Course Information
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
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Spring 2013
| COURSE |
TITLE |
SCHEDULE/
UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS |
LOCATION |
INSTRUCTOR(S) |
| HART B107-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B108-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Shipley,L. |
| HART B190-001 |
The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF |
Thomas Hall 110 |
Hein,C., Teaching Assistant,T. |
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Breakout Session: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MF |
Thomas Hall 104 |
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Breakout Session: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MF |
Thomas Hall 111 |
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| HART B205-001 |
Introduction to Film |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Nguyen,H. |
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Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU |
Thomas Hall 224 |
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| HART B229-001 |
Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH |
Taylor Hall D |
Zhang,J. |
| HART B229-002 |
Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M |
Thomas Hall 116 |
Zhang,J. |
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LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T |
Thomas Hall 116 |
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| HART B241-001 |
New Visual Worlds in the Spanish Empire 1492 - 1820 |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF |
Carpenter Library 15 |
McKim-Smith,G. |
| HART B253-001 |
Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism of the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW |
Thomas Hall 104 |
Cohen,J. |
| HART B300-001 |
The Curator in the Museum |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM M |
Canaday 205 (Special Collect.) |
Wallace,B. |
| HART B306-001 |
Film Theory |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Levine,S. |
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Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM W |
Carpenter Library 21 |
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| HART B311-001 |
Topics in Medieval Art: Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Walker,A. |
| HART B334-001 |
Topics in Film Studies: Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Rastegar,R. |
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Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM TH |
Carpenter Library 21 |
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| HART B336-001 |
Topics in Film: Found Footage Film |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW |
Dalton Hall 212A |
Nguyen,H. |
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Film: 4:00 PM- 7:00 PM SU |
Thomas Hall 224 |
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| HART B354-001 |
Gender and Contemporary Art |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W |
Thomas Hall 111 |
DeRoo,R. |
| HART B399-001 |
Senior Conference II |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B425-001 |
Praxis III |
Semester / 1 |
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Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B671-001 |
Topics in German Art: Allegory |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM M |
Carpenter Library 15 |
Hertel,C. |
| HART B701-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-002 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-004 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-005 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-007 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-008 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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| HART B701-009 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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Fall 2013
| COURSE |
TITLE |
SCHEDULE/
UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS |
LOCATION |
INSTRUCTOR(S) |
| HART B104-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: The Classical Tradition |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Cast,D., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B110-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Identification in the Cinema |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
King,H., Teaching Assistant,T. |
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Film: Date/Time TBA |
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| HART B125-001 |
Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF |
Thomas Hall 224 |
Lindenlauf,A. |
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Discussion: Date/Time TBA |
Carpenter Library 25 |
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Discussion: Date/Time TBA |
Carpenter Library 25 |
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| HART B213-001 |
Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities: Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
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Interim,R. |
| HART B238-001 |
Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945: Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia &Beyond |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH |
Taylor Hall E |
Harte,T. |
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Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M |
Thomas Hall 224 |
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| HART B255-001 |
Survey of American Architecture |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH |
Dalton Hall 2 |
Cohen,J. |
| HART B272-001 |
Since 1960: Contemporary Art and Theory |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH |
Thomas Hall 224 |
DeRoo,R. |
| HART B301-001 |
Making an Exhibition: Perspectives on Museums |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM M |
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Wallace,B. |
| HART B330-001 |
Architecture and Identity in Italy: Renaissance to the Present |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW |
Taylor Hall E |
Harper,A. |
| HART B334-001 |
Topics in Film Studies: Middle East on Film |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH |
Thomas Hall 102 |
Rastegar,R. |
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Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM W |
Carpenter Library 25 |
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| HART B350-001 |
