ART-HIST 5501      Scope And Methods Of Art History
An exploration of the discipline of art history, including theoretical issues, guiding questions and problems, diverse approaches (historical and current), and research tools. Required of all Art History graduate students and best taken early in one's studies. Prerequisite: Minimum of 9 credit hours of art history.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5539      Paris in the Age of Rococo
In the early 18th century, Paris overtook Rome as the artistic center of Europe. We explore all of the visual arts during the vibrant ""Rococo,"" the age of Watteau, Chardin, and Boucher.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5540      Seminar in French Art: Renaissance and Baroque
A history of French art from the time of Louis XII through the Age of Louis XIV, with emphasis on painting and architecture. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of the department.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5541      Seminar in Northern Baroque Art: The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Wren
The arts of England and the Low Countries in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Emphasis on painting and the graphic arts in the Spanish and Dutch Netherlands, and on architecture in England. Depending on the instructor, the seminar may be offered in conjunction with Art Hist 441WI class. In that event, students attend lectures but do not take the exams. Instead they meet separately at a different time for discussions and their individual presentations. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of the department.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5547      Seminar in Italian Baroque Art: The Age of Caravaggio, Bernini, and Borromini
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from the creation of the Baroque style in the late 16th century to the beginnings of the Barochetto era. Depending on the instructor, the seminar may be offered in conjunction with Art Hist 447WI class. In that event, students attend the lectures but do not take the exams. Instead they meet separately at a different time for discussions and their individual presentations. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of the department.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5548      Seminar in Span Art: El Greco to Goya
A study of Spanish art from the later 15th Century to the Napoleonic invasion. Depending on the instructor, the seminar may be offered in conjunction with Art Hist 448WI class. In that event, students attend lectures but do not take the exams. Instead they meet separately at a different time for discussion and their individual presentations. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of the department.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5561      Traditional and Contemporary Native American Art
This course aims to inspire students to appreciate the history and aesthetics of traditional and contemporary Native North American arts. We examine cultural and aesthetic continuities between Meso-American and Native North American Arts. Then we explore how Native American arts reflect the history of North America, including influences from Europeans, and conclude with contemporary Native American artists and their incorporation of various global influences. Prerequisites: ART-HIST 315 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5562      History of Modern Design
This course examines innovations in design, beginning with the Arts and Crafts movement in the 19th century, surveying all the major design trends of the twentieth century, and concluding with contemporary developments in the age of the computer. Prerequisites: Art-Hist 303 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5563      Primitivism and Its Aftermath
This course explores one of the seminal movements of the modern era and its ramifications for the visual arts today. Class discussions will consider the complexities and contradictions of primitivism and its rejection through their appropriations from archaic, folk, and non-western art traditions, from 1800-on, while also situation these creative endeavors within the cultural and political contexts of the period. Prerequisites: Art 303 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5564      Modern Art and the Grotesque
The course explores how the grotesque shaped the history, practice and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The grotesque plays a major role in many modern styles, and its expressive possibilities encompass the capriccio, the carnivalesque and burlesque, the fantastic, and the abject and uncanny. Artists have incorporated the grotesque as a means to push beyond established boundaries, explore alternate modes of experience, and to challenge cultural and aesthetic conventions. Prerequisites: Art-Hist 303 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5565      Seminar In American Art
Graduate-level seminar dealing with an announced area in American art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5566      Seminar In 19Th-Century Art
Graduate-level seminar dealing with an announced area in 19th-century art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5567      Seminar In 20Th-Century Art
Graduate-level seminar dealing with an announced area in 20th-century art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5568      Participatory Forms of Spectatorship in Contemporary Art
This course explores art practices from the second half of the 20th century that challenge spectators to become more actively involved in the reception and even in the production of art. The course will examine the sociopolitical conditions and technological developments which have contributed to the strengthening of participatory tendencies in contemporary art.
Credits: hours
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ART-HIST 5570      Seminar In Renaissance Art
Graduate-level seminar dealing with an announced area in Renaissance art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5571      Seminar In Art Of Africa, Oceania And New World Cultures
Seminar in art of Africa, oceania and new world cultures. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5572      Seminar In Asian Art
Seminar dealing with an announced area in Asian Art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5573      Visual Arts Administration
This course on professional arts administration includes assignments in: copyright laws, database management, ethics issues, evaluation design, gallery museum management, grant writing and budgeting, public relations, resume design, tax laws, and website design and management. Students are required to learn relevant computer programs. This course is also open to music and theatre majors. Research requirements for graduate credit are more comprehensive and professional.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5575      Seminar In Baroque Art
Graduate-level seminar dealing with an announced area in Baroque art. May be repeated once, provided there is a change in the area of concentration. Permission of the department is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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ART-HIST 5577      Contemporary Artists of the African Diaspora
This course examines cultural and aesthetic continuities between traditional and contemporary arts and artists in Africa and in the Americas, including the study of contemporary Africans whose cultures had the greatest influence in the Americas, as well as contemporary African-American artists in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the United States. Prerequisites: ART-HIST 315 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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