University of Delaware
1995-1996 Undergraduate Catalog
1995-1996 Courses
Art History
ARTH 150 Monuments and Methods in the History of Art 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture studied as artistic and cultural
expressions of their times. Emphasis on selected major artists,
monuments and methods of analysis.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 151 Myth, Religion and Art 3
An introduction to the study of mythical and religious images, types,
attributes and symbols on a comparative basis from many ages throughout
the world. Includes archetypal images, such as the Great Mother, the
Great Father, the hero, images with supernatural powers and satirical
images.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 152 Design and Expression in the Visual Arts 3
An introduction to visual analysis of painting, sculpture and
architecture. Principles of two- and three-dimensional design, spatial
composition, color and technical methods used by artists to create
emotional and aesthetic effects. Examples chosen from a variety of
periods and places.
ARTH 153 Introduction to Art History I 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture from Prehistoric times through
ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages studied in historical
and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 154 Introduction to Art History II 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture of Western Europe from the
Renaissance to the present studied in historical and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 155 Asian Art 3
Introduction to the artistic traditions of China, Japan, India, Korea
and Southeast Asia. Emphasis on historical, religious and social
context. Focus on the arts of Buddhism; also considers Hindu, Confucian,
Taoist and other localized religious and cultural influences on the
visual arts.
ARTH 161 Art in East and West 3
Similarities and differences between works of art typical of Asian and
Western traditions and examination of their points of contact,
emphasizing such themes as nature, humanity and the divine, world of the
ruler, religious art and private art.
ARTH 162 History of Architecture 3
Major buildings and architects from the ancient world to the present.
Elements of architectural design and the influence of social, economic,
political, religious and technological factors on the art of building.
Architecture as cultural expression.
ARTH 207 Origins of Art 3
Art and architecture of the Stone Age, the Near East, Egypt, Crete,
Mycenean Greece and Barbarian peoples. Includes politics and religion as
factors influencing artistic change. Ancient literature used to clarify
the meaning of the works.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in Fall semester, every other year.
ARTH 208 Greek and Roman Art 3
Development of Greek art and architecture from the Geometric period
through the Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic eras.
Roman art and architecture from its Etruscan and Greek origins through
the Republican period and the stages of the Empire until the time of
Constantine the Great.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every other year.
ARTH 209 Early Medieval Art 200-1000 AD 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe and the Near East.
Surveys the earliest Christian art as well as Byzantine, Early Islamic,
Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every other year.
ARTH 210 Later Medieval Art, 1000-1400 AD 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture of the Christian world, treating
later Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic artistic traditions in their
historical and cultural contexts. Development of a distinctively
European art and society.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every other year.
ARTH 213 Art of the Northern Renaissance 3
Covers late medieval devotional images to the art of the early modern
cities (1400-1570), especially in the Netherlands and Germany. Special
emphasis on Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Durer and
Pieter Bruegel.
ARTH 217 Early Renaissance Art 3
Italian art of the 14th and 15th centuries. Special emphasis on the
founders of the Renaissance tradition in central Italy such as Giotto,
Donatello, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Brunelleschi and Alberti.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 218 High Renaissance and Mannerist Art 3
Italian art in the 16th century. Emphasis on such artists as Leonardo da
Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramante, Titian, Tintoretto and El Greco.
Also treats the spread of Italian style to France and Spain.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 220 Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture and cities from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Emphasis on the socio-economic, intellectual and cultural context of
Renaissance architecture. Focuses on architects such as Brunelleschi,
Alberti, Michelangelo and Palladio and cities such as Florence, Rome and
Venice.
ARTH 222 Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century European painting, sculpture and architecture in its
social-historical context. Emphasis on such major artists as Caravaggio,
Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Poussin and Velasquez. Discussion
of the rise of genre, still-life and landscape painting, as well as the
role of patronage.
ARTH 223 Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Urbanism 3
Architecture and urban design in Europe from 1580 to 1750 in its
religious, political and cultural context. Studies Italy, France,
England and Germany. Architects such as Bernini, Borromini, Le Vau,
Mansart and Neumann.
