History of Art | Fall 2017 Courses

HISTART 194-002

First Year Seminar:
Medieval Castles: Bastions of War and Peace

Achim Timmermann

049 UMMA
MW 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 194-003

First Year Seminar:
"Why Art?" In the Galleries and Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Thomas Willette

049 UMMA
MW 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 201-001

Great Monuments from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages

Achim Timmermann

180 Tappan
TTh 11:30am-1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 210-001

History of Photography

Shelley Perlove

AH Aud. D
MW 10:00-11:30am

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 211-001

Gender and Popular Culture

Tara Ward

AH Aud. B
MW 1:00-2:30pm

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 220-001

Great Buildings of Ancient Greece and Rome

Christopher Ratte

SPH 11755
TTh 11:30am - 1:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with CLARCH 220-001

HISTART 243-001

Home and the World: Introduction to South Asian Art

Nachiket Chanchani

180 Tappan
TTh 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with ASIAN 243-001

HISTART 244-001

Art of the "American Century" (1893-1968)

Rebecca Zurier

Tappan Hall 180
MW 10-11:30 am

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with AMCULT 244-001

HISTART 250-001

Italian Renaissance Art

Kelli Wood

AH Aud. D
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with MEMS 250-001

HISTART 255-001

The Visual Afterlife Of Classical Mythology: Gods And Goddesses In Art

Patricia Simons

MW 10:00-11:30am
AH G127

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 271-001

Origins of Modernism: Art and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

Howard Lay

AH Aud. D
TTh 1:00-2:30pm

4 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with FRENCH 241-001

HISTART 285-001

Visual Cultures of Islam

Martina Becker

AH G127
MW 11:30-1:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with ISLAM / NEAREAST 285-001

MUSEUMS 301-001

Museums and Society

Bradley Taylor

UMMA Aud.
MW 3:00-4:00pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 304-001

Art of Yoga

Nachiket Chanchani

MLB B116
TTh 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with ASIAN 304-001

HISTART 343-001

God, Love, and War: The Art of Byzantine & Medieval Western Europe

Paroma Chatterjee

180 Tappan
MW 1:00-2:30pm

3 credit Lecture

HISTART 346-001

The Moving Image in the Middle Ages

Paroma Chatterjee

270 Tappan
MW 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Cross listed with RELIGION 346-001

HISTART 352-001

Art and Philosophy in the Renaissance Tradition

Thomas Willette

049 UMMA
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Cross listed with RCHUMS 346-001

HISTART 353-001

Meaning In The Making: Visual Technologies

Patricia Simons

270 Tappan
MW 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-001

Undergraduate Seminar: An Explosion of Styles: Art before the First World War

Tara Ward

049 UMMA
MW 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-002

Undergraduate Seminar: Urban Fragments: The Americas

Ana Maria Leon

270 Tappan
MW 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Seminar
Cross listed with ARCH 409-003

HISTART 393-003

Undergraduate Seminar: The Sensory City: Urbanism in Early Modern Italy

Kelli Wood

270 Tappan
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-004

Undergraduate Seminar: Heroes, Heroines, and Sinners of the Bible in Art

Shelley Perlove

NQ 1105
MW 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with Judaic 317-001

HISTART 393-005

Undergraduate Seminar:
Contemporary Chinese Art

Fang Zhang

Tappan Hall 270
Friday 10:00-1:00

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with HISTART 689.003, ARTDES 398.001 / ARTDES 601.001

HISTART 393-006

Undergraduate Seminar:
Black Art, White Cube: Exhibiting Africa in the Art Museum

Raymond Silverman

TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Cross-listed with MUSEUMS 498.002, AAS 358.001

HISTART 394-002

Special Topics: Ancient Monumental Painting

Elaine Gazda

130 Tappan
MW 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with CLARCH 350-003
Meets with HISTART / CLARCH 534-001

HISTART 408-001

The Future of Africa's Past: Material Culture, History and Heritage

Raymond Silverman

2040 Ruthven
TuTh 10:00 - 11:30 am

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with AAS 480-001

MUSEUMS 409-003

Practicum in Museums

Bradley Taylor

Meeting time and location arranged.

3 Credit Experiential

HISTART 431-001

Made in Detroit: A History of Art and Culture in the Motor City

Rebecca Zurier

270 Tappan
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Cross listed with AMCULT 433-001

HISTART 489-001

Special Topics: Soviet Visual Culture and its Western Context, 1917 - 1953

Jindrich Toman

2015 RUTHVEN
MW 4:00 - 5:30pm

3 Credit Lecture
Meets with Slavic 470.001

HISTART 497-001

Upper Level Seminar: Material Capital: Albert Kahn Associates in Detroit, 1902-1945

Claire Zimmerman

AAB 2222
Th 1:00-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with ARCH 603.001 and HISTART 689.004

HISTART 498-001

Honors Symposium

Howard Lay

270 Tappan
M 4:00-7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 498-001

Special Topics in Museum Studies:
Museums in the Digital Age

Peter McIsaac

130 Tappan
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with AMCULT 405-002

MUSEUMS 498-002

Undergraduate Seminar:
Black Art, White Cube: Exhibiting Africa in the Art Museum

Raymond Silverman

TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Cross-listed with HISTART 393.006, AAS 358.001

MUSEUMS 499-003

Museums Independent Study

Bradley Taylor

Meeting time and location arranged.

1-4 Credit Independent Study

HISTART 534-001

Ancient Monumental Painting

Elaine Gazda

130 Tappan
MW 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Lecture
Cross listed with CLARCH 534-001
Meets with HISTART 394-002 & CLARCH 350-003

HISTART 615-001

First Year Graduate Seminar:
Methods

Matthew Biro

210 Tappan
W 1:00-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 646-001

Problems in Medieval Art:
Medieval Makers and Theories of Making

Elizabeth Sears

210 Tappan
M 4:00-7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-001

Special Topics in History of Art:
Knowledge and Visuality in Early Modern Europe

Celeste Brusati

270 Tappan
T 4:00 - 7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar, MEMS Proseminar
Meets with MEMS 611-001

HISTART 689-002

Special Topics in History of Art: Globalization & Modern/Contemporary Art

Daniel Herwitz

210 Tappan
M 1:00-4:00pm

3 credit Seminar

HISTART 689-003

Special Topics in History of Art:
Contemporary Chinese Art

Fang Zhang

Tappan Hall 270
Friday 10:00-1:00

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with HISTART 393.005, ARTDES 398.001 / ARTDES 601.001

HISTART 689-004

Special Topics in History of Art:
Material Capital: Albert Kahn Associates in Detroit, 1902-1945

Claire Zimmerman

AAB 2222
Th 1:00-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with ARCH 603.001 and HISTART 497.001