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Fall 2003
Course Offerings Fall 2003
| Course # |
Course |
Professor |
Days |
Time |
| AH 100 |
Introduction to Art & Art History |
Taylor |
T/Th |
9:30am–10:45am |
| AH 110 |
Art History I |
Munman |
M/W/F |
12:00pm–12:50pm |
| AH 200 |
Theories & Methods in Art History |
Baird |
T/Th |
9:30am–10:45am |
| AH 204 |
Greek Art and Archaeology |
Tobin |
T/Th |
12:30pm–1:45pm |
| AH 230 |
History of Photography I: The Nineteenth
Century |
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M/W |
10:30am–11:45am |
| AH 232 |
History of Film I: 1890 to World War
II |
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T
Th
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5:00pm–6:15pm
5:00pm–7:50pm |
| AH 235 |
History of Design I: 1760–1925 |
Margolin |
M/W |
9:30am–10:45am |
| AH 242 |
Medieval Art & Architecture |
|
T/Th |
11:00am–12:15pm |
| AH 260 |
European Art from 1750 to 1913 |
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T/Th |
11:00am–12:15pm |
| AH 274 |
Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica |
Baird |
T/Th |
11:00am–12:15pm |
| AH 275 |
South Asian Visual Cultures |
Taylor |
T/Th |
12:30pm–1:45pm |
| AH 322 |
Contemporary Architecture |
Fausch |
T/Th |
9:30am–10:45am |
| AH 404 |
Topics in Architecture, Art, & Design: Central
and East European Art of the 20th Century  |
Koscialek |
Th |
5:00pm–8:00pm |
| AH 420 |
History of Architecture I |
Fausch |
T/Th |
12:30pm–1:45pm |
| AH 422 |
Topics in the Literature of Architecture |
Robinson |
T |
2:00pm–5:00pm |
| AH 460 |
Topics in Modern and Contemporary Art: Art & Design
in the Weimar Republic, Germany 1918–1933 |
Margolin |
M |
5:30pm–8:30pm |
| AH 460 |
Topics in Modern & Contemporary Art: The
Narrative Tradition Since 1750: Genre, History, and Literary Art
in Europe and the Americas |
Sokol |
M |
2:00pm–5:00pm |
| AH 470 |
Topics in Non-Western Art and Architecture: Arts
of the Maya |
Miller |
T/Th |
12:30pm–1:45pm |
| AH 510 |
Historiography of the Visual Arts, 1750–1960 |
Bruegmann |
W |
5:30pm–8:30pm |
| AH 560 |
Seminar in Modern Architecture, Art, & Design: Art & Design
in the Weimar Republic, Germany 1918–1933 |
Margolin |
M |
5:30pm–8:30pm |
| AH 560 |
Seminar in Modern Architecture, Art, & Design: Architecture,
Design & Technology: 20th & 21st Century Case Study |
Zukowsky |
T |
5:30pm–8:30pm |
| AH 562 |
Issues in the Arts of the Americas: Engendering
the Arts of the Indigenous Americas |
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AH 404 (also Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
460)
Special Topics in Twentieth Century Art
Central and Eastern European
Art
Malgorzata (Gosia) Koscielak Ph.D. 
Thursdays
5:00–8:00pm | 320 Stevenson Hall
This course will consider new Central and Eastern European Art and developments
since the end of 19th century and collapse of Austro-Hungarian Empire:
Vienna B Krakow B Warsaw B Prague B Budapest B Berlin B Moscow.
Specific focus on the cultural and historical differences of each Central
and Eastern European country: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary
and Russia.
