Current Course Offerings
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
ARTH323 Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe Sections
Early Modern painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from the great devotional triptychs, through the Reformation, to the emergence of a secular art (1400-1600).
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Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
ARTH360 Chinese Painting: Word and Image Sections
Analyses visual narratives and relationships between painting, calligraphy, and poetry in court and literati painting.
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Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
No ARTH course(s) were found for W2022 term.
Winter 2022
ARTH432 Seminar in the Art of the Middle Ages Sections
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Courses Offered in Other Terms
ARTH225
Art in Europe to the Sixteenth Century
This course is a selective survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the West to the sixteenth century.
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Asian Architecture: Sacred and Urban Spaces
Select built forms in Asia, such as temples, tombs, palaces, cities and gardens, and their relations to cultural, social and political systems.
ARTH310
Art and the Christian Transformation of the Roman Empire
This course considers the diverse roles of visual culture and changing modes of viewing art in areas that comprised the Roman Empire from the first to the sixth century, including the cultural transformations that came about with the move from a pagan to a Christian world in the wake of the conversion of the emperor, Constantine, in the early fourth century and on a major stylistic change in art from the Classical naturalism of the earlier centuries to the more hieratic forms of the Late Antique style. The course throughout will attend to what is particular about the visual, about the nature of images in a diverse range of contexts: Public ceremonies; Roman imperial triumphant art and architecture; the art of private dwellings in first-century Italy; art and care for the dead in both pagan and Christian contexts; the development and decoration of Early Christian Churches; pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other holy sites; early Christian book painting, Icons and icon veneration.
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Art in the Early Medieval West
This term will deal with multiple forms and roles of art produced in Western Europe from about the end of the fifth century to about 1030. The impact of Germanic migrations and the dissolution of Roman Imperial civilization in Western Europe at the end of the fifth century produced major transformations in the culture of Europe. Different religious beliefs and social structure inspired new forms and especially a very different style of art. Reflecting on all this, students examine the multiple ways that images functioned and how art was used to serve both devotion and personal status in the midst of the construction of Christian kingdoms and empires, often in threat of disarray and under attack by still pagan Vikings from the North and a vibrant Islamic culture in the south of Spain.
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Medieval Art in the Age of Monasticism
This course will address the visual arts of Medieval Western Europe between 1000 and 1200, and the role of monasteries as leading institutions and patrons of art and large scale architecture. The material will be approached in a variety of ways: considering art historical method and categories of interpretation; Medieval debates about the value and purposes of art; characteristics of particular genres of work and selected themes in a variety of media.
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Art, Church, Society and their Margins in the Later Middle Ages
Students examine the diversification of the arts and architecture and the expansion of patronage in late medieval society in Medieval art in the later Middle Ages (c. 1150-1500). This era is characterized by a tremendous growth in the production of visual images and art of all kinds due to the greater range of people commissioning art for a wider range of purposes, especially as urban wealth increases. The course examines the impact on art and its meaning as new groups of laity–rich aristocrats, rulers, and the growing numbers of bourgeois–as well as a whole range of new religious orders and university teachers were involved in both viewing and commissioning works.
ARTH321
Early Modern Italian Art and Culture (ca. 1350-1550)
Visual art and culture within the social, political, and religious contexts of the Papacy and the city-states.
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Northern European Art and Culture I (1400-1600)
Early Modern painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from the great devotional triptychs, through the Reformation, to the emergence of a secular art.
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Historic India: Images, Temples and the Construction of Indian Art History
North and South Indian art and architecture with an emphasis on Buddhism and Hinduism.
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Nepal and Tibet: Art, Ritual and Performance
Art of the Himalayan region situated within social and religious practices, festivals, and performances.
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The Pursuit of Realism: Figurative Painting Before 1400 in China
Examines the making of realistic representations that describe society, cultural practise and family relationships in China between 3000 BC and AD 1400.
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The Rise of Literati Painting in China: 1100 – 1700
Chinese literati art and theory will be analyzed through careful study of relationships between visual and textual productions.
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Art in Japan: Objects and Spaces
Changing relationship between art objects and the built environment in the Japanese archipelago, in its social and historical context.
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Art in Japan: The Problem with Painting
Key debates in the history of painting and its institutionalization.
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Seminar in the Art of the Middle Ages
Topics to be announced each year when offered.
Read More....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.
ARTH210 Byzantium: Arts of an Empire Sections
Art, architecture, and material culture of the Byzantine Empire situated in the eastern Mediterranean (c. 300-1453); focus on social and cultural contexts of artistic production, including interactions with neighboring cultures. Credit will only be granted for one of ARTH 210, CNRS 207 or AMNE 279.
ARTH227 What is Modern Art? Sections
Select issues in 20th-century art and the visual and built environment.
ARTH251 Asian Arts: From Chinese Warriors to Bollywood Posters Sections
A thematic examination of Asian arts, such as historic, religious, and secular painting and sculpture to contemporary visual culture.
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.
ARTH319 The Archaeology of Ancient Iraq and Syria: Babylon and Beyond Sections
An overview of the archaeology of the ancient Near East, with special emphasis on the civilizations of Mesopotamia, from the appearance of the first cities (c. 3400 BCE) to the end of the Persian period (c. 330 BCE). AMNE 170 recommended as preparation. Credit will only be granted for one of ARTH 319, or NEST 319 or AMNE 372.
ARTH323 Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe Sections
Early Modern painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from the great devotional triptychs, through the Reformation, to the emergence of a secular art (1400-1600).
ARTH324 Urban and Courtly Arts in Early Modern Northern Europe (1600-1700) Sections
The role of visual art in 17th century court cultures, commercial urban centres, and emergent nation states.
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.
ARTH338 Visual Culture in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (1715-1830) Sections
Art, architecture, and social space in Europe and America: redefining gender, identity and nation in the era of industrialization and political change.
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.
ARTH344 Contemporary Conversations about Art in Kanata/Canada Sections
Radical shifts in thinking about Canadian art and culture since the mid-20th century. The art movements, debates, and institutions that contribute to the complexity of artistic approaches to representing "Canada" today.
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.
ARTH360 Chinese Painting: Word and Image Sections
Analyses visual narratives and relationships between painting, calligraphy, and poetry in court and literati painting.
ARTH380 Art as Technology Sections
Relationship between artistic practice and media, examined through a history of paradigm shifts in technology.
ARTH432 Seminar in the Art of the Middle Ages Sections
ARTH436 Seminar in Early Modern Art Sections
ARTH440B Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Art - MOD & CONTEM ART Sections
ARTH443 Seminar in Canadian Art Sections
ARTH445 Film and the City Sections
The complex interrelations between film and the city; dominant urban theories, film technologies and viewing practices and the intersections between them.
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
ARTH539A Studies in 19th-Century Art - 19TH CENT ART Sections
ARTH540B Studies in 20th Century Art - 20TH CENT 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.
ARTH577A Directed Reading - DIR READING Sections
ARTH577B Directed Reading - DIR READING Sections
ARTH577C Directed Reading - DIR READING Sections
ARTH599 Master's Thesis Sections
ARTH649 Doctoral Dissertation Sections