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ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from antiquity through the “Middle Ages.” The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, sacred spaces, images of the gods, imperial portraiture, and domestic decoration.
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ARTH 101.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from the fifteenth century through the present. The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, humanist and Reformation redefinitions of art in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, realism, modernity and tradition, the tension between self-expression and the art market, and the use of art for political purposes.
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ARTH 102.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 165 Japanese Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey art and architecture in Japan from its prehistoric beginnings until the early twentieth century, and explore the relationship between indigenous art forms and the foreign (Korean, Chinese, European) concepts, art forms and techniques that influenced Japanese culture, as well as the social political and religious contexts for artistic production.
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ARTH 165.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 209 Chinese Painting 6 credits
Since the tenth century in China, a tension emerges between art created as a means of self expression and works which were intended to display social status and political power and to convey conventional values. This course concentrates on the primary site of this tension, the art of painting. We will explore such issues as the influence of Confucian and Daoist philosophy on painting and calligraphy, the changing perception of nature and the natural in art, the politics of style, and the increasing dominance of poetry rather than narrative as a conceptual construct for painting.
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ARTH 209.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 267 Gardens in China and Japan 6 credits
A garden is usually defined as a piece of land that is cultivated or manipulated in some way by man for one or more purposes. Gardens often take the form of an aestheticized space that miniaturizes the natural landscape. This course will explore the historical phenomenon of garden building in China and Japan with a special emphasis on how cultural and religious attitudes towards nature contribute to the development of gardens in urban and suburban environments. In addition to studying historical source material, students will be required to apply their knowledge by building both virtual and physical re-creations of gardens.
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ARTH 267.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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