The great originative styles of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Christian West in architecture, sculpture, and painting.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018.
Representative masters in the historical development of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the fifteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018.
Architecture from Stonehenge to the present, examining the nature of the art, major styles and significant architects, and relation to society, technology, and the environment.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015.
Major art forms in oceanic, pre-Columbian, American Indian, and African art; their functions and meanings.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
Functions and meanings of major art forms in the art of Asia, including India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015.
History of film, television, and the Internet. Focus on economic and aesthetic features of these media and interrelationships among them. Models for critiquing each form.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Course Rules: ArtHist 111, English 111, & FilmStd 111 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, UWinteriM 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018.
The specific topics are announced in the Schedule of Classes each time the class is offered.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Course Rules: Open only to freshmen. Students may earn cr in just one L&S First-Year Sem (course numbers 192, 193, 194).
Last Taught: Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000.
The technology, style, history, and theory of the medium. Aesthetic advances from silent to color and sound films. Contributions of various nationalities and artists.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Course Rules: ArtHist 205 & FilmStd 205 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015.
The technology, style, history, and theory of the medium. Aesthetic advances from silent to color and sound films. Contributions of various nationalities and artists.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Course Rules: ArtHist 206 & FilmStd 206 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016.
The art and monuments of the first cities of the ancient world from the Near East to the Americas which gave rise to urbanization as we know it.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Introduces key principles of artistic production in the late Roman, early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval periods, c. 150-800 CE, including the style, the role of the Bible in medieval image theory, iconography, and typology.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013.
Painting, graphics, and sculpture, 1364-1569; their influence on great 15th- and 16th-century styles. Main French, Dutch, and German artistic developments in historical context.
Prerequisites: soph st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014.
The history of print media and its development in Europe, Asia, and the Americas since 1450. Emphasis on historical, artistic, material, cultural contexts.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Representative masters of the 17th century, including Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini, Velazquez, and Poussin.
Prerequisites: soph st.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009.
Traces major artists, styles, themes, and issues in American painting, sculpture, and photography from colonial through contemporary periods.
Prerequisites: soph st.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014.
Art and architecture of Latin America from 1492 to the mid-twentieth century.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2008, Spring 2007.
Overview of Italian Renaissance art, tracing its origins with the painter Giotto in the fourteenth century to its culmination in Michelangelo's sixteenth-century masterpieces.
Prerequisites: none
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2014.
Masterpieces by Spanish artists, including El Greco, Velazquez, and Goya; the social and intellectual forces at play in their works.
Prerequisites: soph st.
Survey of characteristics and developments of modern art movements. Representative theories, groups, and personalities.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014.
The conquest of the Americas and the art of three Pre-Columbian civilizations: the Aztec, Maya, and Inca.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Fall 2012.
Comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary Chinese art history.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012.
Application of basic principles of art history in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate setting.
Prerequisites: intro course in ArtHist; 2.25 gpa; cons supervising faculty member.
Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2005, Spring 2003.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: acceptance for Study Abroad Prog.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one add'l sem.
Prerequisites: none; add'l prereqs may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 1997, Spring 1997, Fall 1995, Spring 1995.
Comprehensive analysis of the technique, style, and themes of specific major film artists. Biographical, cultural, artistic influences on artists' work.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 205(R) or 305(R).
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max. ArtHist 307 & FilmStd 307 are jointly offered; w/same topic they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Spring 2013.
Comprehensive analysis of the technique, style, and themes of specific major film artists. Biographical, cultural, artistic influences on artists' work.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 205(R) or 305(R).
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max. ArtHist 307 & FilmStd 307 are jointly offered; w/same topic they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Spring 2013.
A stylistic analysis of film of major filmmakers made within the structures of particular genres, such as gangsters, musicals, westerns, horror, science fiction and studios.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max. ArtHist 308 & FilmStd 308 are jointly offered; w/same topic they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2014, Spring 2014.
A stylistic analysis of film of major filmmakers made within the structures of particular genres, such as gangsters, musicals, westerns, horror, science fiction and studios.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max. ArtHist 308 & FilmStd 308 are jointly offered; w/same topic they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2014, Spring 2014.
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the Aegean during the Bronze Age, with emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Spring 2011.
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the Aegean during the Bronze Age, with emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Spring 2011.