Topics in Modern Art: Modern Art in Exhibition |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM M |
Canaday 205 (Special Collect.) |
Levine,S., Wallace,B. |
| HART B372-001 |
Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W |
Carpenter Library 15 |
DeRoo,R. |
| HART B373-001 |
Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH |
Carpenter Library 13 |
DeRoo,R. |
| HART B398-001 |
Senior Conference I |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B403-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B403-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B630-001 |
Topics in Renaissance Art: Vasari |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM TH |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Cast,D. |
| HART B672-001 |
Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W |
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DeRoo,R. |
| HART B673-001 |
Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH |
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DeRoo,R. |
| HART B680-001 |
Topics in Contemporary Art: Photography and its Afterlife |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM T |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Saltzman,L. |
| HART B701-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Cast,D. |
| HART B701-002 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Hertel,C. |
| HART B701-003 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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King,H. |
| HART B701-004 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Levine,S. |
| HART B701-005 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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McKim-Smith,G. |
| HART B701-006 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Saltzman,L. |
| HART B701-007 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Walker,A. |
| HART B701-008 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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DeRoo,R. |
| HART B701-009 |
Supervised Work: Dis & Rebld in Japan |
Semester / 1 |
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Spring 2014
| COURSE |
TITLE |
SCHEDULE/
UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS |
LOCATION |
INSTRUCTOR(S) |
| HART B107-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B108-001 |
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF |
Carpenter Library 25 |
Saltzman,L., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B190-001 |
The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF |
Thomas Hall 110 |
Hein,C. |
| HART B205-001 |
Introduction to Film |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW |
Carpenter Library 21 |
Nguyen,H. |
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Film: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M |
Carpenter Library 21 |
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| HART B215-001 |
Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and Film |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Taylor Hall G |
Harte,T. |
| HART B216-001 |
The City of Naples |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW |
Carpenter Library 17 |
Harper,A. |
| HART B229-001 |
Topics in Comparative Urbanism |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Taylor Hall D |
McDonogh,G. |
| HART B230-001 |
Renaissance Art |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH |
Carpenter Library 21 |
Cast,D. |
| HART B242-001 |
Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010 |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF |
Carpenter Library 13 |
McKim-Smith,G. |
| HART B299-001 |
History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the present |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH |
Carpenter Library 21 |
King,H. |
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Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM M |
Thomas Hall 110 |
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| HART B323-001 |
Topics in Renaissance Art: The Fresco |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH |
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Cast,D. |
| HART B354-001 |
Gender and Contemporary Art |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM M |
Carpenter Library 15 |
DeRoo,R. |
| HART B377-001 |
Topics in Modern Architecture |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW |
Dalton Hall 212A |
Hein,C. |
| HART B380-001 |
Topics in Contemporary Art: Visual Culture & the Holocaust |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Saltzman,L. |
| HART B399-001 |
Senior Conference II |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B403-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B403-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
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Dept. staff, TBA |
| HART B678-001 |
Portraiture |
Semester / 1 |
Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F |
Carpenter Library 13 |
Levine,S. |
| HART B701-001 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Cast,D. |
| HART B701-002 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Hertel,C. |
| HART B701-003 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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King,H. |
| HART B701-004 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Levine,S. |
| HART B701-005 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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McKim-Smith,G. |
| HART B701-006 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Saltzman,L. |
| HART B701-007 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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Walker,A. |
| HART B701-008 |
Supervised Work |
Semester / 1 |
LEC: Date/Time TBA |
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DeRoo,R. |
2013-14 Catalog Data
HART
B100
The Stuff of Art
Not offered 2013-14
An introduction to chemistry through fine arts, this course emphasizes the close relationship of the fine arts, especially painting, to the development of chemistry and its practice. The historical role of the material in the arts, in alchemy and in the developing science of chemistry, will be discussed, as well as the synergy between these areas. Relevant principles of chemistry will be illustrated through the handling, synthesis and/or transformations of the material. This course does not count towards chemistry major requirements, and is not suitable for premedical programs. Lecture 90 minutes, laboratory three hours a week. Enrollment limited to 20.
