Fall 2017

Theories and Methodologies in the History of Art and Architecture Maria Gough Wednesday, 11-1pm A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods.

Colonial Art of Mexico and the Andes Thomas Cummins Wednesday, 1-3pm “Something New, Something Old: A Marriage Made in Hell” This seminar will examine how the new is rendered as something known. This conundrum is, in and of itself, an unprecedented...

Constructing Latin America Patricio Del Real Thursday, 1-3pm In the 20th Century, architects, designers and urban planners in Latin America realized and projected visions of modernity through buildings and ideas that established the canonic works of...

Medieval Japanese Ink Painting Yukio Lippit Monday, 3-5pm This seminar explores the golden age of Japanese Zen monk-painters (ca. 1200-1600). Issues to be explored include ritual and portraiture, techniques of accidentalism, inscriptions and Zen discourse...

The Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes Maria Gough Thursday, 1-3pm On the centenary of the 1917 Revolutions, this seminar offers a major test case for assessing the relationship between aesthetics and politics by returning to the pioneering example of...

The Art of religious Experience: Devotional Images Before and After the Reformation Jeffrey Hamburger, Felipe Pereda Tuesday, 1-3pm The Reformation, in 2017 500 years old, marks a caesura in the history of European religious art. Between the late Middle...

Family and Daily Life in the Byzantine World Ioli Kalavrezou Thursday, 1-3pm The course will focus on the private and public life and world of everyday Byzantine society. Although most of the surviving material evidence originates from court and religious...

Science and the Practice of Art History Narayan Khandekar Wednesday, 1-3pm 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...

Women in South Asian Art Jinah Kim Monday, 1-3pm This course aims to provide a historical perspective for understanding the contemporary politics of body and gender representation by exploring historical examples of female patronage of art and by...

Tectonics Lab: Materials and Form Mark Mulligan Monday, 9-10am; Friday, 2-5pm Tectonics Lab introduces students to material properties, structural behavior, and fabrication-and-assembly issues in architecture through a combination of lectures, workshops...