course index
winter 2006
lower division courses
Introduction to Art
Art Survey III: Renaissance — Baroque
Survey: Asian Art
*moved to spring 2006
Survey: Architecture and Planning
White
upper division courses
Late Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
Art as Technique, Labor, and Idea in Renaissance Italy
Art and Moral Values
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt
C. Peterson
Nineteenth-Century Art: 1800—1848
Nineteenth-Century Art: 1848—1900
Special Topics in Twentieth Century Modern Art
American Art from the Revolution to the Civil War
Dini
Special Topics in Islamic Art: Image and Imagination
*please note title correction
The Art of the Chinese Landscape
Special Topics in Asian Art
*please note day/time/room change
Revival Styles in Southern California Architecture
Social Documentary Photography
Vilander
Methodologies for Researching in Photographic Archives
Vilander
Seminar in Medieval Architecture
Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art
*moved to spring 2006
Seminar in Photographic History
Seminar in Architecture and Environment: State Street Santa barbara
graduate courses
Visuality and Text in the New World and the Old
*Moved to spring 2006
Special Topics in Islamic Art & Architecture
Theories of the Modern
296C
*cancelled — see 296A
Seminar: Getty Consortium
staff
Introduction to Art
This course is intended for students who have not taken classes
in Art History, and may or may not do so again. It is designed to develop
basic visual skills and introduce students to the wide range of issues,
works, and themes with which Art History is engaged, varying from year
to year. Not open to art history majors. GE: F
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
MW
200-315
IV Theater 1
Art Survey III: Renaissance — Baroque
European art of the early modern period, ca. 1300-1800.
GE: WRT, E, EUR, F
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION
TR
930-1045
Campbell Hall
Survey: Architecture and Planning
White
A selective chronological survey of architecture and urban
design in social and historical context. Individual buildings and urban
plans from the past to the present will be used as examples. GE: WRT,
F.
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION.
*The Wed 300-350 section will meet T 700-750 in Arts
2324
TR
1230-145
Arts 1245
Survey: Asian Art: The Arts of Japan and Korea
This course surveys the arts of Japan and the Korean peninsula from pre-historic to contemporary times. The focus is on the evolving role of the ARTISAN/artist within society. Discussion & critiques of readings required. GE: F, WRT, NWC. ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION.
*Note the honors section has moved to a new room:
58883 T 100- 150 WATTLES ARTS 1234D
TR
1100-1215
IV Theater 2
Late Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
Twelfth- and thirteenth-century architecture in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and England. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Recommended: Art History 6A, 105C, or 105E. GE: F
TR
1100-1215
Arts 1426
Art as Technique, Labor, and Idea in Renaissance Italy
An approach to the art of Renaissance Italy that focuses
on the superimposition of three complementary and often competitive discursive
formations that condition its practice and historical development.
Prerequisite: Not open to freshmen. GE: F.
TR
1230-145
Arts 1245
Art and Moral Values
What is the relation between art and moral life? A historical survey reveals that it is in fact multifaceted and profound, and even more urgent in modern times than in the past. Prerequisite: Not open to freshmen. GE: F
TR
330-445
Arts 1241
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt
C. Peterson
Art History 111B — The age of Rembrandt and Vermeer,
part I. The Birth of a Nation: 1579-1648
The first half of the seventeenth century in Holland, the period from the
Union of Utrecht of 1579 and its declaration of independence from Spain,
to the recognition of the Northern Netherlands as an independent nation
in 1648, was part of a century that has come to be known as the Dutch “Golden
Age” of Dutch art. This era witnessed the emergence of a Protestant
mercantile culture in which the Catholic Church and the hereditary nobility
were supplanted by democratic institutions and middle-class merchants as
major patrons of the arts. These men and women supported such artists as
Rembrandt van Rijn and Frans Hals, as well as a host of lesser known masters,
who created an imagery employing the vocabulary of everyday life rather
than the imaginary religious, historical, and mythological imagery of previous
centuries. This course examines the cultural functions of this rich, apparently
descriptive imagery as it helped to form the self-identify and goals of
Europe’s first middle-class capitalist society. We examine the aesthetics
and content of this imagery through contemporary economic, historic, religious,
and literary developments, and the emerging scientific revolution. Prerequisite:
At least one art history course. Not open to freshmen. GE: F.
