The University of New Mexico
ARTH: Art History Catalog Description

  Three Year Fall Semester Average
Course Catalog Description Enrollment Section
Capacity
Credits
ARTH101 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. Meets New Mexico Lower Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 1013). {Fall, Spring} 599.67 639.33 1,799.00
ARTH201 Prehistoric, Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic Art. Meets New Mexico Lower Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 2113). {Fall} 39.67 55.67 119.00
ARTH202 Western Art from the Early Renaissance to Impressionism. Meets New Mexico Lower Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area V: Humanities and Fine Arts (NMCCN 2123). {Spring} 238.67 287.00 716.00
ARTH204 (Also offered as CLST, HIST, PHIL 204.) An interdisciplinary introduction to the ancient world as the foundation of modern civilization. Lectures on classical art, history, literature and philosophy.
ARTH205 (Also offered as HIST, PHIL 205.) An interdisciplinary introduction to ancient Rome. Lectures on Roman literature, history, art and philosophy. 0.33 8.33 1.00
ARTH210 A survey tracing the historical and cultural impact of photography, including artistic, scientific, documentary, commercial, and vernacular images. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH250 Major stylistic developments of European and American painting and sculpture from Impressionism to approximately World War II. {Fall, Summer} 68.33 119.67 205.00
ARTH251 Interrelationships of Native American, Hispanic and Anglo cultures from prehistoric times to the present, emphasizing the major forms of expression-pottery, textiles, jewelry, architecture, painting and photography. Slide lectures supplemented by museum exhibits. {Offered upon demand} 5.00 6.67 15.00
ARTH261 (Also offered as ARCH 261.) Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of ancient and indigenous cultures from prehistory to the late middle ages. {Fall}
ARTH262 (Also offered as ARCH 262.) Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of the modern world from the renaissance to the present. Prerequisite: 261. {Spring} 3.33 25.00 10.00
ARTH315 Architecture, painting, and sculpture from 1800 B.C. to 6th century A.D. 5.67 12.00 17.00
ARTH321 Survey of the visual cultures (architecture, luxury objects, book illumination and illustration) of the Medieval World, including northern and Mediterranean Europe and the Islamic World, from 500 to 1000 C.E. {Offered upon demand.} 16.33 16.67 49.00
ARTH322 Survey of the visual cultures (architecture, luxury objects, book illumination and illustration) of the Medieval World, including northern and Mediterranean Europe and the Islamic World, from 1000 to 1200 C.E. {Offered upon demand.} 10.00 16.67 30.00
ARTH330 Survey of visual culture of the thirteenth through sixteenth-centuries in Italy, as well as Northern Europe. Interactions with Byzantium, the Islamic world, and Spain will also be considered. 11.67 11.67 35.00
ARTH340 Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 17th-century European masters, such as Bernini, Rubens, Velasquez, Poussin and Rembrandt, are examined against their background of religious and political conflict, theoretical dispute and the rise of modern science.
ARTH343 (Also offered as ARCH 363.) North, South and Mesoamerican pre-Columbian architecture, with emphasis on the cultural background of ancient civilization. {Offered upon demand} 9.00 11.67 27.00
ARTH352 Northern European art from the late 14th century through the 16th century.
ARTH402 (Also offered as ANTH 401.) Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America. {Fall}
ARTH405 Prehistoric art and architecture of the Mediterranean Basin from the Paleolithic Period to the Bronze age.
ARTH406 (Also offered as ANTH 403.) Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America. {Spring} 14.67 18.33 44.00
ARTH407 (Also offered as ANTH 402, MSST 407. ) History, philosophy and purposes of museums. Techniques and problems of museum administration, education, collection, exhibition, conservation and public relations. {Offered upon demand} 2.00 2.00 6.00
ARTH411 The art of Mexico and Central America prior to the 16th century. {Fall}
ARTH412 Arts of the Andean region prior to the 16th century. {Spring} 13.33 17.67 40.00
ARTH415 Late 19th century through the present, includes painting and photography as well as media more often termed traditional. Examines historical background and current critical issues including the impact of stereotypes and the marketplace. {Offered periodically} 2.33 8.33 7.00
ARTH416 This course examines Native Southwestern ceramics from the archaeological past to the present. Regional developments, changes in ceramics made for internal use and for outside sale, as well as issues of the contemporary market are investigated. {Offered periodically} 3.00 9.00 9.00
ARTH417 Long undervalued, Native arts made for outside sale provide multi-voiced narratives. Seminar-format will examine the intrinsic, aesthetic value of these complex arts, their roles and their importance to creators, purchasers and various audiences. 1.00 3.33 3.00
ARTH420 Printmaking, printing and book illustration from Gutenberg to Goya, presenting the graphic arts as an expression of intellectual history and the precursor of photography. Provides an introduction to the curatorship of prints and books.
