Non-Degree Students: In order to register for ART 590 thru ART 641 and ART 693 through ART 699, non-degree graduate students must receive permission from the Art Department. A signed course permission slip must be submitted with registration materials.Course permission slips may be downloaded.

ART 554 Medieval Art (4-0-4)
A survey of western art from the late Roman Empire (c. 300) through the late Middle Ages (c. 1400), including architecture, manuscript illumination, metalwork, sculpture, and textile production. The focus of the course is on the interactions of artworks and audiences in producing meaning within specific historical circumstances.

ART 556 Gothic Art (4-0-4)
The history of the art and crafts of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.

ART 563 The Early Renaissance in Italy (4-0-4)
The history of art and architecture in Italy from the rise of the city-state to the voyages of Christopher Columbus, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci.

ART 564 The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy (4-0-4)
The history of art and architecture in Italy during the time of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and their followers.

ART 565 The Renaissance in Northern Europe (4-0-4)
The history of the arts in the court of the dukes of Flanders and of the kings of France, from Pucelle to Bruegel.

ART 570 American Art (4-0-4)
The history of American art from colonial times through the 20th century. The class will consider issues of modernity, race, and gender as they were expressed in the artistic production of the period and also introduces different methods of interpretation in American art.

ART 571 Art in the 19th Century (4-0-4)
A survey of art and culture focusing on romanticism and landscape painting; the deterioration of the distinction between “high” and “low” art forms; the transformation of the modern metropolis; and women, the “Orient,” and the “primitive” within art and society.

ART 572 Art in the 20th Century (4-0-4)
A survey of art focusing on several nations and themes, including the concept of the avant-garde; the place of the gendered body; the development of abstraction; censorship from fascism to the present; the role of photography and mechanization; and postmodernism.

ART 573 On the Edge: Art Since 1968 (4-0-4)
International directions in visual culture since 1968, with emphasis on the development of new media such as performance, conceptualism, video, film, and installation. Exhibition and the increasing importance of race, class, gender, and sexual identity within global culture are discussed.

ART 574 American Architecture (4-0-4)
A historical analysis of the built environment from the 17th century to the present. Various styles and types of buildings are related to time and place, defining and identifying central characteristics, social function, cultural expression, technology, and changes in architectural practice.

ART 575 Cities and Planning (4-0-4)
Humankind’s communal environment since ancient times; social, symbolic, functional, and biotechnical domains as generators of architecture and urban planning; value systems in environmental change; policies, plans, and design proposals as the record of the humanized environment.

ART 576 Architectural History
Great Monuments of Western Architecture in the Urban Context (4-0-4). An inquiry into the forms and meaning of architecture, from antiquity to the present.

ART 583 Indian Art (4-0-4)
The history of Indian art, from the Neolithic period through the late medieval period.

ART 584 Buddhist Sculpture (4-0-4)
An in-depth study of Buddhist sculpture in India and its spread to Tibet, China, and Japan, with special emphasis on iconography and stylistic development.

ART 585 The Hindu Temple (4-0-4)
A historical study of the development of the Hindu temple beginning with simple flat-roofed structures and culminating with later multi-structured temple complexes. Architectural form and iconographical program are equally stressed, as are Indo-Aryan and Dravidian styles.

For detailed information, see the Graduate Catalog entry.