course index
spring 2006
lower division courses
Art Survey III: Modern — Contemporary
Art Survey III: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America
upper division courses
Classical Greek Art
Mihalopoulos
Michelangelo
Cancelled
Critical Approaches to Visual Culture
Twentieth-Century American Art: Modernism and Pluralism, 1900 — Present
Hartley
African Art II
Arts of Spain and New Spain
Kranz
Special Topics in Islamic Art: Modern Art and the Arab World
Early Chinese Art
Lau
Housing American Cultures
White
Landscape of Colonialism
Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture
White
Contemporary Photography
Vilander
Cancelled
Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art
Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture
*note time change*
Seminar in African Art
Seminar in Photographic History
Vilander
graduate courses
Seminar: Topics in Medieval Architecture
Seminar: Topics in American Art
Seminar: Topics in Architectural History
Seminar: Topics in Comparative Studies
Art Survey III: Modern — Contemporary
History of Western art from the eighteenth century to
the present. GE: WRT, E, EUR, F.
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
course website
TR
1100-1215
Campbell Hall
Art Survey III: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America
A conceptual, cross cultural introduction to Amerind, Eskimo, African, and Oceanic arts: artists, sculpture, festivals, body decoration, masking, architecture, and painting will be seen in the context of social and religious values. Films, slides, and museum tours. GE: F, NWC, ETH
course website
MW
1230-145
IV THEA 2
Classical Greek Art (480 to 320 B.C.E.)
Mihalopoulos
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Greece from c480 to c320 B.C.E. considered in their social and cultural contexts. Emphasis on fifth-century Athens. Prerequisite: not open to freshman. GE: F.
course website
T
1100-150
ARTS 1245
Michelangelo
The career and achievement of the artist, with particular attention to issues surrounding his treatment of the human body. Prerequisite: Not open to freshmen. GE: F
course website
TR
330-445 p.m.
EMBAR HALL
Cancelled
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Critical Approaches to Visual Culture
This course is designed to encourage you to devise critical ways of approaching and understanding a wide range of visual materials and images (paintings, ads, videos, etc.). Analytic approaches to culture and representation will be used as a means of developing descriptive and interpretive skills. Prerequisite: A prior course in art history; not open to freshmen. GE: F
course website
MW
930-1045
ARTS 1245
Twentieth-Century American Art: Modernism and Pluralism, 1900 — Present
Hartley
American painting in the twentieth-century, from the advent of modernism to yesterday. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen. GE: F, AMH
course website
TR
930-1045
ARTS 1245
African Art II
Examination of three centuries of African-American art in North America, the Caribbean, and Brazil, stressing the African Legacy. Colonial metalwork and pottery, folk or outsider genres, and mainstream nineteenth- and twentieth-century work are among traditions studied. Prerequisite: Art History 6E or 127A. Not open to freshmen.GE: F, ETH
course website
MW
930-1045
ARTS 1241
Arts of Spain and New Spain
Kranz
Beginning with the Islamic, Medieval and Renaissance arts of Spain, this course will chart their influence and transformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century arts of the New World. Special emphasis will be placed on the creative interaction of the European and indigenous traditions in the architecture, sculpture, graphics, painting, and ritual practice of the colonial Americas. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen. GE: F
course website
TR
1230-145
ARTS 1241
Special Topics in Islamic Art:
Modern Art and the Arab
World
Modern Art & the Arab World is an undergraduate art history seminar that explores modern and contemporary art, artists and art movements of the Arab world. This is a discussion-, research- and writing-based course. Its objectives are to learn about the art of the Arab world from the present to the 19th century, to learn how to analyze art works and how to research and write a paper about an art work of your choice. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
course website
MW
200-315
ARTS 1245
Early Chinese Art
Lau
A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient China, from Neolithic times through the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906). The course emphasizes the development and transformation of pictorial traditions, leading to early painting theory and practice. Not open to freshmen
course website
MW
1230-145
ARTS 1245
Housing American Cultures
White
The history of American domestic architecture from the colonial period to the present within a framework of cultural plurality. Examination of the relation between ideas of domesticity, residential design, individual, regional, and ethnic choices. Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen. GE: F, AMH.
course website
MW
200-315
ARTS 1241
Landscape of Colonialism
Examination of architecture, urbanism and the landscape of British and French colonialism between 1600 and 1950. Introduction to the different forms of colonialism, imperial attitudes and the architecture of colonial encounter in North America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen.
course website
TR
930-1045
ARTS 1241
Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture
White
The course develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art.
course website
TR
1200-250 p.m.
