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DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
SPRING 2005 ART HISTORY OFFERINGS

ART HISTORY 101 INTRODUCTION TO ART
Section .001 Staff MWF 10:00-10:50 CA 2018
Section .004 Staff MWF 1:00-1:50 CA 2018
Section .005 Staff MWF 2:00-2:50 CA 1020
A beginning course in the fundamental concepts of the visual arts; the language of form and the media of artistic expression. Readings and slide lectures supplemented by museum exhibition attendance. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 202 HISTORY OF ART II
Section .001 R. Hernández-Durán TR 2:00-3:15 CA 2018
Section .002 Staff TR 5:30-6:45 CA 1020
Section .001 . This course is part of the larger sequence of Art History surveys. The class will begin with discussions centered on the historiography of the field and the cultural politics that contributed to its development. We will then move through various phases of cultural and artistic development by concentrating on major themes and/or innovations that emerged at various points in time. As such, we will not only be looking at traditional art forms, such as architecture, painting, sculpture, and prints, but we will also be expanding our understanding of such forms by looking at philosophical issues, social practices, relationships between different creative expressions (i.e. visual arts, music, performance, and literature), and the impact of larger socio-political shifts on cultural production. The lectures will also make attempts at presenting a more global approach to a traditionally Eurocentric subject by including material on the Americas, Asia, and Africa, as the case may allow. Course requirements will include readings, two exams, a final paper, and short written exercises. Special fee $18.
Section .002 . Western Art from the Early Renaissance to Impressionism. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 204.001 GREEK CIVILIZATION
Instructor: M. Cyrino TR 12:30-1:45 ANTH 163
AOA CLSCS 204, HIST 204, PHIL 204. An interdisciplinary introduction to the ancient world as the foundation of modern civilization. Lectures on classical art, history, literature and philosophy. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 262.001 WORLD ARCHITECTURE II: MEDIEVAL TO EARLY MODERNIST CULTURE
Instructor: E. Bastea TR 11:00-12:15 EDUC 104
AOA ARCH 262. Survey of architectural traditions tracing the rise of modernity from its intellectual origins in the cultures of medieval and Renaissance Europe, Islam, Colonial Americas, and Japan, to its historical transformation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 331.001 EARLY RENAISSANCE ART
Instructor: J. Andrews MWF 12:00-12:50 CA 1019
This course will focus on the developments and innovations in painting, sculpture and architecture from the 13 th and 14 th centuries. We will focus primarily on Italy, but will consider the influences and exchange between Italy and Byzantium, the Islamic world, Spain, and Northern Europe. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 343.005 PRE-COLUMBIAN ARCHITECTURE
Instructor: J. Ahlfeldt MWF 11:00-11:50 CA 1020
AOA ARCH 363. This course examines the varied architectural traditions of pre-Columbian South, Central and North America by surveying their cultural histories, design technologies, and their place within the contemporary concerns of economic development, national identity, and archaeological/architectural research. Beginning with the massive pyramids of coastal Peru in 2000 B.C. the course traces Andean architecture up through the Inca, then shifts to examine Olmec, Maya and Aztec structural traditions of Mesoamerica, and concludes with a study of the built environments of the ancient Southwest.

