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Course ListingsFall 2012Art History03701FAH 005501 F+TR Mctighe, Monica 1.0 Prereq Fah2,lwr Lvl OfDual Lvl Crs55/155FAH 0092SPECIAL TOPICSSpecial Topics.Please see departmental website for specific details.SectionsPOPULAR MUSICS ART HISTS01806 FAH 009201 D+ Rosenberg, Eric 1.0 Lower Level OfDual Lvl Course92/192FAH 0100THEORIES&METH ART HISTHow art history has been studied in the past and how it is currentlystudied: historiography and methodology. Consideration of early writerson art (Pliny, Vasari) to develop understanding of origins of presentdiscourses, and to see interaction of art, society, and theory in historicalperspective. Readings in twentieth-century approaches: from traditionalstyle and connoisseurship and their critics through Riegl's andPanofsky's fundamental works, to contemporary methods such aspsychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, semiotics. Required course for arthistory major; recommended to be taken in the senior year. Open tononmajors with consent.Prerequisites: Two 100-level art history courses completed or takenconcurrently. This course is offered only in the fall term. In order toavoid possible course conflicts, it is recommended that students whoplan to double major take this course during their junior year.Sections01810 FAH 010001 G+M Overbey, Karen 1.0 Ah SeniorMajors, Reg ForOne Sec01811 FAH 010002 G+M Overbey, Karen 1.0 Ah Jr Majors,Reg For OneSec01808 FAH 0100A G+W Overbey, Karen 0.0 Req Sect ForFah 0100-01;Ah Jr/sr Only01809 FAH 0100B G+W Overbey, Karen 0.0 Req Sect ForFah 0100-01;Ah Jr/sr OnlyFAH 0101HIST&METH ART HISTORYFormalism, semiotics, Marxism, feminism, structuralism,poststructuralism. The "crisis in the discipline" and historiographicalorigins of the present debate. Spring.Prerequisites: FAH 100 and senior or graduate standing.Sections01812FAH 010101 7 Mctighe, Monica 1.0 For Art HistoryMasterStudentsFAH 0120ARMENIAN ART,ARCH & POL(Cross-listed as REL 120.) Study of castles, churches, sculpture, andmanuscripts in an international context. Armenia's political and religiousties with Rome, Byzantium, Islam, the crusaders, Europe, and EastAsia. The first country to declare Christianity its official religion, Armeniacreated art expressing distinctive religious concepts. Its architecturaltechniques and sculpture anticipated later developments in WesternRomanesque and Gothic art.Sections01815 FAH 012001 D+ Maranci, Christ 1.0 Cross-listed AsRel 120, MeetsWorld Civ Req.FAH 0121EARLY ISLAMIC ART(Cross-listed as REL 121.) A survey of the visual arts in Muslim landsfrom Spain to Central Asia between the seventh and thirteenthcenturies, emphasizing the role of visual arts in the formation andexpression of cultural identity. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and theportable arts of ceramics, ivory, metalwork, and manuscript illustrationwill be considered. Topics will include the uses of figural and non-figuralimagery; calligraphy and ornament; religious and secular art; public andprivate art; the art of the court and the art of the urban middle class; andthe status, use, and meaning of the portable arts. (Also offered as lowerlevel.)Sections01816 FAH 012101 I+MW Hoffman, Eva R 1.0 Upper Lvl DualLvl Crs0021/0121,C-list Rel 0121FAH 0123BYZANTINE ARTIntroduction to the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire, c. 326to 1453. Considers a range of media, including icons, illuminatedmanuscripts, sculpture, church architecture, metalwork, ivories, andtextiles. Location of these artistic traditions within their social andhistorical context, focusing on issues such as imperial ideology,patronage, art and devotion, secular art, classical revivals, culturalinteraction, and the role of images in Byzantine society. Also offered aslower-level.Prerequisites: graduate student or junior or senior Art History major orpermission of instructor.Sections03702 FAH 012301 H+ Maranci, Christ 1.0 Upper Level OfDual Course23/123FAH 0141AGE OF REMBRANDT&BERNINIThe arts of seventeenth-century Catholic Europe (Italy and Spain) andHolland in the context of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.The religious use and prohibition of images; the rise of secular artforms, private collecting, and the art market. Extra assignments andclass meetings. (Also offered as lower-level.)Sections04012 FAH 014101 F+ Staff 1.0FAH 0155CONTEMP ART SINCE 1960Major art movements in Europe and America from the 1960s throughthe early 2000s. Discussions of the major works of avant-garde art andits criticism, from Abstract Expressionism through the postmodernpractices of conceptual art, feminist art, performance art, andsite-specific installation art. Analysis of works of art in terms of formalissues, the art-critical debates in which they were produced, and theirimportance for current art production. (Also offered as lower-level.)Sections03703 FAH 015501 F+TR Mctighe, Monica 1.0 PrerequisiteFah 2 Upp LvlOf Dual Lvl Crs55/155FAH 0182INDEPENDENT STUDIESGuided individual study of an approved topic.Please see departmental website for specific details.SectionsSCHEMATICS IN ART04282 FAH 018201 ARR Solan, Victoria 1.0Tufts University Course Listings, Fall 2012Page 15