ARTH421 Printmaking, printing and artists books from Goya to present. Including the graphic arts and photography, the rise of the ideas of the original print, 20th-century mixed media and the relationship between words and images. {Spring} 25.00 28.33 75.00
ARTH422 (Also offered as ARCH 422.) This experimental seminar provides a forum in which to discuss the theoretical issues and critical diversity of contemporary architecture of the last 30 years. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 1.67 3.00 5.00
ARTH423 (Also offered as ARCH 423.) This seminar examines the origins, principles, practitioners, consequences of an American tradition of architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright called organic. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 1.67 1.33 5.00
ARTH425 An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from its inception to approximately 1914. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH426 An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from 1914 to approximately 1980. {Offered upon demand} 34.67 60.00 104.00
ARTH427 An in-depth study of recent photographic visual culture, from approximately 1980 to the present. Emphasis on how images are deployed and understood as efforts to explore artistic, cultural, political, social, and theoretical issues. Prerequisite: 426 or permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH429 Course work determined by specific students request or by the professor s current research. {Offered upon demand} 47.33 101.00 142.00
ARTH429A  
ARTH429B  
ARTH429C  
ARTH429D  
ARTH431 This course will explore the worship and display of art and architecture from the Byzantine Empire with a specific emphasis on the cross-cultural connections among Byzantium, Medieval Europe, the Islamic world, and the Armenian Kingdom.
ARTH432 An introduction to the visual culture of the Islamic world from its foundations in the seventh century on the Arabian Peninsula to its flowering under Ottoman and Mughal rule in the seventeenth century.
ARTH449 Survey of Spanish art and civilization. {Offered upon demand} 6.33 8.33 19.00
ARTH450 Architecture, sculpture and painting in the period of Spanish colonization and the relation of these art forms to both the Spanish and the native Indian traditions. {Offered upon demand} 6.67 8.33 20.00
ARTH453 (Also offered as AFAM 453.) This class provides an overview of African American artists and contextualizes their creativity within the wider framework of U. S. art. What, for example, are the benefits and pitfalls of assigning race to any creative practice? 8.00 8.33 24.00
ARTH463 (Also offered as ARCH 463.) Modern architecture since the late 19th century, primarily in Europe and the Americas. Prerequisites: 261 and 262. {Spring}
ARTH464 Painting, sculpture and architecture in France, England, Spain and Germany from the twilight of Absolutism through the Industrial and French Revolutions.
ARTH472 Visual culture from colonial times through the Civil War including works by West, Greenough, Duncanson and Homer. Topics include various genres, artistic training and the market and art s relationship to ethnic, gender and national identity.
ARTH476 Chicano art began in Mexican American communities in support of the civil rights movement, becoming a national art movement with international scope. Discourses of form, content, institutional practice, tradition, innovation, mythic constructs, political/cultural engagement. Prerequisite: 479. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH479 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. 13.33 18.33 40.00
ARTH481 Painting and sculpture in France, England and Germany from Courbet s Realism and the Victorian Pre-Raphaelites through Impressionism and the late works of Cezanne and Monet. 9.00 11.67 27.00
ARTH484 (Also offered as DANC, MUS, MA, THEA 484.) Examines the practice of criticism, with emphasis on critical processes that penetrate a variety of art forms. Also explores aesthetic theories and cultural outlooks that underpin practical criticism. Restriction: permission of instructor. 0.00 5.00 0.00
ARTH485 (Also offered as MSST, ANTH 485.) Theoretical and practical work in specific museum problems. Prerequisite: 407 or ANTH 402. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH486 (Also offered as MSST, ANTH 486.) Practicum in museum methods and management. Prerequisite: 407 or ANTH 402. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 0.67 6.00 2.00
ARTH487 (Also offered as DANC, MA, MUS, THEA 487.) Analyzes major instances of interdisciplinary influence and collaboration in the present day. Prerequisite: for undergraduates, 9 hrs. of courses in the College of Fine Arts, 3 of which have Fine Arts designation. {Spring} 2.00 0.33 6.00
ARTH488 Art movements, themes, mediums, institutions and individual artists who were influential in the formation of modern Mexico s complex artistic identity between its War of Independence and the end of World War II. {Alternate Falls}
ARTH489 Post-war developments in modernism and post-modernism. Established and innovative artistic practices, organizations and movements. {Alternate Springs}
ARTH490 History of muralism from the Mexican mural movement to the depression-era United States, the emergence of U. S. civil rights muralism in the 1960s and parallel developments in the Caribbean, Central and South America. {Offered upon demand} 10.67 11.67 32.00
ARTH491 Painting and sculpture, 1940 to the present. Prerequisite: 250. 35.67 70.00 107.00
ARTH492 The class provides an examination of how densely populated American environments were reinterpreted by Europeans upon contact in the process of designing and implementing various systems for their habitation, exploitation, and consumption.