Major developments in Greek art from Archaic times through the Hellenistic period. Emphasis on architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Archaic and Classical periods.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2014.
Major developments in Greek art from Archaic times through the Hellenistic period. Emphasis on architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Archaic and Classical periods.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2014.
Ur, Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia; the art and archaeology of the first cities in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic to Alexander the Great's conquest.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(P).
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 499 w/same topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Ur, Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia; the art and archaeology of the first cities in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic to Alexander the Great's conquest.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(P).
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 499 w/same topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Architecture, arts, and crafts created for Egyptian kings, nobles, and commoners from the Predynastic period (5500 B.C.E.) to Cleopatra (31 B.C.E.).
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Architecture, arts, and crafts created for Egyptian kings, nobles, and commoners from the Predynastic period (5500 B.C.E.) to Cleopatra (31 B.C.E.).
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Major developments in the evolution of Roman architecture, sculpture and painting from Republican through late Imperial times.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2015.
Major developments in the evolution of Roman architecture, sculpture and painting from Republican through late Imperial times.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2015.
Art and architecture of Constantinople and vicinity from the fourth to the fifteenth century.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
Art and architecture of Constantinople and vicinity from the fourth to the fifteenth century.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
Architecture, sculpture, metalwork, and manuscript illumination from c.500-c.1050 C.E. in Ireland, Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, and Northern Italy.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2010, Spring 2005.
Architecture, sculpture, metalwork, and manuscript illumination from c.500-c.1050 C.E. in Ireland, Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, and Northern Italy.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2010, Spring 2005.
Visual arts of the peoples that lived in Al-Andalus (the Arabic name for Muslim Spain) from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2017.
Visual arts of the peoples that lived in Al-Andalus (the Arabic name for Muslim Spain) from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2017.
Church architecture, manuscript illumination, and architectural and figural sculpture from the Gothic era to the rise of the Renaissance.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2010, Spring 2009.
Church architecture, manuscript illumination, and architectural and figural sculpture from the Gothic era to the rise of the Renaissance.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2010, Spring 2009.
The formation of the great style discussed in terms of the attainments of representative artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2015.
The formation of the great style discussed in terms of the attainments of representative artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2015.
The development of art in Flanders and Holland during the seventeenth century, examining the works of artists Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2014, Spring 2013.
The development of art in Flanders and Holland during the seventeenth century, examining the works of artists Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2014, Spring 2013.
Masterpieces by artists including Donatello, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli in concert with Florentine civic discourse on politics, religion, and gender.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2011, Fall 2007.
Masterpieces by artists including Donatello, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli in concert with Florentine civic discourse on politics, religion, and gender.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2011, Fall 2007.
Art and culture in Spain and its empire, including Mexico and Peru. Major artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, and Ribera.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
Art and culture in Spain and its empire, including Mexico and Peru. Major artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, and Ribera.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
Critical survey of Pop, Op, Kinetic, Systemic, Minimal, Colorfield, New-Realism, Antiform, Earthworks, Conceptual, and other avant-garde movements.
Prerequisites: ArtHist 102(P)
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2012.
Critical survey of Pop, Op, Kinetic, Systemic, Minimal, Colorfield, New-Realism, Antiform, Earthworks, Conceptual, and other avant-garde movements.
Prerequisites: ArtHist 102(P)
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2012.
Architecture, painting, and sculpture in England from Elizabeth I to the Great Exhibition of 1851; emphasis on Wren, Adam, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Fall 2007.
Architecture, painting, and sculpture in England from Elizabeth I to the Great Exhibition of 1851; emphasis on Wren, Adam, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Fall 2007.
Architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of colonial America through the civil war period with emphasis on their aesthetic and social contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2013.
Architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of colonial America through the civil war period with emphasis on their aesthetic and social contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2013.
Painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from 1870 to the present with emphasis on their aesthetic and social contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
Painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from 1870 to the present with emphasis on their aesthetic and social contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
Survey of American folk art from colonization to the present. Emphasis on major styles and themes, regional developments, and relationship to the fine arts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2010.
Survey of American folk art from colonization to the present. Emphasis on major styles and themes, regional developments, and relationship to the fine arts.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2010.
