Fall 2019

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Wednesday - 10:30am - 1:15pm A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods.

Thomas Cummins Monday - 3:00pm - 5:45pm Topics to be determined in consideration of interests of students.

Yukio Lippit Thursday - 3:00pm - 5:45pm This course explores the golden age of Japanese Buddhist sculpture from the seventh through thirteenth century. Each week focuses on one famous work in terms of style, iconography, technique, materials, sculptor...

Shawon Kinew Wednesday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm As the territory of early modern European studies continues to expand, mimicking the colonization of the period under study, art historians inevitably become explorers of terra incognita claiming “marvelous...

Joseph Koerner Tuesday - 12:00pm - 2:45pm Explores landscape drawing as a specialized genre of art production in seventeenth-century Holland, and considers its historical origins, its practical and wider cultural functions, and its historical afterlife...

Matt Saunders, Jennifer L. Roberts Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm Incorporating both studio and seminar instruction, this intensive course will explore printmaking’s history, trace its particular forms of intelligence, and test its future potential...

Narayan Khandekar Wednesday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm This course leads students through the examination of a work of art from the collection of Harvard Art Museums using the perspectives of a curator, conservator and a conservation scientist. Students will...

Suzanne Blier Monday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This seminar addresses questions of cultural display through the art and architecture of world fairs, mid-nineteenth century to present. Students are introduced to the seminal fair events beginning with the Crystal...

Andrew Plumb Monday, 9:00am - 10:00am; Friday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm Tectonics Lab introduces students to the roles that materials and their disposition play in the production of meaningful architectural experience. We explore material properties and expand...

Suzanne Blier Monday, 3:00PM - 5:45pm African art and architecture frequently engage, represent, connect to, or communicate with spiritual forces. A wide variety of religious beliefs, including an array of both local traditions and broader regional and...