ALL DEPARTMENTS Archive for 2007 - 2008
Courses found: 119
AFAM 728b, AFST 778b, HSAR 378b, HSAR 778b From West Africa to Black Americas The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:30 AM - 12:35 PM Art, music, and dance in the history of key classical civilization south of the Sahara—Mali, Asante, Dahomey, Yoruba, Eigham, Kongo—and their impact on New World art and music, especially, rock, blues, North American black painting of the past ten years, and black artists of Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil.
AFAM 729a, HSAR 379a, HSAR 779a New York Mambo Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM The rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colon. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g, New York Haitian art , Dominican meringue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican, Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira.
AFAM 739a, AFST 781a, HSAR 781a Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM The seminar addresses a new frontier—rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas—the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
AFAM 739b, AFST 781b, HSAR 781b Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM A continuation of HSAR 781a. The seminar addresses a new frontier?rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas?the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
AFST 778b, AFAM 728b, HSAR 378b, HSAR 778b From West Africa to Black Americas The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:30 AM - 12:35 PM Art, music, and dance in the history of key classical civilization south of the Sahara—Mali, Asante, Dahomey, Yoruba, Eigham, Kongo—and their impact on New World art and music, especially, rock, blues, North American black painting of the past ten years, and black artists of Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil.
AFST 781a, AFAM 739a, HSAR 781a Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM The seminar addresses a new frontier—rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas—the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
AFST 781b, AFAM 739b, HSAR 781b Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM A continuation of HSAR 781a. The seminar addresses a new frontier?rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas?the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
AMST 217b, HSAR 216b Craft, Design, and Art: Twentieth Century American Decorative Arts and Domestic Architecture Edward S. Cooke, Jr. T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM A survey of American architecture and decorative arts in the twentieth century. Examination of architecture, furniture, metals, ceramics, and glass. Topics include responses to the reforms of the arts and crafts movement, the introduction of modernism, the survival and revival of traditional and vernacular expressions, the rise of industrial designers, the development of studio crafts, and the varieties of postmodern expression.
AMST 345b, FILM 335b, HSAR 349b, LITR 356b Bodily Performance in American Film Scott Bukatman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM American genre film as a mass form that, like folk culture, emphasizes the physical. The body as a projection of interior states and as an object existing in space. Genres considered include comedy, westerns, war films, and blaxploitation.
ARCG 170a, CLCV 170a, HSAR 250a Roman Art: Empire, Identity and Society Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Masterpieces of Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine studied in their historical and social contexts. The great Romans and the monuments they commissioned-portraits, triumphal arches, columns, and historical relief. Topics include the concept of empire and imperial identity, politics and portraiture, the making and unmaking of history through art, and the art of women, Women's Health, children, freedmen and slaves.
ARCG 202a, HSAR 202a Pre-Columbian Architecture Mary Miller M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM A survey of pre-Columbian architecture and city planning from the Andes to the southwestern United States. Principal sites considered include Machu, Picchu, Cuzco, Tiwanaku,Chichen Itza, Tikal, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito. Attention to domestic architecture, construction techniques, and archaeoastronomy.
ARCG 202b, HSAR 202b Pre-Columbian Architecture Mary Miller M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM A survey of pre-Columbian architecture and city planning from the Andes to the southwestern United States. Principal sites considered include Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Tiwanaku, Chichen Itza, Tikal, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Mesa Verde, and Pueblo Bonito. Attention to domestic architecture, construction techniques, and archaeoastronomy.
ARCG 235b, HSAR 235b, HUMS 103b, NELC 106b The Worlds of Homer Karen Foster M,W   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Interdisciplinary study of the artistic, literary, and cultural worlds of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, beginning in the Bronze Age of the Trojan War heroes and ending with the Homeric legacy in Western civilization. Topics include Homeric myth and reality, new archaeological evidence, the emergence of Greek art and thought, and Mediterranean and Near Eastern interconnections.
ARCG 243b, CLCV160b, HSAR 243b Greek Art and Architecture Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM A survey of Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting from the late Geometric period (c. 760 B.C.) to Alexander the Great (c. 323 B.C.), with particular emphasis on social and historical context.
ARCG 252b, CLCV 175b, HSAR 252b Roman Architecture Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.
ARCG 403b, ARCG 703b, HSAR 406b, HSAR 748b Maya Painting Mary Miller M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Maya painting traditions in both wall painting and minor arts of the first millennium A.D., with attention to painters, potters, schools, regional styles, and archaeological context. Analysis of iconography and texts, use of color, and function of the completed work.
ARCG 424b, CLCV 230b, HSAR 424b eClavdia: Women in Ancient Rome Diana E.E. Kleiner T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The contributions of Roman women to one of the greatest cities—and one of the greatest empires in world history. Lost stories of real life Roman women recovered from public and residential buildings, portraits, paintings, and other works of Roman art and architecture.
ARCG 703b, ARCG 403b, HSAR 406b, HSAR 748b Maya Painting Mary Miller M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Maya painting traditions in both wall painting and minor arts of the first millennium A.D., with attention to painters, potters, schools, regional styles, and archaeological context. Analysis of iconography and texts, use of color, and function of the completed work.
CLCV 170a, ARCG 170a, HSAR 250a Roman Art: Empire, Identity and Society Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Masterpieces of Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine studied in their historical and social contexts. The great Romans and the monuments they commissioned-portraits, triumphal arches, columns, and historical relief. Topics include the concept of empire and imperial identity, politics and portraiture, the making and unmaking of history through art, and the art of women, Women's Health, children, freedmen and slaves.
CLCV 175b, ARCG 252b, HSAR 252b Roman Architecture Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.