Modernism in Central & Eastern Europe; national schools of Cubism, Futurism,
Surrealism, Constructivism, Suprematism and birth of abstract art (V. Kandynsky,
F. Kupka, H.Stazewski, L. Chwistek, J.Cybis, J.Czapski, T.Czyzewski, N.Gonczarova,
M. Jaremianka, A.Jawlensky, T.Kantor, E.L. Kirchner, M.Kisling, O. Kokoschka,
E.Lissitzky, M.Larionov, T.Makowski, C. Malewich, L.Moholy-Nagy, A.Nacht BSamborski,
T. Potworowski, Z. Pronaszko, J. Rosolowicz, C. Soutine, J. Stern, W. Strzeminski,
K. Kobro, S. Witkacy, A. Wroblewski).) Influences of Russian Revolution on
pre-WWII avant-garde movements in Central and Eastern Europe and post-war situation
in art.
Particular attention will be paid to gender representations, and the
interaction of gender with politics and with the cultural and historical
background of these countries.
Post-WWII situation in art and politics in Central and Eastern Europe:
- Socialist Realism versus independent art movements and actions
in 50's (Informel, Kapism, tradition of Constructivism in Poland, and
Czech heritage of Surrealism and Artificialism.)
- Role of film and photography schools of Prague (Czech Republic)
and Lodz (Poland) and development of new media art.
- Conceptual art B different backgrounds and reasons (Symposium
70, Wroclaw B Poland.),Fluxus in Prague (Milan Knizak).
- Happenings and performances as political statements (80=s in Poland:
Kwiek/Kulik, Movement Academy, Orange Alternative), Velvet Revolution
and its artists in Czech Republic, Hungarian Pop-art.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures. Discussions of primary and secondary source materials, video
documents.
METHOD OF EVALUATION
Students are required to participate in class discussion. Grade will
be based on class participation, project/presentation, and the final
paper. All students should plan to attend every class meeting prepared
to discuss the readings assigned for the class.
WRITING AND PROJECT/PRESENTATION
One project/presentation and one paper (5–10 pages) is required.
A project/presentation sheet with information on the paper and project/presentation
will be provided.
ATTENDANCE
Students are expected to attend all classes unless ill or there is
some equally cogent excuse. I will not allow more than one unexcused
absence. More than one unexcused absence might have an impact on the
final grade.
READING LIST
Xerox packet to be prepared by the instructor. Textbooks (Selected
essays).
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AH 420 History of Architecture I
Professor Deborah Fausch
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30–1:45
p.m. | 209 Jefferson Hall
Review of the architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture of
the Western (Atlantic/Mediterranean) world from its beginnings to the
late medieval period, comparing it to contemporary developments in other
parts of the world. Examination of the subject both historically and
thematically, considering building types, construction methods and materials,
social history and use, the role of architects, and the issue of evidence.
The first session of each week will be a lecture on the topic; the
second will consist of a student presentation and discussion of readings.
Attendance at discussion sessions is not optional, and the largest proportion
of the student’s
grade will depend upon attendance and participation in discussion.
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AH 460 Topics in Modern & Contemporary Art
The Narrative Tradition Since 1750: Genre, History, and Literary Art
in Europe and the Americas
Professor David Sokol
Mondays 2:00pm–5:00pm
This seminar is an exploration of the various forms of narrative art
since 1750 (about the time art history was born as a discipline), in
Europe and the Americas. The course will explore the ways in which narration
had a role and meaning in painting and graphic art, from as many points
of view as possible. Methodologies have changed, and we will examine
themes and subjects from various theoretical points of view. There is
no text for the course, but a packet of readings will provide both historical
background and case studies of analysis of works of art through several
methodologies and theoretical approaches. Weekly discussions will address
the readings and issues raised by the instructor.
The class will also incoprorate a visit to the Smart Museum of Art
for a walk-through and discussion with the curator of the exhibition, “The Painted Text:
Picturing Narrative in European Art.”
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AH 510 Historiography of the Visual Arts
Professor Robert Bruegmann
Wednesdays 5:30pm–8:30pm | 209 Jefferson Hall
This core graduate course will attempt to do three things: explore the
history of writing about art and art history, suggest ways of doing research
in the field and provide practical experience in organizing and writing
essays. We will cover writing on art, art history and art criticism from
Plato to Erwin Panofsky. Students will do a series of short written exercises
in widely scattered subject matter using various research methods and
a slightly longer paper on some aspect of the literature of art.
