| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (001) |
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Fri
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1002
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (002) |
Mikolaj Czerwiński |
Mon
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1003
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (003) |
Mikolaj Czerwiński |
Fri
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1004
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (004) |
Artie Foster |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1005
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (005) |
Joana Konova |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1006
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (006) |
Arianna Ray |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1043
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (007) |
Rhoda Rosen |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1019
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Introduction to Art: Ways of Seeing |
1001 (008) |
Hannah Gadbois |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections. Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1039
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Adv Hist World Art:Prehst-1850 |
1001 (009) |
David Raskin |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This is an advanced section of the survey of world art and culture, prehistory to 1850. It is intended for BAAH students, Scholars Program students, and students interested in the history of writing about art (and teaching the survey). We will begin at 500,000 BC, and cover approximately 50 cultures; the list is at ow.ly/Y902K. In each case we will also question the ways historians describe the culture; we will study the ways art history textbooks promote certain senses of art and national identity; and we will consider how other institutions have tried to teach the global survey. The class is difficult, and requires a lot of memorization. Concurrent Registration in one ARTHI 1101: Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 is required.
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Class Number
1040
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Issues in Modern and Contemporary Art |
1002 (001) |
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Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course builds on the lessons of ARTHI 1001 by discussing specific issues in modern and contemporary art and design. It focuses on examining objects and concepts, addressing theoretical and critical issues. It also explores the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes reflected in the works of artists and designers, highlighting their relevance to contemporary practices. Museum visits and group exercises supervised by the instructor and the teaching assistants will contribute to the important hands-on experience of works of art.
Note: ARTHI 1001 is the recommended prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1007
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Issues in Modern and Contemporary Art |
1002 (002) |
Weronika Malek-Lubawski |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course builds on the lessons of ARTHI 1001 by discussing specific issues in modern and contemporary art and design. It focuses on examining objects and concepts, addressing theoretical and critical issues. It also explores the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes reflected in the works of artists and designers, highlighting their relevance to contemporary practices. Museum visits and group exercises supervised by the instructor and the teaching assistants will contribute to the important hands-on experience of works of art.
Note: ARTHI 1001 is the recommended prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1008
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Issues in Modern and Contemporary Art |
1002 (003) |
Josh L. Gomez |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course builds on the lessons of ARTHI 1001 by discussing specific issues in modern and contemporary art and design. It focuses on examining objects and concepts, addressing theoretical and critical issues. It also explores the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes reflected in the works of artists and designers, highlighting their relevance to contemporary practices. Museum visits and group exercises supervised by the instructor and the teaching assistants will contribute to the important hands-on experience of works of art.
Note: ARTHI 1001 is the recommended prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1009
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 302
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| Survey of Design History: Between Object and Ephemera |
1015 (001) |
Lara Allison |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This lecture course grounds students in basic critical themes in the history of design and design objects. Through lectures, demonstrations, and readings students study the material and discursive conditions of the history of design.
Through lecture, readings, discussions, and museum visits, the class highlights a broad range of objects and formats in graphic design, object design, fashion design, and architectural design.
Course works includes object analysis assignments, short research paper, and mid-term and final exams.
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Class Number
1022
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1608
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (01S) |
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Tues
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1017
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 818
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (02S) |
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Thurs
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1018
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 617
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (03S) |
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Fri
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1041
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 919
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| Discussion Section for Advanced Survey of World Art Prehistory to 1850 |
1101 (04S) |
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Wed
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Students will review the materials from the previous week's lecture, both the class's main thematic and conceptual points, and also the names, practices, and places that may be required for quizzes. The TA will also lead workshops in which students exchange ideas about their notebooks, maps, papers, curated projects, or installations. Concurrent Registration with 1353: ARTHI 1001 005: Advanced Survey of World Art From Prehistory to 1850 section required.
Prerequisites
Concurrent enrollment in ARTHI 1001 Scholars Section required.
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Class Number
1042
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Credits
0
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 501
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| Issues in Visual Critical Studies |
2001 (001) |
Kristi Ann McGuire |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course plunges students into content and ideas that universities often leave until graduate school, as we consider the role played by the 'critical' in 'visual and critical studies.' For the past ten years, it has been referred to as 'a primer for the art world.' It will still, mostly, provide you with a working vocabulary and crash course as to bodies of knowledge integral to the study of visual culture. At the same time, to productively engage in a reflective critique of society and culture, it will consider 'texts' from as diverse and contemporaneous a group of scholars, theorists, critics, and cultural producers as possible, from both inside and outside the academic institution.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2182
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Lakeview - 1428
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| 20th Century Art Under Dictatorship |
2012 (001) |
Weronika Malek-Lubawski |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This class offers one survey of how artists have responded and adapted to moments of severe political, economic, and social uncertainty. Some, like Albert Speer in Nazi Germany and Antonio Ferro of the Estado Novo in Portugal proudly shaped the images of dictatorial regimes. Others, like Pablo Picasso, created works that spoke to the horrors committed under Francisco Franco of Spain; others, like Malangatana Ngwenya, made drawings while imprisoned and awaiting trial. We will look at a spectrum of artists whose responses to their circumstances vary widely. Together, we ask: how does one cultivate and protect free expression? How do we historicize art made during moments of crisis, censorship, and severe oppression? Each week, we will concentrate on a particular time and regime within the twentieth century across five continents. We will begin in Ancient Rome to explore the concept of the dictator perpetuo, and will explore one regime per week in the following countries: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Soviet Union, Germany, Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, China, and Sudan. Texts will primarily consist of primary sources, artist interviews, documentaries and art-historical articles and book chapters. Secondary texts include Mary Beard's 'Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern' (2021); Claudia Calirman's 'Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles' (2012), and Douglas Gabriel's 'Over the Mountain: Realism Toward Unification in Cold War Korea, 1980-1994' (2019, diss.). Assignments include one 5-page exhibition proposal and one final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1047