Division II with Lab
Cross-listed as CHEM B100
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HART
B104
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: The Classical Tradition
Fall 2013
An investigation of the historical and philosophical ideas of the classical, with particular attention to the Italian Renaissance and the continuance of its formulations throughout the Westernized world.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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HART
B106
Art of the Global Middle Ages
Not offered 2013-14
This course considers the art and architecture of the middle ages from a global perspective and surveys artistic interaction between Europe, Africa, and Asia from the fourth to fifteenth century. Emphasis is placed on theories of globalism and their articulation in relation to medieval cultures and history.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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HART
B107
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France
Spring 2014
A study of artists' self-representations in the context of the philosophy and psychology of their time, with particular attention to issues of political patronage, gender and class, power and desire.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B108
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art
Spring 2014
An investigation of the history of art since the Renaissance organized around the practice of women artists, the representation of women in art, and the visual economy of the gaze.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B110
Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Identification in the Cinema
Fall 2013
An introduction to the analysis of film through particular attention to the role of the spectator. Why do moving images compel our fascination? How exactly do film spectators relate to the people, objects, and places that appear on the screen? Wherein lies the power of images to move, attract, repel, persuade, or transform its viewers? In this course, students will be introduced to film theory through the rich and complex topic of identification. We will explore how points of view are framed in cinema, and how those viewing positions differ from those of still photography, advertising, video games, and other forms of media. Students will be encouraged to consider the role the cinematic medium plays in influencing our experience of a film: how it is not simply a film's content, but the very form of representation that creates interactions between the spectator and the images on the screen. Film screenings include Psycho, Being John Malkovich, and others. Course is geared to freshman and those with no prior film instruction. Fulfills History of Art major 100-level course requirement, Film Studies minor Introductory course or Theory course requirement. Syllabus is subject to change at instructor's discretion.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B125
Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky
Fall 2013
This course explores Greek and Roman mythology using an archaeological and art historical approach, focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment.
Division III: Humanities
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ARCH B125
Cross-listed as CSTS B125
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HART
B140
The Visual Culture of the Ancient Near East
Not offered 2013-14
The visual culture of ancient Mesopotamia, a region with its heartland in modern Iraq, from the first city to the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE, includes images designed to gain favor of the gods, promote royal achievements and adorn the deceased on the journey to the afterlife. Particular emphasis placed on the visual analysis of royal and elite artistic production of architecture, sculpture and cylinder seals.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ARCH B140
Counts toward Middle East Studies
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HART
B190
The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present
Spring 2014
This course studies the city as a three-dimensional artifact. A variety of factors--geography, economic and population structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics--are considered as determinants of urban form.
Division I or Division III
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B190
Cross-listed as ANTH B190
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HART
B204
Greek Sculpture
Not offered 2013-14
One of the best preserved categories of evidence for ancient Greek culture is sculpture. The Greeks devoted immense resources to producing sculpture that encompassed many materials and forms and served a variety of important social functions. This course examines sculptural production in Greece and neighboring lands from the Bronze Age through the fourth century B.C.E. with special attention to style, iconography and historical and social context.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ARCH B205
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HART
B205
Introduction to Film
Spring 2014
This course is intended to provide students with the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as ENGL B205
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B206
Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture
Not offered 2013-14
This course surveys the sculpture produced from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the period beginning with the death of Alexander the Great that saw the transformation of the classical world through the rise of Rome and the establishment and expansion of the Roman Empire. Style, iconography, and production will be studied in the contexts of the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman society, and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the post-antique classical tradition.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ARCH B206
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HART
B209
Topics in Chinese Cultural History
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Topics vary.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as EAST B210
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HART
B211
Topics in Medieval History
Not offered 2013-14
Cross listed with HIST B211 when the topic is appropriate.
