HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN FALL 2015 COURSES

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1 HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN FALL 2015 COURSES HISTORY OF ART COURSES HA UNDERGRADUATE COURSES HA 327 Art Since the Sixties Sec. 1 Berecz, W 4:30-6:20pm, Main 210 Sec. 2 Berecz, W 6:30-8:20pm, Main 210 Sec. 3 Diaz, F 10:30am- 12:20pm, ENGR 107 This course is an introduction to Pop and Conceptual Art, Happening, Minimalism, Earth and Body Art, Photorealism, Political Art, Neo- Expressionism, Post- Modernism, Video, Performance, and Installation Art. It will emphasize how our understanding of art since the 1960s is continually being reframed by critical debate. 2 credits HA 360 A Survey of Photography: Uses, Styles, and Reactions Present Sec. 1 Knussi, F 9:30am- 12:20pm, East 312 Sec. 2 Knussi, F 2:00-4:50pm, Main 210 This course integrates the history of photography with a study of its aesthetics and criticism. The fall semester covers technical and conceptual developments from its inception in 1839 to WW II. Required for Photography majors. 3 credits HA 341 History of Film I Sec. 1 Rossi- Snook, T 5:00-7:50pm, LIB MMB Sec. 2 Monroy, F 9:30am- 12:20pm, LIB MMB Sec. 3 Bryan, Th 2:00-4:50pm, LIB MMB This course offers a chronological, analytical study of the emergence of film as art, entertainment, information, and persuasion from 1895 to WW II. Required for Film/Video majors. 2 credits HA 343 History of Animation Sec. 1 Lorenzo, M 5:00-7:50pm, LIB MMB This course presents a series of lectures and screenings that trace animation from its beginnings in the silent era in the 1900s to contemporary work of the 1990s. From shorts to features, commercials to computer animation, the class intends to examine how animation evolved and the role it plays in society today. Required for Animation majors. 2 credits HA 402 Art Historical Theory & Methodology Gisolfi, T 1:00-3:50pm, Main 214 Students are introduced to key figures in the history of the discipline. Assigned readings exemplify varied approaches to the discipline and a range of fields within the history of art and design. These form the basis for weekly critical discussions by participants. Each student develops an annotated bibliography of a key scholar in the field and presents it to the class. Open to History of Art and Design undergraduate students only. 3 credits

2 2 HA 500 UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE COURSES HA /02 Asian Art Wang, M 2:00-4:50pm, Main 214 An introduction to the art history of the East. Emphasis is on Chinese art, including ritual bronzes and masterpieces of landscape painting. Students study the influence of Indian art on Chinese Buddhist sculpture and transformations of the Chinese tradition in Japanese art. 3 credits HA /02 Drawings/Prints Seminar Gisolfi, W 2:00-4:50pm, Main 214 Participants study the history of drawings and prints from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Emphasis is on key figures such as Pisanello, Durer, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Goya, Degas and Picasso. 3 credits HA /02 Documentary Film Bryan, Th 9:30am- 12:20pm, LIB MMB This course will look at and discuss the earliest one- reelers, Cinema Verité, experimental and art films, as well as recent feature- length motion pictures and videos that are often labeled non- theatrical films. 3 credits HA /02 History and Theory of New Media Toolin, Th 9:30am- 12:20pm, MH 4E- 3 The course traces the emergence of contemporary electronic media art and culture and addresses major themes and key issues of digital media, from practices of appropriation and simulation, to the embrace of interactive, narrative, performative, immaterial, and network- based forms. Suggested for Department of Digital Art majors and graduate students. 3 credits HA /04 Color and Culture Polistena, T 9:30am- 12:20pm, Main 214 We apprehend color through optical sensation, pigmentation, psychology and physiology, as well as through symbolism and cultural meanings. Artists, especially, have interpreted the theoretical language of color from a unique perspective and demonstrated subjective connotations by technical strategies, experimentation or invention. This course will examine the histories of color: the palettes, pigments and processes of Delacroix, Turner, Seurat, Delaunay, the Blue Rider artists, Mondrian, Matisse, Albers and contemporary practitioners of hallucinatory colors. We will study several influential 19th- Century landmark treatises on color (Runge, Chevreul, von Helmholtz) that essentially built on earlier concepts developed by Newton and Goethe. We aim to analyze how artists adaptations of moral or mystical values apply these theories and how they engage with the imbalance between perception, sensation, symbolism and associative language. Readings include contemporary texts by John Gage and Michel Pastoureau. 3 credits HA /06 Gender and Medieval Art Shepard, Th 2:00-4:50pm, Main 214 This course looks at art created by women and commissioned by women during the Middle Ages and at the ways and places that women were imaged. The shifting of attitudes to and roles of women throughout this period are important conceptual issues in this course. 3 credits