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| Introduction to African Diaspora Art History |
2015 (001) |
Eddie Chambers |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This class will begin with considerations of African Diaspora identity formations and how such formations and histories relate to the broad subject of the class - African Diaspora art history. We will consider the work of a number of leading artists of the African Diaspora, located throughout the world in geographic regions such as the Americas, Europe and artists emerging out of the continent of Africa itself. With African Diaspora art history being such a relatively recent addition to the canon of art history, pretty much all of the artists we look at in this class will be reflective of the modern and contemporary art history periods. The class will use a variety of texts, most frequently catalogue essays relating to artists of the African Diaspora, many of whom are now established figures in exhibitions and biennales. Artists such as Keith Piper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien and others whose work can be seen as emerging from a confluence of factors including migration, diaspora, history and identity. Our readings will also include texts by art historians and curators who have worked with, or written about, such artists. The texts will demonstrate the extent to which African Diaspora identity formations are often central to nuanced readings of these artists' practices. Students are required to submit one short 'reaction' paper each week, plus a 4-6 page research paper at the end of the semester. The main emphasis of the seminar will be on active class participation and discussion of the artists and their work.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2118
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| 20,000 Years of Clay |
2022 (001) |
Emily Schroeder Willis |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course covers the history of clay and ceramics from the earliest known ceramic objects dating back more than 20,000 years up to the present. This history course will take us through each continent and look at its use of ceramics in different cultures at different times throughout history. It will help us understand how clay/ceramics have been connected to other elements of art history and have influenced and been influenced by other mediums. We will map how different pottery traditions traversed the globe to guide us on our journey in discovering the rich history of this material. Focus will be given to the role clay and ceramic plays in our human development as ritualistic, artistic, functional, and mass-produced objects. Additionally, we will look at the use of clay and ceramic objects in contemporary art, design, and craft. Each week will be structured with readings helping understand the historical context coupled with a reading that shows its contemporary influence.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2138
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 112
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| The Artist as Stylist?: Fashion Signifiers in Art |
2143 (001) |
Caroline Marie Bellios |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
If you could only be seen in one outfit for the rest of your life ? what would it be? How would you represent who you are through your choice of silhouette, color, pattern, and texture? In this course we will take a look at art?s ability to freeze moments, and garments, in time. What did the sitter (or the artist) chose to clothe the body? How did fashion and its power of communication function within the time the art work was made? What choices did the artist make to idealize or change their representation of the garments?
In statues from Ancient Greece fabrics flow around bodies like liquids, 18th century subjects were often painted in swathes of fabric meant to suggest ancient ideals through similar (impossible) textiles, and today Kara Walker uses those same floating fabrics on bodies to critique less than ideal idealists. To 19th century Impressionists the urgency of Modernity could only be represented by using contemporary garments, today Kehinde Wiley dresses a man on a horse in a hoodie. What clues tell us a figure is a warrior or a captive in work of the Nazca from ancient Peru? How can we read hairstyles in Ukiyo-e paintings from 17th century Japan? What do Jeffery Gibson and Nick Cave want us to see when they create coverings for bodies? And what was Amy Sherald trying to tell us about Michelle Obama?
We will utilize the collections of the Art Institute, The Field Museum, and others around the city to look closely, sketch, and research. Students will read, lead discussions, write daily reflections, explore through making, and develop skills in critical looking leading to two short research papers examining works of their choice.
In statues from Ancient Greece fabrics flow around bodies like liquids, 18th century subjects were often painted in swathes of fabric meant to suggest ancient ideals through similar (impossible) textiles, and today Kara Walker uses those same floating fabrics on bodies to critique less than ideal idealists. To 19th century Impressionists the urgency of Modernity could only be represented by using contemporary garments, today Kehinde Wiley dresses a man on a horse in a hoodie. What clues tell us a figure is a king in Incan pottery? How can we read hairstyles in Ukiyo-e paintings from Japan? What do Jeffery Gibson and Nick Cave want us to see when they create coverings for bodies? And what was Amy Sherald trying to tell us about Michelle Obama?
We will visit the collections of the Art Institute, The Field Museum, and other collections around the city to look closely, sketch, and research. Students will read, lead discussions, write daily reflections, and develop skills in critical looking leading to two short research papers examining works of their choice.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1099
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Costume Design, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Museum Studies
Location
MacLean 111
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| History Of Architecture & Design I |
2191 (001) |
John P Smagner |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course surveys the history of architecture and design, including furnishings, decorative arts and interiors, from the earliest settlements of the Neolithic Era until the onset of Neoclassicism in the late Eighteenth Century. Special attention is given to the developments that have remained most influential within the architecture and design of today, with particular emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christian, Byzantine and early Islam, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo cultures.
Through extensive lectures and readings, special focus in this class is devoted to the art of the Greek temple, Roman civil engineering, the rise of monasticism in the early Middle Ages, early Byzantine and early Islamic religious design, pilgrimage and Romanesque church building, Gothic Europe and the age of cathedrals, Italian Renaissance architecture and the rise of Humanism, Baroque churches and papal patronage, French chateaux and absolute monarchy, and the origins of Modernism during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
Students will complete a combination of in-class and take-home exams along with a final research paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1011
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 920
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| Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art |
2206 (001) |
Josh L. Gomez |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This is an undergraduate survey of modernism and postmodernism in Latin America from the 1920s through the present. Topics will include national identity and 'anthropophagy' in the first wave of modernism in the region, debates over Surrealism and realism in the 1930s, the transition from 'concrete to 'neo-concrete' form and the link between architecture and developmentalism in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, conceptual art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent sculptural, photographic, performance, and relational practices.
