Art History

ARTH101 Ways of Seeing: Introduction to Visual Studies Sections

Drawing on examples from across history and around the world, this course deals with the role of the visual in society, culture, and everyday experience.

ARTH102 Crisis and Contradiction in Art and the Built Environment Sections

Concepts and issues critical to the understanding of art and its histories in a global context.

ARTH227 What is Modern Art? Sections

Select issues in 20th-century art and the visual and built environment.

ARTH230 Art and Feminism(s): Histories, Lineages, Legacies Sections

Feminist art and visual culture, from the political activism of the feminist first wave to its intersections with present-day social justice movements.

ARTH253 Asian Architecture: Sacred and Urban Spaces Sections

Select built forms in Asia, such as temples, tombs, palaces, cities and gardens, and their relations to cultural, social and political systems.

ARTH262 Indigenous Arts of North America Sections

A survey of the artistic production by Indigenous peoples of North America from pre-contact times to the present.

ARTH300 Seminar on Methods and Approaches in Art History Sections

Theories, problems, and literature in the study of art history. Required of all Major and Honours students in art history.

ARTH311 Early Medieval Art Sections

From pagan adornment to Christian devotion to service of Christian or Islamic rule (AD 500-1000). Art and architecture of the Early Medieval world's diverse and transforming social, political, cultural contexts.

ARTH320 Entangled Worlds: Spain and Colonial Latin America (1500-1700) Sections

Role of visual art and culture within Catholic Spain and colonial Latin America is surveyed, with emphasis on transculturation from mudejar to mestizaje.

ARTH321 Public and Private Bodies: Italian Renaissance Art and Culture Sections

Visual art and culture within the social, political, and religious contexts of the Papacy and the city-states ca. 1350-1550 (Siena, Florence, Venice, Mantua).

ARTH322 Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1550-1700) Sections

Focus primarily on Rome as the center of artistic, cultural, economic, and religious power in the seventeenth century.

ARTH325 Ancient Egypt: The Archaeology of the Land of the Pharaohs Sections

The material remains of the ancient Egyptians from monumental tombs and temples to the artifacts of daily life; the development of Egyptian civilization from the rise of the first rulers to its incorporation into the Roman Empire. Credit will only be granted for one of ARTH 325, or NEST 304 or AMNE 371.

ARTH331 Greek Art and Architecture Sections

Visual culture of the ancient Greek world in the second and first millennia BCE, especially from c. 1000 to 30 BCE. Credit will only be granted for one of ARTH 331, CLST 331 or AMNE 376.

ARTH332 Roman Art and Architecture Sections

Visual culture of the ancient Roman world from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. Credit will only be granted for one of ARTH 332, CLST 332 or AMNE 377.

ARTH339 19th-Century Art and Social Space Sections

Ideologies of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and economics in 19th-century European and American visual culture.

ARTH340 20th Century Art and Culture: The Triumph and Demise of Modernism Sections

A critical survey of western art and cultural production from the turn of the century to the development of Pop Art.

ARTH341 20th Century Art and Culture: The Postmodern Sections

A critical examination of international visual art and culture from the 1950s to the present; the role of art in consumerist society and the emergence of postmodernism.

ARTH345 History of Photography: Archive, Spectacle, Reality Sections

History and theory of photography, from the competitive context of invention in the 1830s to contemporary uses in social media.

ARTH351 Art and Urban Culture in the Islamic World Sections

A thematic and comparative study of visual arts and architecture in their urban contexts.

ARTH369 Art in Japan: Modern Visual Culture Sections

Self and community in the art and visual culture of modern Japan.

ARTH377 Arts of the Northwest Coast Peoples: The South Sections

The histories, historiography and cultural diversity of the Southern Northwest Coast region; persistence and innovation in the arts in communities, and in cross-cultural and market spheres.

ARTH380 Art as Technology Sections

Relationship between artistic practice and media, examined through a history of paradigm shifts in technology.

ARTH381 The Artist in the World Sections

Critical approach to the figure of the artist in art, film and texts, from the Early Modern period to the present.

ARTH382 Is Art History Queer? Sections

Issues in the history of art through the lens of queer theory.

ARTH410 Seminar in African Art Sections

Key debates in the art of Africa and the African diaspora

ARTH439 Seminar in 18th and 19th-Century Visual Culture Sections

ARTH440A Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Art - MOD & CONTEM ART Sections

ARTH450 Seminar in Art in the Islamic World Sections

Key debates in the field of art and architecture in the Islamic World.

ARTH464 Seminar in Japanese Art Sections

ARTH476 Seminar in North American Indigenous Art Sections

ARTH480 Visual and Digital Media Theory Sections

A thematic examination of key arguments in visual and digital media theory, focusing on developments in lens-based and digital media in relationship to twentieth-century and contemporary artistic practice.

ARTH499 Honours Essay Sections

ARTH537 Early Modern: 17th Century Sections

ARTH540C Studies in 20th Century Art - 20TH CENT ART Sections

ARTH550 Studies in Art in the Islamic World Sections

ARTH551A Studies in Chinese Art - CHN ART Sections

ARTH561A Studies in the Indigenous Arts of the Americas - AMER INDIG ART Sections

ARTH561B Studies in the Indigenous Arts of the Americas - AMER INDIG ART Sections

ARTH571 The Methodology of Art History Sections

Required of all art history graduate students.

ARTH577C Directed Reading - DIR READING Sections

ARTH599 Master's Thesis Sections

ARTH649 Doctoral Dissertation Sections