C051. The Visual Experience (3 s.h.) F S. Core: AR.

An introduction to art from the position of the observer, the artist, the scholar, and the critic. Covers techniques of architecture, painting, drawing and sculpture with a short survey of art from its beginnings to present day; museum trips. Emphasis on an analysis of individual works.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

C052. Arts of Asia (3 s.h.) Core: AR. $.

Architecture, sculpture, painting and the functional arts of Asia (India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia). A historical examination of the art as a religious expression and as a product of changing social and economic conditions. The material culture of Asia will be examined with an emphasis on differing world views and perspectives with which to `see` art.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

C055/H095. Art Heritage Western World I (3 s.h.) F. Core: AR. $.

Architecture, sculpture, and painting of the ancient world to the Early Renaissance examined historically; the impact of social, economic and religious conditions; stylistic changes through the ages; contemporary trends in the perspective of historical parallels.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

C056/H096. Art Heritage Western World II (3 s.h.) S. Core: AR. $.

Architecture, sculpture, and painting from the Early Renaissance to the present examined historically; the impact of social, economic and religious conditions; stylistic changes through the ages; contemporary trends in the prospective of historical parallels.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

0189. American Abstract Painting and Sculpture from 1900-Present (4 s.h.) F.

An examination of the art and theory surrounding American Abstraction from early modernism to the present.

0103. Art of the Film (4 s.h.) SS.

An introduction to the study of film as a work of art, an analysis of the ways filmic style and structure express meaning on several levels. Specific directors or auteurs, actors, movements, styles and technical or message-laden filmic challenges are treated, as are the relationship of film to the novel, the drama, and to the larger context of modernist and post-modern art credos and movements. Various genres of feature film, such as anti-war, feminist, noir, comedy, action, etc., are considered.

0108. History of Photography (3 s.h.) S.

The photographic process from its inception to contemporary innovations. Critical approaches to evaluation and interpretation are also explored.

0111. Greek Art (4 s.h.) S. $.

A survey of the architecture, sculpture, vase painting, and the other arts of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Period.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

W111. Art of Greece (4 s.h.) S. Core: WI. $.

See description for Art History 0111.

0112/W112. Art of Rome (4 s.h.) S. Core: W112:WI. $.

Traces the history and development of art on the Italian peninsula, beginning with Etruscan art and its impact upon the emerging city of Rome. Also discusses the development of imperial Roman art, and that of Italy and the Roman provinces, to circa 300 CE.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0115. Late Antique/Byzantine Art (4 s.h.) S.

Traces the origins and development of Christian art in the Latin West from 300 to 800 CE, and Byzantine art, with an emphasis on the architecture and painting in Constantinople.

0116. The Dark Ages (4 s.h.) F.

Hiberno-Saxon, Merovingian, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Romanesque art. Manuscript illumination.

0117. Gothic Art (4 s.h.) S. $.

The evolution and characteristics of Gothic art, especially in France, Germany, and the Low Countries, with emphasis on architecture.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0120. Modern Art, 1945 to present (4 s.h.) SS.

See description for Art History 0144.

0123. Early Renaissance: Italy (4 s.h.) F. $.

Central Italian art from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci; and the Venetian school from Bellini through Titian, Veronese, Tintorello.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0124. High Renaissance: Italy (4 s.h.) S. $.

Painting and sculpture in Italy from Leonardo da Vinci to 1600. The High Renaissance style of Raphael, the art of Michelangelo, Mannerism, and the Counter-Reformation, through Caravaggio.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0129. Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (4 s.h.) S. $.

Humanism and the revival of antiquity in Florence and Rome form the background for a study of the theory and practice of Alberti, Michelangelo and Palladio. The subsequent evolution of Mannerist and Baroque style in Italy leads to an examination of 17th and 18th century architecture in France, England and Germany.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

W130. Baroque/Rococo Italy and Spain (4 s.h.) S. Core: WI. $.

See description for Art History 0130.

