Ph.D. Art and Archaeology

ARC 525 Mapping the City: Cities and Cinema (also

ART 524

) This course examines the relationship between two forms of mapping the city: cinematic representations of urban space and architectural representations of urban form. It questions how shifts in urban form and plans for development or reconstruction give rise to cinematic representations. Required viewing of films every week in addition to required readings. Project on the general theme of mapping the city through cinema utilizing materials from films, urban texts, and readings.

ARC 549 History and Theories of Architecture: 20th Century (also

ART 586

) An overview of the major themes running through modern architecture in the twentieth century. The seminar is based on a close reading of selected buildings and texts both by prominent and less prominent figures of the modern movement and its aftermath. Special emphasis is given to the historiography and the history of reception of modern architecture, as well as the cultural, aesthetic and scientific theories that have informed modern architectural debates, including organicism, vitalism, functionalism, structuralism, historicism and their opposites.

ARC 571 Research in Architecture (also

ART 581

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MOD 573

) A research seminar in selected areas of aesthetics, art criticism, and architectural theory from the 18th to the 20th centuries on the notion of representation in art and architecture. This seminar is given to students in the doctoral program at the School of Architecture and to doctoral candidates in other departments.

ARC 572 Research in Architecture (Proseminar) (also

ART 582

) A research seminar in selected areas of aesthetics, art criticism, and architectural theory from the 18th to the 20th centuries on the notion of representation in art and architecture. This seminar is given to students in the doctoral program at the School of Architecture and to doctoral candidates in other departments.

ARC 576 Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture (also

MOD 502

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ART 598

) Explores the critical transformation in the relationship between interior and exterior space in modern architecture, which is most evident in domestic space. Domestic space ceases to be simply bounded space in opposition to the outside, whether physical or social. An analysis of modern houses is used as a frame to register contemporary displacements of the relationship between public and private space, instigated by the emerging reality of the technologies of communicaton, including newspaper, telephone, radio, film, and television.

ARC 594 Topics in Architecture (also

MOD 504

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HUM 593

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ART 584

) This course covers various topics related to the history and theory of architecture.

ART 500 Proseminar in the History of Art A course that introduces students to questions and approaches (current and historical) that have shaped and that continue to shape the study of the History of Art.

ART 501 Introduction to Historiography Selected topics in the literature of art and architecture in Europe and the Americas from antiquity to the present.

ART 502A The Graduate Seminar This course is intended to ensure a continuing breadth of exposure to contemporary art-historical discourse and practices. It requires attendance and participation in the department lecture/seminar series. Students must take the course sequentially in each of their first four semesters and take the appropriate letter version of the course (A,B,C,or D) based on their semester of study. The course is taken in addition to the normal load of three courses per semester and is for first- and second-year graduate students only. Topics discussed cover all fields of Art History and address current questions and practices.

ART 502B The Graduate Seminar This course is intended to ensure a continuing breadth of exposure to contemporary art-historical discourse and practices. It requires attendance and participation in the department lecture/seminar series. Students must take the course sequentially in each of their first four semesters and take the appropriate letter version of the course (A,B,C,or D) based on their semester of study. The course is taken in addition to the normal load of three courses per semester and is for first- and second-year graduate students only. Topics discussed cover all fields of Art History and address current questions and practices.

ART 502C The Graduate Seminar This course is intended to ensure a continuing breadth of exposure to contemporary art-historical discourse and practices. It requires attendance and participation in the department lecture/seminar series. Students must take the course sequentially in each of their first four semesters and take the appropriate letter version of the course (A,B,C, or D) based on their semester of study. The course is taken in addition to the normal load of three courses per semester and is for first- and second-year graduate students only. Topics discussed cover all fields of Art History and address current questions and practices.

ART 502D The Graduate Seminar This course is intended to ensure a continuing breadth of exposure to contemporary art-historical discourse and practices. It requires attendance and participation in the department lecture/seminar series. Students must take the course sequentially in each of their first four semesters and take the appropriate letter version of the course (A,B,C,or D) based on their semester of study. The course is taken in addition to the normal load of three courses per semester and is for first- and second-year graduate students only. Topics discussed cover all fields of Art History and address current questions and practices.

ART 512 Death in Greece: Archaeological Perspectives (also

CLA 516

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HLS 524

) Chronological and thematic survey of the major funeral monuments, assemblages, and cemeteries of ancient Greece, from the Late Protogeometric to the Hellenistic periods. Course examines how material culture at the grave memorialized the deceased, comforted the living, and negotiated status. Students evaluate grave goods, tomb rituals, grave markers, cemetery layout, and the treatment of the body in their historical, social, and political contexts. Topics include: memory, gender, family, mortuary variability, the afterlife, the senses, ethnicity, and the dialectic presence/absence. Close work with objects from the PUAM collection.

ART 513 Seminar in Roman Art (also

CLA 518

) The seminar pursues research on a varying set of topics (differing every year) on ancient Roman art and architecture.

ART 518 Greek Sculpture, Roman Copies Seminar on the long-standing problems concerning the tradition of Greek sculpture, most of which survives in later Roman copies. Emphasis on stylistic comparison of the surviving copies (Kopienkritik); critical engagement with the ancient written sources that attest the most famous works (Opera Nobilia); the historiographic and critical tradition in modern scholarship devoted to these works; and, in particular, those works in the PAM and the MMA that may serve as prime examples of the phenomenon.

ART 519 The Orientalizing Phenomenon in Greek Art and Archaeology (also

CLA 523

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HLS 519

) A study of the origins, nature, and impact of Greek contact with the Near East in the Iron Age. Course examines chronology; regional variation and distribution; technology and innovation; differences across media; modes of communication and exchange; patterns of consumption and display; and the social function of the "exotic." Analyzed with a view to changes and developments in settlement and society, particularly migration, colonization, social stratification, and the rise of the polis.