CLCV 182a, HSAR 240a, RLST 179a Greek Religion: Myth, Blood, and Festival Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:25 PM Exploration of Greek religious thought and practice in their historical context, with consideration of the significance of religion in various aspects of public and private life in the Greek polis. Religion as the motivation for masterpieces of ancient Greece, such as the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, and cultural institutions such as Greek tragedy and the Olympic Games. Themes include oracles, mystery cults, and hero-cults. Special attention to the unique role of myth in Greek religious experience.
CLCV 230b, ARCG 424b, HSAR 424b eClavdia: Women in Ancient Rome Diana E.E. Kleiner T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The contributions of Roman women to one of the greatest cities—and one of the greatest empires in world history. Lost stories of real life Roman women recovered from public and residential buildings, portraits, paintings, and other works of Roman art and architecture.
CLCV160b, ARCG 243b, HSAR 243b Greek Art and Architecture Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM A survey of Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting from the late Geometric period (c. 760 B.C.) to Alexander the Great (c. 323 B.C.), with particular emphasis on social and historical context.
CLSS 413b, HSAR 421b Vase Paintings in Ancient Athens Susan Matheson Th   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM A study of Athenian painted vases and what they reveal about the daily life, religion, politics, and culture of the classical past. Focus on artists, techniques, and styles; on Athenian life and myth; and on the relationship between vases and other Greek arts - sculpture, wall painting, poetry, and drama. Course to be held in the Kahn Curatorial Work Room in the Yale University Art Gallery. Meet in the lobby of the YUAG (entrance on Chapel Street) prior to the first class meeting.
CLSS 868b, HSAR 563b Art and Ritual in Greek Antiquity Milette Gaifman W   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM Much of what is known today as ancient Archaic and Classical Greek art and architecture was originally related to Greek religious ritual; artifacts and architectural monuments such as painted sculptural relief’s, and temples served as settings for rituals, were used in cult, and featured representations of activities such as libations and sacrifices. The seminar explores the relationship between Greek visual culture and ancient Greek rituals. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which works of art and architecture accommodated and shaped cult practice, as well as the manner in which they visually conveyed religious ideologist on the nature of rituals. In addition to the analysis of ancient monuments and texts, the class considers modern theories on art and their usefulness for the understanding of the subject in the context of Greek antiquity.
EAST 315b, HSAR 355b Foreign Influences on Korean Art Youngsook Pak T,Th   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM The transformation of foreign art forms into distinctively Korean ones. The influence of indigenous beliefs, use of local materials, and local craftsmanship. Topics include Silk Road connections in Korean art, pilgrims and Buddhist monuments, commerce and tribute goods, and the impact of wars on Korean culture. Knowledge of classical Chinese required.
EAST 520b, HSAR 820b Text & Images in Korean Art Youngsook Pak T   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
FILM 320b, HSAR 490b Close Analysis of Film Dana Benelli M,W   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Exploration of ways in which traditional genres and alternative film forms establish or subvert convention and expectation in thematic and ideological concerns, narrative containment and excess, the representation of the body, the use of music and voice, and the construction of space in the cinema. Close analysis of expressive techniques of cinematic image and sound in a selection of Hollywood and European films. Prerequisite: FILM 150a.
FILM 335b, AMST 345b, HSAR 349b, LITR 356b Bodily Performance in American Film Scott Bukatman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM American genre film as a mass form that, like folk culture, emphasizes the physical. The body as a projection of interior states and as an object existing in space. Genres considered include comedy, westerns, war films, and blaxploitation.
FILM 805b, HSAR 710b Cinematic Spectacle Scott Bukatman T   9:25 AM - 11:15 AM From the first projection of moving pictures on a screen through the digitally animated legions of Orcs in The Lord of the Rings, cinema has always been associated with spectacle an impressive, unusual, or disturbing phenomenon or event that is seen or witnessed. This course will explore the concept of "spectacle" by examining the very different ways that cinema has depended on sensationalist display throughout its history. New technologies have been mediated through cinematic spectacle; spectacle has been marshalled in the service of pedagogy and propaganda; the image of women in American film has been theorized as a form of spectacular excess. The course will also explore the function of spectacle in experimental cinema, as well as the deconstructions of spectacle by Godard and others in the wake of Guy Debords writing.
HIST 466b, HSAR 462b Shops and Shopping Jay Gitlin, Samuel Isenstadt W   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM Historical overview of the spaces and practices of shopping, Topics include the consumer revolutions of the eighteenth century in Europe and North America development of distinct building types for shopping, industrialization of consumer goods and the evolution of packaging and branding, women and consumer culture, the role of advertising, identity politics of shopping, the suburbanization of shopping from malls to Internet shopping and the absorption of public space within the sphere of commerce.
HSAR 001a Aztecs of Mexico Mary Miller T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Exploration of the history, religion, archaeology, and art of the Aztecs. Readings from both Spanish and indigenous chronicles of the sixteenth century, examination of major monuments of Tenochtitlan, 1455-1519. Enrollment limited to freshman. Readings and discussions in English
HSAR 005a Medieval Cathedrals Past & Present Robert S. Nelson M,W   9:00 AM - 10:15 PM A study of two great cathedrals of Eastern and Western Christianity, the sixth-century, Hagia, Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinopole) and the twelfth-century Notre Dame of Paris. Comparison of their creation within different cultural regions and their reception in the modern world. Survey of representations of these buildings in art of the Middle Ages and in modern prose and verse. Enrollment limited to freshman.
HSAR 112a Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to the Renaissance Vincent Scully M,W   11:35 AM - 12:25 PM Form as meaning in architecture, sculpture, and painting. Selected studies in these arts from prehistory to the Renaissance. Source reading in translation.
HSAR 115b History of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present Julia Robinson, Christopher S. Wood M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM Painting, sculpture and graphic arts, with some reference to architecture. Major works and artists treated in terms of form, function, and historical events.