History of European painting from 1800 to 1900.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
History of European painting from 1800 to 1900.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist movements in historical and intellectual contexts; emphasis on Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Pissaro, Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, Ensor, Munch, Van Gogh.
Prerequisites: jr st.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Fall 2016.
Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist movements in historical and intellectual contexts; emphasis on Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Pissaro, Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, Ensor, Munch, Van Gogh.
Prerequisites: jr st.
General Education Requirements: HU
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Fall 2016.
An aesthetic, stylistic, theoretical, technical and functional study of European architecture from the end of the Baroque style to the beginning of Modernism.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R) & 102(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2007, Spring 2003.
An aesthetic, stylistic, theoretical, technical and functional study of European architecture from the end of the Baroque style to the beginning of Modernism.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R) & 102(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2007, Spring 2003.
Emphasizing the work of the major modern architect, the course traces the evolution of architecture from the beginnings of Modernism to the present time.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2007, Fall 2003.
Emphasizing the work of the major modern architect, the course traces the evolution of architecture from the beginnings of Modernism to the present time.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2007, Fall 2003.
The intellectual, visual, and social evolution of architecture since the early 1960's.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 360(P) or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2008, Spring 2004.
The intellectual, visual, and social evolution of architecture since the early 1960's.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 360(P) or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2008, Spring 2004.
Development of the Expressionist, Cubist, Futurist, Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements and work of independent sculptors against the twentieth century historical and intellectual background.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Summer 2013, Spring 2008.
Development of the Expressionist, Cubist, Futurist, Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements and work of independent sculptors against the twentieth century historical and intellectual background.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Summer 2013, Spring 2008.
Development of the Fauve, Cubist, Expressionist, Dada, Surrealist, and Abstract movements against the historical and intellectual background of the twentieth century. Emphasis on leading individual twentieth century artists.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
Development of the Fauve, Cubist, Expressionist, Dada, Surrealist, and Abstract movements against the historical and intellectual background of the twentieth century. Emphasis on leading individual twentieth century artists.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
A survey of photography from its inception in 1826 to the present. Topics include stylistic and technological evolution, cultural impact, and aesthetic considerations of photography.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 102(R) or 357(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
A survey of photography from its inception in 1826 to the present. Topics include stylistic and technological evolution, cultural impact, and aesthetic considerations of photography.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 102(R) or 357(R).
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
Major German painters from Runge to Beckmann. Romantic art theory, landscape, Expressionism, and 'Neve Sachlichkeit.'
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2011, Spring 2007.
Major German painters from Runge to Beckmann. Romantic art theory, landscape, Expressionism, and 'Neve Sachlichkeit.'
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2011, Spring 2007.
Modernist developments in Latin American art, circa 1900 to circa 1960. National and regional histories and artistic trajectories; relationships between European and Latin American modernisms.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2009, Fall 2006.
Modernist developments in Latin American art, circa 1900 to circa 1960. National and regional histories and artistic trajectories; relationships between European and Latin American modernisms.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2009, Fall 2006.
An investigation of the craft or decorative arts-specially furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, and textiles-from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the present.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
An investigation of the craft or decorative arts-specially furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, and textiles-from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the present.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Legacies of Minimalism and Conceptual Art on global contemporary art movements such as site-specific art, earth and land art, institutional critique, body and performance art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 470 w/same topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2017.
Legacies of Minimalism and Conceptual Art on global contemporary art movements such as site-specific art, earth and land art, institutional critique, body and performance art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 470 w/same topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2017.
Current trends in architectural practice, focusing on organic and animate built forms, as well as modular and portable structures within performative, digital, and visual architecture.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Current trends in architectural practice, focusing on organic and animate built forms, as well as modular and portable structures within performative, digital, and visual architecture.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Art of the indigenous peoples of different sections of Africa, with consideration of both aesthetic qualities and the social context of the art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2014.
Art of the indigenous peoples of different sections of Africa, with consideration of both aesthetic qualities and the social context of the art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2014.
Native arts of South America before European contact; emphasis on artistic developments in the Andean region.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
Native arts of South America before European contact; emphasis on artistic developments in the Andean region.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
Arts of ancient Mexico and Central America; emphasis on the Olmec, the Maya, and the Aztecs.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2010, Fall 2009.
Arts of ancient Mexico and Central America; emphasis on the Olmec, the Maya, and the Aztecs.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2010, Fall 2009.