ARTH 225 Eighteenth Century Art 3
Examines major trends and artists in 18th-century European painting,
sculpture and architecture in the framework of the social, ideological
and cultural currents of the time. Artists such as Watteau, Hogarth,
Blake, Chardin, Canova, David and Goya.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 227 Modern Art I 3
Important 19th-century European movements in art such as Neo-Classicism,
Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism studied in their cultural and
socio-political context. Artists such as David, Delacroix, Turner,
Courbet and Monet.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 228 Modern Art II 3
Art and theory of major movements from 1880 to the present. Post-
Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada,
Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism,
Neo-Expressionism and Post-Modern developments. Painting, sculpture,
photography, environments and performance art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 230 American Art: 1607-1865 3
Architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts of the United
States from the first Colonial settlements to the Civil War. American
Art examined in the light of its political, social, economic and
religious background and in relationship to European art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 231 American Art: 1865-Present 3
Architecture, painting, sculpture, photography and decorative arts in
the United States from the Civil War on. American art in a political,
social, economic and cultural framework. The rise of the United States
to a position of global power and emergence as an international artistic
center.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 233 Art of China 3
Survey of the arts of China from neolithic times to the 20th century.
Discussions center on such phenomena as Confucian thought and political
art, the importation of Buddhist beliefs and their Chinese expressions,
and the search for harmony with the natural world.
ARTH 234 Art of Japan 3
Survey of the art of Japan from neolithic times to the 20th century.
Emphasis on the interaction between imported ideas and native
sensibilities, the development of Buddhist imagery and the influence of
literature, drama and political change on the visual arts.
ARTH 235 Art of India 3
Survey of the art of Indian Asia from the prehistoric culture of the
Indus Valley through the development of Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic
religious structures and imagery. Emphasizes the interrelationships of
philosophical, religious and aesthetic concepts in shaping Indian art
and the spread of Indic culture.
ARTH 236 The Arts of Islam 3
Survey of architecture, painting, ceramics and metalwork of Islam in
Western and Southern Asia, Islamic Africa and the Iberian peninsula.
Also treats influences of Islamic design on the arts of Judaeo-Christian
Europe and the rich secular cultures that flourished in Moslem nations.
ARTH 250 Rulers' Images from Augustus to George Washington 3
Thirteen rulers from the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds as
they were depicted in contemporary artistic and literary works. Rulers
studied include Augustus, Justinian, Saint Louis, Napoleon and
Washington. Focuses on rulers' images in the modern world.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 301 Research and Methodology in Art History 3
Methods and major approaches to advanced art historical study, together
with the practical aspects of research and work in art historical
professions, such as education, historic preservation, museums and
galleries. Experience with original works of art.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 302 Prints and Society 3
A social history of prints and printmaking techniques, focusing on such
major printmakers as Durer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Daumier and
Picasso. Topics include the role of woodcuts in popular culture,
political and satirical prints, posters and advertising, and the
connoisseurship of original prints.
ARTH 304 Northern Baroque Art: The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer 3
Painting, printmaking and art theory in 17th-century Holland and
Flanders in social and historical context. Examines the rise of
landscape, genre and portraiture, the nature of Dutch realism, the
social role of the artist, art and theater, and the impact of religion
on art.
ARTH 305 Italian Baroque Art: Metaphor and Marvel 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture from the time of Caravaggio and the
Carracci to Bernini and Cortona. Examines topics such as the Counter-
Reformation and its impact on the arts, the rise of naturalism and
illusionism, the design process and the function of drawings,
theatricality and rhetoric.
ARTH 308 Modern Architecture I:1750-1900 3
Aesthetic and technological developments in architecture, interior
design and the planned environment, beginning with the mid-18th century
break from Renaissance tradition to Art Nouveau and the end-of-19th
century rise of the skyscraper. Architects such as Ledoux, Soane,
Richardson, Sullivan, Horta and Gaudi.
ARTH 309 Modern Architecture II: The Twentieth Century 3
Aesthetic and technological developments in architecture, interior
design and the planned environment from the early work of Wright through
the contributions of the Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier to
Post-Modernism and other trends of the last third of the 20th century.
