Fall 2009 Course ListV43.0001(.001-005) History of Western Art IMW 9:30-10:45Professor Krinsky 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 12:30-1:45Professor Karmel 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.
V43.0003 Ancient ArtMW 12:30-1:45Professor Connelly Students who have taken V43.0001 will not receive credit for this course. Given periodically. 4 points. History of art in the Western tradition from 20,000 B.C. to the 4th
century A.D. From the emergence of human beings in the Paleolithic Age
to the developments of civilization in the Near East, Egypt, and the
Aegean; the flowering of the Classical Age in Greece; and the rise of
the Roman Empire to the beginnings of Christian domination under the
Emperor Constantine in the 4th century A.D. Study of the collections of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum is essential. V43.0006 Modern ArtTR 11:00-12:15Professor TBA 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. V43.0150.001 Special Topics: The ParthenonM 4:55-7:25Professor Connelly Prerequisite V43.0001 or V43.0003 with a minimum grade of C. 4 points. V43.0204 Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto: Italian Art, 1200-1420MW 9:30-10:45Professor TBA Identical to V65.0204. Prerequisite: V43.0001, V43.0004, or permission of the instructor. Offered every other year. 4 points. Art of Italy between 1200 and 1420, intersecting with the Gothic in northern Europe. Topics include applicability of the term "Gothic" in relation to Italian art from antiquity and the Italian contacts with northern Europe; development of sculpture, painting, and the emergence of artistic personalities, such as the Pisani, Giotto, Duccio, Simone Martini, and the Lorenzetti; the communal projects of Italian cities; religious and civic architecture; the art and architecture of the mendicant orders; the development of the altarpiece; Italian art in the late 14th century, including the effects of black death; the international style; art and politics; gender and social class in relation to patronage and representation; and the artist and his workshop. V43.0302 European Architecture in the Age of GrandeurMW 3:30-4:45 Beginning
with the transformation of Renaissance architecture in
counter-Reformation Rome, examines the succeeding European baroque
styles. Includes high Roman baroque of Bernini and Borromini; Piedmont;
the richly pictorial late baroque of Germany and Austria; and the
baroque classicism of France and England in the work of such architects
as J. H. Mansart and Sir Christopher Wren. Metamorphosis of the various
baroque styles into rococo, concluding with the mid-18th century and
the roots of neoclassicism. V43.0305 Italian Renaissance SculptureR 9:30-12:15Professor Brandt Identical to V65.0305. Prerequisite: V43.0002, V43.0005, or permission of the instructor. Offered in the fall. 4 points. The role of sculpture in the visual arts in Italy from ca. 1400 to 1600, primarily in central Italy, is studied through intensive examination of major commissions and of the sculptors who carried them out. Earlier meetings focus on Donatello and his contemporaries, including Ghiberti, Quercia, Verrocchio, and Pollaiuolo. Thereafter, students examine Michelangelo's sculpture and compare his works with those of contemporaries and followers, ending with Giambologna. V43.0306 Early Masters of Italian Renaissance PaintingMW 11:00-12:15Professor Geronimus Identical to V65.0306. Prerequisite: V43.0002, V43.0005, or permission of the instructor. Offered every other year. 4 points. Achievements of the chief painters of the 15th century studied through their major artistic commissions. Special attention is given to the Tuscan tradition. A brief introduction to Giotto and his time provides background for the paintings of Masaccio and his artistic heirs (Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Piero della Francesca, and others). Topics include the role of pictorial narrative, perspective, and mimesis; the major techniques of Renaissance painting; and the relationship of painting to the other visual arts. In the later 15th century, social and cultural changes generated by power shifts from Medici Florence to papal Rome also affected art patronage, creating new tensions and challenges for artists and fostering the emergence of new modes of visualization. V43.0409 Modern Architecture, 1914 to the PresentMW 12:30-1:45Professor Krinsky Prerequisite: V43.0002, V43.0006, V43.0601, V43.0661, V43.0408, V55.0722, or permission of the instructor. Offered every year. 4 points. Chronological account of architecture and ideas since 1914. Considers such subjects as currents on the eve of the First World War, new technology, and the impact of the war; architecture and politics between the wars; the rise of expressionist design; the international style and the concurrent adaptation of traditional styles; art deco design; mid-century glass curtain-wall architecture; brutalism; and reactions to modernism. Includes