ART HIST 310-1,2 Ancient Art (1) (1) Art and architecture of the ancient Greco-Roman world. 1. Greece from the prehistoric Aegean to the Hellenistic period. 2. The Roman world from Etruscan forerunners to the High Empire.

ART HIST 319 Special Topics in Ancient Art (1) Content varies: for exmple, picturing the gods; monument and commemoration in antiquity; narrative in ancient art; the Roman provinces.

ART HIST 320-1,2 Medieval Art (1) (1) Art and architecture in Europe during the Middle Ages. First quarter: Late Antique and Byzantine. Second quarter: Carolingian and Romanesque.

ART HIST 329 Special Topics in Medieval Art (1) Content varies: the early Christian church; history of illuminated manuscripts; pilgrimage and saints' cults; the cathedral; Spain, the art of three cultures.

ART HIST 330-1,2,3 Renaissance Art (1) (1) (1) Painting, sculpture, and allied arts in Europe from the late Middle Ages through the 16th century. 1. Italian art from c. 1300 to the sack of Rome (1527). 2. Italian art from Mannerism to the High Baroque in rome. 3. France, Germany, and the Netherlands from the 14th through the 16th centuries.

ART HIST 339 Special Topics in Renaissance Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include the art of Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel; the history of collecting; the encounter of new and old world cultures.

ART HIST 340-1,2 Baroque Art (1) (1) Painting, sculpture and the allied arts in Europe from the late 16th through the 17th century. First Quarter: Art and Science in Early Modern Europe. Second Quarter: Art in the Age of Rembrandt.

ART HIST 349 Special Topics in Baroque Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include French art of the 16th and 17th centuries; prints, maps and books in the Dutch republic.

ART HIST 350-1,2 19th-Century Art (1) (1) European painting and sculpture from the late 18th through the end of the 19th century. First Quarter: Late 18th century to 1848. Second Quarter: 1848-1900.

ART HIST 359 Special Topics in 19th-Century Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include the art of Edouard Manet; Orientalism; the spaces of 19th-century European art; French painting in the south of France.

ART HIST 360-1,2 20th-Century European Art (1) (1) The artist and the environment: a survey of European painting, sculpture, architecture, and design from the 1890s to the 1960s. First Quarter: Symbolism to constructivism. Second Quarter: Berlin dada to situationist international.

ART HIST 365-1,2 American Art (1) (1) A survey of the arts and other visual phenomena in the United States, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, film, and popular culture. 1. Colonial times to 1900. 2. Twentieth century.

ART HIST 366 Postmodern Art (1) A survey of postwar art in the United States seen from a global perspective. Prerequisites: ART HIST 360 (-1 or -2), or ART HIST 365 (-1 or -2), or permission of instructor.

ART HIST 367 Special Topics in American Art (1) Content varies; for example, nationalism and internationalism in American art; the myth of America; the artist in American society; elite and popular visual traditions.

ART HIST 368 Special Topics in Modern Art and Performance (1) Advanced interdisciplinary study of the interrelated histories of the visual and performance arts in the 20th century. Content varies. Recent offerings include American painting and dance, 1930-1960, and postmodern art and performance from the Judson Church to Pina Bausch.

ART HIST 369 Special Topics in 20th-Century Art (1) Content varies: for example, videospectres in the West (1995-2001); Latin American art and the Cold War; Paul Klee and the social history of modern art in the Europe of his time: Blue Rider, Bauhaus, Surrealism; totalitarian art.

ART HIST 370-1,2 Modern Architecture (1) Development of architecture from 1800 to the present. First Quarter: 19th-century architecture.

ART HIST 378 Architecture and Urbanism of the World City in the 20th Century (1) Critical examination of the modern city as a socioeconomic system and the intersection of Western and non-Western urban patterns.

ART HIST 379 Special Topics in Modern Architecture (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include Chicago architecture, including the work of Sullivan and Wright; "Beaux-Arts" architecture in Europe and America; modernism in architecture; American architecture from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright.

ART HIST 382-1 Chinese Painting: Visual Culture of the Tang and Song Dynasties (1) Chinese painting from the 7th to the 13th century. Buddhist murals and works executed by court academies receive close attention.

ART HIST 382-2 Chinese Painting: Yuan and Ming Dynasties (1) Chinese painting from the 13th to the 17th century: the rise of the literati and the role of painting in social exchange.

ART HIST 384 African-American Art (1) Art of the African-descended cultures of North and South America and the Caribbean.

ART HIST 386-1,2 Art of Africa (1) A thematic and historical survey of the arts and architecture of Africa from the ancient periods (Nubian Egypt) to the 19th century.

