1.3
Masterpieces of Western Art
3 credits
Significant works of architecture, painting and sculpture
of the major periods of Western art. Relation to the culture
of the period. Introduction to the problems of creating, analyzing
and understanding art.
1.4 Masterpieces of Non-Western Art
3 credits
Significant works of art from major non-Western traditions
including architecture, painting and sculpture from the Middle
East, India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the South Pacific,
Africa, and South America. Relation to their cultures. Introduction
to problems of art in a non-Western framework.
12.50 Art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
3 credits
Near Eastern art and architecture from 3000 B.C. to the death
of Alexander the Great. Emphasis on ancient Egypt under the
Pharaohs and the contributions of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Assyrians, Hittites, and Persians.
12.60 Aegean and Greek Art
3 credits
Art and architecture of Bronze Age Crete and Mycenae and of
historic Greece to the end of the Hellenistic period, with
emphasis on great sites and sanctuaries and such artists as
Polykeitos, Myron, and Praxiteles. Works of art are examined
in the context of Greek myth, literature, and history.
12.70 Etruscan and Roman Art
3 credits
Art and architecture of the Etruscans and of the Romans through
the late Empire. Domestic art and imperial monuments. Including
the Colosseum. the Pantheon, and the paintings of Pompeii
in their cultural contexts.
13.30 Art of the Middle Ages
3 credits
Major developments in Western Europe and Byzantium from the
third century through the fourteenth. Emphasis on formation
of new kinds of sacred art, interaction of classical and barbarian
traditions, imagery of political authority, and emergence
and evolution of the art of the book.
13.40 Jewish Art
3 credits
Survey of Jewish art from antiquity to the present. Biblical
archaeology, design and decoration of the synagogue, illuminated
manuscripts, ceremonial art, nineteenth and twentieth century
painting and sculpture.
14.61 Early Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
3 credits
The New Realism in painting and sculpture and its relationship
to devotional practices, political policies, and social life
in the Netherlands, France, and Germany from the fourteenth
to the fifteenth century. Major artists: the Limbourg Brothers,
Van Eyck, Van der Goes, and Sluter. Major works: the Tres
Riches Heures, the Ghent Altarpiece, and the Arnolfini Wedding.
14.62 Later Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
3 credits
Painting, the graphic arts, and sculpture in the Netherlands,
Germany, and France from 1500 to 1600, studied in the context
of religious, cultural and social upheavals and the emergence
of secular subjects. Major artists: Bosch, Breugel and Durer.
14.71 Early Renaissance Art in Italy
3 credits
Art and architecture of Florence, Siena, and the surrounding
area from the mid-thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth
century. Consideration of major works of art in relation to
the social and religious climate. Major artists: Giotto, Duccio,
Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti, Piero della Francesca,
and Botticelli
14.72 Later Renaissance Art in Italy
3 credits
Painting and sculpture of sixteenth-century Florence, Rome,
and Venice. Evaluation of such concepts as “High Renaissance”
and “Mannerism” in relation to the broader cultural currents
of the period. Major artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione,
Michelangelo. Raphael, and Titian. Major works: The Last Supper,
the paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican “Stanze.”
14.81 Baroque Art in Italy
3 credits
Italian architecture, sculpture, and painting of the late
sixteenth century and seventeenth century assessed in relation
to the counter-Reformation, a resurgent Catholic Church, and
the taste of the courts of France and Spain. Major artists:
Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Borromini, Poussin, and
Belasquez.
14.82 Baroque Art in Belgium
3 credits
Emergence of realist style in Antwerp in the seventeenth century;
developments in the service of the church and state. The rise
of new secular subjects considered in relation to the social
and economic realities to which they refer. Major artists:
Rubens and his school Van Dyck Jordaens, and Brouwer.
14.83 Baroque Art in Holland
3 credits
Development of Dutch art during the seventeenth century in
relation to the culture, economy, and politics of the emergent
DutchRepublic. Major artists: Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer.
14.84 Baroque Art in France
3 credits
Painting, sculpture, and architecture from the reign of Henry
IV to the death of Louis XIV. Emphasis on urban planning,
the Louvre, Versailles and the Baroque palace, art theory
and the Academy. Major artists: La Tour, Poussin, and Lorrain.
Art forms considered in social, economic, political, and cultural
contexts.
14.90 Rococo to Revolution
3 credits
Transformation of eighteenth-century Italian, French, and
English arts from Baroque into Rococo and Neoclassicism. The
rise of the middle-class audience for art, the ideals of the
Enlightenment as reflected in art, and the new taste for genre
and still-life painting. Major artists: Watteau, Fragonard,
David, Kauffmann, Reynolds, Tiepolo, and Piranesi.
15.1 Neoclassicism and Romanticism
3 credits
European art from about 1750 to 1850. Emergence of landscape
painting, the rise of Paris as the international capital of
the arts, the influence of the French Revolution, and the
relationship between art and literature. Major artists: David,
Delacroix, Ingres, Goya, Constable, and Turner.
15.12 Realism, Impressionism, and Post–Impressionism
3 credits
Major artists and themes in European art, mainly French, during
the second half of the nineteenth century. Art and literature
and new optical theories of color and light. Major artists:
Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and
Gauguin
15.20 Modern Art
3 credits
The art of the first half of the twentieth century, its precedents,
and its political and cultural context. The rise of abstraction,
the liberation of color, and the interest in the subconscious.
