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HART   206 INTRODUCTION - HISTORY OF ART            Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance
through the twentieth century.  An additional hour of tutorial per week
will be assigned during the first week.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM SH*301   Manca, Joseph                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Papanikolas, Theresa           *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 T       02:30PM-03:20PM SH*305   Manca, Joseph                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 T       04:00PM-04:50PM SH*305   Manca, Joseph                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 W       01:00PM-01:50PM SH*207A  Papanikolas, Theresa           *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 W       02:00PM-02:50PM SH*305   Papanikolas, Theresa           *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   300 ART AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Art is presented as a way of thinking about reality. Slide-illustrated
lectures will involve visual formulations of: origination, history,
destiny,society, the individual, sexuality, gender, power, and the end
of the world.
Also offered as Reli 300.
Limited enrollment:35.
001 T       07:00PM-10:00PM SH*303   McEvilley, Thomas              *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   316 ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This course surveys the art and architecture of the Islamic Middle East
from the 13th century onwards.  It examines the relationship of art to
historical context, its social uses, and the construction of its
meaning.
 Of special concern are the visual productions of the Mamluk,
II-Khanid, Timurid, Ottoman and Safavid states, and the development of
imperial capitals such as Cairo, Bukhara, Samarkand, Istanbul, and
Isfahan.  Pre-requisties:none.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*207A  Watenpaugh, Heghnar            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   322 UNDERSTANDING POST-MODERNISM             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A study of broad cultural change that is still unresolved, and still
controversial.  Attention will be paid to post-modern issues in history,
philosophy, post colonial studies, marxism, feminism, and psychoanalytic
theory, with less explicit attention to post-modern issues in literary
criticism.  The visual arts, including film, will be presented not in
isolation but in a matrix of cultural wholeness.  Lectures, discussions,
slide and film showings.
Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 W       01:00PM-04:00PM SH*429   McEvilley, Thomas              *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   331 SEMINAR IN FILM & TV AUTHORS: KUBRICK, S Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Focuses on issues of authorship in film and television.  Presents a
structuralist and poststructuralist reading of the films of Stanley
Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Arthus Penn.  Their films will be seen in
the context of the social issues of the 1960s through the 1990s.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 W       01:00PM-05:00PM MECN*100 Naficy, Hamid                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   336 TELEVISION, SPECTACLE AND THE VISUAL ART Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This seminar will investigate the myriad ways in which thinking about
television (or the "televisual") can be used to reevaluate the meaning
and development of the arts of the post-War period.
001 TH      01:00PM-04:00PM SH*207A  Joseph, Branden                *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   350 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ART Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Major topics will include the furniture styles of early America, the
architecture of colonial cities, the life, thought, and architectural
ideas from Thomas Jefferson, urban design and building projects in
Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, and domestic life and interior
design in nineteenth-century America.
Enrollment limited to 36.
001 MW      11:00AM-12:15PM SH*305   Manca, Joseph                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   371 ART BETWEEN THE WARS:CULTURAL POLITICS O Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Dada and Surrealism developed in a cultural climate traumatized by World
War I and charged ideologically by the political upheavals that
catalyzed WWII. From the vantagepoint of these two major
twentieth-century movements,this course will explore how modern
artists responded to these transformative historical events. This class
will be conducted as a seminar, with a select group of sessions to be
held at The Menil Collection. There will be extensive readings,
including contemporary theoretical texts both artistic and political, as
well as articles by modern scholars.
001 MW      04:00PM-05:30PM SH*207A  Papanikolas, Theresa           *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   408 SEMINAR - MIDDLE EASTERN ART             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This seminar focuses on topics in Middle Eastern art.  The scope is
comparative, and the content of the course is variable.  Readings and
discussions address historical and theoretical issues.
Enrollment limited to 15.
001 T       02:00PM-05:00PM SH*207A  Watenpaugh, Heghnar            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   421 THE IMAGE OF THE ARTIST: SELF-REPREST. F Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
The course concerns self-representations of artists and their
environments, both personal and professional. The course topic is
essentially iconographic, but considerable attention will be given to
the history and techniques of printmaking through the early nineteenth
century.
001 W       02:00PM-05:00PM          Clifton, James                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   464 ANDY WARHOL:ARTIST OF THE  (NEXT?) CENTU Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The current moment is an excellent time to begin to reevalute the
meaning of Warhol's art and his legacy. This course will examine the
facets of Warhol's career, as well as his work in photography, fashion,
mutli-media happenings, literature, and theatre. A look a Warhol's
collaborations with rock musicians and the way Warhol influenced the
birth of punk rock will all be examined.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*307   Joseph, Branden                *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   471 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY EXILE & DISPORA  Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
Examination of cultural productions as vehicles for communication
across national, cultural, and other boundaries, using contemporary
theories of  culture and media. Includes the creation of meaning
 and cultural capital, the representation of minority and
alternative views, and the construction of individual and group
identities. Also  offered as ANTH 471.
001 TH      01:00PM-05:00PM MECN*100 Naficy, Hamid                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   491 BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Prereq- Offered to the winner of the Jameson Fellowship.
001 TBA     TBA                      Manca, Joseph                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   492 SPECIAL TOPICS:  FOUR MODERN MASTERS     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
A study of the art and criticism of four masters of twentieth-century
art: Picasso, Duchamp, Ernst and Mondrian.
Prereq- Hart 206 or 475 or permission of instructor.
001 MW      02:30PM-03:50PM          Camfield, William              *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   499 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Prereq- permission of the faculty.
001                                  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   571 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY EXILE CINEMA     Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
Examination of cultural productions as vehicles for communication across
national, cultural, and other boundaries, using contemporary theories
of culture and media. Includes the creation of meaning and cultural
capital, the representation of minority and alternative views, and the
construction of individual and group identities. Also offered as ANTH
571.
001 TH      01:00PM-05:00PM MECN*100 Naficy, Hamid                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   586 INDEPENDENT READING                      Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   592 MASTER OF ARTS THESIS                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   594 SPECIAL TOPICS                           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   596 SPECIAL TOPICS                           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HART   800 THESIS AND RESEARCH                      Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

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