0130. 17th Century Art, Italy/Spain (4 s.h.) F. $.

Art in Italy and Spain in the age of Caravaggio, the Carracci invention of the Academy, the High Baroque of Cortona, Bernini, and Velasquez.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

0131. 17th Century Art: Holland and Spain (4 s.h.) S. $.

Art in Holland in the age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer, the High Baroque as an international style with Rubens and Van Dyck, with artistic relations between Italy, Flanders, France, England and Spain

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

W131. Baroque/Rococo Northern (4 s.h.) F. Core: WI. $.

See description for Art History 0131.

0135. Romanticism (4 s.h.) F. $.

European art of the romantic era, 1750 to 1850. Painting, sculpture, and selected works of architecture in England, France, and Germany, with attention to such giants as Piranesi, Canova, David, Goya, Friedrich, Runge, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Constable and Turner.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

0137. 19th-20th Century Sculpture (4 s.h.) S. $.

A study of major artists, trends, and works from neoclassical times, the age of Houdon and Canova, the Romantic era of Barye and Rodin, the modernist age of Duchamp and Picasso, and the recent past, the art of David Smith, Oldenburg, Christo, and others.

Note: Field trips are mandatory in this class.

0139. Myth and Allegory in European Art, 14c - 18c (4 s.h.) $.

A study of myth and allegory as represented in visual art across several periods -- the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic -- works created in a range of materials and formats, including book illumination, printed books, engravings, painted murals, canvases and panels, sculpture in-relief and in-the-round, at life-size, miniature and colossal scales. The relation of form and meaning to texts and to earlier visual models, as well as to the larger cultural context. Gothic personification figures of Virtues and Vices, moralizing works such as "The Ship of Fools," Renaissance poetic and dynastic allegories, giants, the emblem books, Baroque religious, moralizing and dynastic image-complexes, Romantic nature-allegories and social criticism, all number among the major forms considered.

Note: Field trips are required.

0142. Modern Painting and Sculpture 1900-45 (4 s.h.) F. $.

This course examines the major artists and movements in art from 1900 to 1945, placing them within a larger social and political context. Movements to be considered include: Fauvism; Cubism; Futurism; German Expressionism; the Russian Avant-Garde; De Stijl; Purism; the Bauhaus; Dada; Surrealism; and American Early Modernism.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

0143. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (4 s.h.) F S. $.

This course will study the art of France, in the second half of the 19th century as the origin of modernism. Methodologies such as feminism, social art history, and psychoanalytic perspectives will be engaged to analyze the artists and their pictorial work in a variety of media.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

0144. Modern Art: 1945 to the Present (4 s.h.) S. $.

This course examines the major artists and movements in art from 1945 to the present, placing them within a larger social and political context. Developments to be considered include: Abstract Expressionism; Neo-Dada; Nouveaux Realisme; Assemblage; Environments; Happenings; Pop; Op; Minimal; Post-Minimal; Performance; Earthworks; Conceptual; Installation; New Image; Neo-Expressionism; Post/Neo-Conceptual; and others. Issues of feminism, multiculturalism, and critical theory are also considered.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course. This course will be offered as Art History 0120 in the summer.

0147. Cubism and its Influence (4 s.h.) F. $.

Traces the invention of cubism by Picasso and its influence on Futurists in Italy and Cubo-futurists in Russia as well as the Abstract painters in Europe and America.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

C148. International Cinema (3 s.h.) SS. Core: IS.

A selection of films from modern Europe and Third World cultures which demonstrate both their interaction with postmodern politics, theory and culture, and the development of an international alternative discourse to Hollywood commercial film-making. Films will be selected according to a theme each semester. Past courses: Italian Neo-Realism, Independent Film Makers, and Women in Film.

