History of Art | Winter 2018 Courses

HISTART 194-001

First year Seminar:
Art and Race in Nineteenth century America

Rebecca Zurier

AHG-026
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 194-002

First Year Seminar:
The Liberating lens: Jewish Photographers Picture in the Modern World

Debora Dash Moore

B804 EQ
MW 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with JUDAIC 150-001
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 200-001

Art Across Cultures

Celeste Brusati

MLB Lecture Room 1
MW 1:00-2:30pm

4 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 208-001

Introduction to African Art and Visual Culture: 100 African Objects

Raymond Silverman, Laura De Becker

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

4 Credit Lecture
Crosslisted with AAS 208-001
Fulfills Humanities Distribution and Race and Ethnicity Requirements

HISTART 215-001

Building Business: Corporations, Architecture, and the Built Environment from the Medici to McDonalds

Claire Zimmerman

MLB Lecture Room 1
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 216-001

Contested Spaces: Art, Architecture, Politics

Ana Maria Leon

MLB Lecture Room 1
MW 10:00-11:30am

4 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 230-001

Art and Life in Nineteenth-Century America

Rebecca Zurier

180 Tappan
MW 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 253-001

The Mediterranean: Art and Exchange

Paroma Chatterjee

130 Tappan on MW 12:00-1:00pm
MLB Lecture Room 1 on F 12:00-1:00pm

Combined total 3 Credits
Requires simultaneous enrollment in HISTART 253-002: The Mediterranean
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 272-001

Modern Art: Avant-Garde to Contemporary

Tara Ward

MLB Lecture Room 1
MW 2:30-4:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 305-001

Himalayas: An Aesthetic Exploration

Nachiket Chanchini

MLB 2011
TTh 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Seminar
Cross listed with ASIAN 335-001
Meets with ASIAN 582-001 / HISTART 505-001
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 342-001

Reason and Passion in the 18th Century

Thomas Willette

180 Tappan
MW 2:30 - 4:00pm

3 Credit Lecture
MEETS with RCHUMS 344-001
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 345-001

Introduction to Medieval Architecture

Achim Timmermann

180 Tappan
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 351-001

Art and Poetry of Michelangelo

Thomas Willette

270 Tappan
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Fulfills Upper Level Writing Requirement

HISTART 357-001

Art and Money

Celeste Brusati

Tappan 210
TTh 1:00 - 2:30 pm

3 Credit Seminar
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 370-001

Realism and Impressionism

Howard Lay

180 Tappan
TTh 4:00-5:30pm

3 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 376-001

Dada & Surrealism

Matthew Biro

180 Tappan
MW 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 393-002

Undergraduate Seminar:
No Specific Medium: Twentieth Century Art beyond Painting and Sculpture

Tara Ward

210 Tappan
MW 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 393-003

Undergraduate Seminar:
Beyond Silk and Silver: The Art of Trade in New Spain

Brendan McMahon

210 Tappan
TTh 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Seminar
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 394-001

Special Topics:
Across Oceans, Lands and Peoples: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Iberian World

Kenneth Mills

Location TBD
TTh 2:30-4:00 pm

3 Credit Lecture
Meets with HISTORY 328-001
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 395-001

Mini Seminar Course in History of Art:
Art and Design in Detroit Today: An Anthropological Approach to Creative Practices

Julia Yesbick

270 Tappan
MW 10:00-12:00pm

2 Credit Mini Seminar
January 3 - February 21
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

HISTART 395-002

Mini Seminar Course in History of Art:
Contemporary Chinese Women Artists

Fang Zhang

270 Tappan
MW 12:00-2:00pm

2 Credit Mini Seminar
March 5 - April 17
This course fulfills the Humanities distribution

MUSEUMS 401-001

Contemporary Issues in Museums: Museum Work / Critical Practice

Raymond Silverman

G026 Tisch
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 409-003

Practicum in Museums

Bradley Taylor

Meetings are arranged

3 Credit Experiential

HISTART 489-001

Special Topics:
The Avant-Gardes in East and West

Jindrich Toman

MLB 2114
TTH 4:00-5:30pm

3 Credit Lecture
Meets with SLAVIC 470-001 & 876-001, GERMAN 449-003

HISTART 489-002

Roman Architecture

Christopher Ratte

Location TBD
MW 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture
Meets with CLARCH 426-001

HISTART 489-003

Special Topics:
The Holy Land in Visual Culture: Architecture, Maps, Paintings, Photographs

Shelley Perlove

NQ 1185
TTh 1:00-2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with JUDAICV 317-001

HISTART 497-001

Upper Level Seminar:
Curatorial Seminar: Gallery Installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Nachiket Chanchani

210 Tappan
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with ASIAN 480-003, MUSEUMS 498-002

MUSEUMS 498-001

Special Topics in Museum Studies: Museums in Literature

Peter McIsaac

180 Tappan
MW 10:00-11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 498-002

Special Topics in Museum Studies: Gallery Installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Nachiket Chanchani

210 Tappan
TTh 2:30-4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with HISTART 497-001 and ASIAN 480-003

HISTART 499-001

Honors Thesis

Howard Lay

210 Tappan
M 4:00-7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 499-003

Museums Independent Study

Bradley Taylor

Meeting time and location arranged

1-4 Credit Independent Study

HISTART 505-001

Himalayan Aesthetics

Nachiket Chanchini

MLB 2011
TTh 11:30-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with HISTART 305-001, ASIAN 335-001 & 582-001

HISTART 608-001

Photography / History / Theory

Matthew Biro

270 Tappan
M 4:00-7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 646-001

Problems in Medieval Art: Medieval Urbanism, c. 350-1550

Achim Timmermann

210 Tappan
F 10:00-1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-001

Special Topics in History of Art: Images in Anthropology

Jennifer Robertson

210 Tappan
T 4:00-7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar
Meets with ANTHRCUL 658-005