Spring 2010 Course ListV43.0001(.001-004) History of Western Art IMW 12:30-1:4519 West 4th, Room 101 Professor Mansfield Identical to V65.0001. Students who have taken V43.0100 or V43.0200 will not receive credit for this course. Given every semester. 4 points. Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture
from ancient times to the dawn of the Renaissance, emphasizing the
place of the visual arts in the history of civilization. Includes the
study of significant works in New York museums, such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, and the Brooklyn Museum.
V43.0002(.001-005) History of Western Art IIMW 3:30-4:45Cantor Rm 200 Professor Silver V43.0002 Students who have taken V43.0300 or V43.0400 will not receive credit for this course. Given every semester. 4 points. Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present day. Includes the study of significant works in New York museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
V43.0005 Renaissance ArtTR 3:30-4:45, Silver 300Professor Geronimus Formerly V43.0300. Identical to V65.0333. Students who have taken V43.0002 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every other year. 4 points. The Renaissance, like classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, is a major era of Western civilization embracing a multitude of styles. It is, however, held together by basic concepts that distinguish it from other periods. The course covers the main developments of Renaissance art in Italy and north of the Alps, relation to the lingering Gothic tradition, the early and high Renaissance, and mannerism. Emphasis is placed on the great masters of each phase. The survival of Renaissance traditions in baroque and rococo art is examined in art and architecture. V43.0006 Modern ArtTR 2:00-3:15, Silver 300Professor Karmel Students who have taken V43.0002 will not receive credit for this course. Given every year. 4 points. Art in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. The Neoclassicism and Romanticism of David, Goya, Ingres, Turner, Delacroix; the Realism of Courbet; the Impressionists; parallel developments in architecture; and the new sculptural tradition of Rodin. From postimpressionism to Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Cubism, geometric abstraction in sculpture and painting, and modernism in architecture in the 20th century. After World War I, Dadaism and Surrealism. Developments since 1945, such as Action painting, Pop art, Minimal art, and numerous strands of Postmodernism. V55.0721 Map: NY Field Field StudyF 12:30-4:30Room 300 Professor Broderick V43.0150.001 Special Topics: Ancient Art at Risk: Conservation, Ethics, and Cultural PropertyM 4:55-7:25, Silver 300Professor Connelly Prerequisite V43.0001 or V43.0003 with a minimum grade of C. 4 points. This course examines the environmental, material, social, and political forces that put ancient art at risk, including exposure to natural elements, acid rain, pollution, dam-building, tourism, urban development, armed conflict, looting, theft, and the illicit trade in antiquities. Issues of conservation, preservation, and ethics will be considered through case studies that focus on sites, monuments, and materials. Team-taught with physical chemist Prof. Norbert S. Baer of the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, this course reviews a range of applied technologies used in the analysis of ancient objects: radiocarbon dating, thermoluminesence, dendrochronology, stable isotope analysis, dedolomotization, and elemental analysis. Authenticity and forgery, dating and provenience, and the sourcing of ancient materials are among issues examined. The use of coins, inscriptions, stamped amphora handles, and ceramics, will be evaluated as criteria for establishing absolute and relative chronologies. Consideration will be given to the role that stylistic analysis and connoisseurship have played in our understanding of ancient art. This interdisciplinary course is ideal for students who interested in the intersection of archaeology with law, science, ethics, public policy, cultural resource management, and the environment. We will track developments in global cultural property laws, international conventions, and the repatriation of cultural materials. V43.0150.002 Special Topics: Art and Architecture of the Ancient WorldM 2:00-4:45, Silver 300Professor Welch Prerequisite V43.0001 or V43.0003 with a minimum grade of C. 4 points. At it greatest, the Roman Empire extended from Scotland to Syria and from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Rome exercised power over this area for an unprecedented six or more centuries (second century BCE-fourth century CE), with the result that Roman art and architecture exerted a fundamental influence on the art of later cultures within this vast geographical sphere. In this course, we examine the art and architecture produced in lands under Roman rule, analyzing it in terms of art medium and category (building, statuary, relief sculpture, wall painting and many other forms of art production); the patrons of the arts (emperor, elite, middle and lower classes); and display contexts (public, private, funerary). Students consider questions of quality, as well as issues of originality in Roman art and of dialogue with authoritative older Greek artistic models. Utilizing practical and theoretical methods, students learn to 'read' Roman monuments, both in terms of visual details (iconography) and different levels of meaning (ancient and modern). This is achieved by a