Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2003
History of Art (HART)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/03/2003.
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 102 INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN A Credits 4.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance through
the 20th century. One additional hour of tutorial per week is assigned during
the first week. Required for art history majors.
001 SH 301 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 51 Max: 0
Manca, Joseph P.
002 SH 305 - M 01:00PM - 01:50PM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 15 Max: NA
003 SH 305 - T 01:00PM - 01:50PM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 15 Max: NA
004 SH 305 - W 02:00PM - 02:50PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 11 Max: NA
005 SH 305 - W 03:00PM - 03:50PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 11 Max: NA
HART 206 ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II (ENLIGHTMEN Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continuation of HART 205. Also offered as ARCH 346.
001 AH 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Biln, John Enr: 1 Max: 0
El-Dahdah, Fares
HART 240 ART IN CONTEXT:LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will be concerned with the art, architecture, and history of the
late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature,
and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources
can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. Also offered as
HUMA 108 and MDST 108.
001 SH 305 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 2 Max: 36
Neagley, Linda
HART 313 DISCOVERY OF THE MIND Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. From myth to philosophy.
First expressions of subjectivism and relativism. Primarily ancient near
Eastern and Greek materials. Emphasis will be on art, philosophy, literature,
and religion.
001 SH 429 - W 01:00PM - 04:00PM McEvilley, Thomas Enr: 3 Max: NA
HART 323 VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD (MID Credits 3.00 Spring 03
An introductory survey of the architecture, ceramics, textiles, arts of the
book, and mural painting from Egypt to India and Central Asia, beginning in the
wake of the Mongol conquests and ending with the Ottoman empire. Focusing on
court patronage and production, the course examines key buildings and objects
through their aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts.
Methodological concerns of the field are addressed through an exploraiton of
such themes as iconoclasm, word and image, and cross-cultural influences.
Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 SH 307 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Hamadeh, Shirine Enr: 14 Max: 20
HART 331 GOTHIC ART & ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EU Credits 4.00 Spring 03
Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the
early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral
arhitecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in
relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. Also offered as
MDST 331.
001 SH 307 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Neagley, Linda Enr: 7 Max: 0
HART 382 MODALITIES OF CINEMA Credits 4.00 Spring 03
In each class a lecture will introduce the day's film, the film will then be
watched, followed by a discusison. Much of the material of film history will be
presented, but in a deliberately jumbled way. Each film will be a major classic
fo a movement or genre, but they will be viewd out of historic order with the
intention of highlighting certain themes and features. Enrollment is limited to
30.
001 MECN MECN - T 07:15PM - 10:00PM McEvilley, Thomas Enr: 33 Max: 30
HART 387 CULTURAL STUDIES: RACE, GENDER, AND THE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Examines the use of audiovisual media in the production and contestation of
racial and gender identities in mainstream and oppositional forms of culture in
the U.S. and abroad. Considers theories of representation, subjectivity, and
the politics and economics of mass media, experimental art forms,
community-based activist video, and independent film production. Also offered
as ENGL 387.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 3 Max: 6
HART 391 PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOG Credits 3.00 Spring 03
In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars
in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Particular attention will be
devoted to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual
culture and the history of art, as well as to the interdisciplinary feminist
inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. Also offered as WGST 391.
Enrollment is limited to 10.
001 SH 305 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 3 Max: 10
Shehabuddin, Elora
HART 401 BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP Credits Spring 03
Internship at Bayou Bend and The American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll.
Prereq-Permission of the instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 1 Max: 0
HART 417 BURIED CITIES: THE ART & ARCHITECTURE OF Credits 3.00 Spring 03
An examination of classical antiquity's best preserved cities thanks to
volcanic eruptions: the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri and the Roman towns of
Pompeii and Herculaneum. Art and architecture will be examined within their
larger social and urban contexts. Methodological and ethical issues
surrounding the excavation and preservation of these sites will also be
considered.