ARTH 310 The Role of the Artist in Society 3
Explores changing ideas of the artist from medieval craftsman and
Renaissance courtier to Romantic genius and modern revolutionary. Topics
include self-portraiture, notions of artistic temperament and genius,
women artists and artists' changing relations with their clients.
ARTH 318 History of Photography 3
History and aesthetics of photography from its beginnings to the
present. Emphasis on photography as artistic expression, the importance
of technology and photography in relation to the other arts and social
history. Photographers such as Negre, Emerson, Stieglitz, Cunningham,
Weston and Arbus.
ARTH 321 History of Afro-American Art 3
See BAMS320 for course description.
ARTH 322 Introduction to Historic Preservation 3
Examines a specific research issue within historic preservation
including hypothesis construction, design of research methodology and
evaluation of results.
ARTH 339 Art and Architecture of Europe 3
Primary focus on painting, sculpture and architecture in Central Europe
from the Romanesque to the Modern Eras. Subject matter determined by
country in which overseas program is conducted.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered only in conjunction with a foreign study program.
May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 341 British Art and Art Institutions 3
Provides an introduction to British Art and Art institutions from 1700
to present day. Special emphasis placed on collecting of art, display in
museums, and the British School of painting.
ARTH 360 Humanities Colloquium 3
See ARSC360 for course description.
ARTH 366 Independent Study 1-6
ARTH 402 Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art 3
Topics change with each time of offering. Emphasis on art historical
reading and research. Student oral reports. Recent seminar topics
include The Age of Tutankhamen, Places of Delight: The Villa from
Antiquity to the Present, The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci,
Caravaggio.
RESTRICTIONS: For undergraduates only. May be repeated for credit when
topics vary.
ARTH 403 History, Philosophy, Functions and Future of Museums 3
See MSST403 for course description.
ARTH 405 Seminar in Greek and Roman Art 3
The art and architecture of antiquity from the origins of Greek
civilization to the fall of Rome. Topics change with each time of
offering. Recent topics include Archaic Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic
Greek Sculpture, Late Roman Portraiture and Roman Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH208.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 406 Seminar in Medieval Art 3
The art of Europe from the fall of Rome to the late Gothic period.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include The
Court of Charlemagne, Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon Art, and Saint Denis
and the Origins of Gothic Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH209 or ARTH210.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 408 Seminar in Northern Renaissance Art 3
The arts in Northern Europe from 1300 to 1600. Topics may change with
each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 413 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art 3
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Medici
Patronage in the Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 414 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture from 1300 to 1600. Recent topics include
Renaissance Villas and Gardens, Brunelleschi and Alberti, Roman
Architecture in the Age of Michelangelo, and Palladio.
PREREQ: ARTH220.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 415 Seminar in Italian Baroque Art 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy in the 17th century.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include Bernini
and Roman Baroque Sculpture, Seicento Poetics and Imagery, Caravaggio,
and Origins of the Baroque: The Carracci and their Academy.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 417 Seminar in Northern Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. Topics change with each time
of offering. Recent topics include Rembrandt and Rubens, Vermeer and
Dutch Genre Painting, Northern Baroque Portraiture, and Prints in the
Age of Rembrandt.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 419 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art from the Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution. Topics change with
each time of offering. Recent topics include Goya and the Spanish
Enlightenment, David and Early Romanticism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 421 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art 3
Art from David to Impressionism. Topics change with each time of
offering. Recent topics include Gericault, Delacroix, Cezanne, Art and
Politics, The Theory and Practice of Romanticism, Historicism from David
to Gerome, and Orientalism.
PREREQ: ARTH227.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 423 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art 3
Art in Europe, with some reference to American art, from Post-
Impressionism to the present. Topics may change with each time of
offering. Recent topics include Symbolism, Picasso, Dada and Surrealism,
Cubism and its Influence, and Post-Modernism.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH228.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 424 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 19th-century photography.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include
Photography and Art, Documentary Photography, and 'Art' Photography.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH318.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every other year.
