A broad survey of selected traditions of art with an emphasis upon understanding their visual elements and cultural significance.

A study of selected visual works throughout the world from prehistoric time to 1400 CE.

A study of selected visual works throughout the world from 1400 CE to the present.

Examines the modern and contemporary history of art and visual culture in relation to a broader set of problems fundamental to visual representation throughout the history of art.

Explores the building of Mexico City, sited in a lake bed surrounded by active volcanoes and tectonic activity, from the time of the Aztecs to the present. Addresses art, architecture, science, and engineering, as well as the role that art and archaeological museums have played in the capital's modern, urban identity.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Focus on developing research skills. Introduction to critical analysis in the context of using various resources and primary materials.

Examines the histories and practices of collections and exhibitions in the visual arts.

Explore the textile holdings of the Art and Art History Collection (AAHC) at UT Austin, analyzing ethnographic and historical collections from the Indigenous Americas. Learn about manufacture from weaving and dyeing technologies, social and ritual meaning from symbolism and iconography, and gender, power, and the economic value of hand-crafted cloth in ancient societies, while working with objects from UT's collections. Examine readings on archaeological, anthropological, and iconographic studies of ancient textile traditions, both in the Americas and in comparative global perspective. Develop a critical assessment of the ethical issues concerning exhibitions and collections of Indigenous American textiles.

Introduction to the history of collecting Latin America, from pre-Columbian objects to modern art.

Examine the histories and practices of collections and exhibitions of contemporary visual art.

Examines various aspects of material culture, including the rise of monumentality and urbanism; media such as writing and figurative arts; and the history and politics of archaeological research in the area of the Fertile Crescent, Turkey, and Iran.

Examines why the Parthenon is of relevance today for a global audience. Subjects include the postantique lives of this unique monument as a Christian cathedral and pilgrimage site, a mosque, a ruin, and an archaeological icon; the various debates about its restoration and preservation; and the problem of cultural ownership.

Examines various methods of interpretation, such as archaeological and art historical analysis of mythical Greek and Roman narratives as they appear in visual arts of antiquity.

Analysis of material and visual culture and the divergent histories of archaeology and art history in Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily.

Examines the archaeology of Olympia, Delphi, Dodona, Delos, and Samos, their global relevance today, and the history of archaeological research.

Public art of the Roman Empire from Augustus to late antiquity, ca. 31 BC to AD 350.

Art and architecture from the archaeological sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia as indices of Roman culture, 100 BC to AD 250.

The art and architecture of republican Rome, ca. 500-44 BCE, when the city established dominance in the Mediterranean and developed an artistic tradition that would flourish into the Empire.

Examines art in Rome under the reign of emperor Hadrian (117-138), who inherited the empire at its greatest geographical extent.

Examine selected works of Greek and Roman art (sixth century B.C. to fourth century A.D.) to explore how ancients thought about themselves with regard to love, sexuality, divine and human beauty, and protection from demonic forces. Focus on social and cultural contexts, gender, and practices of daily life.

Examine mosque architecture beyond well-known examples from the Middle East, reaching less researched regions where Muslims have built and used mosques, including Africa, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Dicuss Muslims living in regions where non-Islamic socio-political systems and infrastructures predominate, exploring the material cultures produced in places where Islam did not originate as, or is not, the dominant authority.

Early Islamic art and architecture, with an emphasis on interconnections between the Islamic world and Europe. Examines unique ways Islamic visual culture developed out of the classical and late antique world. Artworks will be contextualized within early Islamic history, religion, and culture.

Later Islamic art and architecture, beginning with the world empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, and extending into the modern and contemporary periods. Subjects include the social and historical context of Islamic art in these periods and its unique visual culture.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from the period of Late Antiquity (in the seventh century) to the rise of early modern empires of the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals (in the seventeenth century), through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from 1500 to the present, through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Explore the art and culture of the global Middle Ages through close examination of recent films, popular and academic publications, and works of art and architecture that reveal the interconnection between the European and the Islamic worlds.

Examination of the medieval art and architecture of the eastern Roman empire, including related traditions (Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Crusader, Norman).

Examination of early Christian and late Roman art and architecture, including related traditions, such as Jewish, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Persian,and Syriac.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Form and function of religious art in twelfth-century Europe.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Art and Art History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine the art of the later Middle Ages in Italy (1200-1400), including work by Giotto, Duccio, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, and Arnolfo de Cambio.

Changing manifestations of Gothic art and architecture at selected court centers, 1140 to 1400.

An examination of the cathedral at Amiens, its meaning, structure, political and financial contexts, and sculptural programs, as well as its influence on other buildings in France and Germany.

Art and architecture of central Italy.

Traces the beginnings of the "rebirth" (renaissance) of the visual arts, from the end of the Middle Ages to the heyday of the Medici. Works of art are analyzed both in formal terms and in relation to contemporary society, religion, philosophy, economics, statecraft, gender, and other significant issues.

Explores the visual arts created in the Italian peninsula during the final decades of the fifteenth century, or Quattrocento. Emphasis will be on common themes such as the revival of antiquity, the exaltation of the prince, and specific local characteristics.