Comprehensive introduction to the art of the Aztec Empire, including architecture, monumental sculpture, small-scale sculpture, ceramics, painting, lapidary work, goldwork, and featherwork.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 499 with same subtitle.
Last Taught: Spring 2008, Spring 2006.
Comprehensive introduction to the art of the Aztec Empire, including architecture, monumental sculpture, small-scale sculpture, ceramics, painting, lapidary work, goldwork, and featherwork.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of ArtHist 499 with same subtitle.
Last Taught: Spring 2008, Spring 2006.
Specific topics vary.
Prerequisites: soph st; Honors 200(P); cons Honors College dir.
General Education Requirements: HU
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2013.
Chinese bronzes, jades, painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Neolithic (5000 B.C.E.) to the modern period, including Buddhist, Daoist, Confucianist, and Communist art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Chinese bronzes, jades, painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Neolithic (5000 B.C.E.) to the modern period, including Buddhist, Daoist, Confucianist, and Communist art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2016.
Japanese temples, shrines, paintings, prints, and crafts from the Neolithic to the modern period, including films, Zen art, and the tea ceremony.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
Japanese temples, shrines, paintings, prints, and crafts from the Neolithic to the modern period, including films, Zen art, and the tea ceremony.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018.
In-depth study of ritual bronzes and other crafts created for nobles and commoners of the Bronze Age, with emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.
Prerequisites: jr st.
In-depth study of ritual bronzes and other crafts created for nobles and commoners of the Bronze Age, with emphasis on recent archaeological discoveries.
Prerequisites: jr st.
In depth introduction to the ethnic arts and religions of China; architecture, painting, film, and religious ceremonies of Daoism, Buddhism, and Dongba.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2013.
In depth introduction to the ethnic arts and religions of China; architecture, painting, film, and religious ceremonies of Daoism, Buddhism, and Dongba.
Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2013.
Buddhist arts and architectures of India, central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, and southeast Asia. Emphasis on Tibetan art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019.
Buddhist arts and architectures of India, central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, and southeast Asia. Emphasis on Tibetan art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2019.
Development of Greek urban and religious architecture from Archaic through Hellenistic times. The growth of such centers as Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Paestum, Priene, and Pergamon.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2007, Spring 2005.
Development of Greek urban and religious architecture from Archaic through Hellenistic times. The growth of such centers as Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Paestum, Priene, and Pergamon.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2007, Spring 2005.
Development of sculpture from the Geometric Period through the Hellenistic age. All forms of sculpture considered, not just freestanding works.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2008, Spring 2007.
Development of sculpture from the Geometric Period through the Hellenistic age. All forms of sculpture considered, not just freestanding works.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2008, Spring 2007.
Development of church architecture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries in France, England, and Germany.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2016.
Development of church architecture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries in France, England, and Germany.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2016.
Gothic art and architecture from its origins in the Ile-de-France through the High Gothic cathedrals to the European-wide diffusion of the Rayonnant style.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R) or 220(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2016.
Gothic art and architecture from its origins in the Ile-de-France through the High Gothic cathedrals to the European-wide diffusion of the Rayonnant style.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 101(R) or 220(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2016.
Florentine and other Italian architecture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; such artists as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Palladio.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2009, Fall 2005.
Florentine and other Italian architecture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; such artists as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Palladio.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2009, Fall 2005.
Key themes, genres, and artists in European art from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Themes may include gender, politics, and religion.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2005.
Key themes, genres, and artists in European art from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Themes may include gender, politics, and religion.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2005.
Physical history of contrasting cities, concentrating on architectural development of all types: institutional, commercial, industrial, residential, and recreational. Emphasizes historical context as well as formal development.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2005, Spring 1998.
Physical history of contrasting cities, concentrating on architectural development of all types: institutional, commercial, industrial, residential, and recreational. Emphasizes historical context as well as formal development.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2005, Spring 1998.
Architecture in the United States from its beginnings in the 17th century to its absorption into international Modernism at the time of World War II.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 103(P) or 102(P) or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Spring 2010.
Architecture in the United States from its beginnings in the 17th century to its absorption into international Modernism at the time of World War II.
Prerequisites: jr st; ArtHist 103(P) or 102(P) or cons instr.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Spring 2010.