combination of study, lectures, as well as trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where students engage directly with artifacts in the Museum's newly installed and stunning collection of Roman-period art. V43.0205 Medieval ArchitectureTR 12:30-1:45, Silver 300Professor M. Easton Prerequisite: V43.0001 or V43.0004. Offered every other year. 4 points. This course surveys the architecture of the Middle Ages in Western Europe from ca. A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1500, from the emergence of the Romanesque to the late Gothic period. It examines monumental religious and secular projects, such as the soaring cathedral of Amiens and the civic palaces of communal Italy, from stylistic, technical, functional, iconographic, and ideological perspectives. Topics include regionalism, patronage, the status of the “architect,” and the concept of the multimedia ensemble. This course also situates buildings within their social, religious, and political contexts, and explores the advantages and shortcomings of different approaches to medieval architecture. V43.0307 Age of Leonardo, Raphael and MichelangeloTR 11:00-12:15, Silver 300Professor Geronimus Identical to V65.0307. Prerequisite: V43.0002, V43.0005, or permission of the instructor. Offered in the spring. 4 points. Painting in Florence and Rome from about 1490 to later decades of the 16th century. From a study of selected commissions by Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Fra Bartolommeo, and Andrea del Sarto, we go on to investigate new pictorial modes emerging before 1520 in Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, and other members of Raphael's school; we consider their younger contemporaries and successors, including Bronzino and Vasari. The course emphasizes the patronage, symbolic tasks, and functions of Renaissance painting and critically examines historical concepts such as high Renaissance, mannerism, and maniera. V43.0350.001 Italian Baroque Painting and Sculpture: 1580-1700TR 11:00-12:15, Silver 301 V43.0412 Impressionism to ExpressionismMW 4:55-6:10, Silver 301Professor Mansfield Prerequisite: V43.0002 or V43.0006. Offered every year. 4 points. Beginning with a consideration of how Impressionism refined and redirected the artistic aims of 19th-century Realism, this course follows the development of progressive art to the brink of Cubism and pure abstraction in the first years of the 20th century. Along with Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, close attention is paid to Symbolism, Aestheticism, Art Nouveau, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Fauvism, and Expressionism. The aesthetic aims of these movements are analyzed in tandem with the social and cultural conditions that generated them. V43.0414 Postmodern and Contemporary ArtMW 12:30-1:45, Silver 300Professor Robinson Prerequisite: V43.0002 or V43.0006. Offered every year. 4 points. This survey covers art in the Postmodern era, circa 1955 to the present. After examining the innovations of the neo-avant-garde generation (1955-75), our focus shifts from the radical innovations in mediums, materials and techniques to the expanded field of critical engagement that contemporary art encompasses. Discrete “early” developments such as Neo-Dada, Op, Pop, Fluxus, arte povera, earth art, and various conceptualisms here are seen to diversify the look of art and to enable the dissolution of stylistic and formal categorization in favor of a classification based upon a particular question or critique. “Later” developments in our chronology thus emphasize issues such as gender, race, technology, and globalism as they complicate our conception of art since 1955. V43.0511 East Asian Art II: China, Japan, Korea from 1000 CE to the PresentMW 11:00-12:15, Silver 301Professor Dramer V43.0531 South Asian Art II: 1200 to the PresentMW 12:30-1:45, Silver 301Professor TBA V43.0550.002 Special Topics: Islamic ArtTR 3:30-4:45, Silver 301Professor TBA V43.0550.001 Special Topics: Oceanic ArtT 12:30-3:15, Silver 301Professor Corbin V43.0601 History of Architecture from Antiquity to the PresentMW 9:30-10:45, Silver 300Professor Krinsky Formerly V43.0019. Offered every semester. 4 points. Introduction to the history of Western architecture emphasizing the formal, structural, programmatic, and contextual aspects of selected major monuments from ancient times to the present. Monuments discussed include the Parthenon, the Roman Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, the cathedral at Chartres, Alberti's S. Andrea in Mantua, St. Peter's, Palladio's Villa Rotonda, St. Paul's Cathedral, Versailles, the London Crystal Palace, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, and others. Lectures analyze monuments within their contexts of time and place. Also considers aspects of city planning in relation to certain monuments and to the culture and events of their time. V43.0650.001 Topics in Urban DesignW 12:30-3:15, Silver 307Professor Morgan V43.0661 Shaping the Urban EnvironmentMW 11:00-12:15, Silver 300Professor Ritter Formerly V43.0021. Identical to V18.0762. Offered in the fall. 4 points. Students
investigate the city in terms of architectural history, engineering,
and urban planning. Topics include historical types and shapes of
cities; factors influencing our current urban scene; architectural form
as expression of political systems; discussions of urban design and
architecture problems in the contemporary world; and the role of
technological factors such as construction and transportation systems.