ARTS 0641
Contemporary Photography
Vilander
The course will examine the technical, social/historical and aesthetic aspects
of post-World War II photography. American, European, Asian
and South American artists and/or subject matter will be examined. Exams will consist of slide identifications,
comparison/contrasts and essays. Readings for the course include a text and
suggested supplemental articles. A writing assignment is required. GE: F
course website
MW
1100-1215
ARTS 1245
Cancelled
course website
Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art
This seminar will study the art of the English portrait and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). The class will visit the Huntington Museum's collection of Gainsborough's paintings, prints and drawings and get a behind the scenes tour of the current Gainsborough exhibition there entitled Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door. The seminar research project will be to develop a virtual exhibition on Gainsborough. Prerequisites: Upper-division only. GE: WRT.
course website
T
1000-1250
ARTS 1234D
Seminar in African Art
Advanced studies in African art. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper. GE: WRT.
course website
T
1100-150
ARTS 2622
Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture
Art of the Modern Middle East explores artists, art movements and trends in the modern art and architecture of the Middle East from the 19th century to the present. Material will be drawn primarily from the Arabo-phone world (at home and in diaspora), with forays into Iran and Turkey. The course emphasizes the contributions and innovations of individual artists as well as issues of cultural importance - from the politics of identity to the possibilities of a modern Islamic art. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. GE: WRT.
course website
R
200-450
note time change
ARTS 1234D
Seminar in Photographic History
Vilander
Advanced studies in photographic history. The topic for Spring 2006 will be landscape photography. The course is comprised of lectures, readings, discussions, presentations and the completion of one paper. GE: WRT
course website
TR
930-1045 p.m.
ARTS 2622
Seminar: Topics in Medieval Architecture
Advanced studies in architecture and environment. Topics will vary including active archival research. The course requires weekly readings and discussions, and the writing of a research seminar paper.
course website
R
1230-320 p.m.
ARTS 2622
Seminar: Topics in American Art:
Collecting, Connoisseurship and the Canon
In this seminar I want to proceed along two lines of inquiry and method, to arrive at some critical understanding of the ways museum collections shape the canon of art history. Along one path we will look at the historical evolution of collecting and museums, and the development of ideas of connoisseurship, from the nineteenth century to the present. Along the other path, we will go through a series of hands-on (or rather, eyes-on) workshops, looking at various kinds of material and considering questions of technique, conservation, attribution and quality-traditionally the answers that connoisseurship promised the faithful practitioner of this science. The goal of the seminar is three-fold: to give you some practical experience in connoisseurship, to demystify it, and to place it historically within the context of both academic art history and the art museum. We will be working primarily with UCSB's University Art Museum collections, which have some depth in prints and drawings, but we will also take field trips to the Getty and to LACMA. Approximately half the time of the seminar will be spent in these collections. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
course website
M
200-450 p.m.
ARTS 2622
Seminar: Topics in Architectural History
This graduate seminar will explore the relation between culture and subalternity, including an introduction to the idea of culture in the early texts of subaltern studies, and the relation between popular politics and subalternization as a spatial problematic. We will begin with some classic texts and work our way into some recent discussion on the subject. There will be an introductory meeting on Friday, March 10 at noon in the Art History Conference Rm. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
course website
W
1000-1250
ARTS 2622
Seminar: Topics in Comparative Studies:
Idea of the Baroque
Critically analyzes topics arising out of the interrelationship of architecture and the environment. Focus is on architectural historical, theoretical, and aesthetic issues. Perquisite: graduate standing.Critically analyzes topics arising out of the interrelationship of architecture and the environment. Focus is on architectural historical, theoretical, and aesthetic issues. Perquisite: graduate standing.
course website
W
100-350 p.m.
ARTS 2622