001 SH 207A - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM Quenemoen, Caroline Enr: 14 Max: NA
HART 420 ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS: EUROPE & THE ISLAMI Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This seminar aims to assess the mutual impact of the visual cultures of Europe
and the Islamic world through history. Focusing on 15th-19th-century material
including architecture, painting, photography, textiles, and satorial fashion,
it examines channels of interaction, forms of influence, and modes of
representation in aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, & political terms, and in
light of concurrent theoretical debates. Topics & themes covered include
collecting Islamic art, orientalist paintings, the Napoleonic expedition to
Egypt, cultural identities, westernization, & modernity in the non-western
world. Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 SH 207A - M 01:00PM - 04:00PM Hamadeh, Shirine Enr: 2 Max: 20
HART 470 VISUAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY & POSTRE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Exploration of the deployment of socialist, critical, and avant-garde art in
modern Chinese visual culture. The course will cover a wide range of materials
from painting and installation art to propaganda posters and film. Issues
addressed will include: the notion of the avant-garde (social and aesthetic),
the structure of authoritarian art, art as a social movement, and the paradox
of counter-discourse. The course will maintain a global and comparative frame
of analysis, drawing on scholarship on Soviet and Nazi Germany visual cultures.
Also offered as Asia 470. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 SH 307 - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM Nakatani, H Enr: 2 Max: 8
HART 477 RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN MEXICAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican
art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the
traumatic encounter of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis
will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican
Revolution of 1910-20. Also offered as WGST 477. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 SH 207A - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Deffebach, Nancy Enr: 4 Max: 12
HART 480 SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: SCORSESE, PE Credits 4.00 Spring 03
Focuses on issues of authorship in film and television. Presents a
structuralist and post-structuralist reading of the films of Stanley Kubrick,
Martin Scorsese, and Arthur Penn. Their films will be seen in the context of
the social issues of the 1960s through the 1990s. Limited to 15.
001 MECN MECN - M 01:00PM - 05:00PM Dove, Charles Enr: 15 Max: 15
HART 484 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE AND DIASP Credits 4.00 Spring 03
This course theorizes and analyzes the politics and aesthetics of the films and
videos that displaced filmmakers of the world have produced since the
1960s-films that form a new accent in the language of cinema. Also offered as
ANTH 484.
Also offered as ANTH 484
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 1 Max: 0
HART 486 DISEASE AND DIFFERENCE: THE BODY IN VISU Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This couse examines the history of visual representations of disease in
photography, cinema, and digital media. We will consider how nationally,
racially, and sexually marked bodies constitute an iconography of social and
organic contamination. Topics include early cinema, colonialism, photography,
eugenics, immigration, science fiction, and internet "viruses". Also offered as
WGST 448 and ENGL 458.
001 SH 562 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 2 Max: NA
HART 492 CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that
began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt,
Haacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the
question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a
series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchigram, Eisenman,
Libeskind, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. Also offered as ARCH 384.
Prereq- Hart 206 or 475 or permission of instructor.
001 AH 148 - W 09:30AM - 12:00PM Last, Nana Enr: 3 Max: NA
HART 506 ARCHITECTURE AND THE SOCIETY II (ENLIGHT Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of HART 206. Also offered as ARCH 686.
001 AH 117 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Biln, John Enr: 0 Max: NA
El-Dahdah, Fares
HART 677 RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN MEXICAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican
art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the
traumatic encounter of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis
will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican
Revolution of 1910-20. Also offered as WGST 487. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 SH 207A - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Deffebach, Nancy Enr: 0 Max: 5
HART 684 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE AND DIASP Credits 4.00 Spring 03
This course theorizes and analyzes the politics and aesthetics of the films and
videos that displaced filmmakers of the world have produced since the
1960s-films that form a new accent in the language of cinema. Also offered as
ANTH 684.
Prereq-permission of the instructor.
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: 0
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