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 artists have reinvented the old association between art and illusion, but students of any period or culture will be able to pursue their interests as the class treats the long history, and complicated theory, of art's association with trickery.

Primarily for graduate students.

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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 constructions of authorship and the image of the book.

Professor Thomas Cummins

Fridays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Art and Architecture of the Moche and their Precedence and Legacy

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 exhibition spaces, architecture abandons its place in the world – its practical and everyday interactions in the built environment – to enter the realm of representation. At the same time, exhibitions...

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 achieved the levels of French modernism, for example, neither in terms of its aesthetic complexity nor in terms of its contributions to nation state identity. Female photographers not only changed the almost purely patriarchal structures of official German culture, but they also contributed to a fundamentally different...

Felipe Pereda

Mondays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm

This course is about two things. First it’s an introductory course to the art of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) at the time of the Enlightenment and early Romanticism.  It will look into his formation in the institutions of the Old Regime (Travel to Rome, member of the Royal Academy, Court Artist) and explore how Goya challenged this artistic culture, exploring new ideas for the meaning of art, of its public and of the role of the artist in society.  Second, the course will discuss Goya’s work (from his early “...

Ioli Kalavrezou

Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm

The seminar will investigate an architectural masterpiece, the famous 6th c. Church of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople, now Istanbul.The monument stands at the forefront of the supreme architectural achievements not only of the emperor Justinian but of all Medieval and Byzantine domed architecture. It is best known for its unique design, its dome of unprecedented scale, and its splendid mosaics, now very much in the lime light. The seminar will analyse issues of design and materials, structure, symbolism and ritual...