Lectures will focus on specific buildings and architectural types, the layout of cities, and architecture's relationship to the landscape. Analysis will take an interdisciplinary approach (using architectural history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology) to examine the form, materials, function, symbolism, semiotics of architecture, and the role of the built environment in the construction of social relationships, memory, concepts of space and time, and bodily performance. Given that much of ancient architecture still remains in the present, the course particularly examines the role and influence of the tourism industry and international non-governmental organizations on the historic preservation and future of these world heritage sites. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 406.001 NATIVE AMERICAN ART II
Instructor: J. Szabo TR 11:00-12:15 CA 1019
AOA ANTH 403. The second part of a two-part survey on art of the Native peoples of North America. The regions covered include the Southwest, the Plains, the Plateau, and the Great Basin. The formal attributes of the major arts of each region will be examined and the relationships between these art forms and social, cultural, and historical factors will be explored. The roles played by these arts in contemporary societies will also be considered. Slide lectures, assigned reading, papers, and periodic slide reviews will be scheduled. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 407.001 MUSEUM PRACTICES
Instructor: J. Szabo W 9:00-11:50 CA 1018
AOA ANTH 402, MUS ST 407. This course provides an introduction to the complexities of diverse types of museums. Among the topics to be addressed are the history of museums, their relationships to society, the ethics of collecting and governance, the politics of display, the representation of cultures, and the issues of inclusion and exclusion. The practices and concerns of museum administration, education, collections, exhibitions, conservation, and public relations will be covered. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 421.001 HISTORY OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS II
Instructor: S. Anderson-Riedel W 2:00-4:50 CA 1019
The class traces the development of the graphic arts in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Prints played a significant role in the avant-garde movements of the past two centuries. While the validity of prints was seriously threatened by the advances in photography in mid-19th century, artists organized themselves to keep the artistic tradition of printmaking alive and to revive the engraving market. In addition, the production and reception of prints was closely tied to issues of social justice, political reform, and commercialism. Questions pertaining to the originality of prints, the patronage of engraving, the print market and patronage, as well as the relationship between graphic images and literature will further guide our investigation. Recommended prerequisite: Art History 200 series. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 426.001 20 TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY
Instructor: L. André TR 11:00-12:15 CA 2018
This lecture and discussion course focuses on key issues in photographic visual culture from approximately 1914-1980. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 429.001 TOPICS/VISIBLE AGENDAS: Pro- and Anti-Abolitionist Images in American Art and Culture
Instructor: K. Buick TR 2:00-3:15 CA 1019
Using sculpture, painting, photography, print, and film, this course will focus on the fine and popular art that became a didactic tool either for or against slavery. At issue was the ongoing debate about the nature of the African as compared to the nature of the European. Therefore, the scope of this class goes well beyond 1865, the technical end of the Civil War. Throughout the semester we will read 20 th century scholarship designed to give us a critical vocabulary for dealing with the relational nature of "difference" that is based on notions of race, gender, and class. Each week, we will examine in depth works of art and the rhetoric that surrounded these works to understand the cultural investment in ideologies of "race" and "sex" in this country from the 17th century to the present. Beginning with portraits of wealthy Southern planters and their children who were accompanied by their slaves, we will then examine the role of the church and of science in strengthening the case for slavery in the U.S. From the visual to the verbal, the issues of race, slavery, and gender were deeply embedded in Victorian culture. As a result, we will read two slave narratives and the most influential novel of the 19th century, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin . We will also view two (of many) of the novel's adaptations to screen. We will end the class by looking at two early 20th century films that reassess the abolitionist era from completely different perspectives: D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1913) and Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" (1919).

Required Texts:
Marcus Wood, Blind Memory: Visible Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865. ISBN: 0-415-92698-X
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (any publisher)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs. Publisher: Modern Library; (December 28, 2004) ISBN 0345478231

Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 429.002 TOPICS/ENGRAVING: HISTORY AND PRACTICE
Instructor: S. Anderson-Riedel MW 10:00-12:50 ART 143
Students taking this course must also enroll in Art Studio 474.002. This is a unique course combining art history and art studio and it is designed for students who would like to understand the medium of Printmaking from a historical and practical point of view. We will look at the historical position and role of the Graphic Arts in a larger context of history and criticism in order to inform contemporary printmaking. We will study the techniques of woodcut, burin engraving, etching, drypoint, and monotype from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century. In the art historical analysis, we will examine the use of critical reception of each medium, discuss the market for prints and consider major collectors and collections in defining the history of printmaking. In the studio part of the course, we will practice the techniques and make our own prints using those techniques. Visits are scheduled to the University Art Museum print study room to look at fine prints in order to gain a greater appreciation of the works of art and to understand how they were created. All students are expected to make a reproduction print based on a historical print, in addition to creating their own original images. Furthermore, students are also required to write a critical analysis of a graphic work of art. Depending on the student's interest, the final project of this class will either entail the creation of a print portfolio or an art historical analysis of a print. This class is restricted and to register requires the permission of the instructor. Special fee $18.