Specific topics include the cosmopolitan avant-garde that appeared in Mexico at the start of the 1920s, the theorization of anthropofagia in Brazil and indigenismo in Peru, Cuba?s Grupo Minorista, Mexican muralism and surrealism, Joaquin Torres-Garcia?s introduction of abstraction to Uruguay and Argentina, links between art and architecture in Venezuelan and Brazilian developmentalism, the rise of kinetic and participatory approaches in the 1950s and 1960s, conceptual art as a response to the dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, Latinx and Chicanx actions and performance in the United States, the politics of memory in post-dictatorship/violence art in Chile and Colombia, persistent questions of borders and internationalism in contemporary approaches to ?relational aesthetics? in Central America and the Caribbean, and many other examples.
This course requires weekly reading responses, two papers, and a final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1023
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 920
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| Beyond Oriental: 20th Century Asian American Art |
2385 (001) |
Larry Lee |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines the emergence, growth and evolution of art by Asian Pacific Islander Americans throughout the twentieth century especially in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement that also spawned a genesis of Asian American identity, culture and activism to the late 1980?s during the apex of multiculturalism and the politics of representation to the transnationalism of the new millennium and beyond.
Through readings, field trips, and film screenings, our class will consider the ongoing debate of what constitutes Asian American art by looking at artists including Isamu Noguchi, Roger Shimomura, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Maya Lin, Tseng Kwong Chi and others within these historical, cultural and political contexts to discuss how questions related to stereotype, cultural difference, gender politics, and identity construction affected and shaped its development and meaning.
Course work will include in-class presentation, two research papers as well as a mid-term and final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1095
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| History of Korean Art |
2460 (001) |
Yeonsoo Chee |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces Korean visual culture by examining images and objects in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. It covers key examples of paintings, ceramics and Buddhist art from the Three Kingdoms period to the Choson dynasty, through Modern Korean art, This course helps students gain a comprehensive understanding of traditional Korean visual culture and its modern legacy.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1029
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| The Arts of Edo Japan |
2462 (001) |
Mami Hatayama |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces Japanese Art between the 17th to the 19th century, also known as the Edo period (1603-1868), when a variety of art forms and styles emerged. We will examine a selection of major styles and artistic practices, and their social and historical backgrounds, providing an introduction to Japanese aesthetics, techniques, and artists. Students will be able to become familiar with many key works and also gain some understanding on changing currents during the 250 years period. Examples of the art forms we will examine include those from the official painting schools, such as the Kano school, to the vibrant popular culture ukiyo-e (floating world pictures). Influences from China and the West that were absorbed by artists in a variety of ways will be considered. To give foundation, the first few classes will provide a broad overview of pictorial art in Japan from ancient times to the 16th century and study major artistic traditions. Course work will vary but typically includes two writing assignments and a final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2114
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| Origins of Modern Architecture |
2500 (001) |
Timothy Wittman |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines significant developments in European architecture, with regard to structure, function, and style, from the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century through the outbreak of World War I. Major architects and their works are dealt with in the context of pertinent practical, theoretical, and social issues, to assess the overall prominence of architecture in the period of emergent modernism in Europe.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1012
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| History of Dress |
2566 (001) |
Sandra Adams |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is a chronological history of human dress from pre-history to the 20th century, and from archaeological remains of ancient cultures, through diverse global material technologies and markets influencing dress, through European monarchical and social class attire, to global exploration and colonialist effects upon worldwide human dress and ways of life. Portraiture, artistic dress and reform dress will be seen to evolve and transform long-standing gender binaries in human dress. Historic styles will be seen to continue to influence contemporary dress and fashions. The sartorial contributions of diverse historical and global human cultures also be appreciated for their innovations and ongoing influences. All students may become conversant with the anatomy, language and literature of dress.
Learning experiences include lectures, readings, library and museum visits, observational sketching and noting from documents of dress, film viewing and spoken illustrated presentations in class. Focus on primary, secondary and tertiary sources of clothing information will be essential. Historical accuracy, creative anachronisms and research of period clothing will be expressed in film viewing and Ryerson Library antique costume books. Visits to Art Institute curatorial departments to view period armor, textiles and garments will provide essential experiences of historic dress.