3 3 HA /08 Islamic Art and 19th- Century Europe: Encounters and Exchanges Zieve, Th 2:00-4:50pm, East 304 This course will examine the reciprocal relationship in art and design between Western Europe and the Middle East primarily from the mid- eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. By focusing on objects and periods in both Islamic Art and Western Europe, this course will address not only the art and dialogue between the two cultures but also the art history of each. Questions of influence and interpretation will give rise to questions of methodology and historiography. What constitutes style, image and symbol for each culture? What approach best articulates meaning in each? Class discussions will be organized around specific topics or case studies but will range over work in architecture, design, photography, and painting among other media in order to examine issues such as craft, colonialism, classicism, narrative, ornament and the knotty term, Orientalism. HA /10 Latin American Film, Video, and Culture Monroy, Th 5:30-8:20pm, LIB MMB This course examines Latin American feature and documentary films to analyze social, cultural and political themes and issues present in several Latin American nations. Topics include national cinemas and film industries; stylistic conventions and genres; film and political movements; and representations of race, class, and gender. HA /12 The Art of Social Intervention, Neely, F 9:30am- 12:20pm, Main 214 This course treats the way artists working from the 1960s to the present have reconsidered their relationship to the social environment within and beyond the art world. Starting with a consideration of the controversies about Minimalism and Conceptualism in the 1960s, we will look at a series of test cases that demonstrate the multifaceted ways artists can interact with and intervene in broader social affairs. Cases will include but will not be limited to early Feminist and Land Art in the 1970s, AIDS activism and graffiti art in the 1980s, Relational Aesthetics and Identity art in the 1990s, and selected interventional practices from the 2000s like the Publixtheater Caravan and the Brecht Forum s Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory. Alongside of our discussion of the works we will read critical and theoretical texts that discuss the issues they bring to light. The thread uniting discussions will be our focus on the way the forms of these diverse works, which include everything from theater to advertising design, enable them to work within and transcend the artistic institutions where they are first exhibited and speak to the broader public. 3 credits HA /14 The Current Season Diaz, F 2:00-4:50pm, Main 214 This course will offer a direct engagement with contemporary art on view in New York City this fall. It will seek to incorporate a broad range of works, styles and media, and will involve various approaches to art and art criticism. It will require extensive looking, reading, and writing. Numerous visits to galleries and museums, both during class time and independent of it, will be necessary, along with active participation by all. 3 credits. HA /02 Women in Photography Yamamura, F 2:00-4:50pm, East 304 This class explores the work of women photographers from c.1840 to the present, and the complex role gender plays in their work and the response of their audience. Photography has proven open to woman on both the amateur and the professional level to an extent unknown in the so- called fine arts. The