For more information contact Susanne Anderson-Riedel at 277-3813 (ariedel@unm.edu) or Yoshiko Shimano at 277-4407 (yshimano@unm.edu).

ART HISTORY 429.003 TOPICS/ ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE -
Appropriation, Tradition and Exchange
Instructor: J. Andrews W 1:00-3:50 CA 1018
This course is an introduction to the visual culture of the Islamic world from its foundations in the 7 th century on the Arabian Peninsula to its flowering under Ottoman and Mughal rule in the 17 th century. We will begin with a brief outline of the historical and theological foundations of Islamic Art. We will proceed with a chronological survey of imagery from the Mediterranean to India. Our primary focus for the first part of the course will be architecture and a considerable emphasis will be given to comparative studies of courtly art from Islam, Byzantium, and Latin Christendom. The last part of the class will look at individual media aesthetically and technically advanced by Islamic artists and admired, exchanged, and sought after by the wealthy and elite of the world. Students will become familiar with current scholarship and a variety of approaches to the questions and issues presented by Islamic Arts. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 429.004 TOPICS/QUEER VISUAL CULTURE
Instructor: L. André TR 3:30-4:45 CA 1019
The title of this course, "Queer Visual Culture," can be understood in (at least) two ways: 1) as a noun modified by adjectives (i.e. cultural that is both visual and queer); and 2) as a verbal command (i.e., to queer visual culture). In a truly queer manner, students in this course will find themselves twisting among these and other interpretations. Informed by recent queer theories, we will explore a wide variety of imagery produced from the early 20 th century to the present, including works of art, films, television shows, and advertising, through readings of critical texts, close looking, and compelling discussions. Embracing the disruptive potential of the term "queer," this course resists firm boundaries, and we will include, but not limit ourselves to, for example, lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans art (whatever that may be), nor will we focus exclusively on works produced by persons who self-identify as l/g/b/t or queer. We will explore the intersection of queer activism and creative expression, especially as informed by the AIDS crisis and recent same-sex marriage initiatives. We will also revel in discovering the possibilities and pleasures of queer sensibilities-exercising the "queer eye" in all of us. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 429.005 TOPICS/PRE-COLUMBIAN ART: Copan: Investigating an Ancient Maya City
Instructor: J. Ahlfeldt MWF 1:00-1:50 CA 1019
The site of Copan in Western Honduras is the location of Xukpi, an ancient Maya city whose royal dynasty flourished between the fifth and ninth centuries AD. The course begins with a brief introduction to Maya religion and society, their writing system, and the history of investigations in the Maya area. We will then spend the majority of the semester examining the architectural and artistic production at Copan over six centuries. The semester concludes with a critical look at modern-day Copan as a case study in eco-tourism, the black market trade in antiquities, cultural heritage management, and the development of Honduran national identity. Students will develop a general understanding of Maya civilization, art history, and archaeology, as well as in-depth knowledge of one of the most famous ancient Maya cities.
 