Assignments will include: self-introductory observations on a museum exhibition visit, a spoken presentation from a group of diverse Documents of Dress sketched and noted by each student on visits to about 6 libraries, museum installations and curatorial departments, and a final presentation/research paper of 10 pages on a Personification of Style, an individual whose attire and accomplishments made important cultural contribution in their time. Citations and bibliography are essential for credit. Knowing your sources is essential.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1013
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Costume Design
Location
MacLean 920
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| INTERIORITY ON SCREEN |
2588 (001) |
Daniel Ricardo Quiles |
Wed
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In Person
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Description
What possibilities does filmic language offer for representing the inner lives and interior states of characters/human-subjects on screen? This course focuses on cinematic works that depict the subjectivities and mental states of their characters in unconventional, intimate, and poetic manners. Point-of-view (POV), point-of-audition (POA), close-ups, voice-over, characterization, performance style and depiction of dreams are among the cinematic elements and concepts that will be critically explored and defamiliarized throughout the course. Screenings and close study of works by filmmakers such as Lynne Ramsay, Barbara Loden, Lucrecia Martel, Todd Haynes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, ildikó enyedi, Kathleen Collins, Márta Mészáros, Elem Klimov and Krzysztof Kie¿lowski will be accompanied by scholarly and personal essays and readings.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1049
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Theory
Location
Gene Siskel Film Center 203
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| 19th Century Photography |
2621 (001) |
Alice Maggie Hazard |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course discusses the development of photography as both an art and a tool, including its invention, the initial social reaction to the photograph, the careers of major photographers, movements, and commercial publishers. The interrelationships between photography, art, science, and society are emphasized.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1020
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 608
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| History Of Sonic Art |
2660 (001) |
Seth Kim-Cohen |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course offers an historical survey of music as a sonic art form from the Futurists to the present day. Emphasis is placed on works that tune the performance environment, explore sound as sculpture, interact with the listener/viewer, and employ intermedia. Class discussions include topics such as basic psycho-acoustics, sound manipulation, conceptual art, installation techniques, and constructivist aesthetics.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1034
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| Introduction to Video Art |
2670 (001) |
Bruce Jenkins |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of video art from its emergence in the late 1960s through our present moment. Students will examine key works and the major historical, cultural, and aesthetic influences on the form.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1021
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Digital Communication
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| Interwar Art: Notions of Beauty |
2865 (001) |
Mark Krisco |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Exploring the art, fashion, music of the 'Jazz Age'this class reveals the enduring impact 1920's aesthetics has had on contemporary fashion, art and social customs. Starting with an exploration of the differing mind sets of Europeans versus Americans, this class then takes an in-depth look of the artists and lifestyles 1920's Paris that had been greatly impacted by the influx of Americans after the First World War. The class ends with the lasting legacy of the Jazz Age, which was seen particularly in the 1960's, but currently has resurfaced in contemporary issues of gender identity.
More specifically, this class examines using film and texts the two key Jazz Age couples; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Gerald and Sara Murphy. The former couple establishing the persona of 'the flapper' and the latter couple establishing a major link between American in France and the Famous School of Paris artists particularly Picasso. Other key figures are examined such as the first major Chinese American actress Anna May Wong and the black performer Josephine Baker as well as fashion designer Coco Chanel and film star Clara Bow.
Course work revolves around two key texts as well as a reading the Great Gatsby. Reading questions accompany the 1st text and essay is required to explore the other text in relation to the Great Gatsby. There is also one final paper on one Jazz age artists of the student's choice.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1035
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| The Creative Lives of Archives |
3034 (001) |
Deanna Ledezma |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Archives are more than boxes of historical documents studied by historians. As this course demonstrates, archives are also sites of creative practices, interventions, and collaborations. Focusing on archival practices in contemporary art, this course examines how artists make work with preexisting archives and produce new collections of their own. We will investigate how artists have activated archival collections, countered exclusions in archives, critiqued colonial archives, and developed archives with and for marginalized communities. The course will provide an overview of key terms and major themes in critical archival studies, such as memory, ephemera, critical fabulation. Readings will include texts by the following scholars, curators, and archivists: Sarah Callahan, Tina Campt, Michelle Caswell, Maria Eugenia Cotera, Ann Cvetkovich, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya Hartman, Carolyn Steedman, and Diana Taylor. Along with these writings, we will learn about the art practices and archives of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists: William Camargo, Guadalupe Rosales, Wendy Red Star, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Diana Solís, Stephanie Syjuco, and Fred Wilson. In addition to the Flaxman Library Special Collections, we will visit archives held in Chicago institutions, such as the Newberry Library, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, and the Harold Washington Library Center. During these class trips, we will meet with archivists and librarians. Coursework will include written reflections on assigned readings and field trips, a creative project based on an archival collection, and a final research paper and presentation on a self-selected topic.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1100
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Community & Social Engagement, Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
MacLean 608
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| War: Art and Photography in the 20th Century |
3133 (001) |
Conor Lauesen |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course explores the history of 20th century warfare through the lens of art and history, most especially photography. An upper-level undergraduate course, lectures and discussion likewise aim to introduce students to both the uncanny strangeness and implicit violence embedded in the photographic medium. In this way, the material of the class reaches beyond only explicit representations of war, and instead also considers how the medium of photography is today part and parcel with our modern, contemporary experience of witnessing violence. Chronologically structured, the course considers the ever-shifting ethos of representation and war with pictures beginning in 1898 and the American imperial projects across the Philippines.
However, with the American Civil War looming in the immediate background of democratic identity and pictorial practice, the 1865 war photographs from Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan unofficially commence our investigations. We then speedily arrive at the wars in the Pacific (1898) and slowly traverse through the long 20th century: WWI, the inter war years, WWII (Hiroshima; the death camps and Lee Miller's Hitler), Korea to Vietnam, Iraq and the 'Desert Storm' wars, 9/11, and Abu Ghraib--these are some of the historical markers structuring the material of the course.
As we often traverse beyond the edges of mere binary and literal representations of war, the course will as importantly incorporate art photography from some of the most consummate American masters of the last century: Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Eugene Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Diane Lawson, Dawoud Bey, An My Le and others comprise this short list. The ways in which pictures are often obliquely and subtlety inscribed with a pathos of war are always fundamentally at stake.
Finally, the basement photography gallery at the Art Institute as well as rotating special exhibitions will offer the class firsthand opportunities to discuss photographic works of art in person. Moreover, their will be two film screenings across the term and students will be expected to attend the screenings and in turn contribute to related conversation.
