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
Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.
In the fall term, HAA 99 includes several group tutorial meetings with the senior honors adviser, where assignments are aimed at facilitating the writing of a senior honors thesis; spring term consists of independent writing, under the direction of the individual thesis adviser. Part one of a two part series. Required of honors candidates in History of Art and Architecture. Permission of the DUS required.
Required of juniors concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. A group tutorial consisting of weekly meetings with a graduate student, with regular reading and writing assignments. HAA 98ar offers concentrators the choice of several study groups investigating a particular field or topic in art history, including each year: museums and collections; race and aesthetics; the art of looking and writing, and; architectural methods. Concentrators select two of the group tutorial topics.
For AY 23-24, the following topics will be offered:
Required of juniors concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. A group tutorial consisting of weekly meetings with a graduate student, with regular reading and writing assignments. HAA 98ar offers concentrators the choice of several study groups investigating a particular field or topic in art history, including each year: museums and collections; race and aesthetics; the art of looking and writing, and; architectural methods. Concentrators select two of the group tutorial topics.
For AY 23-24, the following topics will be offered:
Required of all History of Art and Architecture concentrators in their sophomore year. An introduction to the practice of art and architectural history through object-based teaching led by faculty members in HAA.
Seminar offered under special arrangements consisting of weekly meetings with designated faculty, where regular reading and writing assignments are focused on a topic of mutual interest.
This seminar will serve as a design platform for inquiry, documentation and analysis in relation either to the thesis topic or capstone project of interest to each student. Thesis students will be responsible for selecting a Thesis Advisor (or Advisors) with whom they will meet regularly to develop specific intention, substance and methodology of the thesis research and paper. This seminar is a support of independent thesis and/or independent project research, extending methodological inquiry of the project topic to design where students may...
Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the DUS for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor.
This seminar examines the history of medieval Japanese ink painting from the thirteenth through sixteenth century. Subjects to be addressed include the emergence of a Zen figural pantheon, Zen master portraiture (chinsō), poem-picture scrolls, landscape styles and inscriptions, the Ashikaga shogunal collection of Chinese painting, the relationship between architecture and painting, modal painting, the status of the monk-painter, and the emergence of the Kano school. Participants are required to have knowledge of either Chinese or Japanese.
The Chinese stupa-tower is a distinct architectural medium. It stages and choreographs disparate images either through its external or internal decorative programs or the deposits interred inside. More importantly, it is keyed to the conceptual core of a biological extinction and imaginary postmortem scenography. The course follows the development from early memorial towers in Buddhist caves to stupa-towers in the Forbidden City.
Photomontage—the assembly of photographic fragments—is as old as photography itself. This seminar offers an episodic history of the medium, examining its use in not only the fine arts but also aristocratic photocollage albums, radical scrapbooks, revolutionary political posters distributed en masse, and monumental displays at exhibitions and trade fairs. Of particular interest is the use of photomontage for the expression of political dissent (Berlin Dada) and the affirmative representation of public assemblies and collectivities.
Jacob Burckhardt’s thesis that literary and artistic representations of “self” became more common and expansive during the Renaissance has been vigorously challenged, but it gets at something that happened in the registration of personal identity in the Italy in the 14th century and then throughout the rest of Europe. This course revisits the prime textual and visual instances of Renaissance self-presentation—autobiography and portraiture—but expands the archive to “ego-documents” more generally: i.e., to written and material...
This course studies Armenian liturgical and domestic textiles from local collections, putting them into their social, historical, ritual, and art-historical context.
