establishment
of a landscape painting tradition in the United States.
Mr. Plante. This course will analyze the development of art and
architecture in America in the years following the Civil War and
the ways in which that art reflects the social, intellectual, and
political life of the nation up to World War II. Topics will include
realism, images of the American city and of the frontier, the birth
of the skyscraper, the Harlem Renaissance, regionalism, and abstract
expressionism.
Mr. Plante. Explores the developments in the visual arts in the
Unites States and Europe since 1950. Concentrates upon the social-historical
formation of artistic development beginning with the aftermath of
World War II, and continuing to the present. Emphasizes movements
such as pop, minimalism, earth art and postmodernism. Issues surrounding
the objects will include post-structuralism, post-colonialism as
well as African-American, feminist, and gay and lesbian strategies
for self-representation.
Ms. Boone. An introduction to the art and architecture of Pre-Columbian
Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America) with an emphasis of Mexico.
The course focuses on the historical, political, and religious contexts
of the visual arts and addresses the function of these artworks
as ideological statements.
Ms. Boone. Renaissance and baroque architecture, painting and sculpture
of the metropolitan centers of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies
from the 16th to the early 19th century with a major emphasis on
Mexico.
Staff. Internships are available at several museums in New Orleans
for various projects on an individual basis. Student interns will
be supervised by a curator at the museum and a member of the art
history faculty. They are expected to keep a diary and to write
a paper relating to their work experience. With departmental approval
for elective credit only.
Staff. Special topics in the history, criticism, or theory of art.
The subjects will vary and may not be available every semester.
Individual topics will be listed in the schedule of classes.
Staff. Writing Practicum. Fulfills the college writing requirement.
Ms. Carter. Ms. Lusnia. Same as Classics 419.
Staff. Examines the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti with
an emphasis on his career as a sculptor before 1534. While focused
on particular major works of art, class discussions address such
topics as the artist's early education and training, his patrons
and social status, methods of production , religious and philosophical
beliefs, stylistic development, and artistic legacy. Special attention
given to contemporary documents, Michelangelo's own writings, and
the biographies of Condivi and Vasari.
Mr. Plante. Examines the ways in which artists- painters, sculptors,
film makers, performance artists- from the 19th and 20th century
have constructed and organized representations of the human body.
Dependant upon the writings of Lacan and other post-Freudian theorist,
the body will be examined as a site across which history, memory
and cultural politics have been played out. Artist studied include
Cassat, Duchamp, Eakins, Madonna, Mapplethorpe, O'Keefe, Lorna Simpson,
and Kiki Smith.
Mr. Plante. Examines the ways in which abstract expressionism has
been interpreted, both from the view of American critics and historians
and their European counterparts. Emphasizes the extent to which
formalist criticism evolved around abstract expressionism, and that
only recently have scholars challenged those apolitical readings
of this art, considering the political and economic factors which
contributed to its international predominance on the global stage.
Artists will include De Kooning, Frankenthaler, Hofmann, Krasner,
Newman, Pollock, and Still.
Mr. Plante. Charts the development of American, and some European,
art during the 1960's, away from the international dominance of
abstract expressionist style towards a more diverse range of styles
such as color field painting, pop art, minimalism and post-minimalism,
and performance art. Attention will be paid to the development of
artistic and cultural criticism during this period (Greenberg, Sontag,
Barthes), and the arguments about the role of culture in American
society, the status of so-called "high" and "low" art. Artists studied
will include Frankenthaler, Hesse, Judd, Lichenstein, Morris, Smithson,
and Warhol.
Mr. Plante. Examines both European and American conceptions of postmodernism,
as it originated in post-structural psychoanalytic theory. Emphasis
will be placed upon artist working since 1980, including Basquiat,
Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Warhol
and the politically-based art project of Gran Fury, the Guerilla
Girls and the Names Project. Interpretive strategies will be taken
from readings in European literary theory, with emphasis placed
upon the shift in criticism in art-making, away from Europe, towards
and ideology formed around issues of racial, sexual, and gender
performance of identity.
Ms. Boone. Prerequisite 370 or approval of instructor. Intensive
investigation of Aztec arts as fundamental manifestations of Aztec
imperial ideology (especially political and religious). The course
concentrates on the urban iconographic programs developed in sculpture
and architecture and considers the role of ritual and performance
within these programs. It also reviews the sixteenth-century sources
(pictorial and alphabetic) that are used to understand Aztec culture.
Ms. Boone. Prerequisite: 370 or approval of instructor. Detailed
investigation of the pictoral codices painted in Mexico in the 15th
and 16th centuries. The course examines the pictoral conventions
and grammar used by the Mexican scribes to record knowledge. It
analyzes the tradition of manuscript painting as it developed in
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and then as it adapted to new functions
and changed audiences in the early colonial period. Specific topics
will vary from time to time.
Ms. Boone, Ms. Bazzano-Nelson, Ms. Franco, Mr. Plante, Mr. Tuttle,
Ms. Walker. Advanced topics in the history, criticism or theory
of art. The subjects of the seminars vary according to the needs
of the students and the scholarly interest of the individual instructor.
Specialized topics are listed in the schedule of classes.
Staff. Writing practicum. Fulfills the college writing requirement.
Staff. An analysis of historical and contemporary studies of art
history based on readings from Vitruvius, Vasari, LeBrun, Burkhardt,
Woelfflin, Schapiro, Gombrich and others.
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