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Expressionism), and the relationship between art history and recent art criticism. Not
open to first-year students. Prerequisite: one previous art history course.
Spring, Staff (Scripps).
182. From Colony to Nation State: A Social History of North American Art. A
comparative analysis of artistic production in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico from colonial
times to 1900. Emphasis on issues of race, class and gender and on the role of the visual
arts in the formation of national identities, cultures and myths. Includes the work of both
Native Americans and Euro-Americans. F. Pohl (Pomona) [not offered 2007-08]
183. Art Since 1960. This class provides an overview of significant issues and movements
in art since 1960. Focus is on the development of the global contemporary world.
Mainstream and alternative movements in the United States and Western Europe will be
discussed, with comparisons to emerging contemporary art centers. Fall, B. Anthes.
184. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American
Art. A comparative analysis of artistic production in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in the
20 th - and 21 st centuries. Examines issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and the
relationships between artistic theories and practices, economic developments, and social
and political movements (e.g., the Mexican Revolution, the Depression, the Women’s
Movement). F. Pohl (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
185. History of Photography. This course is a survey of the complex interactions among
photographers, subjects, the pictures they made and their audiences, past and present.
Through an approach grounded in political, social and economic history, as well as the
literature, arts and intellectual battles of the period, we consider the myriad roles of the
photograph as document, aesthetic expression, commercial production and personal record.
Spring, Rael (Scripps).
186A. Theories of Contemporary Art. Based on close readings of key writings by artists,
critics, curators, and scholars, this discussion-based seminar focuses on the evolving
aesthetic, social-political, and theoretical discourses that have informed the art world
since World War II. Topics to be addressed include modernism, postmodernism, mass
media, feminism and gender theory, censorship, notions of identity, multiculturalism,
post-colonialism, and globalization. Prerequisite: a previous course in art history.
Prerequisite: Spring, B. Anthes.
186B. Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art: James Turrell and Contemporary
Site-Specific Art. Examines in-depth one or more themes or critical issues in
Contemporary Art History or collection of artworks from a local collection. Fall 2007
topic: James Turrell and Contemporary Site-Specific Art, focusing on the history of sitespecific
sculpture since the 1960s, and on the Turrell ‘skyspace’ at Pomona College. Jr./Sr.
Art or Art History majors only. Fall, B. Anthes (Pitzer)/K. Howe (Pomona).
186C. Seminar: Chinese/Asian Textiles. Designed as a “hands-on” experience with
interpreting works of Asian art through investigative research and educational
presentation. The topics of this seminar will change, but the focus will be on art works.
Fall, B. Coats (Scripps).
186F. Seminar: Topics in North American Art. Intensive investigation of a variety of
topics relating to the production and reception of art in Canada, the United States and
Mexico. Topic: Representing Indigenous Cultures. F. Pohl (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
186G. Gendering the Renaissance. Takes up historian Joan Kelly’s challenge, “Did
women have a Renaissance?” Expands the question to cultural constructs of the male and
female body, sexuality, identity, homosexuality and lesbianism, and their implications for
the visual arts, literature, and the history of early modern Europe (14th-17th centuries).
Fall, G. Gorse (Pomona).
186K. Seminar in Modern Art. Examines in-depth one theme or set of themes in 19th
and 20th century art and related fields. Topics change from year to year. Prerequisite: one
upper-division Art History course. Fall/Spring, Staff (Scripps).
186L BK. Critical Race Theory, Representation & the Rule of Law. Examines the role of
law in constructing and maintaining racialized, gendered and classed disparities of
justice, as well as the intellectual, aesthetic, scientific and political convergences of critical
jurisprudence with representational practices in African Diasporic visual arts.
Prerequisites: Completion of one of the Black Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano
Studies or Gender & Women’s Studies courses. Spring, P. Jackson (Pomona).
186M. Seminar in 20th-Century Art—Dada and Surrealism. Seminar will examine one
movement, artist or other selected topic within the art of the 20th century. Open to juniors
and seniors. Topic changes each year. Fall, M. MacNaughton (Scripps).
186R. Manet, Degas, Cezanne. Examines three formative figures of modern art in their
social and aesthetic contexts. Some attention to popular imagery, photography, women
painters, academic artists, pornography, literary parallels. Museum visits. Not open to
first-year students. (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
186T. Art and Time. Technological developments over the past 200 years have altered
relations between art and time. How has moving from painting to lithography,
photography, film and digital media influenced the creation of art and its relation to
beholders? Considering North America and Europe since 1800, we explore relations
between still and moving images, and ask how artists manipulate our experience of time.
Alongside mainstream forms, we examine wax museums, natural history dioramas,
stereographs, tableau vivants, MTV. The seminar constitutes a brief history of making and
looking at images. (Pomona). [not offered 2007-08]
186W BK. Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation. An interdisciplinary interrogation
of linguistics, conceptual and practical solipsisms that contribute to the construction and
normalization of whiteness in aesthetics, art, visual, culture, film and mass media. Course
questions dialectics of “Blackness” and “Whiteness” that dominate Western intellectual
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