ARTH493 Central and South American art from independence to the end of World War II. Chronological, thematic and institutional developments from national and regional perspectives in addition to themes, styles, movements and other issues of continental significance. {Alternate Falls}
ARTH494 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. {Alternate Springs} 5.00 11.67 15.00
ARTH496 Individual investigation or reading under faculty direction. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Fall, Spring} 4.00 328.67 12.00
ARTH499 Directed independent study in a field of special interest culminating in a written thesis. Open only by invitation to departmental honors candidates. {Fall, Spring}
ARTH500 A seminar for graduate students in art history stressing the history of the discipline and the methodology of research. Open to graduate students in art history. Prerequisite for others: permission of instructor. {Fall}
ARTH502 (Also offered as ANTH 501.) Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America. {Fall}
ARTH503 Introduction to methodologies, research tools, bibliographies, standard reference works and critical writings about recent art for the studio student. Open only to studio graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History.
ARTH505 Prehistoric art and architecture of the Mediterranean Basin from the Paleolithic Period to the Bronze age.
ARTH506 (Also offered as ANTH 503.) Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America. {Spring} 2.33 9.67 7.00
ARTH507 (Also offered as ANTH 582, MSST 507.) History, philosophy and purposes of museums. Techniques and problems of museum administration, education, collection, exhibition, conservation and public relations. {Offered upon demand } 1.33 1.67 4.00
ARTH511 The art of Mexico and Central America prior to the 16th century. {Fall}
ARTH512 Arts of the Andean region prior to the 16th century. {Spring} 0.33 4.00 1.00
ARTH515 Late 19th century through the present, includes painting and photography as well as media more often termed traditional. Examines historical background and current critical issues including the impact of stereotypes and the marketplace. {Offered periodically} 1.00 3.33 3.00
ARTH516 This course examines Native Southwestern ceramics from the archaeological past to the present. Regional developments, changes in ceramics made for internal use and for outside sale, as well as issues of the contemporary market are investigated. {Offered periodically} 0.67 1.00 2.00
ARTH517 Long undervalued, Native arts made for outside sale provide multi-voiced narratives. Seminar-format will examine the intrinsic, aesthetic value of these complex arts, their roles and their importance to creators, purchasers and various audiences. 1.33 1.67 4.00
ARTH520 Printmaking, printing and book illustration from Gutenberg to Goya, presenting the graphic arts as an expression of intellectual history and the precursor of photography. Provides an introduction to the curatorship of prints and books.
ARTH521 Printmaking, printing and artists books from Goya to present. Including the graphic arts and photography, the rise of the ideas of the original print, 20th-century mixed media and the relationship between words and images. {Spring} 4.33 10.00 13.00
ARTH522 (Also offered as 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. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 0.00 2.33 0.00
ARTH523 (Also offered as ARCH 523.) This seminar examines the origins, principles, practitioners, consequences of an American tradition of architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright called organic. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 0.00 1.00 0.00
ARTH525 An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from its inception to approximately 1914. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH526 An in-depth study of historical, critical, and theoretical issues in American and European photographic visual culture from 1914 to approximately 1980. {Offered upon demand} 3.33 10.67 10.00
ARTH527 An in-depth study of recent photographic visual culture, from approximately 1980 to the present. Emphasis on how images are deployed and understood as efforts to explore artistic, cultural, political, social, and theoretical issues. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH529 {Offered upon demand} 10.67 24.33 32.00
ARTH529A  
ARTH529B  
ARTH529C  
ARTH529D  
ARTH531 This course will explore the worship and display of art and architecture from the Byzantine Empire with a specific emphasis on the cross-cultural connections among Byzantium, Medieval Europe, the Islamic world, and the Armenian Kingdom.
ARTH532 An introduction to the visual culture of the Islamic world from its foundations in the seventh century on the Arabian Peninsula to its flowering under Ottoman and Mughal rule in the seventeenth century.
