100
Level and 200 Level Art History Lecture Courses
Note: No prerequisites are needed for these courses. Courses
are open to on-line registration.
ART H 101 LEC
A1 – Introduction to the History of Art I
T R 11:00 – 12:20, TL 12
Instructor: TBA
This course will survey the painting, sculpture and architecture
of the western world from prehistoric times to the beginning
of the fifteenth century.
ART H 101 LEC
A2– Introduction to the History of Art I
T R 14:00 – 15:20, FAB 2-20
Instructor: TBA
This course will survey the painting, sculpture and architecture
of the western world from prehistoric times to the beginning
of the fifteenth century.
Art H 102 LEC B1 – Introduction
to the History of Art II
T R 11:00 – 12:20, TL 12
Instructor: TBA
This course will survey the painting, sculpture and architecture
of the western world from the fifteenth century to the present.
Art H 102 LEC
B2– Introduction to the History of Art II
T R 14:00 – 15:20, FAB 2-20
Instructor: TBA
This course will survey the painting, sculpture and architecture
of the western world from the fifteenth century to the present.
Art H 203 LEC
B1 – Survey of 17th Century Art
Winter Term, T R 0930 – 1050, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Lianne McTavish
The history of visual art and culture in the 17th century. Not open to students with credit in ART H 253.
Art H 205 LEC
A1 – Survey of 18th and Early 19th Century Art
M W 0930-1050, FAB 2-20
Instructor: TBA
The history of the visual arts of the 18th and first half of the19th century in Europe.
Art H 206 LEC
A1 – Survey of 20th Century Art I
T R 12:30-13:50, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Steven Harris
The history of the visual arts up to World War II in Europe
and North America.
Art H 209 LEC
B1 – Survey of the History of Design
T R 1230 – 1350, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Joan Greer
An introduction to the development of design since the Industrial Revolution.
Art H 210 LEC
A1 – Survey of the History of Photography
M W 1230-1350, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Amanda Boetekes
A study of photography from its invention in the 19th century to its impact in the 20th century
Art H 212 LEC B1 – Survey of the History of Asian Art
M W 1230-1350, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Walter Davis
The history of art and visual culture in Asia.
Art H 249 LEC A1–
Visual Culture and Advertising
T R 1100-1220, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Anne Whitelaw
The history of visual advertising practices from the late 19th century to the present.
Art H 255 B1–
Survey of Art from the Second Half of the 19th Century
M W 1100-1220, FAB 2-20
Instructor: TBA
The history of the Visual Arts of the second half of the 19th century in Europe.
Art H 256 LEC
B1 – Survey of 20th Century Art II
T R 1100-1220, FAB 2-20
Instructor: Steven Harris
The history of the visual arts of the 20th century from World War II to the present, in Europe and North America.
Art H 257 LEC
A1 – Survey of 20th Century Canadian Art
M W 1100-1220, FAB 2-20
Instructor: TBA
The history of the visual arts of the 20th century in Canada.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: HADVC majors, minors and BA Honours students who are going into year three of their program are required to take one 300 level ART H course before proceeding to the 400 level. The 400 level is not required for students with a minor in HADVC.
BFA and BDES (Printmaking and General Route) students who are going into year four of their program are required to take a 300 level ART H course in place of the 400 level seminar requirement.
ART H 311 A1 - Modernity and Tradition in the art of Twentieth-Century China
MW 12:30 – 13:50, TBA
Instructor : Walter Davis
This course will consider how Chinese artists of the twentieth century sought to create works that were of and for their time, abandoning, modifying, and even preserving native artistic traditions and concerns. The course will examine not only formal and material developments also social and political factors that guided the course of modern Chinese art.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
ARTH 311 A2 - Design History 1848 – 1914: Arts and Crafts & Art Nouveau
Tuesday 11:00-13:50,
TBA
Instructor: Joan Greer
Two design movements, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, both emerging during the second half of the nineteenth century and extending into the first decades of the twentieth century, will be the subject of this seminar. How these movements may be situated in relation to each other and to emerging discourses on industrial design, particularly those emanating from Germany, will be considered. Our focus will be on Western Europe and North America, but we will also extend our examination to include a look at the international context. Areas of investigation will include subjects such as world exhibitions; women and design; the private press movement; art and design periodicals; textile design; the graphic arts; architecture and interior decoration; theories of ornamentation; primitivist discourses in design; socialist and anarchist theories of cultural production; constructions of national identity.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both. Note: This course may be chosen for additional credit by majors and minors in the Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology and Society.