ideological and political considerations and works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto, Philip Johnson, James Stirling, Frank Gehry, and Santiago Calatrava, among others. V43.0450.001 Special Topics: Neoclassicism to RealismMW 4:55-6:10Professor Mansfield Prerequisite V43.0002 or V43.0006 with a minimum grade of C. 4 points. The Enlightenment shaped the visual arts in two, seemingly antithetical ways. On the one hand, the period’s valorization of cool rationalism contributed to the rise of Neoclassicism as a dominant style during the eighteenth century. The other dominant strand of Enlightenment thinking, exemplified by the writings of J.J. Rousseau, celebrated emotion as the purest form of intellectual as well as spiritual expression. Romanticism, with its emphasis on subjectivity and intense emotionalism, is, therefore, as much a product of the Enlightenment as Neoclassicism. Following on the heels of Romanticism, Realism has been alternately described as a rejection of Romantic and as an extension of it. Focusing on these three stylistic movements, this course examines how late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century artists negotiated not just the aesthetic ideas of the Enlightenment, but its political consequences as well. V43.0413 Cubism to Abstract ExpressionismTR 3:30-4:45Professor TBA Prerequisite V43.0002 or V43.0006 with a minimum grade of C. 4 points. V43.0510 East Asian Art I: China, Korea, Japan to 1000 CETR 2:00-3:15Professor Liu Formerly V43.0091. Identical to V33.0091. Offered periodically. 4 points. This course is an introductory survey of monuments and arts in China, Japan and Korea to 1000 CE. The course emphasizes an overall understanding of the development of art and culture as well as mastery of specific pieces of art—pottery, bronze, jade, lacquer, metalwork, sculpture, and murals. It is understood that China, Japan, and Korea did not exist during for much of this time as unified political entities. However, the areas they now cover share a history of common cultural heritage. Part of this commonality is due to the extraordinary influence of early civilizations on the Asian continent which gave birth to China and heavily influenced Korea and Japan. Major themes in the course will be East/West interaction, collecting, definitions of “art” in East Asia, urbanization and states, influence of nomadic tribes in East Asia, the emergence of Buddhist art along the Silk Road, and the pan-Asian culture of the Tang dynasty (618-907 C.E.). V43.0530 South Asian Art I: Indus Valley to 1200MW 2:00-3:15Professor TBA Formerly V43.0092. Offered periodically. 4 points. As in V43.0513, students examine artistic centers from two vast adjoining regions, in this case South and Southeast Asia, both of which include a wide variety of cultures. Includes monuments of Pakistan, India, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Although the two courses use the same approach and are designed to be complementary, either one may be taken without the other. V43.0540 Art in the Islamic World I: From the Prophet to the MongolsMW 9:30-10:45Professor Flood Formerly V43.0085. Offered every year. 4 points. Provides an outline of Islamic material in its early and classical periods, from 650 to 1200. The period saw the initial formation of an Arab empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, a decline in centralized authority, and the rise to political prominence of various North African, Iranian, and Central Asian dynasties from the 10th century onward. These political developments are reflected in the increasingly heterogeneous nature of Islamic material culture over this time span. V43.0550 Special Topics: Silk RoadT 9:30-12:15Professor Liu 4 points. As global interconnections become increasingly commonplace, as sophisticated archaeological excavation brings to light the far-flung material vestiges of early trade, and as political developments renew attention to the different parts of Asia, East, South, West, and North, the Silk Roads have never been more topical. In this class we consider such areas as: overland and maritime travel routes; material, commercial, religious, intellectual, scientific, and artistic interactions, drawn as much as possible from primary sources; political competition, from nomadic invasions to the “Great Game”; and how the idea of the Silk Roads has retained such strong appeal down to the present. V43.0560 Arts of AfricaTR 3:30-4:45Professor Mount Formerly V43.0080. Identical to V18.0787. Offered periodically. 4 points. Survey of art of West and Central Africa and the South Pacific. Although art from these areas is popularly thought of in terms of its impact on the West, the art is primarily studied in relation to its meaning and function in its own society, where art socializes and reinforces religious beliefs, reflects male and female roles, and validates leadership. Films and field trips to a museum and gallery supplement classroom lectures.
