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Spring, 2020
Jennifer L. Roberts Monday, Wednesday, 3:00pm - 4:15pm We are told that print is dead. But the codes and processes of printmaking continue to shape contemporary art, culture, and technology in powerful ways. The most basic physical fact of printing -- its use of pressure in...
Jinah Kim Monday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm 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 relationship to the society at large...
Yukio Lippit Wednesday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm This seminar explores the history of painting during Japan’s Edo period (1615-1868). Along with an introduction to major artists and schools, the course will examine themes such as the formats and materiality of Japanese painting...
Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Thursday, 12:00pm 2:45pm Critically explores the historiography and interpretations of Islamic ornament. Themes include ornamentality and abstraction, theories of perception, orientalist discourses on the so-called "arabesque," resonances of non...
David Roxburgh, Lisa Haber-Thomson Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00pm - 1:15pm Examines major works of world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of...
Melissa M. McCormick Monday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This is a seminar for advanced graduate students in East Asian art (and adjacent fields) focusing on reading secondary and primary sources in Japanese, as well as recent scholarship and theoretical texts in English. The topic...
Joseph Koerner Monday & Wednesday, 10:30am - 11:45am Between 1400 to 1700 artists in Northern Europe created new imagery and new image technologies that helped lay the foundations of our modern world. We explore painting, sculpting, and printmaking in Germany, the...
Philip Goad Tuesday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm This course, designed as a graduate level seminar, has as its focus the question of transnational exchanges in architecture and urbanism. Themes of reception, transaction, technology transfer, the flows of capital and resources...
Thomas Cummins Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30pm - 2:45pm This is a general introduction to and survey of the arts of Ancient America. We will look at both Mesoamerica and the Andean art and architecture beginning with some of the earliest cultures and ending with Aztec, Maya...
Benjamin Buchloh Thursday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This graduate seminar (qualified undergraduates will be admitted after interview), will investigate the complex relationships between painterly practices and mass cultural formations (photography, advertisement, television) from...
Felipe Pereda Monday & Wednesday, 1:30pm - 2:45pm The art of the Spanish Golden Age is well known for its radical naturalism, on the one hand, and its intense religious imagery, on the other. This course will be an introduction to the major artists of this period –Murillo...
Thomas Cummins Monday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm “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 problem. As such, the seminar will examine the...
Felipe Pereda, Shawon Kinew Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30am - 11:45am This course examines sculpture and its principles during the early modern period between the Iberian and Italian peninsulas. Between 1400-1700, sculptors pushed the boundaries of their medium, imbuing the...
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Wednesday, 10:30am - 1:15pm 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 in History of Art and...
Elle Gerdeman Wednesday & Friday, 1:30pm - 4:15pm Architecture assembles multiple models, surfaces, and materials; it is not a single monolithic thing, rather it is comprised of disparate parts and organizational systems operating at different scales. Design, the bringing...
Makeda Best and Mary Schneider Enriquez Wednesday 03:00 PM - 05:45 PM Practicing art history in today’s increasingly mobile art world—whether as a field curator, academic researcher, critic, or other professional specialism—requires museum literacy, intellectual empathy, and...
Lisa Haber-Thomson Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30pm - 4:15pm The practice of architecture fundamentally asks us to continuously engage with, and re-conceptualize, the world for which we are designing. As such, architecture as a discipline is not only about designing buildings, but...
Graduate seminar exploring the intersection of the field of art history with the globalized art world. What is "contemporary art" - in theory, in practice, and in history?
Yukio Lippit Thursday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm Group tutorial, offers an introduction to the methods and research skills of art and architectural history.
Yukio Lippit, Laura Kenner Wednesday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm Group tutorial, offers concentrators the choice of several study groups investigating a particular field of art of architectural history. Required of concentrators, generally in the Junior year.
Jinah Kim, Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Melissa M. McCormick Tuesday, 9:45am - 11:45am 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: India. Excursion is...
David Roxburgh Thursday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm The seminar examines cities and monuments built in Greater Iran and Central Asia from the 11 th through 15 th centuries spanning three principal dynastic periods (Seljuqs, Mongols, and Timurids). Various functional types—mosques...
Suzanne Blier Monday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm Harvard Square has a rich history; under its earlier name of Newtowne (founded in 1630), it was once the site of the Massachusetts capital. Much has changed. This class looks back on the many changes Harvard Square has undergone, recent...
Ewa Lajer-Bucharth Tuesday, 12:00pm - 2:30pm The course explores cultural and artistic engagement with the trope of the “other” in 18 th- and 19 th-century France, Britain, and elsewhere. Paintings, prints, travel and costume books, architecture, and design will be discussed...