Division III: Humanities
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HART
B212
Medieval Architecture
Not offered 2013-14
This course takes a broad geographic and chronological scope, allowing for full exposure to the rich variety of objects and monuments that fall under the rubric of "medieval" art and architecture. We focus on the Latin and Byzantine Christian traditions, but also consider works of art and architecture from the Islamic and Jewish spheres. Topics to be discussed include: the role of religion in artistic development and expression; secular traditions of medieval art and culture; facture and materiality in the art of the middle ages; the use of objects and monuments to convey political power and social prestige; gender dynamics in medieval visual culture; and the contribution of medieval art and architecture to later artistic traditions.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B212
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HART
B213
Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism
Fall 2013
An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as ITAL B213
Cross-listed as RUSS B253
Cross-listed as PHIL B253
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HART
B215
Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and Film
Spring 2014
This course focuses on Russian avant-garde painting, literature and cinema at the start of the 20th century. Moving from Imperial Russian art to Stalinist aesthetics, we explore the rise of non-objective painting (Malevich, Kandinsky, etc.), ground-breaking literature (Bely, Mayakovsky), and revolutionary cinema (Vertov, Eisenstein). No knowledge of Russian required.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Cross-listed as RUSS B215
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B216
The City of Naples
Spring 2014
The city of Naples emerged during the Later Middle Ages as the capital of a Kingdom and one of the most influential cities in the Mediterranean region. What led to the city's rise, and what effect did the city as a cultural, political, and economic force have on the rest of the region and beyond? This course will familiarize students with the art, architecture, culture, and institutions that made the city one of the most influential in Europe and the Mediterranean region during the Late Middle Ages. Topics include court painters in service to the crown, female monastic spaces and patronage, and the revival of dynastic tomb sculpture.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ITAL B215
Cross-listed as CITY B216
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HART
B229
Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China
Spring 2014
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories.
Division I: Social Science
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B229
Cross-listed as EAST B229
Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures
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HART
B230
Renaissance Art
Spring 2014
A survey of painting in Florence and Rome in the 15th and 16th centuries (Giotto, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael), with particular attention to contemporary intellectual, social, and religious developments.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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HART
B234
Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity
Not offered 2013-14
We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ARCH B234
Cross-listed as CSTS B234
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B238
Topics: The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Silent Film: From U.S. to Soviet Russia &Beyond
Fall 2013
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ENGL B238
Cross-listed as RUSS B238
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B241
New Visual Worlds in the Spanish Empire 1492 - 1820
Not offered 2013-14
The events of 1492 changed the world. Visual works made at the time of the Conquest of the Caribbean, Mexico and South America by Spain and Portugal reveal multiple and often conflicting political, racial and ethnic agendas.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures
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HART
B242
Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010
Spring 2014
Revolutions in Latin America begin around 1810. By the 20th and 21st centuries, there is an international viewership for the works of Latin American artists, and in the 21st century the production of Latina and Latino artists living in the United States becomes particularly important.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures
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HART
B250
Nineteenth-Century Art in France
Not offered 2013-14
Close attention is selectively given to the work of Cézanne, Courbet, David, Degas, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Manet, and Monet. Extensive readings in art criticism are required.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
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HART
B253
Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Not offered 2013-14
The course frames the topic of architecture before the impact of 20th century Modernism, with a special focus on the two prior centuries - especially the 19th - in ways that treat them on their own terms rather than as precursors of more modern technologies and forms of expression. The course will integrate urbanistic and vernacular perspectives alongside more familiar landmark exemplars. Key goals and components of the course will include attaining a facility within pertinent bibliographical and digital landscapes, formal analysis and research skills exercised in writing projects, class field-trips, and a nuanced mastery of the narratives embodied in the architecture of these centuries.
Division III: Humanities
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B253
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B254
History of Modern Architecture
Not offered 2013-14
A survey of the development of modern architecture since the 18th century. The course focuses on international networks in the transmission of architectural ideas since 1890.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B254
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HART
B255
Survey of American Architecture
Fall 2013
An examination of landmarks, patterns, contexts, architectural decision-makers and motives of various players in the creation of the American built environment over the course of four centuries. The course will address the sequence of examples that comprise the master narrative of the traditional survey course, while also casting a questioning eye, probing the relation of this canon to the wider realms of building in the United States.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as CITY B255
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HART
B266
Contemporary Art
Not offered 2013-14
America, Europe and beyond, from the 1950s to the present, in visual media and visual theory.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
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HART
B268
Greek and Roman Architecture
Not offered 2013-14
A survey of Greek and Roman architecture taking into account building materials, construction techniques, various forms of architecture in their urban and religious settings from an historical and social perspective.