HSAR 202a, ARCG 202a Pre-Columbian Architecture Mary Miller M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM A survey of pre-Columbian architecture and city planning from the Andes to the southwestern United States. Principal sites considered include Machu, Picchu, Cuzco, Tiwanaku,Chichen Itza, Tikal, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito. Attention to domestic architecture, construction techniques, and archaeoastronomy.
HSAR 202b, ARCG 202b Pre-Columbian Architecture Mary Miller M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM A survey of pre-Columbian architecture and city planning from the Andes to the southwestern United States. Principal sites considered include Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Tiwanaku, Chichen Itza, Tikal, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Mesa Verde, and Pueblo Bonito. Attention to domestic architecture, construction techniques, and archaeoastronomy.
HSAR 215a Nationalism Style and Taste: Nineteenth-Century American Decorative Arts and Domestic Architecture Edward S. Cooke, Jr. T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM A survey of American architecture and decorative arts from the Revolution to 1900. Study of buildings, furniture, metals, ceramics, and glass. Topics include the American concept of design, technological advances in American crafts, and the rise of aesthetic consumerism.
HSAR 216b, AMST 217b Craft, Design, and Art: Twentieth Century American Decorative Arts and Domestic Architecture Edward S. Cooke, Jr. T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM A survey of American architecture and decorative arts in the twentieth century. Examination of architecture, furniture, metals, ceramics, and glass. Topics include responses to the reforms of the arts and crafts movement, the introduction of modernism, the survival and revival of traditional and vernacular expressions, the rise of industrial designers, the development of studio crafts, and the varieties of postmodern expression.
HSAR 220a American Photographs: 1839-1971 Alexander Nemerov T,Th   11:35 AM - 12:25 PM Examination of American photography from daguerreotypes of the 1840s to images of the 1960s and beyond. Survey of historical phenomena illuminated in photographs, including slavery, the Civil War, Western exploration, urban New York, World War II, and postwar suburbia. Photographers include Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White, Weegee, Diane Arbus, and lesser-known practitioners.
HSAR 235b, ARCG 235b, HUMS 103b, NELC 106b The Worlds of Homer Karen Foster M,W   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Interdisciplinary study of the artistic, literary, and cultural worlds of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, beginning in the Bronze Age of the Trojan War heroes and ending with the Homeric legacy in Western civilization. Topics include Homeric myth and reality, new archaeological evidence, the emergence of Greek art and thought, and Mediterranean and Near Eastern interconnections.
HSAR 240a, CLCV 182a, RLST 179a Greek Religion: Myth, Blood, and Festival Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:25 PM Exploration of Greek religious thought and practice in their historical context, with consideration of the significance of religion in various aspects of public and private life in the Greek polis. Religion as the motivation for masterpieces of ancient Greece, such as the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, and cultural institutions such as Greek tragedy and the Olympic Games. Themes include oracles, mystery cults, and hero-cults. Special attention to the unique role of myth in Greek religious experience.
HSAR 243b, ARCG 243b, CLCV160b Greek Art and Architecture Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM A survey of Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting from the late Geometric period (c. 760 B.C.) to Alexander the Great (c. 323 B.C.), with particular emphasis on social and historical context.
HSAR 250a, ARCG 170a, CLCV 170a Roman Art: Empire, Identity and Society Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Masterpieces of Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine studied in their historical and social contexts. The great Romans and the monuments they commissioned-portraits, triumphal arches, columns, and historical relief. Topics include the concept of empire and imperial identity, politics and portraiture, the making and unmaking of history through art, and the art of women, Women's Health, children, freedmen and slaves.
HSAR 252b, ARCG 252b, CLCV 175b Roman Architecture Diana E.E. Kleiner T,Th   9:00 AM - 10:15 AM The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.
HSAR 274b Medieval European Art and Architecture Jacqueline Jung M,W   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM A selective chronological overview of European visual arts and architecture from the decline of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the fifteenth century. Exploration of manuscript painting, monumental sculpture, stained glass, small scale decorative arts, textiles and religious edifices, not only for their formal values and iconographic meanings, but also for what they reveal about their respective audiences and their circumstances of production and use.
HSAR 278a Death and Apocalypse in Medieval Art Jacqueline Jung M,W   2:30 PM - 3:20 PM Attitudes toward death and the afterlife as expressed in art of various media from the catacombs of early Christian Rome in the third and fourth centuries to the cadaver tombs of late Gothic France in the fifteenth century. Examination of arts associated with the deaths of ordinary individuals, those produced in honor of the saints, and those concerned with the fate of all humanity at the end of time.
HSAR 282a Art and Magic in the Renaissance Christopher S. Wood T,Th   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The power of the image as a theme in European culture, 1300-1600. Images religious paintings, effigies, portraits, maps were pressure points between public and private, governers and the governed, sacred and profane, visible and invisible worlds. Images structured beliefs and guided behavior. Do images have intrinsic power, or is their power assigned to them by their beholders? What sort of power or agency do works of art have? Topics addressed: the image in ritual, worship, and mystical experience; miraculous images and portents; idols and idolatry, in Europe and beyond; Protestant image-destruction; royal effigies, propaganda images, and spectacle; crime and punishment and the image; theories of image, emblem, and symbol; the image in magic, witchcraft, and astrology; cartography and scientific illustration.
HSAR 305b London: Capital of the 19th Century Tim Barringer T,Th   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM London“s pivotal role in the emergence of the cultural, social, and economic formations now known as modernity. Focus on visual materials in Yale collections, considering both representations of London - paintings, prints, drawings, maps and plans, panoramas, photographs - and works of art produced, exhibited, and sold in the city. Themes include London as a national capital and an imperial metropolis; the development of exhibitions and museums; and artistic movements such as romanticism, pre-Raphaelitism, the Aesthetic movement, and the Decadent artists of the 1890s.
HSAR 306a Art and the British Empire c. 1600-1997 Tim Barringer T,Th   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM An examination of the visual culture of the British Empire on four continents, with reference to themes such as exploration, conquest, slavery, orientalism, commerce and settlement. Focus on question of race and representation. Study of original paintings, works on paper, and photographs in the Yale Center for British Art.
HSAR 310b, HUMS 257b Futurism: The Shock of the New Amerigo Fabbri Th   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM
HSAR 320a Twentieth Century Architecture Samuel Isenstadt T,Th   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM Survey of major developments in twentieth-century European and American architecture and urbanism.
HSAR 328b, HSAR 711b Twentieth Century Art David Joselit T,Th   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM A survey of modern art in Europe and the United States encompassing major movements and figures. Focus on the way in which twentieth-century practices of art, economics, and politics have been closely linked to new understanding of the self.
HSAR 334a Art, Music, Theory since WWII Seth Kim-Cohen T,Th   1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Since WWII visual art and music have exerted increasing influence on each other. We will examine works in each medium, as well as the offspring of their trysts: sound art. We will devote equal attention by the theory which supplements and/or provokes those intertwined practices.
HSAR 349b, AMST 345b, FILM 335b, LITR 356b Bodily Performance in American Film Scott Bukatman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM American genre film as a mass form that, like folk culture, emphasizes the physical. The body as a projection of interior states and as an object existing in space. Genres considered include comedy, westerns, war films, and blaxploitation.
HSAR 351a Art and Archeology in China Lillian Tseng M,W   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM A thematic introduction to art and archeology in China from the Neolithic period to the ninth century, with emphasis on the negotiation between traditional practices and modern disciplines, and on the reconciliation between writing culture and material culture. Topics include the ambivalence of myth and history, and the interaction of center and periphery.
HSAR 353a Art & Society in the Confucian Choson Dynasty Youngsook Pak T,Th   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Examination of art and architecture of the Choson dynasty in Korea in the context of Neo-Confucian ideology, popular religion and social system, and the relationship between royal and scholar elite patronage and artisans. Themes include, palace and the unique private Confucian academy sowon, royal shrine, portraits, illustrations of ceremonial procedures in the court, monumental outdoor ritual paintings in monasteries, ‘true-view’ landscape and poetry, enjoyment and humour in genre paintings, Choson ceramics and its impact on contemporary artist.
HSAR 355b, EAST 315b Foreign Influences on Korean Art Youngsook Pak T,Th   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM The transformation of foreign art forms into distinctively Korean ones. The influence of indigenous beliefs, use of local materials, and local craftsmanship. Topics include Silk Road connections in Korean art, pilgrims and Buddhist monuments, commerce and tribute goods, and the impact of wars on Korean culture. Knowledge of classical Chinese required.
HSAR 378b, AFAM 728b, AFST 778b, HSAR 778b From West Africa to Black Americas The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:30 AM - 12:35 PM Art, music, and dance in the history of key classical civilization south of the Sahara—Mali, Asante, Dahomey, Yoruba, Eigham, Kongo—and their impact on New World art and music, especially, rock, blues, North American black painting of the past ten years, and black artists of Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil.
HSAR 379a, AFAM 729a, HSAR 779a New York Mambo Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM The rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colon. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g, New York Haitian art , Dominican meringue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican, Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira.
HSAR 381a Islamic Art and Visual Culture Kishwar Rizvi M,W   10:30 AM - 11:20 AM Artistic production is among the most complex and varied cultural artifacts of the Islamic world. Despite orthodox polemics against representation, the human figure and nature have provided inspiration for generations of artists and artisans practicing in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of art-making, starting from the early years of Islam in the 7th century and continuing up until the 21st century. In addition to illustrated manuscripts, we will be studying the arts of calligraphy and ceramics as they pertain to the making of an Islamic visual culture. The lecture will be supplemented by regular visits to the Yale University Art Gallery to view their collection of manuscripts and portable objects. In addition there will be a guided tour to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view the Islamic collection.
HSAR 401a Critical Approaches to Art History Milette Gaifman W   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM A wide ranging introduction to the methods of the art historian and the history of the discipline. Themes include connoisseurship, iconography, formalism, and selected methodologies informed by contemporary theory.
HSAR 401b Critical Approaches to Art History Edward S. Cooke, Jr. W   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM A wide ranging introduction to the methods of the art historian and the history of the discipline. Themes include connoisseurship, iconography, formalism, and selected methodologies informed by contemporary theory.
HSAR 406b, ARCG 403b, ARCG 703b, HSAR 748b Maya Painting Mary Miller M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Maya painting traditions in both wall painting and minor arts of the first millennium A.D., with attention to painters, potters, schools, regional styles, and archaeological context. Analysis of iconography and texts, use of color, and function of the completed work.
HSAR 421b, CLSS 413b Vase Paintings in Ancient Athens Susan Matheson Th   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM A study of Athenian painted vases and what they reveal about the daily life, religion, politics, and culture of the classical past. Focus on artists, techniques, and styles; on Athenian life and myth; and on the relationship between vases and other Greek arts - sculpture, wall painting, poetry, and drama. Course to be held in the Kahn Curatorial Work Room in the Yale University Art Gallery. Meet in the lobby of the YUAG (entrance on Chapel Street) prior to the first class meeting.
HSAR 424b, ARCG 424b, CLCV 230b eClavdia: Women in Ancient Rome Diana E.E. Kleiner T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The contributions of Roman women to one of the greatest cities—and one of the greatest empires in world history. Lost stories of real life Roman women recovered from public and residential buildings, portraits, paintings, and other works of Roman art and architecture.
HSAR 428a The Body in Medieval Art Jacqueline Jung T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM This seminar examines various approaches to and uses of human bodies in the visual arts of northern and central Europe from around 900 to 1450. Among the subjects we will investigate are: theological conceptions of the body, especially that of Christ; practices surrounding the remnants of holy bodies (relics) and their sumptuous containers; the iconography of death, Resurrection, and the afterlife; the depiction of bodies and bodily processes in medical handbooks; and the use of the expressive fictive body (for example in sculpture) as a tool for sparking empathy and modeling behavior among beholders. Placing such visual arts into dialogue with medieval texts (e.g., saints’ lives, visionary accounts, devotional treatises) will provide further insights into the continuities and tensions in historical attitudes toward the flesh.
