Art & Art History

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ARTH 102-01	Introduction History of Art Instructor: Elizabeth Lee Course Description: This course surveys art of the European renaissance through the contemporary period. Art will be examined within the historical context in which it was produced, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and intellectual movements. Students will examine the meaning and function of art within the different historical periods. In addition, students will learn to analyze and identify different artistic styles.	0930:MWF WEISS 235
ARTH 122-01	Fund of Composition & Drawing Instructor: Todd Arsenault Course Description: Working from observation and using a variety of media, this basic studio drawing course will explore issues common to both representational and non-representational art. This course serves as the foundation to upper-level two-dimensional offerings.	1330:MW WEISS 343
ARTH 122-02	Fund of Composition & Drawing Instructor: Ward Davenny Course Description: Working from observation and using a variety of media, this basic studio drawing course will explore issues common to both representational and non-representational art. This course serves as the foundation to upper-level two-dimensional offerings.	1530:TR WEISS 343
ARTH 123-01	Fund of Sculpt & 3-D Design Instructor: Anthony Cervino Course Description: A studio course covering basic elements of three-dimensional composition and sculpture. Students will construct sculptures examining a range of media and fabrication techniques.	0930:TR GDYRST 3-D
ARTH 160-01	Introduction to Metalwork Instructor: Anthony Cervino Course Description: This course introduces students to the basic tools and techniques required to make metal sculpture. Processes that will be covered include welding, forging (blacksmithing) of steel and the casting of bronze and aluminum. No prerequisites are required.	1330:MW GDYRST 3-D
ARTH 202-01	Art History & Ancient Art Instructor: Melinda Schlitt Course Description: This course will examine major monuments in the history of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture from the variety of interpretive perspectives with which they have been addressed in the scholarly literature. Students will study and analyze art-historical "readings" of these monuments and compare the strengths and weaknesses of the authors' arguments in terms of methodological approach and use of both textual and archaeological evidence. In addition, the authors' cultural assumptions, interpretive premises, and ideological goals (if any) will also be addressed in attempting to understand how these works of art have acquired meaning over time and what constitutes that meaning. Offered every other year.	1030:TR WEISS 221
ARTH 205-01	Modern Architecture Instructor: Lisa Dorrill Course Description: An intermediate-level study of selected topics in the history of art and architecture. Prerequisites: prerequisites as appropriate to topic.	0900:TR WEISS 221
ARTH 205-02	Gender,Sexuality in Modern Art Instructor: Elizabeth Lee Course Description: With the rise of industrialization and the growth of the nation's cities, social patterns in American life underwent dramatic change. Between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth, shifts in gender identity influenced ideas about bachelorhood, the nature of dating, the meaning of family and the definition of marriage. New notions of sexuality also transformed heterosexual and homosexual experiences. Art from the period reflects and helped shape these changes. The course considers how artists in America respond to marriage, sexual practice and gender roles through the production of painting, photography and sculpture.	1330:MR WEISS 221
ARTH 205-03	Ancient Greek Sculpture Instructor: Christofilis Maggidis Course Description: Cross-listed with ARCH 222-01. A thorough survey of ancient Greek sculpture from 1050 BC to 31 BC, with consideration of both mainland Greece and the Greek colonies (Asia Minor, Pontus, Syria, Phoenice, Egypt, S Italy and Sicily). Daedalic, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods; sculpture in the round and architectural sculpture, monumental and small-scale sculpture. Materials, techniques, and principles; subject matter and iconography, stylistic and technical developments; styles and regional trends; ancient Greek masters and their schools, legendary contests; consideration of ancient literary sources (including readings from Pausanias and Pliny the Elder) and Roman copies of Greek originals. Visits to archaeological collections and Museums; hands-on examination of selected important sculptures (prospective cast collection on-campus).	0900:TR DENNY 317
ARTH 205-04	Writing the Arts Instructor: Crispin Sartwell Course Description: People write about the arts in many venues, in many styles, with many different purposes and audiences, from art-historical scholarship, to criticism in periodicals, to blogs and Twitter feeds. In this course, we will read outstanding writing of various sorts on the visual arts, music, poetry, dance and other forms. Our own writing will emphasize current exhibitions at the Trout Gallery and elsewhere on campus. Through a workshop and revision process, students will learn to write more richly, more precisely, and more enjoyably about the arts.	1330:W WEISS 221
ARTH 205-05	Reading Bologna, and Italy Instructor: David Commins Course Description: An intermediate-level study of selected topics in the history of art and architecture. Prerequisites: prerequisites as appropriate to topic.	:
ARTH 207-01	Criticism/Theory in the Arts Instructor: Phillip Earenfight Course Description: An introduction to critical strategies in and theoretical approaches to the visual arts from Plato through Postmodernism. Particular emphasis is placed on close analysis and discussion of texts. The course addresses issues of historiography, critical theory, and contemporary art criticism. Prerequisite: 101 or 102 or permission of the instructor.	1500:MR WEISS 219
ARTH 221-01	Introduction to Photography Instructor: Andrew Bale Course Description: An entry-level course in black-and-white photography emphasizing theory, history, and practice. Students learn how to create images, use cameras, develop film and make prints using conventional darkroom processes. Students will also be introduced to Photoshop as well as the basics of scanning and digital printing.	1330:MW GDYRST 101 1330:MW WEISS 327