Students will be asked to complete one short (2-3 pages) and one long (6-8) end of the term paper. Topics may vary but all students will be asked to discuss their final project with the professor; most pressing at stake is the writing process, one's own art historical temperament, and perhaps most fundamentally: how can we (students and artists) learn to put words to images, going beyond blithe captions and ironically glib, disinterested tropes.
Ideally there will also be a short final written exam (20% of the final grade): this will include two long essay questions; three short questions; and 15-20 works of photography to be identified.*I write this with hopes that a short exam, though challenging, will encourage students to truly engage with the material at hand--learning and memorizing and critically thinking that goes beyond rote knowledge.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1102
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
Lakeview - 203
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| The Italian Renaissance |
3150 (001) |
Joana Konova |
Mon
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course will survey a broad range of objects and settings, and attempt to familiarize students with relevant media and techniques, as well as important intellectual, social, and political developments that informed the production and reception of art in Italy from the 15th through the early 17th centuries. Students will gain exposure to original works through appropriate use of relevant collections. They will hone their skills in visual analysis and their ability to engage art and express positions and observations about art orally and in writing. The major assignments for the class will include a formal analysis paper, an object presentation, and an object response. Introductory context readings will be complemented by selected original readings (in translation) and exemplary art historical scholarship on the period. All readings will be available on Canvas.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1028
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 205
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| History of Manga |
3173 (001) |
Ryan Holmberg |
Mon
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
All Online
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Description
This course offers a survey of the history of manga (Japanese comics) from its premodern predecessors to the present. Beginning with narrative picture scrolls in the medieval period, it will touch on forms of humor and political cartooning in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before moving onto multi-page stories, serials, and standalone books within the serially paneled comics medium. Related developments in non-Japanese comics and media like film, animation, illustration, and painting will also be considered.
Among the major artists to be considered in this course are: Hokusai, Tagawa Suiho, Tezuka Osamu, Tatsumi Yoshihiro, Shirato Sanpei, Tsuge Yoshiharu, Hagio Moto, Otomo Katsuhiro, Takahashi Rumiko, and Tagame Gengoro.
Students will be required to complete weekly readings, including translated manga and historical/interpretive essays, in addition to occasional reading responses, a research paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1094
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Books and Publishing, Comics and Graphic Novels, Illustration
Location
Online
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| Abstract Art |
3302 (001) |
Conor Lauesen |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course investigates the international art movements of the 1920s and 1930s such as Constructivism, Purism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, Neoplasticism, and other movements that favored a nonobjective mode. After its initial development before World War I, how did nonobjective art develop, justify itself, change, and find new roles in the troubled period of the Roaring Twenties and the Fascist Thirties? These questions are explored in lectures and discussion.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1030
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 920
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| Survey of the 1970s |
3309 (001) |
Simon Anderson |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This class surveys the artistic themes, styles and producers of the period, across a variety of visual art media including painting, performance, sculpture, video and experimental media. The effects on aesthetics and activities of some social, scientific and philosophic ideas which informed the decade?such as feminism, ecology or pluralism?are also addressed.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2110
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 620
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| Modern and Contemporary Native American Art |
3382 (001) |
Risa Puleo |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, we will explore the ways in which the idea of persistence might be said to characterize modern and contemporary Native American and Indigenous arts practices--including performance, film, video, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, among others. The artists we will examine employ a range of tactics to engage social, cultural, economic, and political relationships as they occupy and articulate Indigenous worldviews and systems of knowledge that are often incommensurable with Settler structures and ideologies.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1026
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Economic Inequality & Class
Location
MacLean 707
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| History & Technique of The Old Masters' Drawings |
3554 (001) |
Mark Krisco |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This class surveys the development of draftsmanship as the key element of workshop practice. This class exploring in-depth all the major drawing materials and their formulation; all of which are still used today. This class then looks at which major artists chose each of these media as an example to illuminate how students should also search for the proper drawing materials to express their own individual visions. Aspects of drawing such as history of caricature and self portrayal are also analyzed.
Major artists are explored from post medieval age i.e. Jan Van Eyck to Renaissance masters such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael especially in regards to drawing materials, techniques and anatomy. Contemporary artists as diverse as David Hockney, and Jim Dine, William Kentridge are also examined through documentary films and discussed in relation to former art techniques. This class making the student aware of the ongoing impulse of mankind to draw and yet also makes the student highly aware how the discipline of drawing is key to a whole range of artists from fine artists, to architects to animators.
There are weekly reading fromm a book on Old Master Drawings mostly in regards to materials, techniques and anatomy. But equally are many trips to the Art Institute museum to establish through discussions the learning of connoisseurship. Two papers: a mid-term and a final are written about specific drawing of a specific artist of the student's choice; one of which must be a class presentation.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1014
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 620
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| Contemporary World Textiles |
3572 (001) |
Nancy Feldman |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course examines the production and design of textiles by artists in the 20th and 21st century with a focus on indigenous contemporary textile artists and their intersection with artists and the Western art world. Students consider craft practices and cultural politics as artists and communities negotiate challenges in urban spaces and community lands. Terms central to class discussions include colonialism, appropriation, authenticity, and traditional. Students engage in hands-on study of textiles as they consider the relational networks between traditional and non-traditional patterns, designs and iconographies and their ties to refinement of materials, traditions of practice, cosmologies, environment, and ceremony.
Case studies include textiles of Asia, North and South America, Central Asia as well as textile traditions of West and Central Africa. Readings include works by M. Anna Fariello, Glen Adamson, Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez, Teruo Sekimoto, Elissa Auther, Bently Spang, Wade Davis and more.