TR
1100-1215
Arts 1241
Nineteenth-Century Art: 1800—1848
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe. Topics will change, but may include art under Napoleon and Romanticism. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen. GE: F
MW
1230-145
Arts 1245
Nineteenth-Century Art: 1848—1900
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe. Topics will change, but may include art and the industrial Revolution, Impressionism, and Post-impressionism. Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen. GE: F
MW
200-315
Arts 1241
Special Topics in Twentieth Century Modern Art: Varieties of Modernism
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different.
MW
1100-1215
Arts 1241
American Art from the Revolution to the Civil War
Dini
Painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts in the original 13 colonies, through the formation of the United States, to the crisis of the Civil War. Particular attention paid to environmental and social issues. GE: F, AMH
TR
200-315
Arts 1245
Special Topics in Islamic Art
*note title correction
Description: Image & Imagination is a new course that explores the theories and practices of art in the Arab World and Iran. The course will include discussions of optics, natural philosophy, and poetic imagery in relation to modes of representation and perceptions of beauty, and will focus on such issues as the perceived relationship of art to nature and of vision to visuality as they appear in both the eastern and the western Mediterranean worlds in medieval and early modern times. Material will be drawn from a variety of sources and will include wall painting and manuscript illustration. Students will learn about the book arts, miniature painting, illumination, and correlated texts and images through examples from the Arab and Iranian spheres, with secondary examples from India and Turkey under the Moghuls and Ottomans. Readings: There is no published book that covers this material. A collection of articles will be made available in the 133CC Reader. All students enrolled in the course must obtain this Reader. Useful publications that students may obtain on their own (available at a number of internet outposts) include, D. Behrens-Abouseif, Beauty in Arabic Culture, Sheila Canby, Persian Painting, Oleg Grabar, Mostly Miniatures. Website: The 133CC website is a critical resource for images and concepts covered in the course. Students enrolled in the course have access to this website through the user name 133CC and a password that they will receive in the first week of the quarter. The website is up-dated on a weekly basis and students are required to refer to it regularly for information, posted announcements, and study images & questions. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
MW
1230-145
Arts 1241
The Art of the Chinese Landscape
Chinese approaches to landscape as subject matter in art, with a focus on painting and garden architecture. The course begins with the immortality cult in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 221) and ends with contemporary artists of the twentieth century. Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen. Recommended preparation: Art History 6D.
TR
930-1045
Arts 1241
Special Topics in Asian Art: Curatorial Studies in Ukiyo-e
*please note day/time/room change
Chinese approaches to landscape as subject matter in art, with a focus on painting and garden architecture. The course begins with the immortality cult in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 221) and ends with contemporary artists of the twentieth century. Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen. Recommended preparation: Art History 6D.
F
900-1150
Arts 2622
Revival Styles in Couthern California Architecture
Examines the history of revival styles in Californian architecture from the 18th century to the present. While the focus is on Southern California such comparative phenomena as National Romanticism in Western Architecture and Critical Regionalism will be incorporated. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
MW
200-315
Arts 1245
Social Documentary Photography
Vilander
This course traces the interrelationship between photographic art history and social history. Topics include pioneers of social documentary photography, government and industrial projects, regional and national views, snapshots, minorities, personal voices and contemporary issues. Prerequisite: not open to freshman. GE: F
MW
1100-1215
Arts 1245
Methodologies for Researching in Photographic Archives
Vilander
A critical survey of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography in its social and cultural contexts. Beginning with the question of how photography shapes and influences our notions of reality, we will examine the complex relations of photography to ideologies of race, gender, national and class identities in the nineteenth and 20th centuries. Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
TR
930-1045
Arts 1426
Seminar in Medieval Architecture: Problems in Medieval Architecture
With the help of the professor and based on his/her interests, each student will pick a medieval architectural topic. The student will give an interim and final report, followed by a paper based on these findings. The teacher will begin the class by discussing specific issues of design, structure and construction, like the formation of the flying buttress in Gothic architecture and problems to do with the groin and barrel vaults in Romanesque architecture. Prerequisites: Upper-division only. GE: WRT.
