Fall 2020

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Wednesdays, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods. Course is required of HAA G1s and open solely to HAA G1s

Thomas Cummins Tuesdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Topics to be determined in consideration of interests of students.

Yukio Lippit Thursdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm This course examines the alternative canon of Chinese painting that formed in Japan through historical Japanese collections of Chinese painting.

Eugene Wang Thursdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm The cluster of embellished caves at Dunhuang, China, is among the largest decorated Buddhist cave complexes in the world, spanning the fourth to the fourteenth century. With 492 caves decorated with murals and...

Jennifer Roberts Thursdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and coalescing in the work of French polymath Étienne-Jules Marey, scientists worked systematically to develop methods of detecting and recording the elusive, invisible...

Sarah Lewis Mondays, 9:45 am - 11:45 am How are artists, and how are disciplines in the arts and humanities, responding to the hyper-visuality of racial injustices on American ground? This course explores how visual artists including Mark Bradford...

David Roxburgh Tuesdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm This seminar is focused on the reading and critical study of primary written sources about art in Persian and English translation from the 15 th through 17 th centuries focused on Persianate culture. Secondary...

Evridiki Georganteli Wednesdays, 9:00 am - 11:45 am Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic and cultural map of Europe and the Middle East. This...

Melissa McCormick Mondays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm Examines Japanese narrative picture scrolls ( emaki) focusing on examples from the 12th to the 16th c. Provides training in reading scroll texts ( kotobagaki) and analyzing paintings from formal, narratological...

Suzanne Blier Mondays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm The course explores art in global context, among those traditions in Africa, Oceania, and Native America, fields shared by both art history and anthropology. How does each discipline address local perspectives on...