History of Art and Design (HAD) 1 HAD-304 Greek and Roman Art - (3 Credits) HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN Students consider Greek art of archaic, classical, and Hellenistic times; Roman adaptations of this heritage during the Republic and the Empire; (HAD) and the contributions of the Romans to the vitality of classical art. HAD-306 Social Justice in Art and Design History Junior Seminar - (3 HAD-106 Art and Design History in New York City First Year Seminar - (3 Credits) Credits) The relationship between the history of art and design and social justice This course is the first in a series of yearly seminars that scaffold and entails questions about the formation of personal and group identity, guide HAD majors. It will introduce first year students in the History of the nature of representation, the distribution of social goods including Art and Design BA program to historical research and analysis of art and material objects, and the entitlement of different groups to the use of design using the art, design, and architecture of New York City as a case various social spaces. This course, the third in a series of seminars study. Students will use the city's resources and cultural institutions required for HAD majors, will address these questions through the to learn about New York City's art and design history. A focus on major rigorous investigation of social justice issues in selected cultures and monuments and institutions as well as the design of the physical and time periods. social infrastructure including the city's contemporary art and design landscape will introduce students to the tools of primary research, central HAD-320 Art of the United States:1770-1940 - (3 Credits) works of art and design history, and NYC sites that will become key This course examines United States American art and its major themes resources for the rest of their education. from the prerevolutionary period to World War II. Students study painting, sculpture, photography, and the built world. The course will focus on five HAD-111 Themes in Art and Culture I - (3 Credits) major themes that have cut across the entire period: the relationship This course is the first in a required two-semester sequence. It covers the between artistic and political representation: The intertwined concepts history of art and architecture in Non-Western cultures and in the West of self, personhood, and the other in U.S American cultural life: the from Paleolithic to the Early Renaissance. Works of art are studied in representability of capitalism and slavery; the visualization of nature and their social, political and economic contexts along with considerations the city; and the problematic relationship Americans had to modern art. about patronage and stylistic influences. The three-hour sessions will be organized into two hours of lecture and an hour of group discussion on HAD-321 Medieval Visual Culture - (3 Credits) assigned readings or special topics. This course addresses the history of medieval art and architecture in Europe from approximately 300-1300. It will examine art made by Early HAD-112 Themes in Art and Culture II - (3 Credits) Christians. Byzantines, and Early Medieval migratory groups including This course is the second in the two-semester sequence of required the Vikings, as well as the development of the Carolingian, Ottonian, courses for students in the School of Art and the School of Design. It Romanesque, and Gothic styles. The course will integrate non-Christian covers the history of art and design in Western and non-Western cultures art, notably Islamic art from Spain, Andalusia, Sicily, and northern Africa from the fifteenth century to the present. Works of art are studied in their and emphasis will be given to artwork that demonstrated interaction social, political and economic contexts along with considerations about between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. A wide range of media patronage and stylistic influences. Students are introduced to major including metalwork, manuscripts, mural and panel paintings will be themes of Humanism from the Renaissance through the Modern period considered, alongside monasteries, cathedrals, and castles. The material and into the Postmodern world. Non-Western cultures, their art forms, will be examined through major social and political themes, such as and traditions, are studied during a similar time-frame for students to the development of feudalism and the emergence of monarchies, but become aware of similarities and contrasts for a balanced and wide- issues of gender, race, and cross-cultural contact, especially with Islamic ranging view of world cultures and to expand their definition of what regions, will be given prominence. constitutes art. HAD-323 Baroque Visual Culture - (3 Credits) HAD-206 Practices of Art and Design History- Sophomore Seminar - (3 The political, religious, economic and scientific developments of the Credits) Early Modern period (ca. 1585-1700) will engage us in this course on the This course is the second in a series of required seminars for HAD International Baroque. We will study issues of gender and class as well majors. It provides an opportunity for students to explore a number of the as style, in the paintings of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt theories and methods used in art and design history. Mandatory for all BA and Vermeer. The building programs of St. Peters by Bernini, of Versailles and BFA History of Art and Design sophomores, it provides a foundation under Louis XIV, and of London by Wren after The Great Fire will be for majors as they move forward in developing their practice as art and examined. design historians. HAD-331 Renaissance Arts in Italy and the North - (3 Credits) HAD-303 History of Ancient Egyptian Art and Design - (3 Credits) This course explores painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, made primarily in Italy, Flanders, and Germany between 1300 and 1600, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the emphasizing cultural and artistic communication between these regions. civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly 5000 BCE to 300 CE. Themes include the changing roles of the artist in society, innovative For many people, ancient Egypt art seems static and unchanging, due material and artistic techniques, the dynamics of civic, individual, and to the strict artistic conventions that ensured some level of consistency courtly patronage, and the representations of regional and religious throughout its history. However, a closer look allows us to see the many identities. changes that took place over time. Illustrated lectures will explore ancient Egypt from the predynastic to the Greco-Roman era, as well as later \"Egyptomania\" and influence on modern film, fashion, and design. 2 History of Art and Design (HAD) HAD-340 Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture - (3 Credits) HAD-363 History Of Industrial Design - (3 Credits) This course presents an introduction to nineteenth-century art and This lecture course traces the history of industrial design from the the ideas that fostered its creation. The purpose of the class is to industrial Revolution to the current design movements based on hi- provide an in-depth overview of the major themes, artists, and stylistic tech as well as on sustainable thinking. This class will study the major movements (Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post- movements of industrial production within the context of technical Impressionism, and Symbolism) during this period as they developed advancement as well as social developments. Lectures are combined within a historical, political and social context. with field trips to relevant exhibitions, events, and retail venues. Student HAD-341 Modernism in the Twentieth Century - (3 Credits) research projects are required as part of the class work. This course will examine the interconnections between modern art, HAD-364 History of Interior Design - (3 Credits) modernity, and visuality. We will explore the major currents in European A historical overview of the styles and social movements which preceded and American art and architecture from approximately 1900 to 1960. and laid the foundation for the contemporary practice of interior design, HAD-346 Art Since the Sixties - (3 Credits) i.e. Regency, Federal, Pennsylvania Dutch, Shaker, Victorian, Art Deco, This three-unit course seeks to examine the social and cultural history of etc. It includes an examination of the trends in related design areas - modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. architecture, landscape, design, city and town planning. Major emphasis is placed on more modern developments, between 1860 to the present. HAD-350 Arts of the Other in a Changing World - (3 Credits) In addition, a correlated review of the design of furniture, fabrics, This course deals with three concepts: Non-Western (regions of Africa, accessories, and illumination are examined. Required for majors in the Americas and Oceania), Art (human expression) and History (through Interior Design. time). These objects, acts and events will be viewed in terms of how they have developed over time and how they have been observed, described HAD-365 History of Communications Design - (3 Credits) and collected by ourselves and other outsiders. This course addresses This course presents an overview of visual communications from the the ways in which art is produced, used and considered/ valued by late-19th century into the 21st century. Key movements, designers, the people whose lives it touches and molds, as well as theways that their visual language and changing technologies will be considered meaning has been treated by others. within the broader social, political, and economic contexts. Interweaving questions of a contemporary practitioner into this historical narrative HAD-351 Asian Art and Culture in Global Perspective - (3 Credits) will help us consider the role of design in defining-not simply reflecting- This course surveys Asian art and culture from the Neolithic period the zeitgeist.