Coursework will vary but typically includes discussions, reading responses, in-class quizzes, short presentations and a research paper.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2124
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 707
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| Foreigners Everywhere: The Aesthetics of Migration |
3823 (001) |
Tamar Kharatishvili |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
In 2015, migration leapt into the headlines, becoming a topic of contemporary discussion like never before. From the plight of refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean into Western Europe to 'illegal immigration' as a campaign issue in the last U.S. elections, the world's attention is focused on people on the move, often in quite desperate situations. Yet migration has been with us for a long time-- some would say, for much of human history-- and it has not always been linked to crisis. Migrants have included intellectuals who have exported ideas from country to country, as well as today's nomadic artists who journey around the world to exhibit and develop their practices. Starting from the era of World War II, this course investigates connections between artistic practice and migration over time, integrating historical case studies with critical theory to evaluate how contemporary art might continue to engage this topic in the 21st century. We will consider and differentiate different types of subjects on the move, among them migrant, nomad, emigre, exile, refugee, tourist, expatriate, and guest worker, and consider the implicit hierarchies that can subject them to drastically different institutional responses. At the center of our discussions will be questions of the personal and the affective. How might we responsibly address migration as contemporary subject-matter, and how might our own migration stories be made relevant for others?
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
2131
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Activisms
Location
Lakeview - 1427
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| ARTHI: Junior Proseminar: Topics in Art History Methods |
3901 (001) |
Margaret MacNamidhe |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This writing-intensive seminar is intended for students enrolled in the BA in Art History program or the BFA in Studio with Art History Thesis. The course examines the role of methodology and the practice of writing in the history of art, with topics varying by instructor. It fulfills the Junior Professional Practice requirement for BA in Art History students. For BFA students completing an Art History Thesis, it satisfies part of the Professional Practice requirement; these students must also complete an additional Professional Practice (PROFPRAC) course in a studio discipline.
Must be a BA in Art History or BFA in Studio with Art History Thesis student
Prerequisites
Pre:Open to ARTHI students
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Class Number
1749
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 1427
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| Formation & Deformation of the Human Body |
3911 (001) |
James Elkins |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
If you take this course, you'll be able to answer this question: Which of the following actually exist? A. Mermaids D. Satyrs B. Centaurs E. Unicorns C. Cyclopes The course covers the history of proportions, sexual and ethnological prejudice in representation, and the history of beauty and monstrosity. Some lectures contain material that may offend sensitive viewers. Students may have their cranial capacities measured (this is optional). The drawing of Egyptian and Renaissance body types is included.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1045
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| Asian Identity in Film |
3982 (001) |
Tatsu Aoki |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course looks at America's perceptions of Asians through their portrayal in American mainstream media in contrast to those made in Asia by Asian filmmakers. By comparing films made by Asians and those produced by the American mainstream, we find major differences in their perspectives and approaches. In doing this, we investigate issues of representation and misrepresentation in mass culture stereotypes of Asians to show how they have been rooted in confusions surrounding cultural differences between Asians and Asian Americans. The course presents Hollywood films, mainstream Asian films, as well as independent works from both the Asian and Asian American communities.
Weekly readings and short journal. One Midterm and One final Paper
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement
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Class Number
1016
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
MacLean 1307
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| Nation and Narration : Modern and Contemporary Indian Art |
4017 (001) |
Arshiya Lokhandwala |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
All Online
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Description
This survey class of Modern and Contemporary Indian art from the 20th century to date examines the rich and complex art practices which emerged from pre-independent India to its transition as an independent nation in 1947. We will discuss the works of the most significant Indian artists and unpack the concepts of tradition/ modern, nationalism/internationalism and, globalization, to investigate the same through the writings of eminent postcolonial scholars such as Geeta Kapur, Homi Bhabha, Partha Mitter, Gayatri Spivak, and Saloni Mathur to name a few. The course gives a critical insight into India as a nation, the challenges it faces including the socio-political climate that is reflected in the artist's work and practices that make Indian art distinct.
The class examines Indian art from the early 20th century including the works of Raja Ravi Varma and Amrita Sher-Gil to the currently contemporary emerging avant-garde art practices today. This includes the work of the Progressive Artist Group; such as Maqbool Fida Husain, Syed Haider Raza, and Francis Newton Souza amongst others, to other prominent artists such as K. G. Subramanyan and Bhupen Khakhar. We will examine the first wave of the feminist artist's as Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh, and Madhvi Parikh, moving to the more contemporary art practices such as Subodh Gupta, Anita Dube, Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, Nikhil Chopra, Mithu Sen, and Shilpa Gupta to name a few.
The course work will include weekly readings a mid- term paper and a final paper. Class participation and discussion is encouraged.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1025
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies, Museum Studies
Location
Online
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| Entangled Bodies and Media Ecologies |
4042 (001) |
Lisa M Zaher |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
All Online
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Description
This course explores new possibilities for understanding the materiality and agency of media: its bodiliness, liveness, and performative interactions in/with space and time. Extending our investigation to the lived body, the course will embrace new corporealities, unconfined by normative limits of form, language, or social construct. We will investigate performative utterances and gestures through their technological recordings and playback to account for how various technologies convert/convey energy, power, breath, thought and action. Drawing upon texts in performance, dance, music, cinema and media studies, philosophy and science, with an emphasis on readings in phenomenology and new materialism, we will encounter big questions about our Being, in bodies, with others, in spaces and places, along with media ontologies and their shared entanglements with planetary forces and elements. Readings will include texts by Lucretius, N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Hansen, Gilbert Simondon, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, José Gil, Vivian Sobchack, Walter Benjamin, Béla Balázs, Giuliana Bruno, Ara Osterweil, Laura Marks, Delinda Collier, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Tim Ingold, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Michael Taussig, Luce Irigaray, Fred Moten, Gernot Böhme, Philip Auslander, and Erika Fischer-Lichte, among others. The course will include works by Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey, Loie Fuller, Maya Deren, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, OpenEndedGroup, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Halim El-Dabh, Onyx Ashanti, Patrick Clancy, Hollis Frampton, Anthony McCall, Chris Welsby, Ana Mendieta, David Rodowick, Leighton Pierce, Wu Tsang/boychild, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, William Kentridge, Ethan Osman, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Lynn Marie Kirby, Dawn Roe, Liz Deschenes, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Carolee Schneemann, Aria Dean, and many more! Course work will include weekly reading responses that may be experimental in nature, plus a final research paper including an abstract and annotated bibliography. Students will present their research to the class at the end of the semester.
