Courses & Special Topics Fall/Winter 2012-13

“Course Summaries” will be listed below as they become available – simply click on the course title to view the course summary information. Special Topics courses may vary from year to year.

Please note:

the time and location of courses is published in the Public Class Schedule
official Course Descriptions are available in the Undergraduate and Graduate Calendars
the official Course Outline will be distributed at the first class of the term

[slideme title=”ARTH 1100 Art and Society: Prehistory to the Renaissance – Fall term”]

Instructor: Cristina S. Martinez

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[slideme title=”ARTH 1101 Art and Society: Renaissance to the Present – Winter term”]

Instructor: Brian Foss

This course surveys the painting, sculpture and architecture of Europe and the Americas from the fifteenth-century Renaissance to the present. It identifies and examines key artworks that helped define the places and periods in which they were produced, and that were influential for later artists and societies. Through lectures, tutorials, readings and research, students will develop different ways of viewing, understanding and interpreting these works of art in terms of their historical, social and aesthetic contexts, and will gain an understanding of the chronological and thematic development of the art and architecture of the past 600 years.

One two-hour lecture and one one-hour tutorial each week.

Textbook: Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective (Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010); OR: Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Book C: Renaissance and Baroque (Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010) and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Book D: Modern Europe and America (Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010).

Grading:
Tutorial attendance and participation: 15%
Mid-term test: 20%
Annotated bibliography assignment: 25%
Final paper: 20%
Final exam: 20%

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[slideme title=”ARTH 1105 Art as Visual Communication – Fall term”]

Instructor: Morgan Currie

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[slideme title=”ARTH 1200 Introduction to Architectural History – Fall term”]

Instructor: Peter Coffman

Required Text: Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse, A World History of Architecture

Description: This course is an introduction to the major monuments and themes of Western architecture from Classical Antiquity to the end of the Renaissance. It will also include material from the Middle East and Asia. Formal and technological developments will be explored through a variety of building types including sacred, military, commercial and domestic. In all cases, the goal will be to situate the monuments on a broad cultural and historical landscape, connecting them to the ideas, events and circumstances that originally gave them meaning.

Evaluation: Quiz, Mid-term test, Visual Analysis, Tutorial attendance and participation, Final Exam.

Format: One two-hour lecture and one tutorial per week.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2002 Canadian Historical Art – Fall term”]

Instructor: Angela Carr

The format of the course will be chronological with thematic discussion of issues such as contact between the First peoples and European explorers, traders and settlers, the role of contemporary theory in re-evaluating 19^th century classifications of knowledge, and the impact of contemporary critiques upon canonical interpretations. Selected examples of photography, graphic, decorative and folk arts will also be included, together with references to modern and contemporary works. Discussion will focus on how historical narratives structure knowledge in ways that reflect society and values. Attitudes toward the cultural production of women, First Nations, and minorities will be considered, as will the privileging of certain types of artistic production and the manner in which art, artists, patrons, and scholarly discourses have shaped the Canadian cultural reality.

Evaluation: Attendance 10% 1 mid-term test (1.25 hour) 30% 1 essay (2500 words) 30% 1 final exam 30%

Format: Lecture (3 hours)

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2003 Canadian Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Art – Winter term”]

Instructor: Sheena Ellison

This course will survey key themes and movements in modern Canadian art from the Group of Seven to the present day. Covering a range of artists and media, we will examine concepts such as nationalism, regionalism, colonialism, sovereignty, gender, modernity and post-modernity. We will trace the historical precedence of modern art movements, and explore their local, national and international significance.

Textbook: Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss, and Sandra Paikowsky, eds., The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Additional required readings will be made available through a course-pack.