ARTH549 Survey of Spanish art and civilization. {Offered upon demand} 2.33 3.33 7.00
ARTH550 Architecture, sculpture and painting in the period of Spanish colonization and the relation of these art forms to both the Spanish and the native Indian traditions. {Offered upon demand} 0.67 3.33 2.00
ARTH551 {Fall, Spring}
ARTH552   6.33 283.33 18.33
ARTH553 This class provides an overview of African American artists and contextualizes their creativity within the wider framework of U. S. art. What, for example, are the benefits and pitfalls of assigning race to any creative practice? 0.00 3.33 0.00
ARTH559 (Also offered as ANTH 509.) Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 0.67 7.00 2.00
ARTH560 Aspects of Pre-Columbian art, architecture, and culture in Mesoamerica and South America are examined in depth. Prerequisites: 511 and 512. {Offered upon demand.} 0.67 5.00 2.00
ARTH563 (Also offered as ARCH 563.) Modern architecture since the late 19th century, primarily in Europe and the Americas. Prerequisites: 261 and 262. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH564 Painting, sculpture and architecture in France, England, Spain and Germany from the twilight of Absolutism through the Industrial and French Revolutions.
ARTH567 (Also offered as ARCH 541.) Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of ancient and indigenous cultures from prehistory to the late middle ages. {Fall}
ARTH568 (Also offered as ARCH 568.) Survey of the architectural and urban traditions of the modern world from the renaissance to the present. Prerequisite: 261. {Spring} 0.00 11.67 0.00
ARTH572 Visual culture from colonial times through the Civil War including works by West, Greenough, Duncanson and Homer. Topics include various genres, artistic training and the market and art s relationship to ethnic, gender and national identity.
ARTH576 Chicano art began in Mexican American communities in support of the civil rights movement, becoming a national art movement with international scope. Discourses of form, content, institutional practice, tradition, innovation, mythic constructs, political/cultural engagement. Suggested prerequisite: 479. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH579 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. 1.00 6.67 3.00
ARTH580 May be repeated for credit, no limit. Prerequisite: 450. {Offered upon demand.}
ARTH581 Prerequisite: 481. {Offered upon demand.} 4.00 10.00 12.00
ARTH582 May be repeated for credit, no limit. Prerequisite: 482 or 491. {Offered upon demand} 8.33 20.00 25.00
ARTH582M  
ARTH583 Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH583A  
ARTH584 (Also offered as MUS, THEA, DANC 584 and MA *485.) An independent study in either critical studies or studio, beyond the scope of the Fine Arts interdisciplinary courses, which may occur within or outside the College of Fine Arts. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Fall, Spring}
ARTH585 (Also offered as MSST, ANTH 585.) Prerequisite: 407 or ANTH 402. {Offered upon demand}
ARTH586 (Also offered as MSST, ANTH 586.) Prerequisite: 585 or ANTH 585. Restriction: permission of instructor. {Offered upon demand} 0.00 6.00 0.00
ARTH587 (Also offered as DANC, MUS, THEA 587 and MA 487.) Analyzes major instances of interdisciplinary influence and collaboration in the present day. {Spring} 0.33 0.33 1.00
ARTH588 Art movements, themes, mediums, institutions and individual artists who were influential in the formation of modern Mexico s complex artistic identity between its War of Independence and the end of World War II. {Alternate Falls}
ARTH589 Post-war developments in modernism and post-modernism. Established and innovative artistic practices, organizations and movements. {Alternate Springs}
ARTH590 History of muralism from the Mexican mural movement to the depression-era United States, the emergence of U. S. civil rights muralism in the 1960s and parallel developments in the Caribbean, Central and South America. {Offered upon demand} 1.67 5.00 5.00
ARTH591 Painting and sculpture, 1940 to the present. Prerequisite: 250. 2.00 10.67 6.00
ARTH592 The class provides an examination of how densely populated American environments were reinterpreted by Europeans upon contact in the process of designing and implementing various systems for their habitation, exploitation, and consumption.
ARTH593 Central and South American art from independence to the end of World War II. Chronological, thematic and institutional developments from national and regional perspectives in addition to themes, styles, movements and other issues of continental significance. {Alternate Falls}
ARTH594 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. {Alternate Springs} 1.33 5.00 4.00
ARTH595 Painting and sculpture in France, England and Germany from Courbet s Realism and the Victorian Pre-Raphaelites through Impressionism and the late works of Cezanne and Monet.
ARTH599 Offered on a CR/NC basis only. {Fall, Spring} 13.00 258.33 49.67
ARTH699 Offered on a CR/NC basis only. {Fall, Spring} 6.67 258.33 33.00

"ARTH: Art History "Three Fall Subject Average - Enroll: 1,330.00 Capacity: 2,918.00 Credits: 4,013.00'