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ARCH B268
Cross-listed as CITY B268
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HART
B272
Since 1960: Contemporary Art and Theory
Fall 2013
Lectures and readings will examine major movements in contemporary art, including Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance, Postmodernism, and Installation Art. We will examine the dialogue between visual works and critical texts by Roland Barthes, Claire Bishop, Frederic Jameson, Adrian Piper, and Kobena Mercer, among others.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
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HART
B280
Video Practices: Analog to Digital
Not offered 2013-14
This course explores the history and theory of video art from the late 1960's to the present. The units include: aesthetics; activisim; access; performance; and institutional critique. We will reflect on early video's "utopian moment" and its manifestation in the current new media revolution. Feminist, people of color and queer productions will constitute the majority of our corpus. Prerequisite: ENGL/HART B205 Intro to Film or consent of the instructor.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B280
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B282
Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa
Not offered 2013-14
This course examines the significant artistic and architectural traditions of African cultures south of the Sahara in their religious, philosophical, political, and social aspects.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Counts toward Africana Studies
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HART
B299
History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to the present
Spring 2014
This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 through contemporary cinema. We will analyze a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including Classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Readings will provide historical context, and will introduce students to key concepts in film studies such as realism, formalism, spectatorship, the auteur theory, and genre studies. Fulfills the history requirement or the introductory course requirement for the Film Studies minor.
Division III: Humanities
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Inquiry into the Past (IP)
Cross-listed as ENGL B299
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B300
The Curator in the Museum
Not offered 2013-14
This course provides an introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of museums and to the links between practice and theory that are the defining characteristic of the museum curator's work today. The challenges and opportunities confronting curators and their colleagues, peers, audiences, and constituents will be addressed through readings, discussions, guest presentations, writings, and individual and group projects.
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B301
Making an Exhibition: Perspectives on Museums
Fall 2013
This course connects the theory and practice of museum exhibitions and other activities - and addresses the conceptual and organizational development of museums during the twentieth century and today - through the development, implementation, and assessment of an exhibition and related programs. Students will study the history and practice of museum exhibition-making while organizing a major public exhibition. They will work individually and as members of groups with student colleagues (including those enrolled in a prior complementary 360º course), with Bryn Mawr College faculty and staff, and with guests selected for their expertise in and knowledge of a range of museum activities and perspectives. The theory and practice of museum exhibition influences and relies upon methodological, anthropological, art historical, philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, and organizational perspectives on the prominent place museums occupy in this culture. The course will consist of a series of encounters between the practice of, and reflection on, making an exhibition. Recommended Preparation: Relevant coursework in history of art, fine arts, archaeology, anthropology, history, or other fields in which museums play a prominent role.
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B305
Classical Bodies
Not offered 2013-14
An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the formulation of the "classical ideal" in antiquity and later times.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ARCH B303
Cross-listed as COML B313
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B306
Film Theory
Not offered 2013-14
An introduction to major developments in film theory and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic "author"; the politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film studies; the relation between film studies and other disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. Class will be divided between discussion of critical texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic text.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B306
Cross-listed as COML B306
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B311
Topics in Medieval Art
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as HIST B311
Cross-listed as CITY B312
Counts toward Middle East Studies
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HART
B323
Topics in Renaissance Art
Section 001 (Spring 2014): The Fresco
Spring 2014
Selected subjects in Italian art from painting, sculpture, and architecture between the years 1400 and 1600.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as CITY B323
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HART
B324
Roman Architecture
Not offered 2013-14
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as CSTS B324
Cross-listed as ARCH B324
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HART
B330
Architecture and Identity in Italy: Renaissance to the Present
Fall 2013
How is architecture used to shape our understanding of past and current identities? This course looks at the ways in which architecture has been understood to represent, and used to shape regional, national, ethnic, and gender identities in Italy from the Renaissance to the present. The class focuses on Italy's classical traditions, and looks at the ways in which architects and theorists have accepted or rejected the peninsula's classical roots. Subjects studied include Baroque Architecture, the Risorgimento, Futurism, Fascism, and colonialism. Course readings include Vitruvius, Leon Battista Alberti, Giorgio Vasari, Jacob Burckhardt, and Alois Riegl, among others.
