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.

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