Department of Art History
Minor in Art History
Students on Summer 2020, Fall 2020, or Spring 2021 requirements ARTHISTMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 18 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Art History Elective. Two (2) courses and six (6) credit hours:
- Any ARTH 100–499
- Additional Art History. One (1) additional course and three (3) additional credit hours:
- Any ARTH-A 200–299
- Any ARTH-A 300–399
- Any ARTH-A 400–499
- Any ARTH-X 300–399
- Any ARTH-X 400–499
- Advanced Art History. Three (3) additional courses and nine (9) additional credit hours:
- ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
- ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
- ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
- ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
- ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
- ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
- ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
- ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
- ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
- ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
- ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
- ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
- ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
- ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
- ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
- ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
- ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
- ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
- ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
- ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
- ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
- ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
- ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
- ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
- ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
- ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
- ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
- ARTH-A 347 Picasso
- ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
- ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
- ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
- ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
- ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
- ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
- ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
- ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
- ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
- ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
- ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
- ARTH-A 362 Chinese Calligraphy
- ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
- ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
- ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
- ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
- ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
- ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
- ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
- ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
- ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
- ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
- ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
- ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
- ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
- ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
- ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
- ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
- ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
- ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
- ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
- ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
- ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
- ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
- ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
- ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
- ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
- ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
- ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
- ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
- ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
- ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
- ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
- ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
- ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
- ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
- ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
- ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
- ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
- ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
- ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
- ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
- ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
- ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
- ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
- ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
- ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
- ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
- ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
- ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
- ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
- ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
- ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
- ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
- ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
- ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
- ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
- ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
- ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
- ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
- ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
- ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
- ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
- ARTH-X 491 Readings and Research in Art History
ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specialized topics in the study of art history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 300 and FINA-A 300.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the ideas that shaped the art of the eighteenth century, reflecting changing attitudes towards education, literacy, religion, leadership, social values, women and slavery, the scope of knowledge, as well as the human psyche. Focus is on key paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints of the period.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers the history of art produced in Catalonia, particularly in the capital city, Barcelona. Introduces particular styles, artists, movements, and historical periods of Catalan art and culture. No previous art historical knowledge or Catalan/Spanish language skills required.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
- Credits
- 3–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of ancient art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 310 and FINA-A 310.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 311 or FINA-A 311.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of art and architecture of the Roman Empire from 31 B.C.E. to 337 C.E.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 312 or FINA-A 312.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of Greek painted pottery and remains of painting from 1000 to 200 B.C. It illustrates the successive stages of development, drawing upon the rich collection of the IU Art Museum to illuminate the different phases. Emphasis is on period as well as individual styles and on the interpretation of subject matter as well as on technique.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 313 or FINA-A 313.
ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The history of Greek sculpture from the early Iron Age (ca. 900 B.C.) to the late Hellenistic period. Focus on problems of change, context, and stylistic differentiation between parts of the Greek world. Original material from the IU Art Museum will also be studied.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 314 or FINA-A 314.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course will explore the representation of the human body, both nude and draped, from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman period (ca. 600 B.C. to A.D. 400).
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 316 or FINA-A 316.
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ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the art and architecture of Western Europe from the fourth through the tenth centuries, a period of enormous change when new social and cultural systems developed. Examines visual forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture in the context of such cultural institutions as warfare, kingship, and monasticism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 321 or FINA-A 321.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of the art of the High Middle Ages from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, with an emphasis on architecture and sculpture in England, France, Germany, and Italy.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 322 or FINA-A 322.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Starting with the invention of the codex in the first century, and continuing to the end of the Middle Ages, this course will investigate the tools, methods and inspiration behind the creation of medieval manuscripts. Lectures will survey the most important types of manuscripts and schools of manuscript illumination, as well as their audiences.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 323 or FINA-A 323.
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ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Art of the later Roman/early Byzantine world in the sixth century Mediterranean context. Comparison to Sasanian and western art traditions.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 326 or FINA-A 326.