0150. Symbolism, Dada, and Surrealism (4 s.h.) F. $.

Twentieth-century movements concerned with the visual expression of psychological pressures and private obsessions; reflections of the worlds of the absurd and of fantasy. Moreau, Redon, van Gogh, Gauguin, Ensor, Munch, Khnopff, Klimt, Duchamp, di Chirico.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

0151. American Art (4 s.h.) F. $.

From the early limners and sculptors through the colonial period and the 19th century, to abstract expressionism, pop art and minimal art of the 20th century.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

0152. American Architecture (4 s.h.)

An examination of the major movements and architects in the history of American architecture.

0168. Arts of Asia (4 s.h.) S. Core: AC.

Architecture, sculpture, painting and the functional art of Asia (India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia). A historical examincation of the art as a religious expression and as a product of changing social and economic conditions.

0171. Chinese Art (4 s.h.) F.

The art and architecture of China from 3500 BC to the present. This class begins with ancient art found in tombs progressively turning to the formation of the empire and the introduction and development of the Buddhist tradition. In the later periods emphasis will be given to the painting traditions. Concluding with art in the 20th century, we will examine some of the ways China represents itself today.

0184. 19th Century American Art (4 s.h.) F S.

A survey of the painting and sculpture of the 19th century in America.

H194. Honors Special Topics (3 s.h.) F S. Core: AC.

Prerequisite: Majors only.

Selected topic from a specific period.

0201. European Decorative Arts (4 s.h.) F. $.

Traces the development of crafts from the beginning to the Industrial Revolution, focusing on the role of the craft-worker in society, the role of the patron, and the styles of different eras. Includes European, Mediterranean, and Islamic crafts.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this course.

0202. History of Modern Crafts (4 s.h.) S. $.

Traces the ideas, personnel, workshops, objects & styles of the Arts & Crafts Movement from William Morris to Henry Mercer (1850s-ca. 1915), in Europe and the United States. Charles & Margaret Mackintosh in Scotland, Eliel Saarinen in Finland, Charles Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft in England will be studied, among others; Stickley, Roycroft, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tiffany, etc., in the U.S., and other key designers/crafters of clay, metal, fiber, wood, glass. The influence of Japanese art & craft is a key issue for this course; also the development of the various forms of Art Nouveau.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0203. History of Modern Crafts & Design, Part 2 (4 s.h.) S. $.

Cross Listed with Art History 0400.

Continues the study of key schools, workshops, individuals, techniques, attitudes and styles pertaining to craft & design in the 20th century, principally in Europe and the U.S. In this segment, we see how the Arts & Crafts reform ideas developed last semester influenced groups such as the Wiener Werkstaette (Vienna Workshops) and the Bauhaus. We'll examine the Bauhaus' early years, and opposing impulses of German Expressionism & Functionalism, then look at Art Deco, along with other 20th century machine styles. Designing for industry is a major topic; also the Japanese connection continues to be important. Crossovers between painting styles and craft approaches, the 'studio craft movement' and various evolving issues in late 20th century crafts (e.g., gender, function, quality, postmodernism) will occupy the balance of the semester.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0210. Philadelphia Architecture (4 s.h.) F.

This course traces the development of Philadelphia architecture from the 17th to the 20th centuries, with special attention given to the major architects who contributed to that development.

0217. Archaeological Excavation (3 - 6 s.h.) SS.

Requires permission of the instructor. Credit given for participating in an archaeological excavation.

0218. Indian Art (4 s.h.) S. $.

The art and architecture of the Indian sub-continent from 2500 BC to the present. The Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Islamic religions have been crucially important for the formation of south Asian culture and art. This class will emphasize how religious ideas have been made visually manifest in the arts. Art's role in the formation of modern India will also be examined.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0219. Southeast Asian Art (4.0 s.h.) S. $.

The art and civilization of Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, focusing on the key aspects that have shaped cultures from the 5th century AD to modern times.

Note: Field trips required.