HSAR 429b, HUMS 349b Representing Kingship in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Courts Kishwar Rizvi M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The sixteenth century witnessed the rise of three major empires of the early modern Islamic world, the Ottomans in Turkey, the Safavids in Iran, and the Mughals in India. This course will examine the competitive discourse between, and within, these great powers, by examining the art and architecture commissioned by the ruling elite. The readings in this seminar range from primary sources in translation to literature produced by European travelers to the Middle East and South Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries. The seminar will be supplemented by close analysis of Yale University Art Gallery’s collection of Islamic manuscripts.
HSAR 438b Architectural Theory and Media Technologies, Renaissance to the Present Mario Carpo T   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM This course will discuss the relationship between the history of architectural theories and the media technologies used for the recording and the transmission of architectural ideas, including those specific to architectural design). It will survey the main chapters in the history of Western architectural theory, starting with early modern Vitruvianism, but will focus on two crucial moments of change: the Renaissance, characterized by the transition from orality to literacy and from hand-copied to mechanically reproduced texts and images; and the present, characterized by the transition from mechanical to digital image-making technologies.
HSAR 445b Printed Art in 18th c. France Suzanne Boorsch W   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The course surveys the art of France in the 18th century through the particular lens of the exhibition Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France on view at the Yale University Art Gallery spring semester 2008. The frivolites of the ancient regime, various strains of exoticism, the values of the Enlightenment, and the gaining neoclassical aesthetic are all manifest in these works. Issues such as the high/low combination of an upper-class art made widely available through the democratic means of prints, the system of the prints selection, distribution and marketing, as well as those of style, subjects, and the innovative printmaking techniques will all be considered.
HSAR 446a Portraiture Revolution to Romanticism C. Amy Albinson Th   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Each session will focus on either a different theorization of the study of portraiture (including gender, race, and religious difference), or a different mode of portraiture such as self-portraiture, portrait sculpture, friendship portraits or allegorical portraiture. The course will examine the most fertile moment of production in England and France, from roughly 1770 to 1830, when portraiture not only reflected but advanced major social and political changes. Artists examined include Vigée-Lebrun, Reynolds, David, Gainsborough, Ingres, and Géricault. Class time will focus on examination of objects from the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.
HSAR 455a Visual Culture in Victorian Britain Katherine Haskins Th   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM An exploration of Victorian art practice and appreciation in Victorian Britain, emphasizing new and changing media such as commercial art engraving, photography, illustrated books and the art periodical.
HSAR 462b, HIST 466b Shops and Shopping Jay Gitlin, Samuel Isenstadt W   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM Historical overview of the spaces and practices of shopping, Topics include the consumer revolutions of the eighteenth century in Europe and North America development of distinct building types for shopping, industrialization of consumer goods and the evolution of packaging and branding, women and consumer culture, the role of advertising, identity politics of shopping, the suburbanization of shopping from malls to Internet shopping and the absorption of public space within the sphere of commerce.
HSAR 463a Electric Modernism Samuel Isenstadt Th   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM This seminar will explore the ways in which electricity has affected architecture, including changes to floor plans, the use of indoor and outdoor lighting, the installation of automatic equipment, and do-it-yourself projects executed with cheap power tools.
HSAR 467b Representation in Art and Theory since 1960 Seth Kim-Cohen W   9:25 AM - 11:15 AM The crisis in post-1960 art theory caused by increasing awareness of the limitations of artistic techniques and presumptions. The dematerialization of the artwork: conceptual art, performance art, body art, happenings, video, and relational aesthetics. Readings include works by Derrida, Lyotard, and Barthes.
HSAR 485b Buddhist Iconography Mimi H. Yiengpruksawan W   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Buddhist iconography in the East Asian context. Emphasis on comparative analysis of cross-regional trends in Buddhist visual culture and praxis. Study of Buddhist paintings, statuary, and ritual objects in the Yale University Art Gallery.
HSAR 490a Close Analysis of Film Dana Benelli M,T   9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Exploration of ways in which traditional genres and alternative film forms establish or subvert convention and expectation in thematic and ideological concerns, narrative containment and excess, the representation of the body, the use of music and voice, and the construction of space in the cinema. Close analysis of expressive techniques of cinematic image and sound in a selection of Hollywood and European films.
HSAR 490b, FILM 320b Close Analysis of Film Dana Benelli M,W   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Exploration of ways in which traditional genres and alternative film forms establish or subvert convention and expectation in thematic and ideological concerns, narrative containment and excess, the representation of the body, the use of music and voice, and the construction of space in the cinema. Close analysis of expressive techniques of cinematic image and sound in a selection of Hollywood and European films. Prerequisite: FILM 150a.
HSAR 498a Independent Tutorial TBA    For students who wish to pursue a subject in the history of art not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research or directed reading under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with the adviser are required. To apply for admission, a student should present a prospectus and a bibliography, signed by the adviser, to the director of undergraduate studies.
HSAR 498b Independent Tutorial Samuel Isenstadt TBA    For students who wish to pursue a subject in the history of art not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research or directed reading under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with the adviser are required. To apply for admission, a student should present a prospectus and a bibliography, signed by the adviser, to the director of undergraduate studies.
