History of Art | Fall 2023 Courses

HISTART 194-001

CANCELED The Elements In / Of African Art

David Doris

Tappan 180
T Th 2:30pm - 4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 194-002

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

Achim Timmermann

130 Tappan
T Th 4:00pm - 5:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 194-003

First Year Seminar:
Art and Ethics, from Forgery to Fraud

Hannah Cohen

210 Tappan
M W 10:00am - 11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 201-001

Great Monuments from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages

Achim Timmermann

130 Tappan
TTh 1:00pm - 2:30pm

3 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills LSA Humanities Distribution Requirement

HISTART 211-001

Gender and Popular Culture

Heather Vinson

M W 10:00am - 11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 244-001

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

Rebecca Zurier

Angell Hall G040
T Th 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 250-001

Italian Renaissance Art

Shelly Perlove

Angell Hall G127
T Th 1:00pm - 2:30 PM

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 271-001

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

Howard Lay

Angell Hall Aud D
T Th 2:30pm - 4:00pm

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 285-001

Visual Cultures of Islam

Christiane Gruber

Angell Hall G127
T Th 11:30am - 1:00pm

4 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills LSA Humanities Distribution Requirement

HISTART 292-001

Introduction to the Histories of the Visual and Material Cultures of the Japanese Archipelago

Kevin Carr

Biological Science Building-TBC 1060
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 294-001

Special Topics:
Photography's Histories in South Asia

Akshaya Tankha

Angell Hall G040
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 294-002

CANCELED Special Topics:
Chinese Art and Visual-Material Culture

Lihong Liu

Tappan 180
M W 1:00pm - 2:30pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 294-003

Special Topics:
Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean World

Bihter Esener

Tappan 130
T Th 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Lecture

MUSEUMS 301-001

Museums and Society

Deirdre L. C. Hennebury, PhD

UMMA AUD
T Th 3:00pm - 4:00pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 304-001

Art of Yoga

Nachiket Chanchani

Tappan 180
T Th 10-11:30 AM

3 Credit Lecture
This course fulfills LSA Interdisciplinary Distribution

HISTART 376-001

Dada and Surrealism

Matt Biro

Angell Hall G040
M W 1:00pm-2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-001

Undergraduate Seminar:
Spatial Encounters - Medieval Images In Between

Tina Bawden

Tappan 210
M W 10:00am - 11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-003

Undergraduate Seminar:
Instagram and/as Art

Heather Vinson

Tappan 210
M W 1:00pm - 2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-004

Undergraduate Seminar:
Art and Resistance - Global Responses to Oppression

Sascha M Crasnow

East Quad 1423
M W 10:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-005

Undergraduate Seminar:
Medievalism in Video Games - Art, Culture and Theory

Bihter Esener

Tappan 210
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-006

Undergraduate Seminar
The Matter of Art History: Problems in Object Based Thinking

Brendan McMahon

Tappan 130
M W 1:00pm - 2:30 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 394-001

The Art of Power in Colonial Spanish America

Brendan McMahon

Tappan 180
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 395-001

Mini-Seminar:
Superheroes - The Gods in and Among Us

Kevin Carr

Tappan 270
T Th 10:00am - 12:00-pm

2 Credit Mini-Seminar. First half of term.

HISTART 395-002

Mini-Seminar:
Superheroes - The Legacy of the Avant-Gardes

Daniel Herwitz

Tappan 210
T Th 10:00am - 12:00-pm

2 Credit Mini-Seminar. First half of term.

HISTART 402-001

Theories of Pictorial Autonomy:
Contemporary Art and Resistance

Matt Biro, Joan Kee

Tappan 180
M W 10:00am - 11:30am

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 426-001

Roman Sculpture - Image and Identity

Nicola Barham

Tappan 180
T 11:30am - 2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-001

Upper Level Seminar: Art and Resistance in Detroit, 1900-present

Rebecca Zurier

Tappan 270
M W 1:00pm - 2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-003

Upper Level Seminar
Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia

Nachiket Chanchani

Tappan 270
T Th 2:30 - 4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-004

Special Topics: Asian American Art

Joan Kee

Tappan 270
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-005

CANCELED Upper Level Seminar:
The Political Legacy of the Avant-Gardes

Daniel Herwitz

Tappan 210
T 10:00am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 498-001

Honors Colloquium

Howard Lay

Tappan 210
M 4:00pm - 7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 498-001

Undergraduate Seminar
The Matter of Art History: Problems in Object Based Thinking

Brendan McMahon

130 Tappan
M W 1:00pm - 2:30 PM

3 Credit Lecture

MUSEUMS 498-002

Special Museums Topics:
Decolonizing Museums - Colonialism, Collections and Repatriation

Sanne Ravensbergen

Haven Hall 1713
M W 4:00pm - 5:30pm

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 615-001

CANCELED First Year Graduate Seminar:
Toward a Posthumanist Art History

Lihong Liu

270 Tappan
M 4:00pm - 7:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 626-001

Roman Sculpture - Image and Identity

Nicola Barham

Tappan 180
T 11:30am - 2:30pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-003

Upper Level Seminar:
Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia

Nachiket Chanchani

Tappan 270
T Th 2:30 - 4:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-004

Special Topics: Asian American Art

Joan Kee

Tappan 270
M W 11:30am - 1:00pm

3 Credit Seminar

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