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AH 560 Seminar
in Modern Architecture, Art, & Design
Architecture Design and Technology: Case Studies from the Twentieth
and Twenty-first Centuries
John Zukowsky, Curator of Architecture The Art Institute of Chicago
Tuesdays:
5:30pm–8:30pm | 209 Jefferson Hall
Of all previous eras, ours is generally typified by a belief in progress
through science and technology, perhaps even more so than the optimism
generated by the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. Although
ours is a time that has its technological roots in the 1800s and, as
in the nineteenth-century, its various opponents of any new technology,
it is clear that enormous leaps of technological progress have been made
in the 1900s as well as in the first years of the new millennium, from
telecommunications and air and space transportation to the harnessing
of electricity and ongoing development of personal electronics. Architects,
engineers, and industrial designers have all actively participated in
this growth, for better or worse.
This course proposes to examine aspects of the architecture, engineering,
and industrial design of the 1900s through the present in relation to
major inventions of the twentieth century. For instance, we shall discuss
the automobile, airplane, spaceship, radio, telephone, television, and
the computer in relation to the new building types created to accommodate,
service, and even ennoble or memorialize those significant inventions,
and the use of those buildings and inventions within the contexts of
regionalism, nationalism, and internationalism. Building-types to be
discussed include works by architects, engineers, and designers on highways,
bridges, airports and aircraft factories, space launch facilities, theme
parks, radio and television stations, auto, aerospace, broadcasting and
even computer and military museums, up through the latest ideas for architect-designed
space habitations being planned for the International Space Station and
future Mars missions proposed by NASA. These buildings and related constructions
will also be examined within the context of major historic events, from
World's Fairs to World Wars, the Cold War and subsequent fall of the
Berlin Wall, and even the most recent terrorist actions of September
11, 2001 that resulted in the collapse of the World Trade Center. The
course will also incorporate discussion of historic moments and movements
that have catalyzed the development of various inventions as well as
their related architectural forms and building materials.
As part of the course, there will be a special emphasis on architecture
and design or transportation, which will include site visits to the Art
Institute's exhibition Aerospace Design which will focus on wind tunnels
and flight testing, along with visits to the offices of architects, industrial
designers, and structural engineers in Chicago. Thus, sessions will be
held at the University of Illinois with selected sessions being held
off campus. Requirements include active class participation, a short
written critique of two of the readings from the course's suggested readings
list, as well as a class presentation and final paper based on that slide
presentation.
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562 Engendering the Arts of the Indigenous Americas
Professor V. Miller
Thursday 5:30–8:30 | 209 Jefferson Hall
Gender
has only recently become the focus of scholarly attention in the study
of the native peoples of the Americas, past and present. In the last
twenty years in particular, many of the stereotypes regarding indigenous
sex roles have been shattered. Figures once thought to be robed priests
turn out to be Maya queens, the main deity worshiped 1500 years ago at
Teotihuacán in Mexico is now identified as female rather than
male, and traditional gender roles in art production—such as who weaves
or makes pots or does abstract designs—are understood to be more fluid
than once believed. This seminar will examine the representation and
symbolism of gender in the art and architecture of indigenous North,
Central and South America from approximately 2000 B.C. to the present.
Among the issues to be explored will be locating gender in the archaeological
record, duality in Pre-Columbian religion, colonial representations and
interpretations of gender, and the division of labor in the making and
use of art objects, now and in the past.
Students should expect to be active participants in class, to lead
class discussions once or twice during the semester, to write brief summaries
of the weekly readings, to prepare an annotated bibliography on their
research topic, to give one short oral presentation, and to hand in
a research paper at the end of the semester.
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