ART HISTORY
Art History A (ARH 024 / 3 SH)
This course will include the historical development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and craft arts from Pre-history through the Gothic Period in Western Art. Emphasis will be placed on cultural, economic, religious and philosophical factors and their relationship to art.
Art History B (ARH 025 / 3 SH)
This course will include the historical development in Western art of painting, sculpture, architecture, and craft arts from the Renaissance through the present. Emphasis will be placed on cultural, economic, religious, and philosophical factors and their relationship to art.
Early Christian and Byzantine Art (ARH 302 / 3 SH)
The study of the Christian art of western and eastern Europe, and environs, from Pentecost the seventh century in the west up to the fifteenth century in the east.
Art of Ancient Greece and Rome (ARH 303 / 3 SH)
The historical development of art-styles in painting, sculpture, architecture, and crafts and artistic concepts of ancient Greece and Rome from the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome.
Renaissance Art (ARH 304 / 3 SH)
A study of Renaissance painting, architecture and sculpture with emphasis on the cultural forces which give form to the art. Concentration will be centered on Italy and the emergence af humanism.
Medieval Art Carolingian to High Gothic (ARH 305 / 3 SH)
This course presents a chronological development in style, iconography, and iconology of western painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms of this period.
Art of Northern Europe: 1350-1580 (ARH 306 / 3 SH)
The art of trans-Alpine Europe as it developed nationally during the time of the Renaissance in Italy. Particular attention is paid to that art of France, Great Britain, the Germanies, and the two Netherlands.
European Art 1580-1780 (ARH 307 / 3 SH)
This course concerns itself with painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts of Europe of the periods commonly known as the Baroque and Rococo.
European Art 1780-1880 (ARH 308 / 3 SH)
This course concerns itself with painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts of Europe of that period between Neoclassicism and the end of Impressionism.
Art Since 1950 (ARH 309 / 3 SH)
An extensive study and discussion of current art in its own aesthetic context. This art is observed through the artist's encounters with life, object, and society.
English Cathedrals (ARH 311 / 3 CH - 3 SH)
England has twenty-six cathedrals, thirteen of which are considered world class architectural structures and the supreme expression of early English architecture. These Anglican structures, dating from monastic foundations in the early middle ages, reveal within their individual forms great divergencies of style. These stylistic variations stem from many sources and span many centuries. This course will investigate the most important events that both created an environment in which the great cathedrals were built and those that brought about the many artistic changes and divergencies in the structures themselves. Four of the most important of these events which will be examined are: the conversion of England to Christianity in the sixth century as a result of the missionary efforts supported by Pope Gregory the Great, the development of the great monasteries in England and the founding of the great bishoprics; the 1066 victory of Duke William the Norman at the Battle of Hastings; and finally, the rapidly spreading influence of the French Gothic style throughout the continent and England. The course will examine how the development of these great religious structures in England was dramatically and finally affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, bringing to a close the era of the great medieval cathedrals in England.
The History of Photography (ARH 321 / 3 CH - 3 SH)
This course investigates the development of photography from its inception (c. 1839) to the present. During the semester students will examine the primary photographers,techniques and aesthetic issues addressed over the last 160 years. These aspects of photography will not be viewed in isolation, but within their historical and cultural context. PREREQUISITES: ARH 025 Art History B; one 300 level art history course in the modern area.
American Art (ARH 334 / 3 CH - SH)
Aesthetic expressions in architecture, painting, sculpture, interior design, industrial arts, and crafts as experiences of the artist in each major period of American life, to the Armory Show.
European Modernism: 1880-1940 (ARH 338 / 3 CH - 3 SH)
This course investigates the painting, sculpture and architecture created in Europe in the era of early Modernism. Major aesthetic issues, art movements and the primary artists involved will be studied in relation to their historical and cultural context. PREREQUISITE: ARH 025 Art History B.
Independent Studies in the History of Ant (ARH 339 / 3 CH - 3 SH)
A course for the student who desires personal and professional guidance in studying precisely defined topics in the history of art Repeatable up to 12 sh.
Senior Seminar in The History of Art (ARH 380 / 2 SH)
Historiography of the discipline, history of art: its history, methodology, and philosophy, all presented in the form of a colloquium.