HSAR 499a The Senior Essay TBA    Preparation of a research paper about thirty pages long under the direction of a qualified instructor. The essay is written in either the fall or the spring term of the senior year, though preferably in the fall term. Students write on subjects of their own choice. During the term before the essay is written, students plan the project in consultation with a qualified instructor or with the director of undergraduate studies. No student is permitted to enroll in HSAR 499a or b without submitting a project statement, with the formal title of the essay and a brief description of the subject to be treated. The statement must be signed by the student’s adviser and presented to the director of undergraduate studies before the student’s schedule can be approved. See the YCPS for deadlines and procedures. Permission may be given to write a two-term essay after consultation with an adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Only those who have begun to do advanced work in a given area and whose project is considered to be of exceptional promise are eligible. The requirements for the one-term senior essay apply to the two-term essay, except that the essay should be from fifty to sixty pages in length.
HSAR 499b The Senior Essay Samuel Isenstadt TBA    Preparation of a research paper about thirty pages long under the direction of a qualified instructor. The essay is written in either the fall or the spring term of the senior year, though preferably in the fall term. Students write on subjects of their own choice. During the term before the essay is written, students plan the project in consultation with a qualified instructor or with the director of undergraduate studies. No student is permitted to enroll in HSAR 499a or b without submitting a project statement, with the formal title of the essay and a brief description of the subject to be treated. The statement must be signed by the student’s adviser and presented to the director of undergraduate studies before the student’s schedule can be approved. See the YCPS for deadlines and procedures. Permission may be given to write a two-term essay after consultation with an adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Only those who have begun to do advanced work in a given area and whose project is considered to be of exceptional promise are eligible. The requirements for the one-term senior essay apply to the two-term essay, except that the essay should be from fifty to sixty pages in length.
HSAR 500a Introduction to Art History Christopher S. Wood M   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM How have cultures figured the historicity of art to themselves? How are ideas about representation, virtuality, visuality, ritual, and performance registered in art historical paradigms? How has art-writing interacted with art-making? What is the genealogy of the modern academic discipline of art history? How are art history, art criticism, and philosophy of art differentiated? What are the affinities and tensions between art history and other fields of thought and research? These questions are approached through readings and discussion. This is a foundational course for all graduate students in History of Art.
HSAR 506a The Teaching of the History of Art TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty. History of Art graduate students only.
HSAR 506b The Teaching of the History of Art TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty. History of Art graduate students only.
HSAR 512a Directed Research TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty.
HSAR 512b Directed Research TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty.
HSAR 514a Curatorial Training TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty.
HSAR 514b Curatorial Training TBA    Time TBA By arrangement with faculty.
HSAR 563b, CLSS 868b Art and Ritual in Greek Antiquity Milette Gaifman W   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM Much of what is known today as ancient Archaic and Classical Greek art and architecture was originally related to Greek religious ritual; artifacts and architectural monuments such as painted sculptural relief’s, and temples served as settings for rituals, were used in cult, and featured representations of activities such as libations and sacrifices. The seminar explores the relationship between Greek visual culture and ancient Greek rituals. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which works of art and architecture accommodated and shaped cult practice, as well as the manner in which they visually conveyed religious ideologist on the nature of rituals. In addition to the analysis of ancient monuments and texts, the class considers modern theories on art and their usefulness for the understanding of the subject in the context of Greek antiquity.
HSAR 579a Modernism in the Middle East Kishwar Rizvi T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM This course studies the concepts that inform the making and reception of modern architecture in the Middle East. In the Islamic world, new fundamentalisms and shifting religious trends have created an environment in which each country must renegotiate its past and reconsider its collective future. Whether by suppressing their Islamic roots, as in the case of republican Turkey, or through reinventing them, as in the case of post-Revolution Iran, such countries must constantly transform their national image. It is through public works, such as architecture and city planning, that they convey their political and religious ideology. This course examines the debates and theories of modern architectural production that have informed the discourse on Islamic architecture by situating cases of colonial and nationalist architecture in the context of their particular social and religious history.
HSAR 580a Everyday Romans in Extraordinary Times: The Art and Culture of the Non-Elite in Ancient Rome Diana E.E. Kleiner T   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Art and everyday Romans in Rome and Pompeii. A study of a half-century of scholarly discourse and its focus on non-elite Romans and their role as unique patrons and viewers. Case study analysis of the interaction between high and low art, the viability of the “trickle-down” phenomenon, and the distinction between the portrayal of non-elites in imperialistic state-sponsored monuments and their own privately commissioned portraits and narrative scenes. Qualified undergraduates who have taken Roman Art Empire, Identity and Society and/or Roman Architecture may be admitted with permission of the instructor.
HSAR 589b Visions & Art in Medieval Europe Jacqueline Jung Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM From the Book of Revelation to the Showings of Julian of Norwich (d. 1423), accounts of visions in the Christian tradition were inextricably intertwined with the visual arts. If the former, a complex narrative in which the seer was swept into a different world, provided inspiration – and challenges – to generations of medieval artists, the latter, an intensely private affair experienced within the seer’s own body, drew on existing artistic traditions to make sense of the encounter between person and divine. Between these temporal and conceptual extremes there lay a wide range of visionary reports from men and women of various social stations, and an equally wide range of visual arts, in diverse media and with diverse functions, that gave shape to or attempted to reproduce those experiences. This seminar examines medieval visionary texts in conjunction with contemporaneous images, aiming to understand the range of representational practices that helped people externalize and communicate unusual interior perceptions. We will address such questions as the changes in visionary experiences over time, the role of language and literacy in the communication of such experiences, the impact of gender on visions, the varieties and functions of other senses (especially touch and taste) in medieval visions, and the impact of visionary reports on the development of art. We will begin by addressing the theoretical, cognitive, and anthropological facets of visionary experience before turning to medieval primary sources such as saints’ lives, accounts of otherworld journeys, miracle books, sermons, monastic chronicles, and individually composed vision-books (e.g., by Hildegard of Bingen, Bridget of Sweden, Henry Suso, and Julian of Norwich), as well as historical interpretations by Caroline Bynum, William Christian, Peter Dinzelbacher, Jeffrey Hamburger, Herbert Kessler, Barbara Newman, Giselle de Nie, Jean-Claude Schmitt and others. The visual material will include both depictions of visions (such as Apocalypse manuscripts, paintings of the Temptation of St. Anthony, and renderings of Hildegard’s visions) and images that played a role in sparking visionary experience (such as Marian statues, crucifixes, Man of Sorrows images, and Baby Jesus dolls). Reading knowledge of German, French and Latin is strongly recommended.
