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ARTH 42000 RESEARCH AND WRITING IN ART HISTORY (WIC) 3 ART HISTORY (ARTH) Credit Hours Introduction to the basic techniques and resources for art history ARTH 12001 ART AS A PHENOMENON (KFA) 3 Credit Hours research. Provides assistance in the preparation of research papers and Course explore the essential qualities of art and the motivations for critical essays required by upper-division art history courses. creating art in both Western and non-Western cultures through a thematic Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. paradigm. By the end of the term, students have developed an enhanced Corequisite: Art history upper-division (ARTH 30000 or 40000 level) ability to identify and describe various media and styles of artistic course. production, and have a basic knowledge of the major cultural periods Schedule Type: Lecture and representative artworks in the history of world art. This course is Contact Hours: 3 lecture designed for non-art majors, and will not fulfill requirements for School of Grade Mode: Standard Letter Art majors. Attributes: Writing Intensive Course Prerequisite: None. ARTH 42025 ART OF WEST (DIVG) 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 52025) Arts, crafts and architecture of the Contact Hours: 3 lecture western Sudanic and Coast areas of West Africa, from prehistoric Grade Mode: Standard Letter times to the present. Attributes: Kent Core Fine Arts, Transfer Module Fine Arts Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. ARTH 22006 ART HISTORY: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ART (KFA) 3 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Examination and interpretation of the major monuments of Western art Grade Mode: Standard Letter and architecture from Paleolithic art to late Gothic art. The impact of non- Attributes: Diversity Global Western traditions is included as appropriate. ARTH 42026 ART OF (DIVG) 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: None. (Cross-listed with ARTH 52026) Study of the arts, crafts and architecture Schedule Type: Lecture of Nigeria, from prehistoric times to the present. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Attributes: Kent Core Fine Arts, TAG Arts and Humanities, Transfer Contact Hours: 3 lecture Module Fine Arts Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 22007 ART HISTORY: RENAISSANCE TO MODERN ART (KFA) 3 Attributes: Diversity Global Credit Hours ARTH 42027 ART OF (DIVG) 3 Credit Hours Major movements and artists in painting, sculpture and allied arts of (Cross-listed with ARTH 52027) Comparative study of the arts, crafts and and America from early Renaissance in Italy until the present day. architecture of Central Africa, from prehistoric times to the present. The impact of non- Western traditions is included as appropriate. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: None. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Attributes: Diversity Global Attributes: Kent Core Fine Arts, TAG Arts and Humanities, Transfer Module Fine Arts ARTH 42028 CONTEMPORARY : 1980—PRESENT 3 Credit Hours ARTH 22020 ART OF AFRICA, AND THE (DIVG) (Slashed with ARTH 52028) An in-depth study of African art since the (KFA) 3 Credit Hours late twentieth century. Focused on artists from the and the Stylistic and historical investigation of the art and architecture of the Diaspora, the course begins by examining the impact that , traditional societies of Africa, Oceania and the Americas within an art with its appropriation, exploitation, and reshaping of Africa, had on historical and cross-cultural perspective. the arts in Africa (1960-1980). It then analyzes a broad spectrum of Prerequisite: None. modern and forms (painting, printmaking, Schedule Type: Lecture sculpture, textiles, photography, performance, and film) and related art Contact Hours: 3 lecture history, exhibition and critical texts from the 1980s to the present, with Grade Mode: Standard Letter an emphasis on such issues as patronage, the commodification of art, Attributes: Diversity Global, Kent Core Fine Arts, Transfer Module Fine urbanism, national consciousness, identity formation, new media and the Arts effects of globalization. ARTH 32066 LATE MODERN ART 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Painting, sculpture and allied arts in the United States and Europe, from Schedule Type: Lecture 1940 to the present. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: ARTH 22007. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 42031 GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART 3 Credit Hours ARTH 42043 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY 3 (Cross-listed with CLAS 41401)(Slashed with ARTH 52031 and Credit Hours CLAS 51401) Introduction to archaeology of the Greek world with (Cross-listed with ARTH 52043) Covers late and 16th century emphasis on recent discoveries and their impact on the study of Greek painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy. Following discussion of the art, architecture and sculpture through the Hellenistic period. High Renaissance masters, students examine the works collectively Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. known as the Mannerists. Course gives students a firm grounding in the Schedule Type: Lecture manifold artistic activity of the 16th century. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 42032 ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with CLAS 41402)(Slashed with ARTH 52032 and Grade Mode: Standard Letter CLAS 51402) Introduction to archaeology of the Roman world with ARTH 42044 VENETIAN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours emphasis on recent discoveries and their impact on the study of Etruscan (Cross-listed with ARTH 52044) Course provides a survey of Venetian and Roman art, architecture and sculpture through the Imperial period. painting, sculpture and architecture from the late 1300's to the late Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. 1500's. Upon completion students have a comprehension of the Schedule Type: Lecture interrelationship of Venetian art with its unique environment and society. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 42036 MEDIEVAL ART 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 52036) Emphasis on major period of Medieval Grade Mode: Standard Letter art (Byzantine, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic) treating ARTH 42045 ITALIAN ART FROM GIOTTO TO BERNINI 3 Credit Hours iconographic themes and styles in a variety of media. (Slashed with ARTH 52045) Course explores the development of art and Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. architecture in Italy from the late Middle Ages to the High Renaissance Schedule Type: Lecture period. Through an in-depth analysis of the art and history of these Contact Hours: 3 lecture periods, students develop an understanding of Italy's role in the overall Grade Mode: Standard Letter development of Western civilization. Particular emphasis is given to ARTH 42039 GOTHIC ART, 12TH TO 15TH CENTURIES 3 Credit Florentine Art. Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. (Cross-listed with ARTH) An examination of the development of European Schedule Type: Lecture Gothic art from the 12th century to the 15th century. Emphasis on the ties Contact Hours: 3 lecture to contemporary philosophical and literary developments. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: ARTH 22006 and ARTH 22007. ARTH 42046 BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Slashed with ARTH 52046) Study of the origins of Baroque art in Italy Contact Hours: 3 lecture and its spread throughout Flanders, the , and . Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. ARTH 42041 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 52041) Study of development of major themes in Contact Hours: 3 lecture Italian art from 1400 until about 1550, emphasizing achievements of the Grade Mode: Standard Letter masters and analyzing major ideas and theories of the period. ARTH 42051 EUROPEAN ART AND IDEAS: 1750-1900 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. (Slashed with ARTH 52051) Selected studies in late 18th-century and Schedule Type: Lecture 19th-century British, French, German and Spanish art and architecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture within the broader context of and ideas. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. ARTH 42042 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 52042) Study of stylistic and iconographic Contact Hours: 3 lecture questions and technique in Northern panel painting, as well as other arts Grade Mode: Standard Letter in . Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 42060 RUSSIAN ART 3 Credit Hours ARTH 42065 FEMINIST AND QUEER ART AND CULTURAL THEORY 3 (Slashed with ARTH 52060) This course explores the history of Russian Credit Hours art starting with the legacy of Byzantium and continuing up through the (Slashed with ARTH 52065) This advanced and interdisciplinary art end of the Soviet era, from about 1000 CE to the present. Russia’s artistic history course explores feminist and queer visual histories, with particular movements have borrowed from a wide variety of cultures, both from attention to related cultural theories. In addition to paradigmatic groups that have attacked and conquered Russian territories as well as ideologies of difference and , this course is based on from groups that Russians themselves have conquered and attacked. We indispensable and sometimes peripheral postmodern milieux such will focus on art that was produced in Russia as well as the cross-cultural as politicized identities, economies and the body, the importance of influences that shaped and changed this art. Painting will be a dominant feeling and the everyday, feminist-Marxist critiques of community and focus, coupled with a broad study including decorative arts like porcelain the state and notions of lived histories/narratives. In regard to structure, and embroidery as well as architecture, performance and illustration. this is a reading intensive course designed to empower students with Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. ‘influential’ visual and textual , as well as knowledge of critical Schedule Type: Lecture race, gender and sexuality studies. Readings, discussions, projects and Contact Hours: 3 lecture knowledges-at-large, are applicable in the artist’s studio and more broadly, Grade Mode: Standard Letter in humanities scholarship. ARTH 42061 EARLY 20TH-CENTURY ART 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. (Cross-listed with ARTH 52061) Study of painting, sculpture, architecture Schedule Type: Lecture and allied arts in Europe from 1880 to 1940. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: ARTH 22007. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 42067 ART OF THE 1960S 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 52067) A survey of the major movement of the Grade Mode: Standard Letter sixties decade, with primary emphasis on the United States. ARTH 42062 PICASSO 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Course provides a survey of the art of Picasso, starting with his childhood Schedule Type: Lecture works. Students gain a better understanding of Picasso's pivotal Contact Hours: 3 lecture importance to 20th century art and various influences that cultivated his Grade Mode: Standard Letter incredible creativity. ARTH 42069 NATIONS AND BORDERS 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. (Slashed with ARTH 52069) Emphasizing art and visual culture since Schedule Type: Lecture II, this course considers the phenomenon of the nation-state Contact Hours: 3 lecture in the context of embodied borders and diasporas. From the historically Grade Mode: Standard Letter charged U.S.-Mexico borderlands to the Berlin Wall that divided East ARTH 42063 AMERICAN ART:EUROPEAN 3 Credit Hours and West , modernity is characterized by the development (Cross-listed with ARTH 52063) Examines the role of European roots in of nations and subsequent nationalisms as well as the delineation of the formation of American art. The complex issues and identities artists borders and boundaries—and, once unpacked, theoretical and physical faced as a result of the expatriate experience are addressed. embodiments become legible. Taking a historically-grounded and global Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. approach to state production and displacement, critical texts—many of Schedule Type: Lecture which are grounded in feminist and queer theories—will address various Contact Hours: 3 lecture interpretations of boundaries, especially national and corporeal. We will Grade Mode: Standard Letter explore the intellectual history of nation-building and subsequent textual analyses of geographic and embodied borders. We will also study specific ARTH 42064 DADA AND SURREALISM 3 Credit Hours art historical moments, such as the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Using a roughly chronological approach, students examine the profound frontera, Israel’s occupation of Palestine, treating East and West Berlin and lasting contributions made by the Dadaists and Surrealists, as well as metaphor and allegory, the borderlands of queer and black identities as other revolutionary modernists of the early 20th century who sought in the United States and present-day Euro-American . The to escape the traditional and rational in art and thought with sincerity course format consists of rigorous class discussions guided by readings in spite of the often superficially simple or even sometimes nihilistic and illustrated presentations. appearance of their efforts. Through an analysis of selected works from Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. this period and their relevant precursors, an attempt will be made to Schedule Type: Lecture define the progressive ideas which led to the dismantling of previous Contact Hours: 3 lecture standards and the rise of an anti-art spirit which continues today in Grade Mode: Standard Letter various guises. Primary documents are considered regularly to provide students with a wider appreciation for the variety of media (e.g., film, ARTH 42071 HISTORY OF PRINTS 3 Credit Hours theater, typography) and the issues and characters involved. Chronological survey of printmaking (engraving, etching, lithography, Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. etc.) From 1400 to the present emphasizing its technical and stylistic Schedule Type: Lecture evolution. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 42073 EPHEMERAL EXHIBITIONS: WORLD FAIRS, FESTIVALS ARTH 42092 MUSEUM INTERNSHIP (ELR) 1-6 Credit Hours AND BIENNIALS 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 52092) A supervised (Slashed with ARTH 52073) Revisiting a variety of time-based exhibition internship in a regional museum emphasizing the practical application of formats throughout recent history. From Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace museological principles and practices. to the Venice Biennale, students examine a globally-oriented history Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. of landmark exhibitions that were designed to dazzle audiences for Schedule Type: Practical Experience a few months before being dismantled. Sponsored by governments, Contact Hours: 3-18 other the corporate sector, grassroots movements, or cultural actors, the Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP motivations for these exhibitions are as varied as the actual format the Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement exhibition takes. We discuss not only the framework and ideologies ARTH 42095 SPECIAL TOPICS: ART HISTORY 1-3 Credit Hours behind such projects, but also the legacies they have had on more (Repeatable for credit) (Cross-listed with ARTH 52095) Topics vary in permanent arts institutions, as well as criticisms levied against them by accordance with the interest and competence of faculty. artists. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 42096 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION:ART HISTORY 1-3 Credit ARTH 42076 HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND Hours VISUAL CULTURE 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) (Cross-listed with ARTH 52096) Directed (Slashed with ARTH 52076) Photography is embedded in every aspect of independent study with art history faculty. visual culture. As such, this course is a socio-political and socio-cultural Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. study of photography. This course focuses on major developments in the Schedule Type: Individual Investigation field, including photography’s advent, 19th-century commodity, scientific Contact Hours: 1-3 other manipulations, 20th century Modernism and postwar aesthetics. Course Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP also sketches political, cultural and theoretical developments and pertinent debates regarding emergence, significance, interpretation, ARTH 42098 RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY (ELR) 1-3 Credit Hours perception and resonance. In addition to manifold moments in histories (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 52098) Independent research and theories of photography, course examines critical approaches to the open only to undergraduate students in art history or related fields (by history of art, including ecocriticism, feminism, critical race studies, queer special permission only). studies and borderlands studies. While effort will be made to survey Prerequisite: Special approval. photography’s history, this is not taxonomy of related movements and Schedule Type: Research moments. Contact Hours: 3-9 other Prerequisite: ARTH 32066. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement Contact Hours: 3 lecture ARTH 42192 FIELD EXPERIENCE:TRAVEL STUDY IN ART HISTORY Grade Mode: Standard Letter (ELR) 1-3 Credit Hours ARTH 42078 HISTORY OF THE DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS 3 (Repeatable for credit) (Cross-listed with ARTH 52192) Travel-based Credit Hours study/field experience in art history to and at a site or sites away from (Cross-listed with ARTH 52078) Historical and critical examination of Kent State University. The primary benefit will be the observation and decorative and applied arts and their relationship to the Western societies study of works of art first hand, in addition to the presentation and which produced them. discussion of historical and contextual factors. Time is made available Prerequisite: ARTH 22006 and ARTH 22007. for individual investigation of specific works sites. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Major in Art History. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Field Experience Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 1-3 other Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory ARTH 42091 ART HISTORY SEMINAR 3 Credit Hours Attributes: Experiential Learning Requirement (Repeatable for credit) Open format course with topics announced in advance. Designed to allow detailed examination of selected topics. ARTH 52025 ART OF WEST AFRICA 3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: Junior standing; and special approval of instructor. (Cross-listed with ARTH 42025) Arts, crafts and architecture of the Schedule Type: Seminar Western Sudanic and Guinea Coast areas of West Africa from prehistoric Contact Hours: 3 other times to the present. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 52026 ART OF NIGERIA 3 Credit Hours ARTH 52038 HAND MADE BOOKS AND ART 3 Credit Hours (Cross-listed with ARTH 42026) Study of the arts, crafts and architecture Course examines the history of (predominantly Western) books and of Nigeria from prehistoric times to present. reading; of books as locus of several types of visual art (decoration, Prerequisite: Graduate standing. illustration, vision, commentary); and of visual strategies for a range Schedule Type: Lecture of communication tasks in selected books from the Middle Ages Contact Hours: 3 lecture onward. Students are prepared to understand the variety and efficacy of Grade Mode: Standard Letter approaches that have been used by those producing books by hand in the ARTH 52027 ART OF CENTRAL AFRICA 3 Credit Hours past and at present. (Cross-listed with ARTH 42027) Study of the arts, crafts and architecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. of Central Africa from prehistoric times to present. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture ARTH 52039 GOTHIC ART:12TH TO 15TH CENTURIES 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter An examination of the development of European Gothic art from the 12th ARTH 52028 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART: 1980—PRESENT 3 to the 15th centuries. Students research specific works of art. Emphasis Credit Hours on contemporary historical philosophical and literary figures. (Slashed with ARTH 42028) An in-depth study of African art since the Prerequisite: Graduate standing. late twentieth century. Focused on artists from the continent and the Schedule Type: Lecture Diaspora, the course begins by examining the impact that colonialism, Contact Hours: 3 lecture with its appropriation, exploitation, and reshaping of Africa, had on Grade Mode: Standard Letter the arts in Africa (1960-1980). It then analyzes a broad spectrum of ARTH 52041 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours modern and contemporary African art forms (painting, printmaking, (Cross-listed with ARTH 42041) Study of development of major themes in sculpture, textiles, photography, performance, and film) and related art Italian art from 1400 until about 1550, emphasizing achievements of the history, exhibition and critical texts from the 1980s to the present, with masters and analyzing major ideas and theories of the period. an emphasis on such issues as patronage, the commodification of art, Prerequisite: Graduate standing. urbanism, national consciousness, identity formation, new media and the Schedule Type: Lecture effects of globalization. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 52042 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 42042) Study of stylistic and iconographic Grade Mode: Standard Letter questions and technique in northern panel painting, as well as other arts ARTH 52031 GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART 3 Credit Hours in Northern Europe. (Cross-listed with CLAS 51401)(Slashed with ARTH 42031 and Prerequisite: Graduate standing. CLAS 41401) Introduction to archaeology of the Greek world with Schedule Type: Lecture emphasis on recent discoveries and their impact on the study of Greek Contact Hours: 3 lecture art, architecture and sculpture through the Hellenistic period. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. ARTH 52043 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY 3 Schedule Type: Lecture Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 42043) Covers late 15th century and 16th century Grade Mode: Standard Letter painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy. Following discussion of the ARTH 52032 ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART 3 Credit Hours High Renaissance masters students examine the works collectively (Cross-listed with CLAS 51402)(Slashed with ARTH 42032 and known as the Mannerists. Course gives students a firm grounding in the CLAS 41402) Introduction to archaeology of the Roman world. Emphasis manifold artistic activity of the 16th century. on discoveries and impact on the study of Etruscan and Roman art, Prerequisite: Graduate standing. architecture and sculpture through Imperial period. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture ARTH 52044 VENETIAN RENAISSANCE ART 3 Credit Hours Grade Mode: Standard Letter (Cross-listed with ARTH 42044) Course provides a survey of Venetian ARTH 52036 MEDIEVAL ART 3 Credit Hours painting, sculpture and architecture from the late 1300's to the late (Cross-listed with ARTH 42036) Emphasis on major periods of Medieval 1500's. Upon completion students will have a comprehension of Venetian art (Byzantine, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic), treating art with its unique environment and society. iconographic themes and styles in a variety of media. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 52045 ITALIAN ART FROM GIOTTO TO BERNINI 3 Credit Hours ARTH 52063 AMERICAN ART:EUROPEAN ROOTS 3 Credit Hours (Slashed with ARTH 42045) Course explores the development of art and (Cross-listed with ARTH 42063) Examines the role of European roots in architecture in Italy from the late Middle Ages to the High Renaissance the formation of American art. The complex issues and identities artists period. Through an in-depth analysis of the art and history of these faced as a result of the expatriate experience are addressed. periods, students develop an understanding of Italy's role in the overall Prerequisite: Graduate standing. development of Western civilization. Particular emphasis is given to Schedule Type: Lecture Florentine Art. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 52064 DADA AND SURREALISM 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Using a roughly chronological approach, students examine the profound Grade Mode: Standard Letter and lasting contributions made by the Dadaists and Surrealists, as well ARTH 52046 BAROQUE ART IN EUROPE 3 Credit Hours as other revolutionary modernists of the early 20th century who sought (Slashed with ARTH 42046) A study of the origins of Baroque art in Italy to escape the traditional and rational in art and thought with sincerity and its spread throughout Flanders, the Netherlands, France and Spain. in spite of the often superficially simple or even sometimes nihilistic Prerequisite: Graduate standing. appearance of their efforts. Through an analysis of selected works from Schedule Type: Lecture this period and their relevant precursors, an attempt will be made to Contact Hours: 3 lecture define the progressive ideas which led to the dismantling of previous Grade Mode: Standard Letter standards and the rise of an anti-art spirit which continues today in ARTH 52051 EUROPEAN ART, 1750-1900 3 Credit Hours various guises. Primary documents are considered regularly to provide (Cross-listed with ARTH 42051) Selected studies in late 18th-century and students with a wider appreciation for the variety of media (e.g., film, 19th-century painting, sculpture architecture and allied arts of , theater, typography) and the issues and characters involved. France, Germany and Spain. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 52065 FEMINIST AND QUEER ART AND CULTURAL THEORY 3 ARTH 52060 RUSSIAN ART 3 Credit Hours Credit Hours (Slashed with ARTH 42060)This course explores the history of Russian (Slashed with ARTH 42065) This advanced and interdisciplinary art art starting with the legacy of Byzantium and continuing up through the history course explores feminist and queer visual histories, with particular end of the Soviet era, from about 1000 CE to the present. Russia’s artistic attention to related cultural theories. In addition to paradigmatic movements have borrowed from a wide variety of cultures, both from ideologies of difference and language, this course is based on groups that have attacked and conquered Russian territories as well as indispensable and sometimes peripheral postmodern millieux such from groups that Russians themselves have conquered and attacked. We as politicized identities, economies and the body, the importance of will focus on art that was produced in Russia as well as the cross-cultural feeling and the everyday, feminist-Marxist critiques of community and influences that shaped and changed this art. Painting will be a dominant the state and notions of lived histories/narratives. In regard to structure, focus, coupled with a broad study including decorative arts like porcelain this is a reading intensive course designed to empower students with and embroidery as well as architecture, performance and illustration. ‘influential’ visual and textual languages, as well as knowledge of critical Prerequisite: Graduate standing. race, gender and sexuality studies. Readings, discussions, projects and Schedule Type: Lecture knowledges-at-large, are applicable in the artist’s studio and more broadly, Contact Hours: 3 lecture in humanities scholarship. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 52061 EARLY 20TH-CENTURY ART 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture (Cross-listed with ARTH 42061) A study of painting, sculpture, Grade Mode: Standard Letter architecture and allied arts in Europe from 1880 to 1940. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. ARTH 52066 LATE MODERN ART SINCE 1940 3 Credit Hours Schedule Type: Lecture A study of painting, sculpture and allied arts in the United States and Contact Hours: 3 lecture Europe from 1940 to the present. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture ARTH 52062 PICASSO 3 Credit Hours Contact Hours: 3 lecture Course provides a survey of the art of Picasso, starting with his childhood Grade Mode: Standard Letter works. Students gain a better understanding of Picasso's pivotal importance to 20th century art and the various influences that cultivated ARTH 52067 ART OF THE 1960S 3 Credit Hours his incredible creativity. (Cross-listed with ARTH 42067) A survey of major movements of the Prerequisite: Graduate standing. sixties decade, with primary emphasis on the United States. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 52069 NATIONS AND BORDERS 3 Credit Hours ARTH 52078 HISTORY OF DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS 3 Credit (Slashed with ARTH 42069) Emphasizing art and visual culture since Hours World War II, this course considers the phenomenon of the nation-state (Cross-listed with ARTH 42078) Historical and critical examination of in the context of embodied borders and diasporas. From the historically decorative and applied arts and their relationship to Western societies charged U.S.-Mexico borderlands to the Berlin Wall that divided East which produced them. and West Germany, modernity is characterized by the development Prerequisite: Graduate standing. of nations and subsequent nationalisms as well as the delineation of Schedule Type: Lecture borders and boundaries—and, once unpacked, theoretical and physical Contact Hours: 3 lecture embodiments become legible. Taking a historically-grounded and global Grade Mode: Standard Letter approach to state production and displacement, critical texts—many of ARTH 52092 MUSEUM INTERNSHIP 1-6 Credit Hours which are grounded in feminist and queer theories—will address various (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 42092) A supervised interpretations of boundaries, especially national and corporeal. We will internship in a regional museum emphasizing the practical application of explore the intellectual history of nation-building and subsequent textual museological principles and curatorial practices. analyses of geographic and embodied borders. We will also study specific Prerequisite: Graduate standing. art historical moments, such as the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Schedule Type: Practical Experience frontera, Israel’s occupation of Palestine, treating East and West Berlin Contact Hours: 3-18 other as metaphor and allegory, the borderlands of queer and black identities Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP in the United States and present-day Euro-American imperialism. The course format consists of rigorous class discussions guided by readings ARTH 52095 SPECIAL TOPICS:ART HISTORY 1-3 Credit Hours and illustrated presentations. (Repeatable for credit) (Cross-listed with ARTH 42095) Topics vary in Prerequisite: Graduate standing. accordance with the interest and competence of faculty. Schedule Type: Lecture Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Contact Hours: 3 lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Contact Hours: 1-3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 52073 EPHEMERAL EXHIBITIONS: WORLD FAIRS, FESTIVALS AND BIENNIALS 3 Credit Hours ARTH 52096 INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION:ART HISTORY 1-3 Credit (Slashed with ARTH 42073) Revisiting a variety of time-based exhibition Hours formats throughout recent history. From Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 42096) Directed independent to the Venice Biennale, students examine a globally-oriented history study with art history faculty. of landmark exhibitions that were designed to dazzle audiences for Prerequisite: Graduate standing. a few months before being dismantled. Sponsored by governments, Schedule Type: Individual Investigation the corporate sector, grassroots movements, or cultural actors, the Contact Hours: 3-9 other motivations for these exhibitions are as varied as the actual format the Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP exhibition takes. We discuss not only the framework and ideologies ARTH 52098 RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY 1-3 Credit Hours behind such projects, but also the legacies they have had on more (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 42098) Independent research permanent arts institutions, as well as criticisms levied against them by open only to graduate students in art history or related fields. artists. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Research Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3-9 other Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter-IP Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 52192 FIELD EXPERIENCE:TRAVEL STUDY IN ART HISTORY ARTH 52076 HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND 1-3 Credit Hours VISUAL CULTURE 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with ARTH 42192) Travel-based study/ (Slashed with ARTH 42076) Photography is embedded in every aspect of field experience in art history to and at a site or sites away from Kent visual culture. As such, this course is a socio-political and socio-cultural State University. The primary benefit will be the observation and study of study of photography. This course focuses on major developments in the works of art first hand, in addition to the presentation and discussion of field, including photography’s advent, 19th-century commodity, scientific historical and contextual factors. Time is made available for individual manipulations, 20th century Modernism and postwar aesthetics. Course investigation of specific works sites. also sketches political, cultural and theoretical developments and Prerequisite: Major in Art History; and graduate standing. pertinent debates regarding emergence, significance, interpretation, Schedule Type: Field Experience perception and resonance. In addition to manifold moments in histories Contact Hours: 3 other and theories of photography, course examines critical approaches to the Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory history of art, including ecocriticism, feminism, critical race studies, queer ARTH 62000 ART HISTORY RESEARCH METHODS AND RESOURCES studies and borderlands studies. While effort will be made to survey 2 Credit Hours photography’s history, this is not taxonomy of related movements and This course provides necessary foundational skills and resources in order moments. to conduct research in art history. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Contact Hours: 2 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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ARTH 62071 HISTORY OF PRINTS 3 Credit Hours A chronological survey of printmaking (engraving, etching, lithography, etc.) From 1400 to the present emphasizing its technical and stylistic evolution. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 62091 ART HISTORY SEMINAR 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for maximum 9 credit hours) Open format course with topics announced in advance. Designed to allow in-depth examination of selected topics. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Seminar Contact Hours: 3 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 62095 SPECIAL TOPICS: ART HISTORY 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Discussion and lecture course whose topic changes in accordance with the interest and competence of the faculty. Special focus on problems and issues in the different areas of the discipline. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Schedule Type: Lecture Contact Hours: 3 lecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 62096 SELECTED PROBLEMS: ART HISTORY 3 Credit Hours (Repeatable for maximum 9 credit hours) Course content changes each semester according to the topic, entailing discussion and lectures on specific problems issues and areas in art history. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and special approval. Schedule Type: Individual Investigation Contact Hours: 3 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARTH 62098 RESEARCH 1-15 Credit Hours (Repeatable for credit) Independent research. Prerequisite: Master of Arts degree in Art History; and graduate standing. Schedule Type: Research Contact Hours: 1-15 other Grade Mode: Standard Letter

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