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Class Number
1036
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Digital Imaging, Art and Science
Location
Online
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| Venice Exhibition Seminar |
4053 (001) |
Lou Mallozzi, Mechtild Widrich |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This seminar provides a framework for developing an exhibition at the Czok Foundation in Venice, Italy that will take place in the January interim period. The participating students will create all of the content and the curatorial approach from their own practices, from the artworks, curatorial approach, exhibition design, and accompanying texts and online materials. Practitioners will be able to show their own work in this centrally located gallery in Venice. Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from studio arts, design practices, art history, curatorial practices, arts administration, and other programs are invited and enrolled students are encouraged to commit to both the 15-week fall 2025 seminar and a 3-week study trip in Venice in winter interim 2025-26 to install and present the exhibition on site.
We will also read and discuss texts on the history and theory of curating; the history of Venice, in particular its relation to art making and exhibiting (Biennale) and an expanded critical exploration of its 'international' status vis-a-vis globalization, commerce, and colonialism; strategies for communal production; and the relationship between institutional settings and artistic practice.
Prerequisites
Must be a graduate student or receive instructor permission
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Class Number
1048
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Community & Social Engagement, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
MacLean 301
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| Venice Exhibition Seminar |
4053 (001) |
Lou Mallozzi, Mechtild Widrich |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This seminar provides a framework for developing an exhibition at the Czok Foundation in Venice, Italy that will take place in the January interim period. The participating students will create all of the content and the curatorial approach from their own practices, from the artworks, curatorial approach, exhibition design, and accompanying texts and online materials. Practitioners will be able to show their own work in this centrally located gallery in Venice. Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from studio arts, design practices, art history, curatorial practices, arts administration, and other programs are invited and enrolled students are encouraged to commit to both the 15-week fall 2025 seminar and a 3-week study trip in Venice in winter interim 2025-26 to install and present the exhibition on site.
We will also read and discuss texts on the history and theory of curating; the history of Venice, in particular its relation to art making and exhibiting (Biennale) and an expanded critical exploration of its 'international' status vis-a-vis globalization, commerce, and colonialism; strategies for communal production; and the relationship between institutional settings and artistic practice.
Prerequisites
Must be a graduate student or receive instructor permission
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Class Number
1048
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Community & Social Engagement, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
MacLean 301
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| How To Be A Neoliberal Artist In 14 Easy Lessons |
4126 (001) |
Seth Kim-Cohen |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Neoliberalism is the political-economic system under which we live. Yet few of us can describe its features. As artists, how do we contribute to, or resist, this system? We will look at examples of how artists negotiate the art market, institutions, and the politics of cultural production, focusing on projects that engage these issues explicitly. Students will develop research projects pertaining to both art history and global economic-political history over the past half-century.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1096
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Economic Inequality & Class
Location
Lakeview - 205
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| Post-Nature: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene |
4181 (001) |
Giovanni Aloi |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar considers past and present histories of 'visual culture' (a spectrum of representation including painting, photography, film, installation, performance, geological and geographical mapping, data processing, and journalism) which focus on the specific challenges posed by current political, ecological, and cultural crises. What new roles can art play in mapping and critically addressing the interconnectedness of the ever-so-fragile ecologies we inhabit? From the construction of posthuman identities through new and old media to the fragmentation of post-photography, the new reconfigurations of nature and culture, and the urgency posed by climate change and unprecedented diasporas, this seminar focuses on new conceptions of art as a political tool capable of outlining new trajectories in the absence of cultural certainties.
The course will focus on the key intersections of art and science from the 1700s through to today considering important philosophical traditions like Cartesianism and Kantian philosophy, thereafter moving on to explore issues of colonialism and decolonization of nature. The course focuses on the work of contemporary artists and scholars who have actively engaged in the definition of the anbthropocene and its new aesthetic models designed to reimagine our relationship with the non-human through new perspectives on gender, race, and interconnectedness. Coursework will involve weekly reading responses in the form of Canvas discussions that will be elaborated in class and a final major project. Readings include: Haraway, D. J. (1984) `Teddy bear patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, in Social Text, n. 11, Winter, pp.20-64
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1092
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement, Economic Inequality & Class, Art and Science
Location
MacLean 302
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| Socially Engaged Art Practice |
4223 (001) |
Rhoda Rosen |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is for students who are interested in or practice art that takes place outside of the studio, an art that bumps up against real life, an art that engages robustly with the world in order to build a socially just future. It is also for those students who are thinking about how to write about such art within the art historical field, and for those students who want to think carefully about how to curate socially engaged art (or social practice) in traditional as well as experimental contexts.
This course will contextualize contemporary social practice historically, by looking at writings that define this emerging art historical field (Claire Bishop, Nato Thompson, Pablo Helguera, for ecample) and will survey a range of socially engaged projects, like Women on the Waves, Silent University, and Campuses in Camps, for example. The course will include field trips and will afford students the opportunity to work collaboratively or alone on projects of their own design, combining both rigorous research and hands-on components.