ART 526 Problems in Greek Art (also

HLS 526

) This seminar will deal with mythological imagery of archaic and classical Greece in the frame of social and political history. The principle aim is to understand the vital interest Greek societies had in general in their myths, and especially in images of myths destined to be 'used' in specific social situations: mainly on vases for the symposium but also in monumental architecture in sanctuaries and other public areas. The images of myth will be interpreted as significant testimonia of social values and practice, collective mentality, political, religious and cultural identity.

ART 528 Memories of the Ancient Past The cultures of ancient Egypt and the ancient Middle East have been essential touchstones for Western and Middle Eastern cultures, as sources of identity, inspiration, competition, or the exotic other. This seminar considers how cultures throughout western history have looked at ancient Egypt and the Middle East, centering the roles of memory and materiality. Students develop independent research projects on this theme considering any time period, up to and including current events.

ART 529 Ancient Egyptian Kingship in Image, Architecture & Performance (also

CLA 528

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AAS 529

) The institution of kingship was central to the ancient Egyptian worldview. Kings and their administrations sought to express the complex nature of a strong leader with access to the gods and secret knowledge, exceptional skill as a warrior and diplomat, and unrivaled power over and sacrifice to his people by using both mystery and overwhelming display. In this seminar we consider the nature of Egyptian kingship and how a vast body of material and visual culture shaped and expressed this essential concept from its origins in the beginning of the 4th millennium to the era of Roman rulers.

ART 535 Problems in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture (also

HLS 535

) Problems in art and architecture of the Eastern Roman Empire and culturally related areas from 300 to 1453.

ART 537 Seminar in Medieval Art (also

MED 500

) Intensive seminar on selective topics in Medieval art and theory from 400 to 1400.

ART 541 Seminar in Renaissance Art The seminar examines in detail selected thematic topics in Italian painting and sculpture.

ART 542 Art and Society in Renaissance Italy Seminar on selected topics in Italian art from 1300 to 1600, with special emphasis given to its social, religious, and cultural context. Problems of method in dealing with the contextual study of works of art are considered.

ART 543 Replication and Movement in the Renaissance Examination of the ideas of time and temporality in the Renaissance image, via the lens of two early modern obsessions and their history: the representation of movement and the idea of the copy. Focus will be on artists and works from the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. Topics include: procession, print technology, replicas, pilgrimage, archaeology, the workshop, and more. Course includes at least one trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ART 545 The Geography of Art: World Art History Art has a place as well as a time. This course examines the geography of art, primarily in the early modern era. Examples are chosen from Europe and the Americas. A theoretical, historiographic, and historical investigation of issues, including ethnic and national identity, metropoles, regionalism, provincialism, peripheries, and artistic interchange, is explored.

ART 547 Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (also

ARC 552

) Advanced research in the history of architecture from 1400 to 1750. Topics vary, with the focus each year placed on important European centers and architects and on issues related to architectural theory and practice.

ART 548 The Color of White: Sculpture, Materiality and Illusionism This seminar examines the illusionistic effects that Baroque sculptors of marble, bronze and clay employed to rival the deceptiveness of painting. By studying sculptural ensembles by Bernini and his contemporaries in contrast to the works of earlier sculptors like Michelangelo and against paintings in the tradition of Titian, we explore the value and limits of painterly models for making and viewing sculpture. Our investigation also considers the limits of comparisons to painting and studies the strategies sculptors adopted to undermine illusionism and to assert an autonomous sculptural paradigm.

ART 553 Seminar in Central European Art (also

GER 553

) Topics in the art and culture of the central European region from 1500 to 1800.

ART 560 Art and the British Empire (also

AAS 560

) This seminar proceeds through a series of thematic and case studies ranging from Britain's early colonial expansion to the legacies of empire in contemporary art and museum practice. Topics include science and ethnography; the colonial picturesque; curiosity and collecting; slavery and visual representation; art and nationalism and readings are drawn from a range of disciplines.

ART 561 Painting and Literature in Nineteenth-Century France and England (also

ENG 549

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FRE 561

) Course explores the dynamic interplay between painting, poetry, and fiction in 19th-century France and England. The focus is twofold: painters and paintings as protagonists in novels and short stories, and paintings inspired by literature. Themes include problems of narrative, translation, and illustration; changing theories of the relative strengths of painting and literature as artistic media; realism and the importance of descriptive detail; the representation of the artist as a social (or anti-social) actor; the representation of women as artists and models; and the artist's studio as a literary trope.

ART 562 Seminar in American Art Study of a particular artist, subject, medium, or movement in American art, primarily in the 19th century and ordinarily organized around significant holdings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Possible topics include landscape and still-life painting, Homer and Eakins, and American drawings and watercolors.

ART 563 Art in Translation: From East to West and Back This seminar focuses on the translatability of cultural artifacts that resulted from Western trade and Western colonialism in Asia during the modern age. Main topics include the constitution of portable objects as art; the role of Museums in nation-building and the self-imagination of empires; the "discovery" of ancient monuments in colonized territories and the restoration practices that made them accessible - at a price - to colonizers; the repression implied by the very notion of translation and the cultural forces of resistance to which it gave rise in colonized areas.

ART 564 Seminar in 19th-Century Art Seminar will focus on a specific aspect of art, history, theory, and criticism in Europe between 1789 and 1913. Possible topics include art and revolution, nationalism and the arts, orientalism and primitivism, and theories of modernism.

ART 565 Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory (also

MOD 565

) . The seminar focuses on the study of a particular problem in modernism