Evaluation: Midterm Quiz: 15% Midterm Assignment 15% Research Essay: 30% Attendance and Participation: 10% Final Exam: 30%

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2006 Arts of the First Peoples: The Southwest, the West Coast and the Arctic – Fall term”]

Instructor: Allan Ryan
New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
Associate Professor, Art History/Canadian Studies
Contact: allan_ryan@carleton.ca; www.trickstershift.com

Course description:

This course presents a selective survey of pre-contact, historic and contemporary arts of the Aboriginal peoples of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest and the Arctic regions of North America. The goal of the course is to develop a familiarity with the richness of Native American art forms in their regional diversity and temporal depth, from time immemorial to the present day, in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, architecture, pottery, textiles, jewelry and even cartoons. The role art plays in expressions of political power, group identity, cosmological belief and presentation of the individual self will be explored. Throughout the course, specific attention will be paid to the impact of colonialism, gender, touristic commodification of artistic styles, and the creation of “art” as a special category of cultural production.

Course format: powerpoint illustrated lectures, videos, museum/gallery visits.

Required texts (available at Haven Books, 43 Seneca at Sunnyside):

Berlo, Janet and Ruth B. Phillips, Native North American Art, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

Whiteford, Andrew Hunter, North American Indian Arts, A Golden Guide, St. Martin’s Press, 1990

Supplementary readings (articles and books) and DVD/videos will be placed on reserve in the MacOdrum Library.

Course evaluation:

Canadian Museum of Civilization assignment (15% of term mark)
Midterm exam (30% of term mark)
American Indian Art Magazine research assignment (20% of term mark)
Final exam (35% of term mark)

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2007 Asian Art – Fall term”]

Instructor: Ming Tiampo

This course is an introduction to the arts and architecture of China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. It surveys religious, pictorial and decorative arts of the region from the Neolithic to the present and explores the intercultural exchange of ideas, materials and techniques throughout Asia. Examining key monuments and works of art of different regions, periods, media and styles, the course aims to provide students with a fundamental understanding of Asian art, its iconography, and the social, religious and historical circumstances it was created in.

Evaluation: TBA

Format: lecture, three hours a week

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2202 Medieval Art and Architecture – Winter term”]

Instructor: Peter Coffman

This course is a survey of the major monuments of medieval architecture and art from approximately the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. Buildings ranging from cathedrals to castles to houses will be studied, along with closely related arts such as sculpture and stained glass. Media such as metalwork and illuminated manuscripts will also be explored.

Required Text: Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren, Art History: Medieval Art (with MyArtsLab)

Evaluation: Quiz, Mid-term test, Essay (or design assignment), Final Exam.

Format: Two 90-minute lectures per week.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2405 European Art of the 17th Century – Fall term”]

Instructor: Mitchell Frank

This course explores painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe during the Baroque period. After an introductory section, the course will move geographically from Italy to Spain to the Netherlands to France. Through lectures, readings, and research, we will develop different ways of interpreting and viewing 17^th-century art and architecture in its historical and social contexts.

Evaluation: To be announced, but will likely include in-class assignments, essay, mid-term exam and final exam

Textbooks: Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture , 2^nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2008).

Class Format: 2 classes a week of 1.5 hours each

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2406 European Art of the 18th Century – Winter term”]

Instructor: Stéphane Roy

This course explores painting, sculpture, print and architecture in Europe during the 18^th century (1680-1815). After an introductory section explaining the basic concepts which define this particular era in art history, the course will examine the art produced in different national settings, most particularly Italy, England, and France. Through lectures, readings, and discussions, we will develop different ways of viewing and interpreting late Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical art in its broader historical and social contexts.

Evaluation

Four reaction papers 20%
Mid-term test 30%
Final exam 40%
Attendance/participation 10%

Class Format: 2 lectures a week of 1.5 hours each

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2502 European Art of the 19th Century – Fall term”]

Instructor: Mitchell Frank

This course surveys mostly painting, but also architecture and sculpture in Europe from the French Revolution until the end of the nineteenth century. We will approach the art of this period chronologically as well as geographically. The course will begin with the Rococo and Neoclassical periods and then move on to Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. The focus will be on artistic developments in France, Germany, and England. Through lectures, readings, and research, we will develop different ways of interpreting and viewing the art of this period in its historical and social contexts.