ARTH 427 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 20th-century photography.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include
Photography and Art, and Photography and Criticism.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH228 or ARTH230 or ARTH311.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in the Fall semester, every other year.
ARTH 429 Seminar in Modern Architecture 3
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the present. Topics
change with each time of offering. Recent topics include the
Architecture of Neoclassicism; and Sullivan, Wright and the Prairie
School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 430 Seminar: Regional Arts and Architecture 3
Explores the historical development and cultural background of
traditional material culture. Each seminar focuses on a particular theme
such as the Pennsylvania-Germans, Carolina Low Country, or New England
Settements. Topics include architecture, landscape, decorative arts, and
material life.
ARTH 431 Seminar in American Architecture 3
American architecture from the Colonies to the present. Topics change
with each time of offering. Recent topics include Architecture of the
Colonial and Federal periods, Nineteenth-Century American Architecture,
and Philadelphia Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 432 Making the American City 3
Examination of historical and cultural issues related to housing,
consumerism, gender, ethnicity, craft, poverty and wealth as a means to
interpreting the city as artifact and symbolic setting. Includes field
trips to cities in the region. Students will work with primary sources
including archaeological materials, architecture and documentary
evidence.
ARTH 435 Seminar in American Art 3
American art from the Colonies to the present. Topics change with each
time of offering. Recent topics include Eakins and American Realism,
Early American Modernism, and American Painting and Sculpture after
World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 440 Seminar on Prints and Drawings 3
Graphic art from the 15th to 19th century with an emphasis on original
works of art. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics
include Renaissance and Baroque Graphic Art, Prints in the Age of Durer,
and Problems in Prints from the Renaissance to the 19th Century.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 454 Vernacular Architecture 3
See HIST454 for course description.
ARTH 457 Survey of African Art 3
See ANTH457 for course description.
ARTH 466 Independent Study 1-6
ARTH 605 Studies in Greek and Roman Art 3
The art of antiquity from the origins of Greek civilization to the fall
of Rome. Recent topics include Archaic Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic
Greek Sculpture, Late Roman Portraiture, and Roman Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 606 Studies in Medieval Art 3
The art of Europe from the fall of Rome to the late Gothic period.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include the
Court of Charlemagne, Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon Art, and Medieval
Ivories.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 608 Studies in Northern Renaissance Art 3
The arts in Northern Europe from 1300 to 1600. Topics may change with
each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 611 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art 3
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian,
Tintoretto, Veronese, and Medici Patronage in the Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 614 Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture from 1300 to 1600. Recent topics include
Renaissance Villas and Gardens, Brunelleschi and Alberti, Roman
Architecture in the Age of Michelangelo, and Palladio.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 615 Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Art 3
The beginnings of Christian expression under the Romans to the fall of
the Byzantine Empire. Topic of study may change with each time of
offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 616 Studies in Italian Baroque Art 3
Italian art in the 17th century. Recent topics include Bernini and Roman
Baroque Sculpture, Seicento Poetics and Imagery, Caravaggio, and Origins
of the Baroque: The Carracci and their Academy.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 617 Studies in Northern Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. Recent topics include
Rembrandt and Rubens, Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, Northern Baroque
Portraiture, and Prints in the Age of Rembrandt.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 619 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art from the Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution. Recent topics
include Goya and the Spanish Enlightenment, J.L.David and Early
Romanticism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 621 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Art 3
Art from David to Impressionism. Recent topics include Gericault,
Delacroix, Cezanne, Art and Politics (1780-1880), The Theory and
Practice of Romanticism, Historicism from David to Gerome, and
Orientalism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 622 Research Topics in Historic Preservation 3
See URAF636 for course description.
ARTH 623 Studies in Twentieth-Century Art 3
Art in Europe, with some reference to later American art, from 1900 to
the present. Recent topics include Symbolism, Picasso, Dada and
Surrealism, and Cubism and French Art.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 627 Studies in the History of Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of photography. Recent topics
include 19th-Century Documentary Photography, 19th-Century "Art"
Photography, 20th-Century Photography and Criticism, and 20th-Century
Photography and Art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every other year. May be
repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 628 Seminar in Historic Preservation 3
See URAF629 for course description.