The work of America's and Wisconsin's best-known architect presented in its historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st; one of the following courses recom: ArtHist 102(R), 359(R), 360(R), 459(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Fall 2011.
The work of America's and Wisconsin's best-known architect presented in its historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.
Prerequisites: jr st; one of the following courses recom: ArtHist 102(R), 359(R), 360(R), 459(R).
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Fall 2011.
The development of Cubism by Picasso and Braque and its progeny in Paris, in futuristic Italy, and in constructivist Russia.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
The development of Cubism by Picasso and Braque and its progeny in Paris, in futuristic Italy, and in constructivist Russia.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2012.
European art in a pivotal period in the history of modern painting, architecture, and sculpture; post-impressionism, symbolism, art nouveau, fauvism, expressionism, and cubism.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2013, Spring 2009.
European art in a pivotal period in the history of modern painting, architecture, and sculpture; post-impressionism, symbolism, art nouveau, fauvism, expressionism, and cubism.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2013, Spring 2009.
Two major twentieth-century art movements; their sources, major proponents, and later influence; Duchamp, De Chirico, Ernst, Giacometti, Picasso, Miro, Magritte, Dali.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2016, Fall 2012.
Two major twentieth-century art movements; their sources, major proponents, and later influence; Duchamp, De Chirico, Ernst, Giacometti, Picasso, Miro, Magritte, Dali.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2016, Fall 2012.
Focus on prominent 19th and 20th century American master artists working in various genres and formal approaches.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2014.
Focus on prominent 19th and 20th century American master artists working in various genres and formal approaches.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2017, Spring 2014.
In-depth examination of important themes, genres, or subgroups in the evolution of American art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2016.
In-depth examination of important themes, genres, or subgroups in the evolution of American art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2016.
Art from the 1960s to the present.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
The history and critical theory of new media artworks, focusing on artists who utilize interactive technologies.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017.
The history and critical theory of new media artworks, focusing on artists who utilize interactive technologies.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017.
Intersections between art and performance, beginning in the 1960s, and including performance and body art, live art, dance, and participatory or relational post-studio art practice.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Intersections between art and performance, beginning in the 1960s, and including performance and body art, live art, dance, and participatory or relational post-studio art practice.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Ancient Maya art, with emphasis on the Classic Period florescence, its development, and major themes.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2012, Spring 2010.
Ancient Maya art, with emphasis on the Classic Period florescence, its development, and major themes.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2012, Spring 2010.
Major developments in Chinese painting from 6 B.C.E. to the modern period, including landscapes, figures, flowers-and-birds, and calligraphy.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2012.
Major developments in Chinese painting from 6 B.C.E. to the modern period, including landscapes, figures, flowers-and-birds, and calligraphy.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2012.
In-depth examination of important themes, genres, or subgroups in the evolution of Chinese art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2016, Fall 2011.
In-depth examination of important themes, genres, or subgroups in the evolution of Chinese art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2016, Fall 2011.
In-depth examination of major themes, genres, or regional sub-groups within the field of non-western art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Fall 2011.
In-depth examination of major themes, genres, or regional sub-groups within the field of non-western art.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Fall 2011.
Application of advanced principles of art history in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate setting.
Prerequisites: jr st; 300-level or above course in ArtHist; 2.25 gpa; cons supervising faculty member.
Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: jr st; acceptance for Study Abroad Prog.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, UWinteriM 2019.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: jr st; acceptance for Study Abroad Prog.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, UWinteriM 2019.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one add'l sem.
Prerequisites: jr st; add'l prereqs may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2015, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2001.
An undergraduate research seminar in various aspects of the history of art, with papers presented by students.
Prerequisites: jr st; declared Art History major; cons instr.
Course Rules: Satisfies L&S research req.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015.
Supervised practical experience in local art museums arranged on individual basis. Introduction to curatorial and/or administrative duties; 'hands on' treatment of works of art.
Prerequisites: jr st; at least 6 cr ArtHist at the 300 level or above & cons internship coord.
Course Rules: May be retaken for 3 additional cr.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017.
Advanced independent work under the supervision of an ArtHist faculty or instructional academic staff member. Students must submit a study proposal. For more information, consult dept chair.
Prerequisites: jr st; 2.5 GPA; writ cons instr, dept chair & asst dean for SAS.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013.