Evaluation: To be announced, but will likely include in-class assignments, essay, mid-term exam and final exam

Textbook: Petra ten-Doesscahte, Nineteenth-Century Art, 3^rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2012).

Class Format: 2 classes a week of 1.5 hours each

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2600 Modern European Art 1900-1945 – Winter term”]

Instructor: Anna Khimasia

This course provides an overview of major artistic movements in Europe from 1900 to 1945 with particular emphasis on the social, political and aesthetic implications. Focusing on concepts of modernism, modernity, and the avant-garde, we will look critically at the ways in which Modern European Art has been defined. Drawing on a broad range of artistic practices, the stylistic periods covered will include Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism.

Response Papers=30%
Midterm =30%
Final Take Home Essay =40%

Textbook: Textbook and Critical Readings TBD

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2601 History and Theory of Photography – Fall term”]

Instructor: Carol Payne

Study the History of Photography and get e-published!

From the announcement of its invention in the 1830s to the rise of Facebook, photography has become a phenomenally popular and influential visual form. This course looks at the history and cultural meanings of photography. We will explore photographs as works of art, tools of scientific investigation, reportage, and personal mementos. As part of the course, we will also visit the National Gallery of Canada’s renowned Photographs Collection.

And, once again, this course is working with Festival X, Ottawa’s biennial celebration of photography. As an assignment, students will review one of the festival’s exhibitions of photography. Festival X will publish ten of the best essays online. See http://www.festivalx.ca/ for more on Festival X.

Evaluations:

Papers: Exhibition Review (including brief proposal) (about 5 pages)

Visual and Historical Analysis of a Photograph (about 8 pages)

Exams: Midterm and Final

Texts:

Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History. latest Edition. (Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey: Prentice Hall,). ARTH 2601 Course pack—available at the Carleton University Bookstore on campus.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 2608 History and Theory of Architecture – Winter term”]

Instructor: Peter Coffman

Required Text: Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse, A World History of Architecture

This course will explore the major monuments, themes and architects of the West during the most innovative and varied period in the history of architecture – ca. 1600 to the present. We will also look at the theoretical foundations of the architectural movements that dominated that period – Neo-Classicism, Gothic Revival, Modernism and Postmodernism.

Evaluation: Quiz, Mid-term test, Essay, Tutorial attendance and participation, Final Exam.

Format: One two-hour lecture and one tutorial per week.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3000 Themes in Canadian Art (The Photograph in Canada) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Carol Payne

This class will explore the history of photography in Canada through Ottawa’s rich collections … while exploring Canadian history through photographs.

This is an ideal course for student interested in museums as well as the history of photography. Students will have a rare opportunity to work directly with objects in area collections. Participating collections opening their doors to the class are: the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian War Museum, and the Carleton University Art Gallery.

Since the first documented use of the daguerreotype in British North America (in 1840), the medium of photography has played a varied role in Canadian history. It has served as a tool of art, western settlement, journalism, official propaganda, commercial advertisement and social critique. Through a study of Canadian photographic history, we will examine such diverse topics as the construction of nationhood, imperialist representations, and visual media. At the same time, this course will introduce students to different theoretical approaches to the photograph and develop research and writing skills. Classes will include weekly lectures and discussions.

The course will also include a coursepack of additional writing on photography in Canada.

Evaluations (provisional):

Paper: catalogue entry on a photograph in an area collection (this assignment will be completed in about 3 smaller parts): total of about 10 -15 pages

Exams: midterm and final

Participation in Class discussions – includes periodic brief written commentaries on discussion topics and assigned reading

Textbook: Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard, eds. The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada.. ( Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). 266 pp.

(The text for this course, The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada, is a book that Irecently co-edited in order to introduce scholars and students to some of the fascinating photographs, histories and scholarship being written now in this country. This text includes essays by leading scholars of photography in Canada. And coursepack

For more information: carol_payne@carleton.ca

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3002 Canadian Architecture – Fall term”]

Instructor: Angela Carr

This course studies architecture in Canada from indigenous traditions to the present day, covering both stylistic and technological developments. Building styles, methods, and materials will be examined in the context of social and economic conditions and construction techniques.

In addition to the foregoing, we will address broader historical contexts. Lectures will consider how the methodology of history writing influences the study of built form and how the traditional canon is now informed by cultural landscapes and historical and contemporary vernaculars.

Evaluation: Attendance 10%, Mid-term test 30%, Essay 30%, Final exam 30%.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3106 History and Methods of Art History – Fall and Winter terms”]

Instructors: Randi Klebanoff (Fall) and Carol Payne (Winter)

This course will explore art history’s history and methods, its practices and problematics. During the first term we will examine the historical and theoretical foundations of art history from the Renaissance through its development as an academic discipline to the early 1970s with a look at current issues in museum studies. The second section of the course will deal with some of the challenges to the traditional methods and definitions of the discipline in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

EVALUATION:

facilitation panels (4 required: averaged) 20%
course journal (4 collections, averaged) 30%
participation* 10%
Fall term test (November 15) 20%
Winter term test (TBA) 20%

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3305 History of Architecture 1400-1750 – Winter term”]

Instructor: Michael Windover

This course examines architecture of the early modern era (from Renaissance to Rococo). We will consider how ideas developing in this tumultuous period of political and social unrest shaped architecture and how the built environment affected European societies.

Lecture: three hours a week.
Texts: TBA
Evaluation: TBA

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3400 History of Printmaking – Fall term”]

Instructor: Stéphane Roy

This course will provide a survey of the various printmaking techniques used from the 15^th to the 21^st century (woodcut, etching, lithography, linocut, etc.) through the work of their practitioners. In order to give a better sense of the medium’s materiality and to develop elements of basic connoisseurship (identification, technical processes, scholarly conventions), teaching and discussions will be conducted – whenever possible – from actual objects, drawn mainly from Carleton University Art Gallery’s collections, as well as from other institutions in the Capital Region. By the end of this course, students will have a better understanding of this important yet overlooked art form.

Evaluation

Two reaction papers (2 x 15%)
Research statement (20%)
Term paper (40%)
Class participation (10%)

Course format: 3-hour weekly seminar

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3506 B Themes and Issues in Early Modern Art (Religion and the Occult) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Roger Mesley

The 2013 topic will be ‘Religion and the Occult in Art, 1848-1914.’ Those who took ARTH 3506 A (Classical Mythology in Art, 1848-1914) may repeat the course for credit, given the changed topic.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3507 The Artist in Context (Gauguin in France) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Roger Mesley

The 2013 topic is ‘Gauguin in France: The Emergence of Symbolism.’ Those who took the Van Gogh version of 3507 may repeat the course for credit, given the change in topic.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3600 Modern Art from c. 1945 to c. 1980 – Winter term”]

Instructor: Jill Carrick

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3609 Twentieth-Century Architecture – Fall term”]

Instructor: Michael Windover

This survey considers how architects, builders, designers, and their patrons responded to the conditions of modernity in the turbulent twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on the formation and critique of the “Modern Movement.”

Lecture: three hours a week.
Texts: TBA
Evaluation: TBA

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[slideme title=”ARTH 3809 A Closer Look at Art and Visual Culture – Winter term”]

Instructor: Michael Windover

A Closer Look At Art and Visual Culture: Art Deco and Interwar Modernity

This course explores aspects of the popular interwar mode of design known today under the moniker “Art Deco.” We will examine social, political, economic, and cultural circumstances that led to the incorporation of the style into everyday environments around the globe.

Lectures and/or seminars three hours a week.
Texts: TBA
Evaluation: TBA

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4000 Topics in Canadian Art (Canadian Architecture: History, Heritage, and Heritagization) (cross-listed with ARTH 5403) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Peter Coffman

Canadian Architecture: History, Heritage, and Heritagization

This course will explore a broad range of historical architecture in Canada, how it fits into its historical setting, and how it is integrated into modern notions of ‘heritage’. After researching monuments of their choosing, students will produce ‘Statements of Significance’, which are the documents that support a building’s designation as a heritage site in Canada. The goal is to give students experience of both the rigors of academic architectural history, and the practical needs of the heritage profession.

Required texts: multiple issues of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (provided), assorted Parks Canada publications (provided), other readings as assigned.

Evaluation: Research essay, presentation, regular seminar attendance and participation. Exact requirements will differ for undergraduate and graduate students.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4005 Topics in Contemporary Aboriginal Art – Winter term”]

Instructor: Allan Ryan
New Sun Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
Associate Professor, Art History/Canadian Studies
Contact: allan_ryan@carleton.ca; www.trickstershift.com

Course description:

This course will take as its primary referent an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal self-portraits co-curated by the instructor, and shown at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2005-2006. Still the only exhibition of its kind, this body of work will be considered in light of the history of Western self-portraiture from the Renaissance period to the present; and in light of the history of Native American self-representation, from its early focus on communal and socio-political identities to the emergence of more individualistic portrayals in the late 19^th and early 20^th century. Interdisciplinary thinking is encouraged.

Course format: lectures, guest speakers, videos, seminar discussion, class presentations.

Required text:

Exhibition catalogue, About Face: Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Self-Portraits, Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan, curators. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006. Available from the instructor in early fall, 2012, $45.

Supplementary readings (articles and books) and DVD/videos will be placed on reserve in the MacOdrum Library.

Course Evaluation:

1. Class presentation on one piece of work in the About Face exhibition, in the context of the curatorial essay, the artist’s other work, and ideas in at least one of the accompanying supplementary essays. (15% of term grade.) A one page summary of the main points in the presentation is to be provided to the rest of the class. An essay (9-10 pages) based on the presentation, along with a minimum of 10 illustrations, is to be submitted one week after the presentation. (20% of term mark)

2. A 5-6 page personal reflection on the presentations at the 12th Annual New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts, taking place at Carleton on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (Student cost: $45). (15% of term grade.). See www.trickstershift.com for more details on the annual conference.

3. Final term paper (10-12 pages): Critical analysis that explores connections – beyond those made in the catalogue – among 3-5 self-portraits in the exhibition. (25% of term mark)

4. Student self-portrait, any media, plus a one page description, presented during the last class. (15% of term mark).

5. Class participation: everyone is expected to contribute to class discussions (10% of term mark).

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4007 Topics in Asian Art (Gutai and the Japanese Avant Garde) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Ming Tiampo

This course considers the Gutai group in the context of the Japanese avant-garde. Examining art from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, we will cover a range of artistic production that is critically engaged with ideas of the West, modernity, and defining what it meant to be both modern and Japanese. We will examine how the Gutai group were both in dialogue with contemporary art in Japan and on the world stage, and consider how these two vocabularies and perspectives intersected in their work.

Evaluation: TBA

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4305 Topics in Renaissance Art (The Renaissance City) (cross-listed with ARTH 5113) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Randi Klebanoff

The Renaissance City

This seminar will explore ways in which Italian cities were imagined, designed and lived from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Possible topics range from urban planning to the ritual city, from civic identity to sex in the city and shopping. The course will consist of shared readings and discussions, the completion of reading journals, a research presentation and paper.

Evaluation:

Reading Response Journal 20%
Group Discussion Facilitation 15%
Participation 15%
Research presentation 10%
Term paper 40%

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4406 Topics in 18th Century European Art (Art in the Age of Globalization) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Stéphane Roy

In recent years, “globalization” has coloured the historian’s practice, leading scholars to widen their scope in order to get a more comprehensive look at modern and early modern societies. This course will focus on cross-cultural connections during the Enlightenment, looking at evidence of cultural transfers that have not been without consequences on the shaping of national identities. Just as with literature and political theory (areas enriched and transformed by “international” dialogue), the effects of cosmopolitism were equally felt in the world of visual arts. How did these elements of intercultural connections translate into visual terms? Are there indications pointing to the existence of a common iconographical lexicon based on shared values or ideals? Among topics to be discussed: art, travel, and exploration; perception of the Orient; art and revolutions in the Atlantic world; etc.