Cross-listed as ITAL B330
Cross-listed as CITY B330
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HART
B334
Topics in Film Studies
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Global Queer Cinema
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Middle East on Film
Fall 2013
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This course examines contemporary cinematic images produced in Middle Eastern and Arab countries and in their Diasporas. In his groundbreaking text Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western representations of the "East" are constructed through an inverted mirror reflection of the West. Grounded in postcolonial theory and film studies, students will explore the role of cultural formation through moving image production and circulation.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B334
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B336
Topics in Film
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Found Footage Film
Not offered 2013-14
This course examines experimental film and video from the 1930's to present. It will concentrate on the use of found footage: the reworking of existing imagery in order to generate new aesthetic frameworks and cultural meanings. Key issues to be explored include copyright, piracy, archive, activism, affect, aesthetics, interactivity and fandom.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B336
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B340
Topics in Baroque Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Costume&Consumer Culture in Spain & Latin America
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as COML B340
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B348
Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as GERM B321
Cross-listed as COML B321
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B350
Topics in Modern Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Feminist Art and Theory, 1970 to the Present
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Modern Art in Exhibition
Fall 2013
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This course will study the history of modern art from the Armory Show of 1913 to the present through the example of a collection of paintings, drawings, and prints that will become the object of an exhibition to be mounted by the students in Canaday Library. Professor Steven Levine will lecture on the art historical context of the artists' work and Curator Brian Wallace will guide the students through all the practical phases of putting on the show.
Division III: Humanities
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HART
B354
Gender and Contemporary Art
Spring 2014
We will examine artists from 1960 to the present whose work thematizes gender, including Robert Morris, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Mike Kelley.
Division III: Humanities
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B355
Topics in the History of London
Not offered 2013-14
Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural concern in the history of London, emphasizing London since the 18th century.
Division I or Division III
Cross-listed as HIST B355
Cross-listed as CITY B355
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HART
B362
The African Art Collection
Not offered 2013-14
This seminar will introduce students to the African art holdings that are part of the Art and Archaeology Collections.
Division III: Humanities
Counts toward Africana Studies
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HART
B367
Asian American Film, Video and New Media
Not offered 2013-14
The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film, video, and the internet, taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage analytically with all class material. To maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as ENGL B367
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
Counts toward Film Studies
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HART
B372
Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present
Fall 2013
How have feminist artists and theorists challenged the conventions of art history? This course begins with the feminist art world activism that arose in the 1970s in the context of the women's liberation movement and continues through current issues in global feminism. In the 1970s, feminist activist artists sought to establish new forms of art education, venues for exhibition, theoretical writing, and creative working methods to provide alternatives to traditional art institutions and art criticism. We will examine how current artists, building on this recent history, continue to develop feminist aesthetics and politics in a variety of contemporary practices, including installation art, multi-media art, and performance.
Division III: Humanities
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
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HART
B373
Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond
Fall 2013
How does the collection and display of artwork create meanings beyond the individual art object? In recent decades, enormous shifts have occurred in exhibition design as artwork projected from the walls of the museum, moved outdoors to the space of the street, and eventually went online. We will study an array of contemporary exhibition practices and sites in their social and historical contexts, including the temporary exhibition, "the white cube," the "black box," museum installations, international biennials, and websites. During the seminar, we will examine how issues such as patronage, avant-gardism, globalization, and identity politics have progressively brought museums and other exhibition spaces into question.
Division III: Humanities
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HART
B377
Topics in Modern Architecture
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Global Architecture of Oil
Spring 2014
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This course examines the current multitude of projects for livable and sustainable cities and the paths proposed to achieve them. Following on a discussion of theories and methodologies, we will engage concepts as diverse as Livable Cities, Green Cities, Eco Cities or Transition towns, then continue to study concrete examples from around the world in their global and local context.