ARTH 629 Studies in Modern Architecture 3
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the present. Recent
topics include the Architecture of Neoclassicism and Sullivan, Wright
and the Prairie School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 631 Studies in American Architecture of the Colonial and Federal
Periods 3
Architecture in the American Colonies from the anonymous buildings of
the 17th century to the designs of Thomas Jefferson and B.H.Latrobe in
the early 19th century. Recent topics include Colonial and Federal
American Architecture and Philadelphia Architecture. Includes field
trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 632 Making the American City 3
See URAF632 for course description.
ARTH 633 Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Architecture 3
The Greek, Gothic, Egyptian and Oriental Revivals; High Victorian Style
and its culmination in the Age of Elegance; and Late Nineteenth-Century
American Architecture. Includes field trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 634 Historic Preservation Studio 3
See URAF630 for course description.
ARTH 636 Studies in American Art 1875-Present 3
Painting, sculpture and related media from Eakins to the present. Recent
topics include Eakins and American Modernism, and American Painting and
Sculpture after World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 637 Studies in English Art and Architecture 3
The art of England, emphasizing the period from the 16th century through
the end of the 19th century. Recent topics include the English Country
House, British Painting, English Architecture, and Collecting in
England.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 638 European Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in Europe from the Renaissance
to the 20th century. Application of art-historical techniques and
interpretation. Field trips to New York and Philadelphia.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 639 American Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in America from the 17th
century to the present.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 640 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art and art theory in England and the Continent. Topic of study may
change with each time of offering.
PREREQ: ARTH214 or ARTH215.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 647 Seminar in Prints and Drawings 3
Graphic art from the 15th to 19th century emphasizing original works of
art. Recent topics include Renaissance and Baroque Graphic Art, Prints
in the Age of Durer, and Problems in Prints from the Renaissance to the
19th Century.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 657 Survey of African Art 3
See ANTH657 for course description.
ARTH 680 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing in the West 3
See ARTC680 for course description.
ARTH 681 Materials and Techniques of the Contemporary Painter and
Draftsman 3
See ART 681 for course description.
ARTH 688 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting I 3
See ARTC688 for course description.
ARTH 689 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting II 3
See ARTC689 for course description.
ARTH 690 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Printmaking I 3
See ARTC690 for course description.
ARTH 801 Introduction to Decorative Arts in America to 1850 3
See EAMC801 for course description.
ARTH 810 Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European and
American Sculpture 3
Academic and non-academic traditions of European and American sculpture
of the 19th century and the several phases of modernism. Among the
artists treated are Canova, Carpeaux, Rodin, Greenough, Powers, Saint-
Gaudens, Calder and Smith.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
ARTH 811 Studies in American Painting Before 1800 3
Painting of Colonial and Early Federal America. Topics change with each
time of offering. Recent topics include the Puritan Aesthetic, the
Influence of English Art, the Rise of Native-born Talent, and the Work
of Such Artists as Copley and Peale.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be repeated for credit
when topics vary.
ARTH 812 Studies in American Painting: 1800-1875 3
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics include
Neoclassicism, Romanticism and the Grand Manner in the Art of West,
Trumbull, Allston and Vanderlyn, Landscape and Genre Painting in the
Work of Cole, Durand, Mount and the Hudson River School.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be repeated for credit
when topics vary.
ARTH 850 Bibliography and Research Methods in Art History 0 PF
An introduction to the art historical resources of the University of
Delaware and to the techniques of scholarly research and bibliographical
materials in the historical study of the visual arts.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered every Fall semester.
ARTH 860 Reading and Research 1-9 PF
Readings and conferences on an approved subject under faculty direction.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of Department Chair. Open to Art
History Ph.D. students only.
ARTH 869 Master's Thesis 1-6
ARTH 964 Pre-Candidacy Study 3-12 PF
Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or
qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to
candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
ARTH 969 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 PF