R
1230-320
Arts 2622
Seminar in Photographic History
Advanced studies in photographic history. Topics will
vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing
of a research seminar paper.
Prerequisites: Upper-division only. GE: WRT.
T
1100-150
Arts 2622
Seminar in Architecture and Environment: State Street Santa barbara
*RETURNED TO ORIGINAL ROOM ARTS 2622
Commercial thoroughfare, tourist attraction, historical center, or the focus of urban (night) life; possible characterizations of State Street in Santa Barbara are manifold. Through weekly readings, discussions, and architectural historical research projects on selected buildings on State Street, this seminar in advanced studies in the history of architecture will allow students to explore both the history of State Street and the importance of this street for both the city and its citizens.
Open to majors in history of art and architecture.
The course requires weekly readings and discussions, and the writing of a research seminar paper. Prerequisites: Upper-division only. GE: WRT.
MW
930-1045
Arts 1234D
Visuality and Text in the New World and the Old
Special research. Prerequisite: graduate standing
W
100-350
Arts 2622
Seminar: Topics in American Art
*Moved to Spring 2006
Special Topics in Islamic Art & Architecture
Special topics in Islamic art and/or architecture. Topics will vary. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
T
200-450
Arts 2622
Theories of the Modern
"DADA is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms." - (Hans Arp)
"DADA speaks with you, it is everything, it envelops everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in space and not in time." (Francis Picabia)
"Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police." (Richard Huelsenbeck)
This seminar examines the phenomenon of Dadaism (DADA LITERATURE-DADA ART-DADA-LIFE) in the more general context of the European Avant-gardes. Dadaists read and looked at include Max Ernst, T. Tsara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, and others.
. ..Marcel Duchamp...
Stops in Berlin, Hannover, Köln, Paris, Zürich....
Cross-listed with German 270. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
R
300-550
Phelps 6309
Seminar: Getty Consortium
staff*
Special graduate seminar offered at the Getty Research
Institute in Los Angeles, involving faculty and graduate students from
the five graduate programs in Art History of Visual Studies located in
southern California.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Recovering Antiquity
Professor Todd Olson, Associate Professor, 17th and 18th Century European
Art, University of Southern California and 2005-2006 Getty Consortium
Scholar
Early modern Europeans based the authority of their cultural, social, and political institutions on comparative examples found in the ancient world. While antique revivalism may seem to be inherently uniform and conservative, ancient Empires and Republics provided radically different models for bolstering regimes or for inciting revolutionary change in later societies. Focusing on sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Europe, this seminar will consider how different groups invested claims for historical authority on the physical resilience of ancient objects, sometimes construed as less corruptible than the written word. We will examine the unanticipated consequences of the material and discursive recovery of ancient objects and the effect they have had on the peripatetic transmission of antiquity to the present. Participants may choose a research topic based on an early modern case study, or they may select a topic from their own area of specialization. Students will be encouraged to make use of the Getty Research Institute’s holdings in the Special Collections and the Photo Study Collection as well as the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collections.
Orientation: Friday, December 9, 2005 (10am – 12 noon)
Course meeting dates: January 6, 13, 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, March
3 (10am – 2pm)
Location: The Getty Research Institute
Note: Parking, lunch, and access to the library and collections will be provided for students enrolled in this course.
F
1000-200
Getty Research Institute
*Enroll with instructor code for Chattopadhyay