ARTH 223-01	Intro to Digital Photo/Imaging Instructor: Todd Arsenault Course Description: The course explores the fundamentals of digital image making and manipulation using Adobe Photoshop and related computer software. Prerequisite: 122, 221, or permission of the instructor.	1330:TR GDYRST 101
ARTH 226-01	Sculpture Ceramics Instructor: Barbara Diduk Course Description: A sculpture course further examining three-dimensional problems covered in the basic three-dimensional design course. The course will focus on clay as the primary (but not exclusive) fabrication material. Students will examine a range of firing, glazing, and construction techniques. Prerequisite: 123, 224 or permission of the instructor.	0930:MW GDYRST CERAMICS
ARTH 227-01	Fundamentals of Painting Instructor: Ward Davenny Course Description: A basic studio course exploring the techniques, practices and history of painting and theories of color. Working from observation, subject matter will range from still-life and landscape to architecture and the figure. Prerequisite: 122 or permission of the instructor.	1330:TR WEISS 342
ARTH 230-01	Life Drawing Instructor: Todd Arsenault Course Description: The course will be devoted to working from the human form during which the students will be expected to develop a sense of two-dimensional line and three-dimensional illusionistic form through the use of such graphic media as pen and ink, pencil, charcoal, Cont crayon, etc. Prerequisite: 122 or permission of the instructor.	1530:TR GDYRST UPST
ARTH 252-01	Philosophy of Art Instructor: Crispin Sartwell Course Description: Cross-listed with PHIL 252-01.	0930:MWF WEISS 221
ARTH 260-01	Post Studio Projects Instructor: Anthony Cervino Course Description: This special topics class will investigate art making outside the traditional studio or art classroom. Students will devise and execute multiple art projects through individual and collaborative research. Projects may include performances, site-specific interventions and installation-based art, among other non-media specific approaches to making art.	0930:MW WEISS 219
ARTH 301-01	Ital Renaissance Art 1450-1563 Instructor: Melinda Schlitt Course Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from 1450 through 1580. The works of Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramente, and Titian, among others, will be addressed. Issues of style, patronage, and function will be considered within the political and cultural contexts of the 15th and the 16th centuries. Critical and theoretical writings of the period will also be discussed. Prerequisite: 101 and 102 or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the DIV I.c. graduation requirement and WR graduation requirement.	1330:MR WEISS 219
ARTH 313-01	19th Century Art Instructor: Elizabeth Lee Course Description: This course surveys key artistic movements and styles in a period of roughly one hundred years, beginning with Realism in the 1840s France and ending with Abstract Express-ionism in 1950s America. Much of the course focuses on painting, though discussions of architecture, design, sculpture and photography also play an important role. We begin with the question of what modernism is: When did it begin? What makes a work of art "modern"? How is modernism different from what preceded it? Students learn to recognize, understand and discuss the defining features of modernism in its major manifestations, while also developing an understanding of themes such as the role of African art in modernism, the changing dynamics between the fine arts and popular culture, the role of technology as an influence on art, and the place of particular critics, galleries, and museums in shaping the discourses of modernism. Individual research projects give students the chance to explore a specific artist, style or theme in depth, while a field trip to National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. provide an opportunity to see significant works of modern art firsthand. Assigned reading incorporate both secondary sources as well as artist's manifestos and aesthetic philosophies as primary source text. Prerequisite: 101 and 102 or permission of the instructor.	1330:TF WEISS 221
ARTH 320-01	Advanced Photography & Imaging Instructor: Andrew Bale Course Description: An advanced course enabling students to explore advanced photo-based techniques, experimental problems, and aspects of contemporary and historical practice in photographic-based image making. Prerequisite: 221, or permission of the instructor.	0930:MW GDYRST 101 0930:MW WEISS 327
ARTH 326-01	Intaglio Printmaking Instructor: Ward Davenny Course Description: An in-depth exploration of etching, engraving, aquatint and other techniques of drawing on, and printing from metal plates. Photo-etching and working in color will also be covered. Prerequisite: 122 or permission of the instructor.	0930:TR WEISS 340
ARTH 330-01	Advanced Life Drawing Instructor: Todd Arsenault Course Description: Advanced problems and issues in drawing the human form. Prerequisite: 230 or permission of the instructor.	1530:TR GDYRST UPST
ARTH 360-02	Studio Projects Instructor: Barbara Diduk Course Description: Selected advanced studio techniques and concepts. The content of each course will be altered periodically. Prerequisites: two studio art courses at the 100- or 200-level, or permission of the instructor.	1330:W GDYRST DOWN
ARTH 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Crispin Sartwell Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-02	Independent Study Instructor: Andrew Bale Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-03	Independent Study Instructor: Crispin Sartwell Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-04	Independent Study Instructor: Andrew Bale Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-05	Independent Study Instructor: Todd Arsenault Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-06	Independent Study Instructor: Barbara Diduk Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-07	Independent Study Instructor: Phillip Earenfight Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-08	Independent Study Instructor: Anthony Cervino Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-09	Independent Study Instructor: Crispin Sartwell Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-10	Independent Study Instructor: Barbara Diduk Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-11	Independent Study Instructor: Ward Davenny Course Description:	:
ARTH 500-12	Independent Study Instructor: Ward Davenny Course Description:	: