Covering selected works and artists from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, this course introduces the social and cultural practices that defined Euro-American traditions of art, and the methods used by art historians to interpret art objects.
3-0-9
U
3-0-6
G
Instructor: Stanford Anderson
4.603 — undergraduate subject
4.604 — graduate subject (requires permission of instructor)
3-0-9
U
Instructor: Nasser Rabbat
This course introduces the history of Islamic cultures through the perspective of their architecture of devotion (religious, commemorative, and educational). The survey proceeds chronologically from the beginning of Islam in 7th-century Arabia up to the present.
3-0-9
H
Instructor: Nasser Rabbat
This is a seminar that examines how political, historical, and ideological attitudes and biases inform¬ — and sometimes dictate— the representation, codification and production of knowledge.
3-0-9
G
3-0-9
U
Instructor: Lauren Jacobi
4.634 — graduate
4.635 — undergraduate
3-0-9
H
Instructor: Kristel Smentek
Studies theoretical and historiographical works pertaining to the fields of art and architectural history.
3-0-9
H
Instructor: Martha Buskirk
Requires permission of instructor.
0-1-2
H
Instructor: Advisor
Prerequisites: 4.221 and 4.661
Preliminary study in preparation for the thesis for the SMArchS degree in History, Theory and Criticism. Topics include literature search, precedents examination, thesis structure and typologies, and short writing exercise.
TBA
Instructor: Advisor
Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty.
Requires permission of instructor.
3-0-9
H
Instructor:
Requires permission of instructor.
0-6-0
H
Instructor: Arindam Dutta
In the summer of 2012 the attention of numerous newspapers, periodicals and blogs turned toward the Cuban National Schools of Art by architects Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi and Vittorio Garatti a sinuous and sensual architectural complex on the outskirts of Havana dating from the early years