Art History and Music

Rose Hill, Fall 2009
Every semester, the department offers a number of sections of the Art History Introduction course, which satisfies the fine arts core requirement. Check My.fordham.edu for days and times.

Upper level courses are listed below.

Course Number	Title	Professor	Core Requirement	Days	Time	Credits

ARHI 2230	Islamic Art	Wolf	Globalism	MR	2:30-3:45	4
ARHI 2270	Native American Art	Mundy	American Pluralism	MR	10:00-11:15	4
ARHI 2460	Architecture 1300-1750	Spalding		TF	10:00-11:15	4
ARHI 2510	18th Century-Rococo to Neo-Classicism	Heleniak		MR	11:30-12:45	4
ARHI 2540	Modern Architecture	Cathcart		MR	8;30-9:45	4
ARHI 4600	Senior Seminar	Heleniak		W	11:30-2:00	4

Course Descriptions

ARHI 2230-Islamic Art
Emphasis on the great religious monuments—mosques, mausolea—as well as their furnishings, sacred books and manuscripts. Domestic architectures—palaces and urban residences—will also be explored, including their interior decorations: carpets, textiles, metalwork, ceramics and miniature paintings. (Fulfills “Globalism” core requirement.)

ARHI 2270-Native American Art
A survey of the art and architecture made by the “other America”—the indigenous peoples who lived in and continue to inhabit the modern-day United States and Canada. It takes as its starting point the complex, socially stratified cultures that existed in the Americas around the 12th century, but places its greatest emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. It also focuses on the ways that the visual arts contribute in the shaping of ethnic identities—both among Native Americans themselves, and in the ways that ideas about Native Americans, both historic and contemporary, have shaped understandings of “American-ness” among other groups in the United States. (Fulfills “American Pluralism” core requirement.)

ARHI 2460-Architecture 1300-1750
The history of European architecture from 1300 to 1750. Special emphasis will be given to the ecclesiastic and civic architecture of Italy during Michelangelo's lifetime and France during King Louis XIV's reign.

ARHI 2510-18th Century Art: Rococo to Neo-Classicism
Following a brief survey of late 17th Century Art, the development, dominance and decline of the international Rococo style in painting and sculpture will be examined with special attention devoted to Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi and Gainsborough. A study of the Enlightenment sensibility and the rise of Neo-Classicism will follow (Hogarth, Reynolds, Kauffmann, Vigee Lebrun and David, among others).

ARHI 2540-Modern Architecture
Ranging from c. 1750 to the present, this course emphasizes the rise of modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Stylistic and technical innovations will be examined in their socio-historical context. Mega projects - social housing, transport infrastructures, the tall building - to be considered, as well as individual careers of such modern masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto and Louis I Kahn.

ARHI 4600
Readings and discussion in the methodology of art history, and directed research on a selected topic culminating in a paper and an oral report. Required of all senior art history majors; offered only in the fall semester.

Lincoln Center, Fall 2009
Every semester, the department offers a number of sections of the Art History Introduction course, which satisfies the fine arts core requirement. Check My.fordham.edu for days and times.

Upper level courses are listed below.

Course Number	Title	Professor	Core Requirements	Days	Time	Credits

ARHI 2210	Asian Art	Dramer	Globalism	TF	11:30-12:45	4
ARHI 2220	Art of Ancient Near East	Ameri		MR	4:00-5:15	4
ARHI 2535	History of Photography	Kismaric		M	6:00-8:45	4
ARHI 3555	Contemporary Art	Kalina		W	6:00-8:45	4
ARHI 4600	Senior Seminar	Ruvoldt		T	2:30-5:00	4

Course Descriptions

ARHI 2220-Art of Ancient Near East
This course examines the art and architecture of Pharaonic Egypt and of Mesopotamia, including the Sumerian civilization, the Akkadian and Assyrian empires and ends with a consideration of Persian art.

ARHI 2210-Asian Art
This course is a chronological survey of the arts of China, Japan and Korea from pottery-making and jade-carving cultures of the Neolithic down to contemporary works in video and performance art. Students will view and discuss selected works of art from the material culture of all three countries. The emphasis will be on the arts of China—the most populous of the three countries and the cultural hegemon of East Asia. (Fulfills “Globalism” core requirement.)

ARHI 2535-History of Photography
The history of photography from 1839 to the present. The work of leading European and American photographers will be studied in the light of the technical, social and aesthetic issues of their time.The course will be taught by Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, who is has organized exhibitions on the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, JoAnn Verburg and Paul Graham, among others. She is also the co-author of Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 (2004).

ARHI 3555-Contemporary Art
A survey of recent paintings and sculpture, concentrating on American art since World War II and emphasizing such directions as abstract expressionism, pop art color-field painting, minimalism, photorealism, earth art and conceptual art.

ARHI 4600-Senior Seminar
Readings and discussion in the methodology of art history, and directed research on a selected topic culminating in a paper and an oral report. Required of all senior art history majors; offered only in the fall semester.

Future Course Offerings

Spring, 2010, Rose Hill - Tentative:
17th Century Art (Spalding); American Art (Heleniak); Gothic Cathedral (Rowe); Art & Ethics (Meadows-Rogers)

Spring, 2010, Lincoln Center - Tentative:
19th Century Art (Heleniak); Michelangelo (Ruvoldt); Islamic City (Wolf); Seminar in Modern Art (Kalina)