Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
History of Art (HART)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some HART courses.
HART 206 INTRODUCTION - HISTORY OF ART Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 0 Max: NA 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 005 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 006 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 209 INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A survey of the art of Asia from the Neolithic period to the present. Not offered 1994-95. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 225 HISTORY OF AMER PHOTOGRAPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A lecture course that traces the development of photography in the United States from 1839-present. Students will examine important issues and works in thematic areas such as portraiture, documentary photography, fashion and advertising photo-journalism, and "art" photography. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 292 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 294 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 296 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 A changing set of topics. Will focus attention on themes such as auteur theory, directoral signature, film and semiotics, film and social control, film and revolution, film and Christianity, surealist film, film and the other arts and etc. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 300 Art and World's Religions Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Art is presented as a way of thinking about reality. Slide-illustrated lectures will involve visual formulations of: organization, history, destiny, society,, the individual, sexuality, gender, power, and the end of the world. 001 TBA McEvilley, Thomas Enr: 0 Max: 35 HART 309 LATE ANTIQUE/EARLY CHRISTIAN ART & ARCHI Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I The accomodation of both 3rd century A.D. abstraction and continuing Hellenism to Christian content in the centuries following Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313. Also an attempt to answer questions of interaction between the "Cult of the Emperor" and Christianity as the prescribed state religion. Is there truly a "clash of gods?" 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 316 ART & ARCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST-LATE MEDIE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 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 TBA Watenpaugh, Heghnar Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 317 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART FROM 5TH CENTURY TO R Credits 3.00 Spring 00 The first half of the course will focus on the art and architecture produced in Europe during the "Dark Ages" including the work of The Visigoths, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Merovingians, Carolingians and Ottonians. The second half of the course will consider the major revival of art and architecture in the medieval monasteries of the Romanesque period. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 321 ART AND THE MIND Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Selected topics in art history, criticism, esthetics, philosophy and the psychology of art. Previous art history courses desirable but not required. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 322 THE TRANSITION FROM MODERNISM TO POST-MO Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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. 001 TBA - W 01:00PM - 04:00PM McEvilley, Thomas Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 331 SEMINAR IN FILM & TV AUTHORS: KUBRICK, S Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * 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. 001 TBA Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: 15 HART 336 TELEVISION, SPECTACLE AND THE VISUAL ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 20 HART 346 19TH & 20TH CENT. ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I The origins of modern architecture in rival modes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the new architecture of Richardson, Sulllivan, and Wright; the International Style of Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies to the mid-twentieth century. Also offered as ARCH 346 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 350 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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. 001 TBA - MW 11:00AM - 12:15PM Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 0 Max: 36 HART 351 AMERICAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE BEFORE 190 Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A study of artistic style and historical context of American painting and sculpture before the twentieth century. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 30 HART 359 VICTORIAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I "Seminar on the visual culture of Victorian England, featuring the art and esthetics of Turner, Rosetti, Ruskin, and others. The first part will explore representative works in their larger political and social context. Art's intersection with colonialism, gender politics, urbanization, and scientific advancement will be addressed. The second part will focus more narrowly on the Victorian art world. Topics include major movements, such as Pre-Raphaelitism, media events, such as the Whistler-Ruskin trial, and the politics of artistic training. The course will highlight major concepts and possible theoretical frameworks for examining them. It will not survey the period comprehensively. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 361 THE ARTS OF CHINA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts with special consideration of recent archaeological finds. Prereq- Hart 209 or permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 371 ART BETWEEN THE WARS:THE CULTURAL POLITI Credits 3.00 Spring 00 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 TBA - MW 04:00PM - 05:30PM Papanikolas, Theresa Enr: 0 Max: HART 378 JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION Credits 3.00 Spring 00 The seminar format will provide students with the opportunity for in-depth study and research into the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter, Jan Van Eyck. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 408 SEMINAR - MIDDLE EASTERN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * 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. 001 TBA Watenpaugh, Heghnar Enr: 0 Max: 15 HART 412 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM IN ITAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I A study of the High Renaissance, with an emphasis on its leading masters: Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante, Michaelangelo, and Titian. The course will include a study of Mannerism, the stylish art produced after the first quarter of the sixteenth century. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 419 PRACTICUUM Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I No description Also offered as ARCH 419 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 421 FLEM PAINT'G VAN EYCK-BREUGHEL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Survey of Flemish painting fron last decades of 14th century through 16th with special emphasis on Limbourg brothers, Campin, van Eyck, van der Weyden, and their major followers (David, Bouts, Memling) and Peter Brueghel. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 12 HART 439 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Provides a broad overview of history of documentary and ethnographic cinema. Maintaining a world-wide perspective, both canonical and alternative films and film movements will be discussed. Particular attention will be paid to the shifting and overlapping of fiction and nonfiction genres. Also offered as ANTH 439 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 462 REGARDING WOMEN: GENDER,REPRES & VIS ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Examination of selected works by women artists as well as representations of women in European visual culture (with emphasis on painting) from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Prereq- Hart 205/206 or with permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 463 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Consideration of trends in the visual arts in America and Europe from Abstract Expressionism to the present. Emphasis on American Art and criticism. Prereq- Hart 475 or permission of instructor. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 464 ANDY WARHOL: ARTIST OF THE (NEXT?) CENTU Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I The current moment is an excellent time to begin to reevaluate 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, multi-media happenings, literature, and theatre. A look a Warhol's collaborations with rock musicians and the way Warhol influence the birth of punk rock will also be examined. 001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 471 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY EXILE CINEMA Credits 4.00 Spring 00 Focuses on cultural productions as vehicles by which a society speaks to itself and to others across national, cultural, and other boundaries. Uses contemporary theories of culture and media to examine the way meaning and cultural capital are created, minority and alternative views are represented, and individual and group identities are constructed. Prereq- permission of instructor. Also offered as ANTH 471 001 TBA Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: HART 475 EUROPEAN 20TH CENTURY ART Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Consideration of major developments in painting and sculpture from the 1880s to the 1940s: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism through Expressionism, Cubism, Abstraction, Dada, and Surrealism. Brief consideration of architecture and photography. Prereq- Hart 206 or permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 484 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEILD WORK/ RES Credits 0.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I See Hart 483. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 491 BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Prereq- Offered to the the winner of the Jameson Fellowship. 001 TBA - TBA Manca, Joseph P. Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 492 SPECIAL TOPICS:FOUR MODERN MASTERS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 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 TBA - MW 02:30PM - 03:50PM Camfield, William A. Enr: 0 Max: HART 495 MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM Credits Spring 00 No description Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 496 MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM Credits Spring 00 See Hart 495. Prereq- permision of instructor. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 498 SENIOR THESIS Credits Spring 00 See Hart 497. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 499 SPEC PROB: JAP ART & SOCIETY Credits Spring 00 No description Prereq- permission of the faculty. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 539 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Provides a braod overview of history of documentary and ethnographic cinema. Maintaining a world-wide perspective, both canonical and alternative films and film movements will be discussed. Particular attention will be paid to the shifting and overlapping boundaries of fiction and nonfiction genres. Also offered as ANTH 439 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 571 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY EXILE CINEMA Credits 4.00 Spring 00 SEE HART 371. Also offered as ANTH 571 001 TBA Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: HART 584 ARCHEOLOGY FIELDWORK&RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Hart 484. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HART 586 INDEPENDENT READING Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 592 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 594 SPECIAL TOPICS: PROBLEMS IN WATTEAU Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 596 SPECIAL TOPICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HART 800 THESIS AND RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 50
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