4 4 primary emphasis is on images made by women artists and the ways they have been chronicled and discussed in both traditional and feminist history and art criticism. 3 credits ONE-CREDIT COURSES HA /02 Looking at Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art LiCalsi, F 5:30-8:20pm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Five classes: 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, and 11/20 The collection of paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is diverse and extensive. This course provides students with a forum for informal discussion in front of a work of art while gaining an understanding of color, composition, painting techniques, supports, pigments, and varnishes. Viewing the world-class works at The Met is a unique opportunity that offers students an intensive and in-depth look at art and the artistic process. The course covers many of the most important periods in art history and takes advantage of the range and depth of the paintings on view at The Met. On the final night of class, students have the opportunity to discuss one painting that is, for them, particularly meaningful or moving. One credit HA /04 Word into Image: Telling Stories with Pictures Worldwide/Across Time Edwards, W 9:30am-12:20pm, East 304 Five classes: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, and 10/7 This course examines the history and function of pictorial narrative. Guided by texts written world-wide from antiquity to the twenty-first century, students will analyze how artists use images to tell stories, whether from myth, scripture, historical texts, autobiography or other sources. One credit HISTORY OF DESIGN COURSES HD 207 History of Costume Sec. 1 TBA, F 9:30-11:20, NH 202 Sec. 2 TBA, F 12:00-1:50pm, NH 202 Sec. 3 TBA, F 3:00-4:50pm, NH 202 This course gives a chronological and regional history of costume from Egypt through the end of the 19 th century. Required for majors in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising. 2 credits HD 360 History of Interior Design Sec. 1 Zieve, T 9:30-11:20am, East 312 Sec. 2 Lasc, W 5:00-6:50pm, ENGR 107 This course gives an historical overview of the styles and social movements that preceded and laid the foundation for the contemporary practice of interior design: Regency, Federal, Pennsylvania Dutch, Shaker, Victorian, Art Deco, etc. Review of the design of furniture, fabrics, and illumination is included. 2 credits HD 361 History of Industrial Design Sec. 1 TBA, T 9:30-11:20am, ENGR 107 Sec. 3 TBA, T 5:00-6:50pm, ENGR 107

5 5 This course offers a chronological examination of the history of industrial design beginning with a review of the early aspects of the Industrial Revolution, and proceeding to the development of basic ideas of modern design. Emphasis is given to the work of key designers who emerged prior to and with the New York World's Fair of Discussion sessions with slides, readings, an exam, and submission of a written report are included. This is required for undergraduate majors in Industrial Design. 2 credits HD 362 History of Communication Design Sec. 1 Meggs, M 3:30-5:20pm, East 312 Sec. 2 Meggs, M 6:00-7:50pm, East 312 This course offers a chronological survey of the history of communication design beginning with the movable type printing revolution of the Renaissance through to 20 th century leaders and digital design in the 21 st century. Emphasis is on the 20 th century professional fields, including study of developments by key designers in modernist graphic design, corporate identity, art direction, information design, and packaging. The class addresses artistic, social, and technological contexts that have affected modern communication design. 2credits HD Concepts of Design Sec. 01/02 Schoenfeld, W 11:00am- 12:50pm, W 14 Room 613 Sec.03/04 Schoenfeld, F 3:30-5:20pm, East 312 This is an interdisciplinary seminar course introducing the main theories and ideas of the most influential thinkers and designers of the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Documents decisive to the development of Modern and Post- Modern design are read and discussed in class. 2 credits HD 511 History of Illustration Sec. 1/2 Graham, T 2:00-3:50pm, Steuben 405 Sec. 3/4 LaPadula, Th 9:30-11:20am, Steuben 405 This course will familiarize the student with the rich tradition of illustration in America. It will present a concise overview of illustration primarily of the twentieth century and will discuss illustrators of the past and established contemporary illustrators, and the trends in various categories of work (editorial, cartooning, Sci- Fi, children's books, etc.). Special attention will be paid to the influence of social forces and fine art movements, from here and abroad, on illustration styles, genres and techniques. Required for undergraduate Illustration majors. 2 credit HD /02 History of Jewelry TBA, M 9:30am- 12:20pm, East 312 Jewelry reflects the aesthetic, design, and technical developments of its time and offers insights into the cultural forces at work on both the maker and wearer; jewelry exists at the intersection between the vision of an artist, the desires of a wearer, and the perceptions of the viewer. This survey follows the development of jewelry as personal adornment through the twentieth century to the twenty- first and emphasizes the interrelationships between jewelry, dress, and other forms of body adornment. 3 credits INDEPENDENT HA 9402/9403/9602/9603/9603B Art History Internships Kurtz, 3- Mandatory Meetings: 9/11, 10/16, and 12/4, F 9:30-10:20am, Room East 205, These courses allow undergraduate/graduate students to work in a museum or non- profit/for- profit cultural institution for credit. Approval required by Chair or Assistant Chair. 2-3 credits