ART HIST 389 Special Topics in Non-Euro-American Art (1) Content varies: for example, the art of central Africa; painting in the Indian subcontinent: Mughal and Rajput; seeing and displaying African art; gender and sexuality in 18th-20th century Japan and China.

ART HIST 395-1,2 Museums (1) (1) Seminars in museum studies. Content varies: for example, the history of museums, their ethical basis, community responsibilities, educational prerogatives, and future directions.

With the exception of ART HIST 401, all 400-level courses listed below may be repeated for credit with a change of topic.

ART HIST 401-1,2 Methods of Art History/Writing for Art History (1) (1)
1. Introduction to approaches in the discipline of art history; for students in the fall quarter of the first year. 2. Investigation of a philosophical or methodological approach of current interest in art history.

ART HIST 402 Studies in Representation (1) Advanced exploration of current controversies, special problems, and new results in the study and theory of representation in the visual media. Recent offerings include convention, fantasy and representation, and pathologies of representation.

ART HIST 410 Studies in Ancient Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include Paleolithic art and canonical Egyptian art.

ART HIST 420 Studies in Medieval Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include political perspectives on Gothic manuscripts in France and illuminated medieval romances from the 12th through the 15th century.

ART HIST 430 Studies in Renaissance Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include German woodcuts in the era of Dürer (at the Art Institute of Chicago), Flemish and Dutch paintings (at the Art Institute of Chicago), a workshop on late medieval manuscripts and early printed books (at the Newberry Library), and patronage and urbanism in 16th-century Rome.

ART HIST 440 Studies in Baroque Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include Rome in the 17th century and theory and practice at l'Académie Royale.

ART HIST 450 Studies in 19th-Century Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include costume and class in France (1840-1890) and the art of Manet.

ART HIST 460 Studies in 20th-Century Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include cubism, decoration and the decorative arts in France (1890-1925), German art of World War II, and Paul Klee's early career.

ART HIST 461 Art History after the "End" of Art (1) Examines the fate of esthetics in the history of art history: its eclipse during the discipline's "objectivist" phase and its contemporary resurrection.

ART HIST 465 Studies in American Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include the New York School, representations of the family in late 19th-century American painting, the origins of American art criticism, and puritanism and American art.

ART HIST 470 Studies in Modern Architecture (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include Louis Sullivan and Chicago architecture, architecture in America (1890-1930), the World City c. 1900, and French architecture (1830-1870).

ART HIST 475 Studies in Japanese Art (1) This course examines the relationship between the formation and the collapse of the Japanese Empire and visual arts in 20^th-century Japan.  Dealing with the period from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to roughly around the 1950s, the course first focuses on the role of visual arts vis-à-vis the state and Japan’s participation in a series of international/colonial wars.

ART HIST 480 Studies in Asian Art (1) Content varies. Offerings include: the role of sketching in the Chinese artists' practice, collecting Asian art under colonialism, Buddhist painting, and gender issues in East Asian prints.

ART HIST 485 Studies in South Asian Art (1) Central questions will concern the relationship between ‘colonial’ art and Indian traditions, and the (dis)junctures between popular and elite forms. Some of the key moments in the history we will examine are characterised by hybridity or transculturation; others are characterised by ‘purification’. Topic include ‘indigenous’ regional traditions, new colonial art markets, the rise of art schools, popular chromolithography, and the emergence of an internationalizing artworld in India. 

ART HIST 486 Studies in African Art (1) Content varies. Recent offerings include the African mask, art and gender in Africa, rock art, art of the Yoruba, the institutional contexts of African art, and African-American art and Africa.

ART HIST 490-1,2,3 Program in Art Objects (1) (1) (1) A sequence of seminars that integrate historical interpretation and technical investigation.

ART HIST 496 Internship in the Arts (1) Direct participation in the regular activities of an established arts organization in the Evanston/Chicago area under the supervision of a faculty member. By petition to instructor, on a limited basis.

ART HIST 498 Graduate Tutorial (1, 2, or 3) Supervised studies in the history of art. Content and course requirements vary. Pass/no-credit permitted at the discretion of the graduate advisor.

ART HIST 499 Independent Study (1, 2, or 3) Permission of instructor and department required. May be repeated for credit.

ART HIST 570 Teaching Assistantship in Art History (1) Directed teaching assistantship in Art History. Students will be graded based upon the quality of their preparation and the success of their teaching. Students may receive a maximum of two course credits for Teaching Assistantships during the period of their enrollment.

ART HIST 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.

Related Courses in the Program in Comparative Literary Studies
COMP LIT 375 Literature and the Arts (1)

COMP LIT 487 Studies in Literature and the Arts (1)