260 courses
HA/ART/Art in Venice
Painting (Venice)
ART-590I | 2–10 CR This course involves studio
work (outdoors as well as in), lectures, special projects,
individual critiques, and instruction, with particu-
lar emphasis on the interaction of light and color.
Sketchbooks and journals will be required. There will be
portfolio reviews in Venice, and work submitted for the
Pratt in Venice show will be reviewed. The course will be
supported by and integrated with courses in drawing,
printmaking, art history, special studies, and materials
and techniques.
Drawing/Non-Acid Printmaking (Venice)
ART-591I | 2–10 CR This course consists of
studio and site work, independent projects, group and
individual critiques, and field trips to use landscapes
as subjects. At least six sessions will be devoted to
expanding drawing concepts through printmaking, and
the use of drypoint, collagraph, monotype, and relief
print techniques. The world-class print workshop of the
Scuola Internazionale della Grafica on the Grand Canal
is the location for this work. Individual development
is stressed and a body of work comprising drawings,
prints, and notations, including a journal, is required and
is to be submitted for the Pratt in Venice show.
Art History of Venice (Venice)
HA-590I | 3 CR On-site study of painting,
architecture, sculpture, and drawing of Venice is the
prime purpose of this course. Classes held on-site will
alternate with lectures and discussions that place the
material in its art historical context. Study of ancient
Byzantine and Gothic art in Venice will precede discus-
sion of Renaissance art with its rich cross currents
of influence from Byzantium, Northern Europe, and
Central Italy. Technical innovations of Venetian Renais-
sance artists and later developments in the Baroque
will be considered. Students will carry out visually-
based assignments, including papers that analyze and
compare art works in Venice. The Marciana Library will
serve as a resource.
HA/History of Art
Theory & Methodology
HA-500 | 3 CR The history of the discipline will be
reviewed. Students read numerous outstanding art
historical and critical writings exemplifying differing
approaches to the discipline, including connoisseurship
and criticism, iconography, and contextual studies. Each
student develops a bibliography on a particular histori-
cal approach to the study of art. Class discussion uses
historical examples to set a standard for art historical
writing and address current issues in the discipline. This
course is required for art history majors and masters
candidates in art history.Renaissance Art
HA-501 | 3 CR Students consider fifteenth and six-
teenth century art in Italy: the innovations of Donatello,
Brunelleschi, and Masaccio; the High Renaissance of
Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo; the emergence
and decline of Mannerism; the late Renaissance in
Venice (Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese).Asian Art
HA-502 | 3 CR An introduction to the art history
of the East. Emphasis is on Chinese art, including ritual
bronzes and masterpieces of landscape painting.
Students study the influence of Indian art on Chinese
Buddhist sculpture and transformations of the Chinese
tradition in Japanese art.Aegean & Greek Art
HA-504 | 3 CR Explores the art and architecture of
mainland Greece, Crete, and the Cycladic Islands from
the Bronze Age to Roman times. Painting, sculpture,
pottery, the minor arts, and architecture are discussed
in stylistic terms and as expressions of evolving social
attitudes, mythical traditions, religious beliefs, and
historical developments. Particular attention is given to
the legacy and iconography of Classical art.Art by Women: 15th Ctry–Pres
HA-507 | 3 CR This is a seminar on art by women
from the Renaissance to the present time, including
Renaissance artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola;
Baroque painters such as Artemisia Gentileschi and
Judith Leyster; Angelica Kauffmann in the eighteenth
century; Rosa Bonheur and the impressionists Mary
Cassat and Berthe Morisot in the nineteenth century;
and artists in all media in this century, such as Nevelson
and Hepworth, O’Keeffe and Frankenthaler, Kollwitz and
Kasebier. The course includes discussion of women as
artists in relationship to their roles in the societies in
which they lived.Impressionism/Post-Impression
HA-509 | 3 CR Students examine the development
of realism and the reaction against it in late-nine-
teenth-century painting. French Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism are studied, includ-
ing figures such as Degas, Monet, Morisot, Cezanne, Van
Gogh, Gaugin, Munch, and Ensor.Chinese Landscape Painting
HA-510 | 3 CR Surveys landscape painting in China
from T’ang through Early Ch’ing dynasties (eighth
through seventeenth centuries). It investigates the
philosophical ideas embodied in the subject and stylis-
tic changes from the classical balance of Northern Sung
landscape to the Expressionism of Confucian scholar
painters and mad monk painters. Co-requisite courses:
HA-115 HA-116 ENGL-102 ENGL-103.Picasso/Matisse Seminar
HA-511 | 3 CR Follows the evolution of these two
pioneers of modern art from their training to their late
years. Students investigate topics such as the influence
of Cezanne and the Nabis on Matisse; the importance of
late Impressionism and Primitive art to Picasso; and the
role of sculpture in the work of each artist.African Art
HA-512 | 3 CR This course considers the art of
sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on the sculpture from the
principal stylistic regions of West and Central Africa. The
artworks will be discussed in their social context.David to Delacroix
HA-513 | 3 CR The development of French painting
from Neoclassicism through Romanticism (c. 1780–
1845) is examined in this course, with consideration also
given to contemporary schools of realism in France.
International manifestations oft hese styles, especially
in England and Germany, are explored as they relate
to French art. Students study such painters as David,
Gericault, Girodet, Gros, Boilly, Ingres, and Delacroix. It is
recommended that undergraduate students complete
HA-215 and HA-216 prior to taking this course.Film Criticism
HA-514 | 3 CR An introduction to methods of film
analysis. The course studies the writings of some of the
best exponents of film theory, aesthetics, and criticism
in popular and scholarly forms: e.g. Arnheim, Eisenstein,
Bazin, Vertov, Kael and Sarris. Screenings include nar-
rative fiction, documentary, and experimental films. It is
recommended that undergraduate students complete
HA-115 HA-116 HA-215 and HA-216 prior to taking this
course.