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ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 327 or FINA-A 327.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of Medieval art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 329 and FINA-A 329.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of Renaissance and Baroque art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 330 and FINA-A 330.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 331 or FINA-A 331.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Beginnings of baroque style and pictorial traditions, which spread from Italy to Spain and France.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 332 or FINA-A 332.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of major artists and themes in Netherlandish painting from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 333 or FINA-A 333.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy, 1580-1700. Development of baroque style from the late sixteenth century through the period of the High Baroque in Rome, Florence, and Venice in the mid- to late -seventeenth century. Lectures, readings, and discussions will be centered around questions of stylistic progression, and the influence of patrons, socioeconomic conditions, and religion on artistic practice.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 335 or FINA-A 335.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the medium of the graphic novel (the long-form comic) from its inception in 1960's America to the present. Primary focus is on the visual-narrative aspects of the medium, as well as in-depth analysis of graphic novels in the social and cultural context in which they were produced.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 336 or FINA-A 336.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Baroque art in northern Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, emphasizing the art and culture of the Netherlands.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 337 or FINA-A 337.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 340 and FINA-A 340.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of major artists and styles in painting and sculpture from c. 1770 to 1900, emphasizing developments in France, England, and Germany. Topics include neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 341 or FINA-A 341.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of major artists, styles, and movements in painting and sculpture from 1900 to the present in Europe and the United States. Topics include expressionism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and abstraction.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 342 or FINA-A 342.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- American architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and graphics from the seventeenth century to the Armory Show of 1913.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 345 or FINA-A 345.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 347 Picasso
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of the different phases of Picasso's career, the artistic milieu in which he worked, and the critical approaches that have been taken to his art.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 347 or FINA-A 347.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of American architecture from the colonial period to the late twentieth century, including public, commercial, and domestic design, with emphasis on historical context and the role of architecture as signifier of social, cultural, and political ideologies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 348 or FINA-A 348.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the Dada Surrealism project, in particular the critique of established forms of art making; also the historical background, intellectual sources, and social and political goals of the two movements.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 349 or FINA-A 349.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 350 and FINA-A 350.
ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of the visual art traditions of Australia and the South Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Focuses on style regions, individual island styles, and the cultural and historical contexts of objects. Emphasis is on traditional arts but contemporary forms are also discussed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 351 or FINA-A 351.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A one-semester survey of visual arts, traditions of eastern and southern Africa, examining architecture, personal arts of the body and household, religious arts, and contemporary painting and sculpture. Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but some earlier traditions, such as Ethiopian Christian art and Swahili architecture, are also discussed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 352 or FINA-A 352.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how a specifically American paradigm shaped art and criticism in an era that saw the post-war rise of New York City as the center of Western art giving way to contemporary globalization. Course is thematically organized, utilizing case studies and emphasizing primary sources in art and critical literature.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 353 or FINA-A 353.
ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of art since 1960 that delves into issues of art production, presentation, and criticism from this period, with topics ranging from globalization and new media, to identity and embodiment. Emphasis is placed on learning to analyze contemporary art and on finding and using primary sources.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 354 or FINA-A 354.
ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of technology, history, and uses of traditional African art materials, such as metals, ceramics, wood, and fiber. Emphasis is on furniture, textiles, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 355 or FINA-A 355.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of visual art traditions of central Africa, focusing primarily on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but also including art from Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, and Angola.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 356 or FINA-A 356.
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ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of contributions by women artists from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 358 or FINA-A 358.
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ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topics vary; each is focused on a specific aspect or issue in East Asian art, studied in the context of social and intellectual history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 360 and FINA-A 360.
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- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid-17th century to modern times. Explores technical developments, major genres, and master designers within the context of pictorial traditions, publishing, and urban culture. Addresses aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, social identity, print culture, and representation of war.
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ARTH-A 362 Chinese Calligraphy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the history of calligraphy in China, from the birth of writing in the Shang dynasty (13th century BCE) and through the development of the script types, the rise of the famous calligraphers, and the invention of nonsense characters in the 20th century.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interpretive analysis of portraiture from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century in western Europe.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 372 or FINA-A 372.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of art theory.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 375 and FINA-A 375.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to basic workings of an art museum: the history of museums, collection management, cataloging of objects. The course works closely with the IU Art Museum and its staff and, where applicable, with staff from other museums nearby.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 390 or FINA-A 390.
ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exhibitions in art museums: conception and development, budget, funding, catalogue writing and production, education and publicity. Students work with a chosen group of museum objects, normally at least partly from the IU Art Museum; the group of objects varies by course topic. Students will receive practical experience by involvement in all aspects of exhibition preparation.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 391 or FINA-A 391.
ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines what is chosen for displays of other cultures in museums, how those materials are presented, and how displays representative of world cultures may be overtly politicized. Investigates some of the most potent presentations in the history of museums and exhibitions and engages with questions of colonialism, cultural capital, nation-building and self-identity.
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- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
- Credits
- 1–9 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intended only for students participating in IU Overseas Study Program; all art history majors are required to obtain prior approval from the undergraduate art history advisor.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 396 and FINA-A 396.
ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Art History major or consent of instructor
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in art history. Open only to art history majors or with consent of instructor. Required for art history honors students.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 400 and FINA-A 400.
ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of major developments in commercial and artistic photographic practice from the 19th century to the present, with emphasis on the role that this technology and its interpretation have played in shaping racial imaginaries and art history, primarily in the U.S. This course considers how institutionalized concepts of blackness and whiteness are manifest in image production and circulation, and how the social formation of race affects who and what is and is not visible in the photographic record.
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ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the repertoire of portraiture in Greece and Rome from ca. 350 BCE to 500 CE. Examines the motivations for commissioning portraits, the language of physiognomy, hairstyles, and costume choices, and the varied contexts where portraits were displayed.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of ancient and Classical art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 410 or FINA-A 410.
ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of the art and archaeology of early Turkey from prehistoric times to about 1000 B.C. Emphasis on origins and development of distinctive Anatolian cultures such as that of the Hittites.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 411 or FINA-A 411.
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ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the preclassical art and archaeology of the Aegean Basin: Greece, Crete, and the Aegean islands during the Stone and Bronze Ages (to about 1000 B.C.). Topics covered include Troy, Minoan Crete, and Mycenaean Greece.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 412 or FINA-A 412.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Art and archaeology of Greece from about 1000 B.C. through the Hellenistic period. Special attention given to the development of Greek architecture, sculpture, and vase painting. Continuation of ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412), but ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412) is not a prerequisite.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 413, FINA-A 413, or CLAS-C 413.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Development of Roman architecture, sculpture, and painting from the beginning through the 4th century A.D. Consideration given to the major archaeological sites. Continuation of ARTH-A 413, but ARTH-A 413 is not a prerequisite.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 414 or CLAS-C 414.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critical survey of Roman painting from second century B.C. through early fourth century A.D. Emphasis is on paintings from Rome and the region of Pompeii in the period from 100 B.C. to A.D. 79.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 415 or FINA-A 415.
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ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The development of Greek architecture from the ninth to the first century B.C.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 416 or FINA-A 416.
ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analytical survey of Roman sculpture from the Republic through the reign of Septimus (circa third century B.C.E. to early third century C.E.).
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 417 or FINA-A 417.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The formation and development of Roman architecture from the second century B.C. to the middle of the fourth century A.D.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 418 or FINA-A 418.
ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Christian art as it developed in its first centuries within the Roman Empire (200-600).
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 421 or FINA-A 421.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive analysis of the art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Emphasis on architecture and sculpture of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 423 or FINA-A 423.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 600-1453). Consideration of materials from the core territories of the Byzantine world (Constantinople, Asia Minor, Greece), the Byzantine commonwealth of Orthodox lands (Kievan Rus, Serbia) and Western Europe (Sicily, Venice, Crusader states).
