Spring 2018

Critical Printing Jennifer Roberts, Matt Saunders Tuesday/Thursday, 10-1pm Incorporating both studio and seminar instruction, this intensive course will explore printmaking’s history, trace its particular forms of intelligence, and test its future...

Books and Things in Spanish America Thomas Cummins Wednesday, 3-5pmMovable type and the discovery of the New World occur almost simultaneously. It is perhaps no surprise that one of the first international businesses was the printing press in Mexico. This...

Cuzco, 1650-1700 Thomas Cummins Monday, 1-3pm Cuzco, once the center of the Inca Empire, became a major colonial Peruvian city unlike any other in which the royal descendants of the Inca lived and ruled along with Spaniards. In 1650 an earthquake...

What is Black Art? African American Cultural Production from the Early Republic to Civil Rights Sarah Lewis Tuesday, 1-3pm This course surveys the history of African American Art from the colonial period to the long Civil Rights movement in the context of...

Painting of India Jinah Kim Monday, 1-3pm The course explores the history of Indian painting based on the collections of Harvard Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We will investigate the theory of pictorial form in India and its...

Japanese Woodblock Prints Yukio Lippit Thursday, 3-5pm A thorough introduction to the history of the Japanese woodblock print, based upon first-hand study of the Sackler and MFA collections. Technical and stylistic change will be studied within the...

Architecture and Authoritarianism in the 20 th C. Patricio del Real Wednesday, 1-3pmIn this pro-seminar, we will explore architecture in totalitarian regimes, paying particular attention to fascism as a political ideology and historical frame. The course...

Rome Eternal City Joseph Connors Wednesday, 3-5pm An architectural history of Rome from the empire through the early Christian and medieval city, the Renaissance revival of antiquity, Baroque planning, and early archeology to Fascism and modernism...

The Art of Death: Funerary Monuments in the Mediterranean Felipe Pereda Tuesday, 1-3pm Funerary art is a type of monumental sculpture that was systematically produced around the Mediterranean since Antiquity, through the Middle Ages and into the Early...

Sophomore Excursion Seminar: Berlin Benjamin Buchloh, Patricio del Real Monday, 3-5pm This course introduces sophomore concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year...