Division III: Humanities
Cross-listed as CITY B377
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HART
B380
Topics in Contemporary Art
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Visual Culture & the Holocaust
Spring 2014
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Poems, novels, films, photographs, paintings, performances, monuments, memorials, even comics have engaged us with the traumatic history of the Holocaust. Our task will be to examine such cultural objects, aided by the extensive body of the critical, historical, theoretical, and ethical writings through which such work has been variously critiqued and commended.
Division III: Humanities
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B397
Junior Seminar
Not offered 2013-14
Designed to introduce majors to the canonical texts in the field of art history and to formalize their understanding of art history as a discipline. Required of and limited to History of Art majors.
Division III: Humanities
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B398
Senior Conference I
A critical review of the discipline of art history in preparation for the senior paper. Required of all senior majors.
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B399
Senior Conference II
A seminar for the discussion of senior research papers and such theoretical and historical concerns as may be appropriate to them. Interim oral reports. Required of all majors; culminates in the senior paper.
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B403
Supervised Work
Advanced students may do independent research under the supervision of a faculty member whose special competence coincides with the area of the proposed research. Consent of the supervising faculty member and of the major adviser is required.
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HART
B403
Supervised Work
Advanced students may do independent research under the supervision of a faculty member whose special competence coincides with the area of the proposed research. Consent of the supervising faculty member and of the major adviser is required.
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HART
B425
Praxis III
Students are encouraged to develop internship projects in the college's collections and other art institutions in the region.
Counts toward Praxis Program
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HART
B610
Topics in Medieval Art
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
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HART
B630
Topics in Renaissance Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Mannerism
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Vasari
Fall 2013
This is a topics course. Course content varies. Selected topics in 16th-century Italian art and its subsequent historiography
Current topic description: Selected topics in the history of sixteenth-century Italian Mannerism and the subsequent historiography of Mannerism.
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HART
B640
Topics in Baroque Art: Spanish Painting and Sculpture
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Costume and Consumer Culture
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
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HART
B645
Problems in Representation
Not offered 2013-14
This seminar examines, as philosophy and history, the idea of realism, as seen in the visual arts since the Renaissance and beyond to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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HART
B650
Topics in Modern Art
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Topics vary. Admission by permission of the instructor.
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HART
B671
Topics in German Art
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Allegory
Not offered 2013-14
This is a topics course. Topics vary.
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HART
B672
Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present
Fall 2013
How have feminist artists and theorists challenged the conventions of art history? This course begins with the feminist art world activism that arose in the 1970s in the context of the women's liberation movement and continues through current issues in global feminism. In the 1970s, feminist activist artists sought to establish new forms of art education, venues for exhibition, theoretical writing, and creative working methods to provide alternatives to traditional art institutions and art criticism. We will examine how current artists, building on this recent history, continue to develop feminist aesthetics and politics in a variety of contemporary practices, including installation art, multi-media art, and performance.
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HART
B673
Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond
Fall 2013
How does the collection and display of artwork create meanings beyond the individual art object? In recent decades, enormous shifts have occurred in exhibition design as artwork projected from the walls of the museum, moved outdoors to the space of the street, and eventually went online. We will study an array of contemporary exhibition practices and sites in their social and historical contexts, including the temporary exhibition, "the white cube," the "black box," museum installations, international biennials, and websites. During the seminar, we will examine how issues such as patronage, avant-gardism, globalization, and identity politics have progressively brought museums and other exhibition spaces into question.
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HART
B678
Portraiture
Spring 2014
This seminar on self-portraiture examines the representation of the individual from the Renaissance to the present in painting, photography, and film. Artists range from Artemisia Gentileschi and Poussin to Cézanne and Cindy Sherman.
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HART
B680
Topics in Contemporary Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Contemporary Art in Exhibition: Museums and Beyond
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Photography and its Afterlife
Fall 2013
This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This seminar will engage the history and theory of photography, as well as its "afterlife" in contemporary art and other forms of visual culture.
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HART
B701
Supervised Work
Section 009 (Fall 2013): Dis & Rebld in Japan
Section 009 (Fall 2012): Global Architecture of Oil
Fall 2013, Spring 2014
Supervised Work
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