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ARTH605-010 Seminar: Social Histories of Roman Art (Petersen)
This seminar explores ancient Roman society's complex and multi-layered histories as revealed through the material and visual remains at Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia Antica. Topics include Roman slavery, family life, women, urbanism, domestic space, work, religion, and funerary art.
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ARTH606-010 Seminar: Art at the Court of Charlemagne (Nees)
This seminar will address art and architecture prior to Charlemagne’s imperial coronation in 800, and will involve extensive consideration of literary and historical documents.
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ARTH616-010 Seminar: Guercino in Bolognese Art (Stone)
Intensive study of Guercino’s paintings and drawings in the context of the Carracci and their followers. Topics: theory vs. practice; creative process; art market and pricing; copies and workshop; attribution problems; technical analysis; caricature and comic drawings; theater and popular culture; historiography and critical reception.
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ARTH621-010 Seminar: Classicism from Winckelmann to Aby Warburg (Kallmyer)
The theoretical and material shifts that re-shaped the perception of the classical ideal in European art from David to de Chirico. What was the impact of archaeology, imperialism, popular and mass culture, and the discovery of the unconscious on the perennial language of the classic?
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ARTH626-010 Seminar: Painting, Photography, Film, Literature (Werth)
Differences and interactions between media in the period 1860-1930, with attention to problems of urbanization, technology, and avant-gardism. Introduction to the recent literature on this topic.
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ARTH667-010 Seminar: Contemporary Architecture: Cross-cultural Dialogues Transnationalist Practices (Rujivacharakul)
Studying latest designs by architects who practice beyond their cultural familiarity. Learning about theories of transnationalism and issues in cross-cultural aesthetics, while examining Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao, Koolhass’s CCTV in Beijing, Piano’s Tokyo-Prada, and SANAA’s Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, among others. (Meets with ARTH467)
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