In addition to weekly reading responses, students will work across the semester toward a final project. Over the course of the semester, students will have developed a written proposal for a project centered on social justice or a research paper that contributes to shaping the theoretical framework for socially engaged art or social practice.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2116
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies, Museum Studies
Location
MacLean 608
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| FVNM Sem:Queer Pictures |
4225 (001) |
John D Neff |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This seminar explores questions of cinema and television in relation to the larger issues concerning visual representations and definitions of sexuality and gender. Themes and approaches include theories of spectatorship, in particular, feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories of looking as related to sexuality and gender; stereotypes and social roles; and the interplay between unconscious processes and forms of representation.
The course consists of weekly discussions based on screenings of moving image work, as well as critical and theoretical texts that, from a variety of perspectives, address these issues. Some of the scholars and artists we will study include Jose Mu?oz, B. Ruby Rich, Leotine Sagan, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Shu Lea Cheang, Barbara Hammer, Frederic Moffet, Gregg Bordowitz, Cassils, David Getsy, Liz Rosenfeld, Marlon Riggs, Judith Butler, Vaginal Davis, Dee Rees, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, Cheryl Dunye, Richard Fung, George Kuchar
Course work will include in-class discussions, screening/reading responses, a midterm critical response essay, and a final research paper
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1015
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Theory
Location
MacLean 1307
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| Chicago Arch & Public Sculp |
4508 (002) |
Timothy Wittman |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
Between its incorporation in 1833 and the world's fair of 1933, Chicago was internationally the most important site for development of modern architecture. From the commercial buildings of Burnham and Root or Adler and Sullivan to the domestic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, Chicago was on the 'cutting edge.' This architectural 'century of progress' is explored through field trips and on-site lectures. Chicago and its suburbs are the class's 'museum.'
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1101
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
Lakeview - 202
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| Data, Aesthetics, and Technical Images |
4547 (001) |
Michael Golec |
Thurs
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
The historian of cultural technologies Mario Carpo characterizes technical drawing systems as instances of data compression, or the translation of three-dimensional objects and spaces into two-dimensional figures. This course addresses Carpo's proposal by examining modern techniques of data compression operative in forms of mechanical drawings, plans for infrastructure, diagrams for assembly, and visualizations of statistical data in forms of charts, graphs, and thematic maps (to name just a few examples). In addition to historical analysis of material techniques for the creation of technical images and data visualizations, the class will examine cultural meanings of an array of informational artifacts, including, but not limited to: early modern printed machine books; encyclopedias of the mechanical arts; engineering drawings from small-scale industrial products to large-scale infrastructural systems; patent drawings; pictographic statistical charts; data portraits; statistical schematics; time-lines; and urban cartography.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2112
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Digital Communication
Location
MacLean 707
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| Defining Contemporary Dress: History, Exhibition and Literature |
4560 (001) |
Gillion Carrara |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course is a chronological inquiry into fashion and dress and their relationship to a legacy of visual arts and literature. Content begins with the life and work of nineteenth-century dressmaker Charles Frederick Worth in Paris, and continues through to the modern radical designers of 1960s Paris.
Students should expect to learn about art, decorative arts, literature, and the lives, times and oeuvre of designers. Visits to various libraries are included in the syllabus.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2119
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Area of Study
Costume Design
Location
MacLean 920
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| The Philosophy of Modernism |
4703 (001) |
Christopher Cutrone |
Tues
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Several questions are paradigmatic for the study of 19th and 20th (and now 21st) century art, including: How might we understand and explain modern art?s increasingly radical practices? How does subjectivity become the critical object of diverse artistic practices? How does ?art? itself emerge as a specifically modern and critical category of aesthetics?
Readings range from late 18th to early 19th century philosophers Kant, Schiller and Hegel, through Nietzsche?s criticism of the values of social and aesthetic modernity (for which the opposition of Bizet?s Carmen to Wagner?s Parsifal reveals the crisis and bad faith), to 20th century critics of modern art and society Lukacs and Adorno, as attempts to grasp the emergence of modernism in art, the peculiarities of modern artistic practices and the critical possibilities of their subjectivity to the present. Poetry by Wordsworth and Paul Celan provide framing and contrasting (early 19th and late 20th Century) examples for considering the subjectivity for modern art.
Course assignments include in-class team presentations on the readings, a midterm paper and a final paper.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
1090
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 111
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| Senior Thesis I |
4899 (001) |
Daniel Ricardo Quiles |
Mon
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
Senior Thesis I is designed to guide senior BA in Art History (BAAH) students through the first half of their yearlong capstone project: a senior thesis. This course will equip students with the skills to develop an advanced art historical research project. Students will evaluate possible topics and methodologies via research questions. They will then draft, revise and submit a project proposal, outline, annotated bibliography, and research plan, and turn in 10 or more pages of the thesis as the final assignment. The course will also hone their abilities as interlocutors of the work of their fellow students, as students will regularly present to the rest of the class on their progress while participating in group reviews of their colleagues. There will also be individual mentoring sessions with the professor at junctures throughout the term that will orient students toward more individualized research and writing in the Spring term and second half of Senior Thesis.
Prerequisites: Art History Survey requirement; ARTHI 2900, 'Sophomore Seminar: Writing Art History'; student must be enrolled in the BAAH or BFAAH program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey requirement. Student must be enrolled in the BAAH or BFA w/ Art History Thesis program.
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Class Number
1091
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Credits
3
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Department
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Location
MacLean 501
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