ARTH 311 B1 - Vision and Visuality: Looking and Knowing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
MW 12:30 – 13:50, TBA
Instructor: Lianne McTavish
Visual perception might seem to be a strictly natural process, and yet it has a history. Scholars from a range of disciplines now study visuality, moving beyond biological understandings of vision to examine historically and culturally specific ways of seeing the world. This course will undertake an investigation of “how we see” by considering different theoretical approaches to visuality, focusing on European visual culture, art, medicine and “science” from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. Topics will include the social regulation of looking and being looked at; the relationship between seeing and the other senses, especially touch; and various technologies of visual investigation, including microscopy.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
ARTH 311 B2 - Issues in Contemporary Art: The Technologies of Contemporary Art
TR 12:30 – 13:50
Instructor: Amanda Boetzkes
This course investigates the technologies of contemporary art from the late sixties to the present. It seeks to define “technology” and question how technology structures artistic practice, spectatorship and the aesthetic experience. Conversely, it will also examine how contemporary art is critical of the technologies it deploys and how it exposes the ideological underpinnings of technological development. We will cover a range of practices from performance art, photography, video art, as well as art that deals with biotechnologies, digital imaging, and the internet.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
Seminar Courses
Art H 400/600
A1 - Theory and Method in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
This course aims to provide students with an introduction to theories and methodologies in the study of art history and visual culture. We will look at both formal and contextual approaches to art and cultural history, as well as at more recent uses of theoretical paradigms from outside the discipline. The readings will demonstrate that art history has had an exchange of ideas and approaches with other fields throughout its own history.
If this course aims to inform students about past and current approaches to the history of art and visual culture, it is also designed to help students learn how to do art history themselves. It is not focused on a single theoretical or methodological paradigm, but introduces students to a variety of approaches, some of which contradict each another. Students are expected to improve their reading and conceptual skills by engaging critically with these texts, and to improve their ability to look at and think about visual imagery by considering the analyses made by others.
Pre-requisites: Consent of Department. Open only to Majors, Honours and Masters students in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture.
Art H 406/506
B1 - Surrealism in the New World
With the crushing of the Spanish Republic by Franco in 1939, and the invasion and occupation of France by German forces in 1940, many surrealist artists and writers fled France and Spain and settled, whether temporarily or permanently, in the Caribbean, Mexico and the USA. Such figures include André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Benjamin Péret, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and Remedios Varo, to name only the best-known of those in exile. There were significant groups of surrealist artists and writers in New York, Mexico City, Santo Domingo and on the island of Martinique – not to mention those in Haiti and Cuba, or the automatistes in Montreal – all of whom were in contact with one another. Not only did the centre of gravity of the surrealist movement temporarily shift to the new world in the 1940s, but the experience of the new world had a profound effect on the surrealists in exile, as did they in turn on the North American artists and writers with whom they were in contact. In this course, we will investigate the changing ideas and interests of the surrealists in the Caribbean, Mexico and the USA, in the context of a shared community of interests in poetry, myth, indigenous and popular arts, and revolutionary politics.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both. ARTH 206 or 256 are required.
Art H 409/509
A1 Topics in the History of Design
This seminar is on the social, cultural and political aspects of design. Selected examples illustrate the creation of place identities and large scale environments, architecture and cities, products and brands as aspects of material culture and the roles of the design professions over the history of modernity. Historical European, colonial and contemporary global examples will be included.