Major artistic movements in Europe: Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism,
and Surrealism. Major artists: Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian,
and Kandinsky.
15.30 Contemporary Art
3 credits
Twentieth-century art since World War II from Abstract Expressionism
to the present. Contemporary art exhibited in New York City
galleries and museums. Major movements: Pop Art, Minimalism,
Conceptual Art, and Post-Modernism. Major artists: Pollock,
de Kooning, Johns, and Warhol.
15.40 Modern Sculpture
3 credits
Art of various European and American sculptors from the late
nineteenth century to the present. Major sculptors: Rodin,
Brancusi, Degas, Matisse, and Picasso.
15.60 Women in Modern Art
3 credits
Exploration of the changing image and role of women in nineteenth
and twentieth century art. Major artists: Delaunay, Modershon-Becker,
Kollwitz, Kahlo, and O’Keeffe. Issues of gender will be considered.
15.70 Art of Social Protest
3 credits
The art of social protest from around 1790 to present. Major
artists in Europe, Mexico, and the Untied States, including
David, Goya, Daumier, Courbet, Picasso, Kollwitz, Grosz, and
Orozco, whose subject matter and styles represent a social
and political protest against the established institutions
of their time.
16.01 Traditional Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
3 credits
The arts of selected tribal groups, with particular attention
given to the traditional arts of Africa, Oceania, and the
Americas. Emphasis on formal vocabularies, aesthetics, modes
of symbolism, cultural contents, and function.
16.02 African Art
3 credits
The traditional art of sub-Saharan Africa. Emphasis on the
relationships between art and culture. Definition of styles
and object types and the relationship of form to function.
18.40 Art of Ancient China
3 credits
Evolution of the ancient art of China, including ceramics,
jades, bronzes, monumental stone sculpture, and the roots
of painting traditions, from the Neolithic to the tenth century;
art forms considered in cultural and aesthetic context.
18.41 Painting, Ceramics, and the Later Arts of China
3 credits
Evolution of the later arts of China from the tenth through
the twentieth century. Emphasis on development of painting,
calligraphy, and ceramic traditions; jades, lacquer, textiles,
architecture, and gardens. Art forms considered in cultural
and aesthetic context.
18.50 Art of Japan
3 credits
Evolution of Japanese art, including ink painting, screens,
ceramics, Buddhist sculpture, temple architecture, gardens,
the tea ceremony, prints, and such other decorative arts as
flower arranging, from the archaeological age to the nineteenth
century; art forms considered in cultural and aesthetic contest.
18.51 Woodblock Prints of Japan
3 credits
Evolution of woodblock prints of Japan with emphasis on the
important achievements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Relationship to other Japanese artforms; influence on Western
art. Technique, style, subject matter, cultural and social
contexts.
18.71 Ink Painting in China and Japan
3 credits
Origin and stylistic development of ink painting traditions
in China and Japan. Landscape painting, Chan or Zen painting,
and calligraphy. Technique, spiritual and cultural values
underlying the art of ink painting, interrelationships between
Chinese and Japanese artistic traditions.
20.20 Architecture from the Neolithic to the Fall of the Roman
Empire
3 credits
Architecture and planning of the Neolithic and of Mesopotamian,
Persian, Egyptian, Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek, and Roman civilizations.
Cultural context and distinctive features of major monuments.
20.30 Architecture from the Medieval Period to the Late Baroque
Era
3 credits
Architecture and planning from medieval times to the late
Baroque era. Medieval cities; the Renaissance, with focus
on Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Palladio;
the Baroque, with focus on Bernini and Borromini; the spread
of Renaissance and Baroque principles throughout Europe. Cultural
context and distinctive features of major monuments.
20.40 Architecture from the Industrial Revolution
to the Art Nouveau Movement
3 credits
Major developments in the architecture of Europe and the United
States from the time of the Industrial Revolution to the end
of the nineteenth century. Engineering, exposition, Neoclassicism,
Gothic Revivalism, social utopian ideals, expansion of cities
and suburbs, arts and crafts, and the Art Nouveau movement.
20.50 Architecture from 1900 to 1939
3 credits
Major personalities and developments in the architecture of
Europe and the United States. Major architects: Wright, Gropius,
Mies van der Rohe, Taul, Le Corbusier, and Aalto. Major movements:
Functionalism, Futurism, Constructivism, Expressionism, the
Bauhaus movement, and de Stijl.
20.60 Architecture from World War II to the Present
3 credits
Major personalities and developments in the architecture of
Europe, Asia, and the United States. Major architects: Mies
van der Rohe, Wright, Le Corbusier, Aalto, Kahn, Isozaki,
and Gehry. Major movements: the new Brutalism, Metabolism,
utopian visions, Venturi, Post-Modernism, Rationalism, and
Deconstructionism.
62.10 Images and Word in Western Culture
*1 hour recitation, 1 hour lecture, 2 hours laboratory, a
minimum of 4 hours independent work
3 credits
Study of visual language and its extensions from the Renaissance
to modern times. Individual components of line, color, and
composition will be explored. Examination of how meaning is
constructed and communicated into visual language through
the consideration of illuminated manuscripts, illustrated
books, paintings, architectural design, film, video, and communication
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