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 425 or FINA-A 425.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course will examine the cities of Western Europe and the Islamic and Byzantine worlds from the perspective of the institutions of the city and the art and architecture they generated, including houses, fortifications, churches, town halls, guild halls, and markets. Medieval representations of the city also will be explored.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 426 or FINA-A 426.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies the interaction and cross-fertilization between cartoons and comics and the "high art" world of galleries and museums from 1900 to the present, with a focus on the United States. These connections are studied formally as well as critically, historiographically, and sociologically.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 428 or FINA-A 428.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates art in Italy during one of its most important centuries. Focuses on the artists of central Italy including such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Examines the puzzling phenomenon of mannerism (Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, Parmigianino) and the warm, painterly naturalism of Venice (Giorgione, Titian).
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 432 or FINA-A 432.
ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the creative practice of artists primarily in Germany, Russia and France from 1918 to 1939 with significant attention to texts that theorized social and artistic change during the interwar years. Includes the legacy of Expressionism, Dada as cultural critique, the so-called realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit, photography and cinema as new media.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 434 or FINA-A 434.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examine the remarkable and often overlooked art produced in the Middle East and North Africa during the long nineteenth century, placing it into the social histories of the Islamic world during a century of tumultuous change.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major artists and stylistic trends of fifteenth-century Italy. Special attention to Tuscan painting and sculpture and to the works of Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Donatello.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 436 or FINA-A 436.
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ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major artists and topics from the fifteenth-century Netherlands. Special attention to Bosch, van Eyck, and their contemporaries.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 437 or FINA-A 437.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates the intersections of material culture, scientific knowledge, and subjectivity to explore fundamental questions posed by the objects in a variety of disciplines and frameworks. Looking at objects simultaneously as \"things\" and as \"ideological constructs,\" seeks to break down the artificial border between \"the material\" and \"the virtual.\"
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A thematic look at neoclassical and romantic art throughout Europe.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 440 or FINA-A 440.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major European painters and artistic movements, particularly in France, with some coverage of the United States. Focus on cultural and intellectual milieu of each artist.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 441 or FINA-A 441.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Art, architecture and design of the first half of the twentieth century: cubism, futurism, German expressionism, Dada, constructivism, the Bauhaus, with emphasis on the central concepts of modernism and the avant-garde.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 442 or FINA-A 442.
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ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys twentieth-century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising, and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 443 or FINA-A 443.
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ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of art in the United States from the colonial period through the Civil War.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 445 or FINA-A 445.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of art in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 446 or FINA-A 446.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of American painting, sculpture, photography, design, and commercial art in the early Modern period. Topics include the urban realism of the "Ash Can School"; the early avant-garde; New York Dada; the cult of the machine; regionalist painting and the American heartland; the expressionist landscape; and surrealism American style.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 447 or FINA-A 447.
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ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Painting, sculpture, and architecture 1925-1970. Main emphasis will be on American developments, including necessary historic background from the Armory Show to migration of surrealism, abstract expressionism, op, pop, minimal, and kinetic art. A world view of architecture will cover such topics as international style and new brutalism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 449 or FINA-A 449.
ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the history of photography from its beginning to the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on theoretical issues as well as the cultural and social contexts of photography and its practices.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 450 or FINA-A 450.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of precontact arts of the Americas south of the Rio Grande. Emphasis on sculptural, architectural, and ceramic arts of ancient Mexico and Peru.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 452 or FINA-A 452.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Western Sudan and including the area from northern Nigeria to Senegal. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 453 or FINA-A 453.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Atlantic coast from Nigeria to the Republic of Guinea. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 454 or FINA-A 454.
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ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers architectural practice and theory of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in light of contemporary disciplinary themes including globalization, new technologies, concepts of space, and sustainability. Highlights the social, political, intellectual, and technological forces that have influenced and continue to motivate modern design.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 455 or FINA-A 455.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses the arabesque, an ornamental design of flowing lines and curvilinear motifs, as a vehicle to explore issues of media history and intermediality, social networks and cultural transfer, as well as the rise of new and non-traditional art forms between roughly 1750 and 1880, with an outlook into the arabesque's persistence in 20th and 21st-century art.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific themes of particular interest in the ethnographic arts. Topics will be based on art categories (such as textiles and music) or geographic areas (such as new developments in the study of central Bantu initiation arts).