Prerequisites: at least one 200-level course in art history, history, or anthropology/archaeology (no exceptions). Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 450.001 SPANISH COLONIAL ART: The Bourbon Period (1700-1821)
Instructor: R. Hernández-Durán TR 12:30-1:45 CA 1019
This course is the second part of Art History 450/550: Spanish Colonial Art: The Hapsburg Period (1521-1700). The class will begin by briefly reviewing material from the first 180 years of colonial rule. This introductory section will prepare students for a discussion of the changes promoted by the French Bourbon monarchy after it ascended to the Spanish throne following the Austrian Hapsburg = s departure. The eighteenth-century represents, either, an apogee of viceregal culture in the Americas or a decadence, depending on the source. Class lectures will continue into the mid-nineteenth-century, to include independence and the first few decades of Mexican Nationalism. We will be looking at traditional art forms, genres, and materials, such as architecture, painting, sculpture, prints, and decorative arts; however, we will also discuss ephemera, performance, and non-elite artistic expressions. Various issues will emerge in these discussions, some of which include the following: race, gender, class, sexuality, psychology, politics, and nationalism. Requirements will include weekly readings, two exams, a final paper, and short written exercises. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 479.001 AMERICAN ART 1876-1940
Instructor: K. Buick TR 3:30-4:45 CA 1020
Visual culture from Reconstruction to World War II including works by Eakins, Stieglitz, Douglas, and O'Keeffe. Traces the emergence of American Impressionism, early Modernism, and Regionalism and explores their engagement with political, cultural and social debates. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 485.001 SEMINAR IN MUSEUM METHODS
Instructor: K. Bakker MW 6:00-7:15 pm MH 214
AOA ANTH 485.001, MUS ST 485.001. This course will focus on how the condition and exhibition of museum objects define our ways of seeing objects and understanding cultures(s). It will start with a broad overview of American material culture from colonization to the present to consider how changing anthropological sensibilities have influenced museum practices for the collection, preservation, and exhibition of material culture. Discussions will include 19 th and 20 th century theoretical perspectives from anthropology and archaeology; history and historiography; and art and art history.
 
There will be a particular emphasis on how New England cultural sensibilities influenced the interpretation of Southwestern material culture - Native American, Hispanic and Anglo, leading to discussions of how both romantic and economic motives and the cultural ambivalence of America's Gilded Age affected modern concepts of American material culture. Issues of cultural diversity and the interpretation of New Mexican Hispanic and Native American artifacts will be discussed in relation to past and current museum practices.

Slide lectures and case studies will focus on various aspects of American material culture from colonial New England, and 19 th century Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American cultures in New Mexico, using conservation treatments of furniture and other decorative arts, ethnographic and archaeological objects. Critical readings, discussion, and research will be required. Special fee $18.00.

ART HISTORY 486.024 PRACTICUM: MUSEUM METHODS
Instructor:
M. Molles ARR ARR ARR
A. Hunt ARR ARR ARR
G. Bawden ARR ARR ARR
J. Moore ARR ARR ARR
L. Bahm ARR ARR ARR
K. Bakker ARR ARR ARR
D. Phillips ARR ARR ARR
AOA ANTH 486, MUS ST 486. Practicum in museum methods and management. This class is restricted and to register requires the approval of the instructor. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 491.001 LATE 20 TH CENTURY ART
Instructor: D. Craven TR 11:00-12:15 CA 1020
Painting and sculpture, 1940 to the present. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 494.001 THE ART OF LATIN AMERICA 1945-1990
Instructor: H. Barnet-Sanchez TR 12:30-1:45 CA1020
Central and South American post-war modernism and post-modernity examined through issues of theme, style and medium, including contemporary artistic practices such as conceptual and installation art. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 506.001 NATIVE AMERICAN ART II

ART HISTORY 507.001 MUSEUM PRACTICES
AOA ANTH 582, MUS ST 507. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 521.001 HISTORY OF GRAPHIC ARTS II
See Art History 421.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 522.001 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Instructor: C. Mead T 8:00-10:45 ARCH 114
AOA ARCH 522. This experimental seminar provides a forum in which to discuss the theoretical issues and critical diversity of contemporary architecture of the last 30 years. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 526.001 20 TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY
See Art History 426.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.001 TOPICS/VISIBLE AGENDAS
See Art History 429.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.002 TOPICS/ENGRAVING HISTORY AND PRACTICE
See Art History 429.002. Students taking this course must also enroll in Art Studio 574.002. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.003 TOPICS/ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
See Art History 429.003. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.004 TOPICS/QUEER VISUAL CULTURE
See Art History 429.004. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.005 TOPICS/PRECOLUMBIAN ART HISTORY
See Art History 429.005. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 529.006 SEMINAR/LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in Latin America

