Spring 2021

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Tuesdays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture. Enrollment open only to incoming graduate students...

Carrie Lambert-Beatty Thursdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm This course will treat questions of trickery, deceit, and duplicity as characteristics of art, and attempt to theorize the aesthetics of deception. The approach will be through contemporary art, where...

Joseph Koerner Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm What challenges and opportunities arise for artists and writers working under dire conditions—martial, political, medical, and natural states of emergency? To what extent are such exceptional conditions the...

Jeffrey Hamburger Thursdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm The interaction of authority and authorship in the High Middle Ages, especially in the context of glossed books and commentaries, but also emergent vernacular literatures, with a focus on pictorial...

David Roxburgh Mondays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of...

Professor Thomas Cummins Fridays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Art and Architecture of the Moche and their Precedence and Legacy

Yukio Lippit Mondays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm This seminar studies the history of modern Japanese painting through an examination of Nihonga, a neotraditional form of painting that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Conceptualized in part by Ernest...

Patricio Del Real Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm Why has architecture entered the museum? Today, art museums continue to expand their offering on “buildings,” some even opening departments dedicated to architecture and design. In these privileged...

Maria Gough Tuesdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm How have artists responded to state violence? How has their work remembered, suppressed, erased, or otherwise forgotten acts of violence administered by states against their own citizens? When confronted by this...

Benjamin Buchloh Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:45 PM An extraordinary number of women trained to become photographers in Weimar Germany (1919-1933). Their presence and practices dramatically altered the conditions of visual culture in a country that had never...