Evaluation

1. Three short case studies (30%)
2. Research proposal (10%)
3. Class presentation (10%)
4. Final essay (40%)
5. Class participation (10%)

Course format: 3-hour weekly lecture/discussion

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4505 Topics in Nineteenth-Century European Art – Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century – Winter term”]

Instructor: Mitchell Frank

Course Topic: Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Course Description:

In this course, we will examine nineteenth-century artists’ self-fashioning by studying their practices as well as their reception during their lifetime and afterwards. The course will begin with contemporary theoretical readings on artists’ role-playing and the changing status of the artist. We will then move to case studies, in which we apply these ideas to a variety of nineteenth-century artists.

Evaluation (subject to change): Participation 10%, Facilitation Panel 15%, Seminar Presentation 25%, Paper 50%

Class Format: 1 class 3 hours per week

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4705 Seminar: Selected Museum Exhibition – Gutai at the Guggenheim (cross-listed with ARTH 5218) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Ming Tiampo

Gutai at the Guggenheim

This course gives students a behind the scenes glimpse into the making of the Gutai exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York City (opening February 2013). Students taking this course will be immersed in the historiographical, intellectual, and curatorial mandates of the Gutai exhibition, and confront the architectural challenges that the Guggenheim museum itself poses to exhibitions. Students will critique early “drafts” of the exhibition installation, and will be exposed to various aspects of pulling together an exhibition at the Guggenheim: Museum management, exhibition design, implementation, publications, conservation, construction, lighting, registration, security, education, retail, touring, events and curatorial. The course will be both practical and intellectual, covering the nuts and bolts of museum studies, as well as focusing on the question of how to write and display a global history of art.

ARTH 4007 Topics in Asian Art – Gutai and the Japanese Avant Garde (offered Fall 2012) is a prerequisite for the course, as is attending classes at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City during reading week.

This course is by application only. All applicants should provide a one paragraph description of their relevant experience and why they are interested in taking this class. Please send all applications to ming_tiampo@carleton.ca.

Evaluation: TBA

Format: seminar, required attendance in NYC during reading week. The remainder of course hours taught in Ottawa, with a slightly irregular course schedule.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4800 Topics in Architectural History – Fall term”]

Instructor: Michael Windover

Reconstructing Canada: Architecture and Design, 1945-1968 Following two devastating world wars and a crippling economic depression, Canada entered a stable (yet anxious) period of rapid growth, development, and re-imagination. This seminar examines key themes affecting the country’s “reconstruction” through a consideration of designed environments.

Seminar three hours a week.
Texts: TBA
Evaluation: TBA

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4809 A Topics in Art History and Criticism (French Postwar Art) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Jill Carrick

French Postwar Art

This course examines art in France from 1945 to the present, with particular focus on the controversial works and politically charged debates of the 1960s. Art groups examined include Nouveau Réalisme, Figuration Narrative, and the Situationist International. Debates addressed include the relationship of art to politics, trauma, memory, consumerism, existentialism, Marxist theory, street activism, and theories of the neo-avantgarde. Emphasis is placed on the social, historical, and artistic contexts of French art’s production, and on contemporary re-readings of its theoretical and historical significance.

Set Text: Course Reader. Produced by Carleton University Graphics Services.

Course objectives: The development of skills of critical thinking, visual analysis, and research.

Course Requirements: Active seminar participation, including weekly preparation for assigned readings, class facilitations, and a short presentation on your research paper.

