ARTH 491

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Topics in Art History

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Variable content; consult the Class Schedule for current topics.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.

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ARTH 491 class schedule data for spring 2008
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10383	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
46727	Lecture-Discussion	AO	ARRANGED	n.a.	ARR Washington DC	Bandy, L Hudson, S	Part of Term: XM Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $279.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $253.00 per Bill Hour, Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Fees $41.00 per Bill Hour, and Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Fees $41.00 per Bill Hour. Section Title: Abstract Art Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. This class will be held on Tuesdays from 6-8 PM and Wednesdays from 10-11:30 AM. Undergraduate students should register for 3 credit hours; graduate students should register for 4 credit hours. This class will be held in the Carriage House Conference Room at The Phillips Collection. There will be no class during Spring Break. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
49331	Lecture-Discussion	DC	10:00AM -1:00PM	M	ARR Washington DC	Bandy, L Weissman, T	Part of Term: XM Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $279.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $253.00 per Bill Hour, Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Fees $41.00 per Bill Hour, and Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Fees $41.00 per Bill Hour. Section Title: Documentary Photography Section Info: History and Theory of Documentary Photography. Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. This class will be held in the Carriage House Studio at the Phillips Collection. There will be no class during Spring Break. Restriction(s): Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
48829	Lecture-Discussion	EJG	9:00AM -10:15AM	MW	302 Architecture Building	Jung, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Minimalism. This course examines the origins and evolution of "Minimalism," an American art movement of the 1960s, focusing on its aesthetic, cultural, and political ramifications in contemporary art and criticism. While paying attention to individual artists and specific artworks, we will read a variety of texts on minimalism, including artists� statements from the 1960s and critical essays written by art critics and historians from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Tracing its genealogy and critical evolution, we will observe how the polemical discourse and unconventional art-making practices of Minimalism ultimately brought forth a confrontation between modernism and postmodernism in the 1960s. Graduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48005	Lecture-Discussion	EJU	9:00AM -10:15AM	MW	302 Architecture Building	Jung, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Minimalism. This course examines the origins and evolution of "Minimalism," an American art movement of the 1960s, focusing on its aesthetic, cultural, and political ramifications in contemporary art and criticism. While paying attention to individual artists and specific artworks, we will read a variety of texts on minimalism, including artists� statements from the 1960s and critical essays written by art critics and historians from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Tracing its genealogy and critical evolution, we will observe how the polemical discourse and unconventional art-making practices of Minimalism ultimately brought forth a confrontation between modernism and postmodernism in the 1960s. Undergraduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
48822	Lecture-Discussion	JGG	2:30PM -3:45PM	MW	302 Architecture Building	Greenhill, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: The Art of Levity: Interpreting British and American Visual Humor. How does visual humor differ from literary or oral humor? What constitutes a visual joke? What techniques do paintings, comic strips, or film sequences mobilize in their efforts to draw a laugh? How are jokes recycled or revised according to different media or cultural contexts? This course addresses these and other questions by focusing on comic production in England and the United States. We will look primarily at the nineteenth century, but our discussions will necessarily draw us into the humor of our own time, as we examine a range of visual material: from single-sheet cartoons to architectural ornament, from the popular press to popular film. We will consider this material in the context of social and political attitudes, styles of communication, consumer culture, aesthetic theory, and humor theory more generally. Graduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48821	Lecture-Discussion	JGU	2:30PM -3:45PM	MW	302 Architecture Building	Greenhill, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: The Art of Levity: Interpreting British and American Visual Humor. How does visual humor differ from literary or oral humor? What constitutes a visual joke? What techniques do paintings, comic strips, or film sequences mobilize in their efforts to draw a laugh? How are jokes recycled or revised according to different media or cultural contexts? This course addresses these and other questions by focusing on comic production in England and the United States. We will look primarily at the nineteenth century, but our discussions will necessarily draw us into the humor of our own time, as we examine a range of visual material: from single-sheet cartoons to architectural ornament, from the popular press to popular film. We will consider this material in the context of social and political attitudes, styles of communication, consumer culture, aesthetic theory, and humor theory more generally. Undergraduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
46731	Lecture-Discussion	PC	9:30AM -12:30PM	R	ARR Washington DC	Bandy, L Hudson, S	Part of Term: XM Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Fee: Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $253.00 per Bill Hour, and Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Fees $41.00 per Bill Hour. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Writing About Art Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. This section is restricted to undergraduate students only. The class will be held at the Carriage House Conference Room in The Phillips Collection. There will be no class during Spring Break. Restriction(s): Restricted to NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
49336	Lecture-Discussion	PC2	9:30AM -12:30PM	R	Location Pending	Bandy, L Hudson, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Writing About Art. This course introduces students to the history and practice of writing about art. Beginning with examples of exemplary historical criticism, we will then investigate more recent discourses around modern art, analyzing contemporary criticism's numerous forms in relation to its diverse venues (newspapers, magazines, and monographs, among other sites) and imagined or real audiences. While reading will thus comprise a significant portion of our curriculum, students will also regularly generate their own writings -- informed and lucidly articulated but also subjective and even passionate -- based on responses to objects in The Phillips Collection as well as to exhibitions in other museums, galleries, and collections to be visited during the semester. Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Class will not meet on March 20. Undergraduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
49420	Lecture-Discussion	PC5	10:00AM -1:00PM	M	Location Pending	Bandy, L Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: History and Theory of Documentary Photography. The central question addressed in this course is: Do photographic "documents" communicate information about our social, political, and cultural worlds that no other type of document can? In order to answer this question, the course will focus on a variety of historical moments when the documentary form held particular cultural sway. We will begin in the late nineteenth century with the work of Jacob Riis, and work our way through the twentieth century, focusing on moments such as 1930s America and movements such as Neue Sachlichkeit in Germany. As the documentary tradition has reemerged in contemporary practice, this class will also investigate contemporary artists such as Emily Jacir, Walid Raad and David Goldblatt, all of whom work in the documentary mode, but with a heightened awareness that photography is not, in the words of Roland Barthes, a "message without a code." Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Class will not meet on March 17. Undergraduate Section.
49335	Lecture-Discussion Lecture-Discussion	PCU PCU	10:00AM -11:30AM 6:00PM -8:00PM	W T	Location Pending Location Pending	Bandy, L Hudson, S Bandy, L Hudson, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Abstract Art. This course will investigate key movements and artists -- ranging from Paul C�zanne, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, and Piet Mondrian to Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- with particular focus on the historical and aesthetic origins of abstraction and on significant models of abstraction as they developed in the twentieth century. Students explore the emergence of nonrepresentational painting; the political and spiritual aims of the Russian Constructivists; the rise of abstraction in an American context with Abstract Expressionism; the formal refinement and centrality of materials in Minimalism; and the persistence of abstraction in contemporary art. Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Class will not meet on March 18 or 19. Undergraduate Section. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.