V43.0601 History of Architecture from Antiquity to the PresentMW 2:00-3:15Professor Ritter 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. V43.0661 Shaping the Urban EnvironmentTR 2:00-3:15Professor Broderick 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. V43.0670 Decision-Making and Urban Design
W 12:30-3:15Professor Morgan Formerly V43.0032. Identical to V18.0763. Prerequisite: V43.0661 or permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points. The impact and limitations of private and public decision-making power on urban design and architecture. City architecture in light of the values and priorities set by a society. Recognition of citizens' groups as increasingly important factors in city planning and related changes. Critically evaluates the complexity of decision-making and historical circumstances as related to the built urban environment on the basis of historical and modern American and European examples. V43.0671 Architecture in Context
R 4:55-7:25Professor White Formerly V43.0039. Prerequisites: V43.0661 and permission of the program director. 4 points. Addresses issues arising from new structures and interventions to existing structures, which must relate to existing well-defined contexts of the sort found throughout New York City. Students are encouraged to think about, discuss, create, and present designs that recognize and suit their contexts. The focus is on typical New York City building types. Includes townhouses, additions to existing structures, adaptive reuse of residential structures for institutional use, streetscape improvements, and urban parks. V43.0672 Environmental Design: Issues and MethodsT 4:55-7:25Professor 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. V43.0673 Urban Design: Infrastructure
W 6:20-8:50Professor Haff Prerequisites: V43.0021 and permission of the program director. To be given every year. 4 points. This course serves as a laboratory for the investigation of New York
City’s infrastructure, using the definition of the word as a point of
departure. In what ways can the city be perceived as a collective
undertaking, whose intricate components are interwoven in continuous
strands? What are the systems and forces that give the city and its
neighborhoods their current form, and what influences their future
shape? To what degree can these systems be themselves dissected, and
what do these analyses tell us about the relationship of the city to
both its inhabitants and the wider environment? Through lectures,
reading assignments, discussions, and field trips we investigate some
of the major components of the city’s infrastructure, such as the
street grid, water supply, waste disposal, and the subway system. V43.0676 Drawing for Architects and OthersT 9:30-12:15Professor Benardete Prerequisite: Permission of the director of the Urban Design program is required. 2 points. This is a basic drawing course intended to teach students to perceive: to record manually what is in front of them without relying on formulaic methods of drawing perspective, volumetrics, etc. Students are encouraged to examine proportion, scale, light, shade, and texture; as well as means of expression, the nature and essence of objects, various media, and issues of graphic composition. The course assists students in creating a comprehensive series of drawings and in building a portfolio. V43.0677 Reading the CityT 2:00-4:45Professor LaValva Prerequisite V43.0661 and V43.0601 with a minimum grade of C, and permission of the director of the Urban Design program is required. 4 points. The course will focus on observation and documentation of a historical section of New York City from its foundation to the present. Students will participate in field walks and attend in-class lectures and discussions. A principal objective of the course is to have students learn to read the historical stratigraphy of the city by using primary and secondary sources such as maps, prints, and panoramas, as well as City Council minutes and other printed documents. The goal is to have students deepen their understanding of phenomena that they have observed at first hand. V43.0679 Parks, Plants and People
M 3:30-6:10Professor Miller Prerequisite V43.0661 and V43.0601 with a minimum grade of C, and permission of the director of the Urban Design program is required. 2 points. This course will study the components of successful urban green public spaces designed for and about people. There will be a number of site visits to important NYC parks and gardens to study the way people actually use these places. Students will also be expected to visit others and report on them to the class. We will study the research and observations of William H. Whyte and the role that good planting and a connection with nature play in improving the quality of life in the city. 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: Pictures in Pictures
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