0220. Early Indian Art (4 s.h.) $.

This class examines the early art historical traditions of South Asia. Starting with the Indus civilization (2500 - 1700 BC), the roots of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain religions are considered. Next, Buddhist art and architecture produced between the 3rd c BCE and 12th c CE will be addressed. The course concludes with a careful study of the emergence of early Hindu art and architecture (2nd c CE - 8th c CE).

Note: Field trips are mandatory.

0221. Later Indian Art (4 s.h.) $.

Later Indian art will be the art historical traditions of South Asia from the 8th to 20th c AD. The course will begin with the flourishing period of Hindu temple architecture examined from a regional perspective. Next Islamic architecture and painting will be examined. The course ends with a discussion of Colonialism and South Asia in the 20th century.

Note: Field trips are mandatory.

W229. Greek and Roman Sculpture (4 s.h.) S. Core: WI. $.

See description for Art History 0229.

0229. Greek and Roman Sculpture (4 s.h.) $.

Traces the development of sculpture in Greek and Roman societies, beginning with the first monumental stone sculpture and ending in the fourth century C.E. Styles, artists, uses, and functions will be studied.

Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.

0250. Symbolism, Dada, and Surrealism (4 s.h.)

See description for Art History 0150.

0258. Picasso and Modern Masters (4 s.h.) SS.

This course investigates the work of four major modern artists - Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, and Brancusi and places them in a variety of cultural, social, esthetic, and historical contexts. Because the works of these artists are strongly represented in the Philadelphia Museum and in other local collections, several trips to examine work first-hand are planned.

0263. Painting: Late 19th Century (4 s.h.) SS.

Survey of European painting between 1870 and 1900, concentrating on Realism and Symbolism in France, Belgium, England, Germany, Austria and Scandinavia. Artists to be considered in detail are Monet, Cezanne, Batien-Lepage, Gauguin, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Leighton, Knopff, Menzel, Hodler, Munch and Zorn.

0278/W278. Art Nouveau (4 s.h.) F S. Core: W278: WI. $.

The fine and decorative arts in Europe from 1880-1914 including painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as jewelry, glassware, metalwork, furniture, and posters. Artists studied include Toulouse-Lautrec, Galle, Horta, Lalique, Klimt, Munch, Beardsley, Mucha and Gaudi.

Note: Field trips required.

0293-0296. Independent Study (2 - 4 s.h.) F S SS.

Intensive study in a specific area under individual guidance. Students must get permission from their department before attempting independent study.

W300. Topics in Art History (4 s.h.) F S SS. Core: WI.

A selected topic from a specific period in the history of art will be discussed with emphasis on the stylistic development and relationship to other artistic styles.

W306. Topics in Art History (3 s.h.) F S SS. Core: WI, AC.

Prerequisite: Restricted to matriculating Tyler students only..

A selected topic from a specific period in the history of art will be discussed with emphasis on the stylistic development and relationship to other artistic styles.

0307. East Meets West (4 s.h.)

A comparison of the American chromolithography industry (Currier and Ives), with the craft of the Japanese woodblock print (Hokusai, Hiroshige), reflects the numerous ways these two different cultures illuminate one another, not only in terms of print-making technology and the rise of graphic design and illustration, but with respect to larger cross-cultural and art-historical questions.

W308. Topics in Art History (4 s.h.) F S. Core: WI.

A selected topic from a specific period in the history of art will be discussed with emphasis on the stylistic development and relationship to other artistic styles.

0335. Romanticism (4.0 s.h.) SS.

A study of the major movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in European painting and sculpture, from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century , with particular attention to the developments in England, Spain, France and Germany.

0341. Architecture: Historic, Ancient, Renaissance (3 s.h.) F.

Traces the history of western architecture from the ancient world to the High Renaissance and Mannerism of the late 16th century.

0342. Architectural History, Renaissance to the 20th century (3 s.h.) S.

Traces the history of western architecture from the 17th century through the 20th century. The evolution of architectural thought, various formal languages (style) and theoretical concepts studied through the examination of selected buildings within their specific political, social, economic, and cultural milieu.