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 458 and FINA-A 458.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates the rich and vibrant tradition of painted imagery in the Islamic world. Uses materials that date from the Umayyad period (seventh-eighth centuries) to the early modern period to examine representational practice in the Middle East, representation of the human form in the Islamic world, illustration of narrative tales and scientific texts, and the circulation of topographical imagery through pilgrimage.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 459 or FINA-A 459.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The arts of China from Neolithic times through the T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.): prehistoric ceramics, ritual bronzes, jades, animal sculpture, Buddhist art, and early pictorial art. Particular attention will be paid to major archaeological discoveries, and the material will be discussed in the context of the development of Chinese culture and civilization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 464 or FINA-A 464.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese art from the 10th to the 18th century. The main emphasis will be on painting; calligraphy, ceramics, and other arts will also be covered.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 465 or FINA-A 465.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese painting and pictorial art from the Bronze Age to the end of the Sung dynasty (A.D. 1279): tomb paintings and reliefs, Buddhist cave paintings, courtly art and imperial patronage, and landscapes. Materials and techniques, art theory, and the relationship between painting and calligraphy will also be considered.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 466 or FINA-A 466.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty (A.D.1279-1368) to the twentieth century: the emergence, development, and interaction of diverse painting schools; amateurs and professionals, regional styles, political and social contexts, the role of patronage and collecting, and art theory and criticism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 467 or FINA-A 467.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the historical roots and development of installation art.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 469 or FINA-A 469.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the cultural and political impacts of print in Europe and the Americas from 1375-2000. Discussion of various types of printmaking and how they reshaped social interaction, reconfigured text and image relationships, transformed the values assigned to visual expression, and created the concept of a "medium."
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 476 or FINA-A 476.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Russian art from the twelfth century to the present. Emphasis on the period 1850 to the present: realism, the Slavic revival, symbolism, constructivism, and socialist realism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 480 or FINA-A 480.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Art history major; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- An introduction for art history majors to the three main realms of the professional art historian: academia (colleges and universities), museums, and commerce (galleries, auction houses, appraisal, and corporate work). Exploration of the various ways in which art historical skills and knowledge prepare one for interesting and rewarding careers. Field trips required.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 481 or FINA-A 481.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourseSummer 2024CASE SHcourse
ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major themes and images from the Renaissance in England, France, Germany, and the Low Countries. Discussion of such notable painters and sculptors as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Albrecht Durer, Jan Gossaert, Quentin Massys, Antonis Mor, and Veit Stoss. Issues include landscape and vicarious travel, assertions of artistic and intellectual self-sufficiency, forms of visual play, and the relationship between print and interpretive conflict.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 482 or FINA-A 482.
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ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the play element of culture, with particular attention to American, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian societies from the twelfth century to the present. Covers historical background, conceptual framework, and critical vocabulary necessary for understanding the ludic aspects of cultural production. Grapples with questions about the relationship between perception and thought, about the changing social and political functions of idleness, and about the value of intellectual labor.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 483 or FINA-A 483.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how and in what circumstances the scientific study of human experience has influenced artistic practice (and vice versa) from the twentieth century through to the present day. Explores how intersections between these "two cultures" have led to creative and critical breakthroughs in both fields of study.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 484 or FINA-A 484.
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ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies the emergence of a distinctive and influential school of Spanish painting from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century. Special attention paid to the artists that truly made this a golden age of painting: El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, and Murillo.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the emergence of an African aesthetic and its conceptual principles, from the first stirrings in the 16th century of Africans dislocated through the slave trade to the early 20th century, when most African artistic and cultural expressions were fully developed and firmly rooted throughout the Americas.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourseSummer 2024CASE GCCcourse
ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Special topics in the history and study of Islamic art.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ARTH-A 489 and FINA-A 489.
ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies with the instructor and year and will be listed in the online Schedule of Classes.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 490 and FINA-A 490.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourseSummer 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of departmental honors committee
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 499 or FINA-A 499.
ARTH-X 491 Readings and Research in Art History
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours.
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Minor Area Courses
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
ARTH
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Art History (ARTHBA)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.