HSAR 597a Word and Image in Byzantium Robert S. Nelson M   7:00 PM - 8:50 PM Word and image studies are a burgeoning field of art history and now have their own journal. This course will look generally at that literature and focus on the Middle Ages and the Byzantine Empire to consider the nature of words combined with images. Topics of interest are ekphrasis or the description of a work of art, inscriptions around works of art, and especially manuscript illumination, an area of sustained interest of Anglo-American scholars and historically the most popular subject of scholarship. More attention has been paid lately to the image or icon, and this work needs to be integrated with and combined with a reconsideration of the nature of written and oral discourse.
HSAR 635a The Origins of Florentine Painting: 1270 – 1370 Laurence Kanter T   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM An investigation of special problems in the development of painting in late medieval Florence, from roughly the birth of Giotto through the death of Orcagna. Topics include the migration of Roman pictorial style; Giotto and Assisi; Florentine manuscript illumination; the Giotteschi and Taddeo Gaddi; connoisseurship and the problem of Bernardo Daddi; Maso di Banco and the “realist” school of post-Giottesque painters; the interrelationship of sculpture and painting; and the emergence of the Cione brothers’ workshop. Reading knowledge of Italian is required.
HSAR 652b Documenting the World: Issues in the history of the Visual Catalog Kishwar Rizvi W   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM This seminar explores the significance of the documentary survey in Europe and the Middle East. Writing the history of the world can only be undertaken from a particular ideological of view; for example, although medieval illustrated manuscripts, such as the ‘Compendium of History’ of Rashid al-din (1304) and the ‘Travels’ of John Mandeville (c. 1371), were concerned with situating the reader within the context of religious and political authority, during the 18th century the attempt was to document the world through scientific explorations of race, religion and geography, as exemplified by the magnum opus, ‘Ceremonies and Customs of the World Religions’ by Bernard and Picart (1727-31). This seminar will study original and facsimile copies of manuscripts at Yale libraries, culminating in an analysis and critique of the Spring 2008 traveling exhibition of British Orientalist art at the Yale Center of British Art.
HSAR 702a Markets and Networks David Joselit M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM This class will explore the enormous impact of the art market in 20th century art by seeking to treat the market as a form or medium. Marcel Duchamp, for instance, “leveraged’ the market by limiting his production of art, strategically reissuing certain works, and shaping the institutions that would ultimately present it to a public. The mid-century international art network, Fluxus, created an alternate market of inexpensive “functional” works of art as Andy Warhol created entirely new markets for the artist. Feminist collectives of the 70s eschewed the market altogether in favor of building new social networks. This seminar will explore theories of the market alongside artists’ material efforts to remake it.
HSAR 709b Architectural Theory, Cultural Technologies and Digital Media Mario Carpo W   5:30 PM - 7:20 PM Variability is widely seen as a defining feature of digital technologies and of most new media objects. This seminar will discuss the theoretical implications of digital variability for architectural design and production. These implications will be assessed in the "longue duree of the history of architectural theory; related to the history of the cultural technologies that are or were used in the processes of architectural design; and compared with similar critical categories that pertain to the history of the transmission of texts and of images.
HSAR 710b, FILM 805b Cinematic Spectacle Scott Bukatman T   9:25 AM - 11:15 AM From the first projection of moving pictures on a screen through the digitally animated legions of Orcs in The Lord of the Rings, cinema has always been associated with spectacle an impressive, unusual, or disturbing phenomenon or event that is seen or witnessed. This course will explore the concept of "spectacle" by examining the very different ways that cinema has depended on sensationalist display throughout its history. New technologies have been mediated through cinematic spectacle; spectacle has been marshalled in the service of pedagogy and propaganda; the image of women in American film has been theorized as a form of spectacular excess. The course will also explore the function of spectacle in experimental cinema, as well as the deconstructions of spectacle by Godard and others in the wake of Guy Debords writing.
HSAR 711b, HSAR 328b Twentieth Century Art David Joselit T,Th   1:00 PM - 2:15 PM A survey of modern art in Europe and the United States encompassing major movements and figures. Focus on the way in which twentieth-century practices of art, economics, and politics have been closely linked to new understanding of the self.
HSAR 734a Art in the Democratic Age, 1830-1860 Alexander Nemerov W   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM How did democracy and capitalism affect American visual culture of the mid-nineteenth century. How did artists portray the market revolution and the place of art within it? What was the relation between art of that period and kitsch? Is there a poetic complexity to kitsch, or is it truly a nullity? Considering questions like these, we reassess the cultural significance of painters such as William Sidney Mount and sculptors such as Hiram Powers. Period writers such as Hawthorne and Melville provide some guidance.
HSAR 737a Craft and Design in Post-World War II America Edward S. Cooke, Jr. W   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM In the two decades after World War II, economic prosperity and cultural optimism led to the golden age of America industrial design and the expansion of craft education programs in the universities. The term designer/craftsman was a respected label. Yet, by the 1970s crafts, design,, and art were three separate spheres. This seminar draws on period writings and artifactual examination to explore the interconnections of craft and design in the 1950s, their subsequent fragmentation, and recent attempts, to build connections.
HSAR 748b, ARCG 403b, ARCG 703b, HSAR 406b Maya Painting Mary Miller M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Maya painting traditions in both wall painting and minor arts of the first millennium A.D., with attention to painters, potters, schools, regional styles, and archaeological context. Analysis of iconography and texts, use of color, and function of the completed work.