Students are assigned projects in conjunction with class. V43.0663 History of City Planning, 19th and 20th CenturiesMW 3:30-4:45, Silver 301Professor Ritter Identical to V18.0769. Prerequisite: V43.0661 or permission of the program director. Offered periodically. 4 points. Examines the history of cities and urban design in Europe and the United States since 1800. Students can expect both a survey of city planning history and detailed consideration of specific issues. Examines social, political, and economic factors affecting modern cities, including industrialization, housing, hygiene, transportation, social reform, recreation, and infrastructure. Students will also learn about cultural and aesthetic debates about style, monumentality, and diversity in cities. Field trips to notably planned sites in and near New York City. Readings include primary sources and recent interpretations. V43.0672 Environmental Design: Issues and MethodsT 4:55-7:25, Silver 307Professor Phifer Identical to V99.0322. Prerequisite: V43.0021 or permission of the program director. Given every year. 4 points On the basis of selected topics, examines the manifold technological
considerations that affect urban building and urban environmental
quality in the city of today. Topics include the specifics of power
supply, heating, lighting, ventilation, internal traffic (vertical and
horizontal), pollution control, and other topics of immediate
significance. Focuses on the potentials of technology to resolve urban
environmental problems. V43.0674 Urban Design and the Law
W 6:20-8:50, Silver 302Professor Raphael Formerly V43.0037. Identical to V18.0766. Prerequisite: V43.0661 or permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points. Relationship between physical surroundings and the basis of society in law. Examines the effects of zoning regulations and building codes; urban renewal legislation; condemnation procedures; real estate law; law concerning tenants; taxation; special bodies such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; preservation and landmarks; licensing procedures for architects, engineers, and planners; and pollution control measures. Special attention to laws of New York City and nearby communities. V43.0675 Seminar in Urban Options for the FutureT 6:20-8:50, Silver 302Professor Bland Formerly V43.0622. Identical to V18.0767. Prerequisite: V43.0661 or permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points. Focuses on alternative futures for the city of tomorrow that may be effected through the development of new forms of technology and the utilization and exploitation of the state of the art in urban structural designs. Topics include redesign of the business district; recovery of city resources; and social, political, and economic implications of new city forms considered in projections for a new urban face. V43.0678 Architectural CriticismF 10:00-12:30, Silver 302Professor Lange Prerequisite: permission of the director of the program. Offered every year. 4 points. This course combines the reading and writing of architecture criticism. Students read the work of a number of pre- and postwar architecture critics, focusing on those who live(d) and work(ed) in New York City, and those who write and wrote for the popular press. Six class sessions are devoted to thematic groupings of reviews—on the skyscraper, the museum, urban planning, etc.—in order to better compare critical language, approach, and taste, while also tracking changes in architectural style from 1900 to the present. These pieces are supplemented with readings in architectural theory that attempt to define the styles of the past and present century. Students also write three reviews themselves, including one on a building, shop, or urban plan of their choice. The course should offer both an alternative history of 20th-century New York City and an opportunity to think and write about architecture in a new and opinionated way. V43.0650.002 Case Studies in Historic PreservationR 4:55-7:25, Silver 301Professor Eberhart Prerequisite: permission of the director of the program. Offered in the spring. 4 points. This course is a survey of the history, philosophy, and practice of historic preservation on the national and local levels. Through case studies we will learn about the field as a civic responsibility and public activity. It is, therefore, very much a course in civics, as it aims to equip and energize students to be involved in the quality of the built environment in general and historic preservation in particular wherever they may live, and wherever their professional paths may take them. V43.0701 Museums and the Art Market
MW 2:00-3:15, Silver 301Professor Basilio Prerequisite: V43.0002 or V43.0006. Offered every year. 4 points. This course provides an overview of the history and theory of museums and the art market. It presents a series of lectures and case studies exploring such issues as the birth of the museum, the role played by world’s fairs and biennials, the impact of collectors, the art market, and gallery system. Throughout, the class makes use of museums, galleries, and auction houses in New York. Advanced SeminarPermission of the director of undergraduate studies required. Open to departmental majors who are juniors and seniors, have completed the relevant survey course, and have completed one advanced course in a relevant subject area. Given every fall and spring. 4 points.Exposure in small group discussion format to historical/critical problem(s) of particular present concern to the faculty member offering the seminar. Requires oral report(s) and/or a substantial paper. V43.0800.001 Seminar I: Politics, Power, and Passion in Renaissance PortraitureTW 9:30-12:15, Silver 307 |
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