# course-widget-test ### Spring, 2020 [### HAA 56G - Spanish Golden Age Painting: Truth and Deceit ](/class/haa-56g-spanish-golden-age-painting-truth-and-deceit) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 272M - Painting and Mass Culture after 1945 ](/class/haa-272m-painting-and-mass-culture-after-1945) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 61P - Between Life and Art: Sculpture in Italy and Spain, 1400-1700 ](/class/haa-61p-between-life-and-art-sculpture-italy-and-spain-1400-1700) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 292 - Colonial Art of Mexico and the Andes ](/class/haa-292-colonial-art-mexico-and-andes) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 96A - Architecture Studio I: Transformations ](/class/haa-96a-architecture-studio-i-transformations) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 310B - Works of Art: Materials, Forms, Histories ](/class/haa-310b-works-art-materials-forms-histories) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 96B - Architecture Studio II: Connections ](/class/haa-96b-architecture-studio-ii-connections) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 278M - Curatorial Praxis: Art History in the Public Sphere ](/class/haa-278m-curatorial-praxis-art-history-public-sphere) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 97R - Sophomore Methods Tutorial ](/class/haa-97r-sophomore-methods-tutorial-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) Yukio Lippit Thursday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm Group tutorial, offers an introduction to the methods and research skills of art and architectural history. [### HAA 277K - The Contemporary ](/class/haa-277k-contemporary) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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? [### HAA 98BR - Junior Group Tutorial: Post-Feminist Practices in the 1980's & 90's ](/class/haa-98br-junior-group-tutorial-post-feminist-practices-1980s-90s) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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. [### HAA 100R - Sophomore Excursion Seminar: India ](/class/haa-100r-sophomore-excursion-seminar-india) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 127M - Medieval Architecture in Greater Iran and Central Asia ](/class/haa-127m-medieval-architecture-greater-iran-and-central-asia) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 170G - Harvard Square ](/class/haa-170g-harvard-square) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 171X - Exoticism & Orientalism ](/class/haa-171x-exoticism-orientalism) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 179P - Press-Reverse-Resist: Introduction to Print in Contemporary Art ](/class/haa-179p-press-reverse-resist-introduction-print-contemporary-art) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 184X - Painting of India ](/class/haa-184x-painting-india) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 188P - Edo Painting ](/class/haa-188p-edo-painting) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 11 - Landmarks of World Architecture ](/class/haa-11-landmarks-world-architecture) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 228N - Islamic Ornament: Aesthetics of Abstraction and Theories of Perception ](/class/haa-228n-islamic-ornament-aesthetics-abstraction-and-theories-perception) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 16D - Northern Renaissance and Baroque Painting and Sculpture: Van Eyck to Vermeer ](/class/haa-16d-northern-renaissance-and-baroque-painting-and-sculpture-van-eyck-vermeer) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### EASTD 261 - Advanced Readings in East Asian Art ](/class/eastd-261-advanced-readings-east-asian-art) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 19Z - Introduction to the Arts of Pre-Columbian America ](/class/haa-19z-introduction-arts-pre-columbian-america) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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... [### HAA 270G - Transnational Exchange in Architecture; Australia and the Americas, 1939 to 2019 ](/class/haa-270g-transnational-exchange-architecture-australia-and-americas-1939-2019) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 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...