HSAR 778b, AFAM 728b, AFST 778b, HSAR 378b From West Africa to Black Americas The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:30 AM - 12:35 PM Art, music, and dance in the history of key classical civilization south of the Sahara—Mali, Asante, Dahomey, Yoruba, Eigham, Kongo—and their impact on New World art and music, especially, rock, blues, North American black painting of the past ten years, and black artists of Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil.
HSAR 779a, AFAM 729a, HSAR 379a New York Mambo Robert F. Thompson T,Th   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM The rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colon. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g, New York Haitian art , Dominican meringue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican, Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira.
HSAR 781a, AFAM 739a, AFST 781a Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM The seminar addresses a new frontier—rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas—the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
HSAR 781b, AFAM 739b, AFST 781b Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas Robert F. Thompson Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM A continuation of HSAR 781a. The seminar addresses a new frontier?rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas?the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia.
HSAR 784a Slavery and Visual Culture in Jamaica Tim Barringer W   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM This traveling seminar will examine the visual culture of Jamaica from the late-seventeenth century to today, with particular focus on the representation of slavery and its legacies. Timed to coincide with a major exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica, the seminar will examine both British colonial and Afro-Jamaican cultural traditions. A particular focus will be the masquerade form Jonkonnu or John Canoe, whose multiple origins, manifestations and representations are explored in the exhibition. The development of Jamaican art in the twentieth century, and the work of contemporary Jamaican artists of the diaspora in the UK and the USA will be explored. Members of the seminar will participate in a major international conference to be held at Yale in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,Resistance and Abolition and the seminar will visit Jamaica, examining key public and private art collections, archives, key historical urban and plantation sites, galleries and artists’s studios.
HSAR 791a History, Memory and Media in Chinese Art Lillian Tseng T   9:25 AM - 11:15 AM The seminar explores how art objects shape memory and intervene in history in China. It first focuses on bronze vessels and stone steles, investigating how media, intention and reception influence the operation of commemorative art. It then tackles painting and calligraphy, discussing how the fusion of personal and collective memory transforms the tangle of the past and the present. Chinese is not required.
HSAR 805b Picturing the Death of the Buddha: Yale’s Parinirvana in Critical Context Mimi H. Yiengpruksawan W   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM Yale University Art Gallery recently acquired a magnificent fourteenth-century painting of the death of the Buddha. The seminar aims to study the painting in depth, using as its methodological purchase the work of David Summers in Real Spaces. This means that the painting will be analyzed from a variety of perspectives encompassing its many possible interpretations as form, as object, and as cultural production.
HSAR 810a Aristocracy and Buddhist Art in the Koryo Period (918-1392) Youngsook Pak Th   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM Medieval Korea is characterized by its elegant courtly tradition and fine artistic production of Buddhist images, in painting, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture and ceramic wares. This seminar will discuss the patronage of the court and aristocracy Buddhist iconography and ideas. A related international conference on Buddhist art in East Asia will be held in the fall.
HSAR 819a Buddhist imagery at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, in the context of the Silk Road W   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM The Buddhist cave shrines near Dunhuang in Gansu province contain the most extensive sequence of murals and stucco sculptures in China. They are a unique record of cultural exchange between East and West along the Silk Road.
HSAR 820b, EAST 520b Text & Images in Korean Art Youngsook Pak T   3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
HUMS 103b, ARCG 235b, HSAR 235b, NELC 106b The Worlds of Homer Karen Foster M,W   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Interdisciplinary study of the artistic, literary, and cultural worlds of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, beginning in the Bronze Age of the Trojan War heroes and ending with the Homeric legacy in Western civilization. Topics include Homeric myth and reality, new archaeological evidence, the emergence of Greek art and thought, and Mediterranean and Near Eastern interconnections.
HUMS 257b, HSAR 310b Futurism: The Shock of the New Amerigo Fabbri Th   2:30 PM - 4:20 PM
HUMS 349b, HSAR 429b Representing Kingship in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Courts Kishwar Rizvi M   1:30 PM - 3:20 PM The sixteenth century witnessed the rise of three major empires of the early modern Islamic world, the Ottomans in Turkey, the Safavids in Iran, and the Mughals in India. This course will examine the competitive discourse between, and within, these great powers, by examining the art and architecture commissioned by the ruling elite. The readings in this seminar range from primary sources in translation to literature produced by European travelers to the Middle East and South Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries. The seminar will be supplemented by close analysis of Yale University Art Gallery’s collection of Islamic manuscripts.
LITR 356b, AMST 345b, FILM 335b, HSAR 349b Bodily Performance in American Film Scott Bukatman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:50 PM American genre film as a mass form that, like folk culture, emphasizes the physical. The body as a projection of interior states and as an object existing in space. Genres considered include comedy, westerns, war films, and blaxploitation.
NELC 106b, ARCG 235b, HSAR 235b, HUMS 103b The Worlds of Homer Karen Foster M,W   2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Interdisciplinary study of the artistic, literary, and cultural worlds of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, beginning in the Bronze Age of the Trojan War heroes and ending with the Homeric legacy in Western civilization. Topics include Homeric myth and reality, new archaeological evidence, the emergence of Greek art and thought, and Mediterranean and Near Eastern interconnections.
RLST 179a, CLCV 182a, HSAR 240a Greek Religion: Myth, Blood, and Festival Milette Gaifman M,W   11:35 AM - 12:25 PM Exploration of Greek religious thought and practice in their historical context, with consideration of the significance of religion in various aspects of public and private life in the Greek polis. Religion as the motivation for masterpieces of ancient Greece, such as the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, and cultural institutions such as Greek tragedy and the Olympic Games. Themes include oracles, mystery cults, and hero-cults. Special attention to the unique role of myth in Greek religious experience.