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First-Year Courses in History of ArtThis page was created at 6:54 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26)Open courses in History of Art Wolverine Access Subject listing for HISTART Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for History of Art. HISTART 102. Western Art from the End of the Middle Ages to the Present.
Instructor(s): R Ward Bissell (bissellw@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed Hist. of Art 104 and 105, or 150. Two credits granted to those who have completed one of Hist. of Art 104 or 105. (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is a survey of topics in European and American Art from the late 14th century to the present, as well as an introduction to techniques of art history. It will examine institutions such as patronage and the art market, the changing roles of artists in society, and the changing functions of art. Weekly discussion sections will be devoted to building skills in visual analysis and critical reading of art-historical literature. Requirements: informed participation in section meetings, regular reading assignments, two short papers, midterm and a final examination. There are no prerequisites for this course.
HISTART 103. Arts of Asia.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Frank Chance (fchance@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will take a topical approach to the arts of India, China, and Japan rather than attempt a broad survey. Lectures will focus on conceptual units that range across geographical and historical categories. The course is divided into five topic areas based on medium: Ceramics and Metalwork, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Prints; within each, we will consider a variety of themes, subjects, and genres such as narrative painting, devotional sculpture, funerary art, landscape, and popular subjects. There will be ample opportunity for exploring the basics of comparative art history. Apart from section participation, course work will include three short papers, quizzes, and a final examination. The course presumes no previous exposure to the arts of Asia. All are welcome.
HISTART 113 / ARTDES 113. Introduction to the Visual Arts.Section 001.Instructor(s): Michael R Kapetan (nbva@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: This course is for non-art majors only. (3). (Excl). No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability HISTART 194. First Year Seminar.Section 001 – Modernism/Modernity: Art and Culture in Paris, 1848-1900.Instructor(s): Howard Lay (hglay@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). May be elected twice for credit. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course considers key issues in the history of modernist painting from the Revolution of 1848 to the end of the 19th century. This is the period during which Bohemia and the avant-garde (as concepts and as active constellation of artists, critics, dealers and patrons) developed their characteristic strategies and behavioral patterns: an apparent insistence on innovation, originality, and individuality; a contentious involvement with tradition; a critical relationship with both institutional and commercial culture; and a somewhat strained allegiance with radical politics and alternative subcultures. It is also the period that witnessed a thorough-going reassessment of the language of visual representation, and a parallel concern with the possibilities and limitations of the medium of painting; hence the rapid succession of avant-garde "movements," from Realism and Impressionism to Syntheticism and Neo-Impressionism. The course aims to examine a succession of notorious modernist strategies, including (among other phenomena) the negativity of Manet's Parisian imagery, Courbet's presumed populism, and Neo-Impressionism's pseudo-positivist critique of modernity. Readings and discussions are designed to consider the correlations between a wide variety of modernist projects.
These are difficult questions, and there are no clear-cut answers. Our objective in asking them is to recapture, over the course of the academic term, some sense of their complexity, and of the argumentative climate in which modernist strategies were conceived and employed.
HISTART 212 / ARCH 212. Understanding Architecture.Section 001.Instructor(s): Robert L Fishman (fishmanr@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Not open to students enrolled in Architecture. (3). (Excl). No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability HISTART 222 / CLARCH 222. Introduction to Roman Archaeology.Section 001.Instructor(s): Susan E Alcock (salcock@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~ipcaa/222/ See Classical Archaeology 222.001.
HISTART 230 / AMCULT 230. Art and Life in 19th-Century America.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Rebecca Zurier (rzurier@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course asks what the study of art history and American history can tell us about each other through a survey of art, architecture, and material culture produced during the 19th century. This complex period saw the transformation of the United States from rural to an industrial urban nation; a Civil War that divided the country, Westward expansion that enlarged it, and waves of immigration and border movement that changed its population; the rise of a middle class, and the emergence of women into public and professional life. American artists and architects sought to rival their European contemporaries and eventually produced distinctive works that responded to national trends. Through lectures, discussion, and visits to see original works of art in museums and libraries, along with readings in primary-source documents and recent critical interpretations, we will examine developments in the fine arts and the impact of historical change on the material and popular culture of everyday life in America. Among the topics to be investigated are: the role in art in creating an image of America as "nature's nation"; machine-made art and machines as art; the west as viewed from the painter's easel, the photographer's lens, and the frontier homestead; the interaction of Native American artists, Anglo settlers, and the tourist trade; the creation of Civil War monuments; parlors and the ideology of the Victorian home; mass-produced images and the dissemination of art for middle-class taste; the brooding psychology in the Gilded-Age paintings of Eakins, Homer, and Cassatt.
HISTART 251 / MEMS 251. Italian Renaissance Art, II.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Megan L Holmes (holmesml@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course we will study Italian art from circa 1480 to 1570. This period is traditionally known as the "High Renaissance," and usually begins with the maturity of Leonardo da Vinci and ends with the death of Michelangelo. We will follow the careers of major masters like Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, and Michelangelo. We also will explore the urban centers – Venice, Florence, Rome – where these masters, and many others not as well known, produced their works in response to the demands of patrons and institutions. We will study key works of art, sites of production, techniques, patrons, practitioners, and publics. We will be interested in gender and social rank, and will visit the exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art "Gender, Power and Representation." Transformations in artistic practices and representational forms will be related to specific social, political, economic, and cultural conditions. We will also consider primary sources, and pay close attention to how art historians selectively consider the fragmentary material and textual remains from the period and incorporate them into a "story of art." There will be weekly section meetings, a midterm and final exam, and a short paper.
HISTART 272. 20th-Century Art: Modernism, The Avant Garde, The Aftermath.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Maria E Gough (mgough@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An exploration of the work of major 20th-century European and American artists, focusing on two fundamental issues in particular: first, the manifold ways in which modern and avant-garde artists have interrogated the nature of signification itself (i.e., how form produces meaning); and, second, the avant-garde's controversial relationship to revolutionary politics. This streamlined survey course is specifically designed to assist you in developing the vocabulary, and the analytical and visual tools that, are essential in order to come to grips with the great diversity of works and critical debates that constitute the history of 20th-century art.
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