Instructor: C. Radding M 2:00-6:30 LAII 107
AOA HIST 690, SPAN 504, Lt Am 504. This course is proposed as an interdisciplinary seminar for Masters and Ph.D students in the Latin American Studies program, majoring in LAS or in one of the disciplines from Arts and Sciences, Community and Regional Planning, and other departments and professional schools that are related to teaching and research themes on Latin America. The principal goals of this seminar are to enable the students to use different literatures (narrative, quantitative, testimonial, and statistical) in an interdisciplinary mode of synthesis and selection of data and different kinds of materials. It is planned around a series of distinct but interrelated modules, defined in terms of content and methodologies. The instructor, Cynthia Radding (historian), will be responsible for the overall coordination of the seminar, student evaluation, and putting together the final syllabus and course program. She will solicit faculty input from those fields and disciplines that complement hers, in order to give students the framework for cross-disciplinary discussions around the conceptual and policy issues that are encompassed in the theme of social inequalities. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 550.001 SPANISH COLONIAL ART: The Bourbon Period (1700-1822)
See Art History 450.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 568.001 WORLD ARCHITECTURE II
Instructor: E. Bastea TR 11:00-12:15 EDUC 104
AOA ARCH 568.001. Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of the modern world from the renaissance to the present. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 579.001 AMERICAN ART 1876-1940
See Art History 479.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 582.001 SEMINAR/Modernism: Fascism in Germany
Instructor: D. Craven & S. Baackmann R 2:00-4:45 CA 1018
This multi-disciplinary seminar will entail a critical re-examination of the dissenting relationship marking off modernist art in Europe from an ascendant fascism during the 1930s and 40s in Germany and Spain. Here we will analyze at length the artwork of such figures as Kollwitz, Klee, Bellmer, and Heartfield. Conversely, attention will also be given to the pro-fascist modernism of Italian Futurism from 1919 through the early 1940s, centered on the artistic practice of figures like Marinetti, Balla, and Serverini.
 
At the outset, it will be necessary to survey various critiques of fascism, from those of the period B by Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, and Plamiro Togliatti B to the most recent ones by Maria Tatar, Klaus Theweleit, Umberto Eco, and Robert O. Paxton, among others. The second half of the class will involve a stringent look at the way European films, especially from the 1960s, by directors like Rosenbaum, Malle, Benigni, and Link, have addressed the ongoing legacy of fascism in Europe. We will also examine how women writers such as Wolf, Weil, and Bachmann have critically addressed the legacy of fascism. Part of that deeply controversial lineage involves how the philosopher Martin Heideggar, a pro-fascist, has influenced certain strains of post-modernism, as Jürgen Habermas and other critics have noted. Accordingly, we will examine some of the implications of this influence by Heidegger on art and thought in the West since the 1970s. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 585.001 SEMINAR IN MUSEUM METHODS
See Art History 485.001. AOA ANTH 585.001, MUS ST 585.001. Special fee $18.00.

ART HISTORY 586.024 PRACTICUM: MUSEUM METHODS
Instructor:
M. Molles ARR ARR ARR
K. Bakker ARR ARR ARR
J. Szabo ARR ARR ARR
D. Phillips ARR ARR ARR

AOA ANTH 586, MUS ST 586. Practicum in museum methods and management. This class is restricted and to register requires the approval of the instructor. Special fee $18.
 
ART HISTORY 591.001 LATE 20 TH CENTURY ART
See Art History 491.001. Special fee $18.

ART HISTORY 594.001 THE ART OF LATIN AMERICA 1945-1990
See Art History 494.001. Special fee $18.

Instructor section numbers for Problems, Tutorials, Thesis, Final Project, Dissertation:

.006 Anderson-Riedel
.008 André
.009 Barnet-Sanchez
.017 Buick
.022 Craven
.037 Hernández
.063 Mead
.082 Szabo

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