Evaluation:

Reading summaries (12%)
Take-home assignment (18%)
Class participation and presentations (20%)
Research proposal (2%)
Research essay (48%)

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[slideme title=”ARTH 4809 D Topics in Art History and Criticism (cross-listed with ARTH 5218) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Stéphane Roy

Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices: The Art of Curating

In this seminar, students will be introduced to the visual object from a curatorial/museum perspective. They will learn to think critically about the practice of art history in academia and in the museum world. Students will be asked to develop their own small-scale exhibition proposal based on selected objects from Carleton University Art Gallery’s collection.

Evaluation
1. Comparative review of exhibitions (30%)
2. Research/small exhibition project (40%)
3. Class presentation (15%)
4. Class participation (15%)

Course format: 3-hour weekly seminar

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5010 Art and Its Institutions – Fall and Winter terms”]

Instructor: Jill Carrick

ARTH 5010 is a full-year course for incoming MA students in Art History. In the fall semester, students are introduced to a selection of key theoretical models and objects of study in art history. In the winter semester, the emphasis is on developing primary and secondary research skills, writing ability, and knowledge of area resources for art historians. The course is thus designed to engage students with the theoretical and practical nature of writing art history.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5113 Perspectives on Pre-Modernity (cross-listed with ARTH 4305) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Randi Klebanoff

The Renaissance City

Evaluation:

Reading Response Journal 20%
Group Discussion Facilitation 15%
Participation 15%
Research presentation 10%
Term paper 40%

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5210 Topics in Aboriginal Art – Fall term”]

Visual Culture, Translation, and Indigeneity in the Great Lakes

Instructor: Ruth Phillips

This seminar explores Indigenous arts of the Great Lakes region from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries as a site of intercultural exchange between Aboriginal peoples and missionaries, soldiers, settlers, tourists and others. We will consider these arts in terms of recent theories of materiality, visuality, agency, cultural translation, and indigenous knowledge. Another goal of the course is to develop skills and methods for studying historic Indigenous arts through research in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization that moves from the analysis of materials, technologies and styles to research on social histories in archives, secondary literatures and sources of contemporary Indigenous knowledge.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5218 F Museum Studies and Curatorial Practice (cross-listed with ARTH 4809) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Stéphane Roy

Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices: The Art of Curating

Evaluation
1. Comparative review of exhibitions (30%)
2. Research/small exhibition project (40%)
3. Class presentation (15%)
4. Class participation (15%)

Course format: 3-hour weekly seminar

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5218 W Museum Studies and Curatorial Practice – Gutai at the Guggenheim (cross-listed with ARTH 4705) – Winter term”]

Instructor: Ming Tiampo

Gutai at the Guggenheim

This course is by application only. All applicants should provide a one paragraph description of their relevant experience and why they are interested in taking this class. Please send all applications to ming_tiampo@carleton.ca.

Evaluation: TBA

Format: seminar, required attendance in NYC during reading week. The remainder of course hours taught in Ottawa, with a slightly irregular course schedule.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5403 Architecture and its Institutions (cross-listed with ARTH 4000) – Fall term”]

Instructor: Peter Coffman

Canadian Architecture: History, Heritage, and Heritagization

Required texts: multiple issues of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (provided), assorted Parks Canada publications (provided), other readings as assigned.

Evaluation: Research essay, presentation, regular seminar attendance and participation. Exact requirements will differ for undergraduate and graduate students.

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[slideme title=”ARTH 5500 Photography and its Institutions: Aboriginal Representation in Photographs – Winter term”]

Instructor: Carol Payne

Brief Course Description:

This seminar will address the photographic representation of Aboriginal peoples by both exploring the history of such images and contemporary response. Through a series of case studies, we will look at how the camera has been used in the colonial encounter—both as a tool of subjugation and one of cultural reclamation. Our examinations will range from scholarship on the work of Edward S. Curtis to contemporary Aboriginal photo-based art. Assigned readings will be drawn from recent publications in Photo Studies, Memory Studies, Visual Anthropology and Aboriginal Studies, including scholarship by Deborah Poole, Elizabeth Edwards, Christopher Pinney, Haidy Geismar, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. We will approach this topic by working directly with some of the rich collections in the National Capital Region.

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