Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
History of Art (HART)
Rice Course Schedule as of 11/06/2003.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some HART courses.
HART 101 INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN A Credits 4.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period
through the fifthteenth century. An additional hour of tutorial per week will
be assigned during the first week. Required of art history majors. Also
offered as MDST 111.
001 SH 301 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Neagley, Linda Enr: 47 Max: NA
Quenemoen, Caroline
002 SH 305 - W 03:00PM - 03:50PM Quenemoen, Caroline Enr: 1 Max: NA
003 SH 305 - W 04:00PM - 04:50PM Quenemoen, Caroline Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 SH 207A - M 01:00PM - 01:50PM Neagley, Linda Enr: 0 Max: NA
005 SH 301 - M 02:00PM - 02:50PM Neagley, Linda Enr: 1 Max: NA
HART 170 THE ARTS OF CHINA Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Introduction to history of the visual arts in China in the Bronze Age to the
present. We will pay special attention to the artworks' physical and social
contexts (e.g. tomb, temple, court, literati's garden and studio, city,
nation-state). Topics include: funerary art and the imagination of the
afterlife, art and imperial cosmology, the rise of literati aesthetics,
relationship between landscape painting and calligraphy, and the emergence of
propoganda and avant-garde in Modern China. Also offered as ASIA 170.
001 SH 305 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Nakatani, H Enr: 9 Max: NA
HART 280 HISTORY AND AESTHETICS OF FILM Credits 4.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the art and aesthetics of film as an artifact produced within
certain social contexts. Includes style, narration, mise-en-scene, editing,
sound, and ideology in classical Hollywood cinema, as well as in independent,
alternative, nonfiction, and Third World cinemas. Enrollment is limited to 30.
001 MECN MECN - M 01:00PM - 05:00PM Dove, Charles Enr: 25 Max: 0
HART 285 INTRODUCTION TO FILM Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Introduction to Film: Film criticism. This writing-intensive course will teach
students to view films analytically and write film criticism. Each week,
students will view a film, read criticism of that film, and write their own
review of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world
cinema history. Special emphasis on influential relationships between criticism
and film styles. Examples may include: Eisentein and Russian formalism; Bianco
e Nero and Italtian Neorealism; Cahiers du Cinema and the French New Wave; Film
Culture and American experimented film. Also offered as ENGL 275. Enrollment is
limited to 15.
001 HUM 227 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 0 Max: 15
HART 298 SPCIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY & CRITICISM Credits Fall 03
Independent study, reading, or special research in art history.
Prereq- Permission of the instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Nakatani, H Enr: 1 Max: NA
HART 300 MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM I Credits Fall 03
The aim of this course is to provide select students a practicum in museum work
accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including the varies of
museums, their role in society and significant issues in museums today.
Prereq- permission of the instructor.
001 SH 207A - T 09:20AM - 12:05PM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 6 Max: NA
HART 312 GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This course will present the art and architecture of Greece, Asia Minor, and
Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic
period (ca 2000-30 B.C.). It will consider development of the classical orders
in architecture, innovations with painting and sculpture, and the cultural and
political signifigance of art in ancient Greek society.
001 SH 305 - MW 12:45PM - 02:00PM Quenemoen, Caroline Enr: 14 Max: 0
HART 325 VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD Credits 3.00 Fall 03
An introduction to the arts and architecture of the Islamic world from the rise
of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explore the development of a visual tradition
through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and
intertextualities. This course examines key religious and secular institutions
and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts.
001 SH 307 - MW 11:00AM - 12:15PM Hamadeh, Shirine Enr: 9 Max: NA
HART 332 LATE GOTHIC ART & ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within
three distinct settings--the court, the city, and the church. Includes
private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture,
and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, the city hall and hospital,
and the chapel and parish church. Also offered as MDST 332.
001 SH 429 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Neagley, Linda Enr: 3 Max: 0
HART 360 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE & DECORATIVE ARTS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Major topics will include the furniture styles of early America, the
architecture of colonial cities, the life, thought, and architectural ideas of
Thomas Jefferson, urban design and building projects in Washington, D.C., and
other U.S. cities, and domestic life and interior design in 19th century
America.
001 SH 207A - MW 11:00AM - 12:15PM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 15 Max: NA
HART 367 STUDIES IN MODERN ART FROM THE 1960S TO Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This course will examine a range of topics in American and European art from
the 1960s to the present. Our subjects will include Pop Art, Brutalism,
Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Minimalism, and art in the digital age.
001 SH 307 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 16 Max: NA
HART 369 SEMINAR ON BEAUTY & FRAGMENTATION IN MOD Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This course will examine literal and symbolic representations of the body in
modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions on
beauty versus subjective fragmentation; the performance nature of soical
identity; and art history's long-standing precoccupation with the sensuous
equivalency of flesh and paint. Also offered as WGST 369.
001 SH 429 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 11 Max: 8
HART 373 METHODOLOGY SEMINAR: WORD & IMAGE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Art history is the craft of putting images into words. This course explores the
question of how words and images intersect in the visual arts. Readings of some
key texts on the subject will be followed by a series of case studies
concerning specific artistic genres and issues. Topics include narrative in
painting; the frame and the caption; character and face in portraiture; the
word as image in calligraphy; and sound and image in film. Through its readings
and cases, the course will provide students a focused introduction to art
historical theories and methods.
001 SH 207A - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Nakatani, H Enr: 0 Max: NA
HART 375 LATIN AMERICAN ART: INDEPENDENCE TO PRES Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This course studies the work of leading visual artists working in Latin America
during the 19th and 20th centuries. The range and diversity of Latin American
art will be emphasized and work in a variety of media will be explored,
including mural painting, easel painting, architecture, prints, sculpture,
photography, film, installations, and conceptual art. The work will be
discussed in terms of contextual historical, political, social, and cultural
developments.
001 SH 429 - TTH 02:00PM - 03:15PM Deffebach, Nancy Enr: 10 Max: 0
HART 381 GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTAT Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Cinema originated in the inscription of physiology on film; this was quickly
followed by biology and ethnology done by cinematography. This course examines
the historical, critical and methological relations between film as a medium or
method of visual investigation and cinema as a site of cultural analysis. Also
offered as ANTH 318.
001 RH 121 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 0 Max: NA
HART 400 BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP I Credits Fall 03
Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll.
001 TBA - TBA Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 0 Max: 0
HART 468 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART Credits Fall 03
Independent study, reading, or speical research in art history.
Prereq- Permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Brennan, Marcia Enr: 1 Max: NA
HART 482 SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRDWORL Credits 4.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of significant national cinemas, film movemens, and filmmakers of the
Third World from Africa to Latin America and from the Middle East to China.
Includes colonial and postcolonial discourses. Limited enrollment. Also offered
as ANTH 382.
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 2 Max: NA
HART 682 SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WOR Credits Fall 03
Graduate version of HART 482. Also offered as ANTH 682. Prerequisite:
permission of the instructor.
Prereq- Permission of the instructor.
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: 0
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