Prerequisites: Consent of the department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 or 300 level Arts or Science options courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
ARTH 411/511 A2 - The Early Modern Body in Europe, 1450–1800
Scholars increasingly examine how early modern bodies were produced in a range of representations, including literary texts, medical engravings, theatrical performances, and portraiture. The study of these bodies has become a distinctive field of inquiry, and this upper-level seminar introduces students to its historiography, major debates, and dominant themes, with an emphasis on visual articulations of the body. We will analyze, for example, the gendered rituals of Renaissance anatomy, the ways in which monstrous bodies communicated conceptions of self, sex, and “race,” and the social construction of disease.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
Art H 411/511
B2 - World’s Fairs and Centennial Expositions
World’s Fairs and Centennial Expositions were organized in the 19th and early 20th centuries to mark a variety of milestones—from the anniversary of the American and French Revolutions (1867 and 1889) to the independence of Mexico and the opening of the Panama Canal (1910 and 1915)—inspiring both organizers and their guests to reflect upon the characteristics of their national culture and its relationship to other cultural traditions. This course examines this phenomenon with particular attention to the national displays of art and industry in Western Europe and the Americas.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both. ArtH 205, 255 or 206 strongly recommended.
Art H 455/555 B1
- The Image of Christ: 1848 - 1914
This seminar will examine the image of Christ in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, focusing on Realist and Symbolist artistic production (primarily painting, sculpture, photography and the graphic arts) in Europe and North America. It will investigate to what extent religious and artistic discourses converge during this period. Representations of Christ, both those intended to function within and outside of traditional religious frameworks, will be considered, and the implications of the specifically masculine nature of the imagery will be examined vis-à-vis other visual constructions of masculinity of the period. Attention will be given to exploring the relationship between Christ imagery and 1) scientific enquiry 2) radical politics and 3) theories of genius.
Prerequisites: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both. ART H 205 or 255 strongly recommended.
Note: This course may be chosen for additional credit by majors and minors in the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies.
Art 456/556 A1
- Topics in Art from after 1945: Consumption, Waste and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Art
This seminar examines the use and representation of waste in contemporary art. It will address the aesthetics of decay that have characterized many 20th-century artistic interventions from the ready-made, the combine, and art brut to earth art, abject art, and arte povera. However, it will also speculate on the discernable shift in recent decades towards art that addresses more enduring and spectacular forms of waste such as plastics, kitsch, “e-waste” and toxic waste. Examples of such a paradigm shift can be found in the work of Vik Muniz, Mark Dion, Kelly Wood, Jeff Koons, El Anatsui, Brian Jungen, Francis Alÿs, Edward Burtynsky and Vivan Sundaram. In light of such developments, we will investigate the themes of accumulation, and excess and the question of how spectatorship is linked to the broader notion of consumption. To what extent does the uncanny return of garbage from social invisibility into public view challenge the model of infinite production that accompanies late capitalism? Do the highly aestheticized practices of contemporary art merely perpetuate a drive to consume? Under what circumstances can consumption be considered ethical?
Prerequisites: Consent of the department. Students are normally expected to have completed two 200 level Art History courses with a minimum grade of B- in both.
Art 630 A1
- Seminar in Related Disciplines
The primary aim of this course is to give students in different areas of the Fine Arts, Design Studies, and the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture an opportunity to think seriously about the complex relationships between theory and art. By working through the ideas and concepts deployed in a number of influential essays the goal is not only to further enhance students’ critical vocabularies, but to pose difficult questions that will challenge the ‘commonsense’ of contemporary theory, in an effort to help students develop new insights into their own projects and fields of interests. The readings for the course will examine topics such as aesthetics, beauty (sublime), participation, the everyday and memory. The course will be useful for students who are seeking ways to understand the contemporary art world and how artists and designers play a part. Each week is designed with a collection of readings that will help us approach some of the key issues that exist in the contemporary art world. Some of the readings: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Ben Highmore, Blake Stimson, Hal Foster, Jeff Wall, Tony Godfrey, Rosalind Kraus, Raymond Williams, Susan Sontag and many more.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department. Open to first year graduate students in the Department of Art and Design.
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