Art, architecture, and emerging civic identity in Florence, Siena, Venice, and other Italian Renaissance city-states.

Explores the social and cultural fabric of Florence before and after the rise to power of the Medici family beginning in the early fifteenth century.

Examine the work of artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).

Examine the intersection of art, geology, and the geographic notion of 'place' in Italy, using a thematic rather than geographic approach.

Northern European art from the International Style to van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch.

Art and cultural development in the sixteenth century; artists include Duerer, Gruenewald, Holbein, and Brueghel.

The art of Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; includes the sixteenth-century sources from which Roman baroque developed.

Northern European art in the seventeenth century, stressing the Netherlands and Flanders.

Examine the lives and work of Rembrandt (1606-1669) and Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) from diverse methodological perceptions.

Examines the revolutionary energy of 'Art for Art's Sake' in nineteenth century Europe and various artists' challenge to the moral law, especially in Britain and France.

In Europe, the arts of landscape (painting, gardening, poetry and the novel) flourished more creatively than ever in the period covered. Exploration of these arts, their intersections with each other, and across national boundaries.

Examines the extent to which Buddhism and Buddhist art influenced artists and Western culture in the nineteenth century, especially in the development of modernism.

Examines European art and themes in art during the nineteenth century.

European painting and sculpture as social and political events from the French Revolution to the revolutionary crises of midcentury.

Explore the work of British symbolist painter Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) and its place within 19th-century European culture.

Explore the works of Francisco Goya (1746-1828).

The place of Derek Jarman (1942-1994) in the history of film is assured, but he was also a painter, wrote memoirs, and created a famous garden. Discussion of all his works in the context of his life, British culture, and his HIV/AIDS status.

Major movements in the development of modern European painting and sculpture.

Uses the work of one seminal performance, film, video, and installation artist as a case study for considering the history of minimalism, video, and performance in the United States and Europe from the 1960s to the present and for developing ways of writing about time-based media in general.

Avant-garde activity, primarily painting, photography, and film, in the United States and Europe from 1930 to 1970.

Artistic and critical activity in the United States and Europe from 1968 to the present.

Examines the inherent problems in making and interpreting sculpture in the twentieth century in the United States and Europe.

Considers the fate of avant-garde culture globally during World War II and its immediate aftermath through the lens of View Magazine and primary research conducted in the Harry Ransom Center.

Painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early seventeenth century to 1860.

Painting, sculpture, and architecture from 1860 to 1913.

Art in the United States from the Armory Show through abstract expressionism.

Survey of major movements from 1958 to 1985, from pop art to graffiti art and new expressionism.

Painting in British colonial North America and the United States prior to the Civil War.

Painting in the United States from the Civil War to the Armory Show.

A historical survey of artifacts, buildings, and urban environments, focusing on responses to machine-age civilization.

Examines similarities and differences between the discipline of art history and the types of visual training offered by medical schools in conjunction with museums. Builds observational skills necessary for both medicine and art history while remaining grounded in the methodologies and purposes of art history. Sharpens critical thinking skills about images and texts. Cultivates interdisciplinary collaboration in consideration of select examples of European and U.S. art, including-but not limited to--medical or anatomical subjects.

The history of photography, including major historic processes, influential photographers, critical debates, and the significant social, political, and economic circumstances that shaped the development of the medium and the diverse works that were created since its origins in the nineteenth century.

Explore contemporary visual and performance art by Latinx artists working since the 1970's to the present. Examine artists who began to engage with and in civil rights discourse to intervene through their art-making practices; and to align with contemporary trends in the art world that began to expand in the 1970's, such as performance art, installation art, video art, and, later, digital art.

Art of the nineteenth century in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the Caribbean.

Mexican visual culture from the late nineteenth century through 1968. Emphasis on the emergence of modernist avant-gardes and popular entertainment, and their ambivalent relationship to state, church, and market. Also explores how self-consciously negotiating the tension between native and international influences, artists, critics, and curators contributes to notions of Lo Mexicano, or "Mexicanness.

Mexican American art since the 1960s, with an emphasis on the visual production and exhibition of identity inside and outside the Chicano civil rights movement and the politics of U.S. multiculturalism. An introduction to a broad range of art history written to date--including recent feminist and queer interventions--as a means of envisioning a supposed "post-Chicano" or "post-racial" moment.

Survey of visual culture beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, with a focus on key artists, exhibition spaces, and critical debates from the last thirty years in Mexico in light of international aesthetic currents and shifting political and economic conditions.

Development and sources of twentieth-century art in the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Development and sources of art in the Caribbean and Central and South America from the 1960s to the present.

Development and sources of Latin American Women Artists considering feminist, gender and queer theories

Exploration of the historical and aesthetic linkages and affinities between filmmakers and photographers working in greater Mexico, including prominent visitors and Americans of Mexican descent. Considers how Mexican culture is represented but also how borders between Mexico and the wider world--as well as among media--were blurred or brought into sharper focus by these exchanges.

Examine art cinemas from the Spanish-speaking Americas from the 1950s to the present.

Examine the history of Pop Art in Latin America and by Latinx artists in the US from the 1960s to the present.

Examine a history of Chicana/o/x production and representation in film and media from early 20th century to the present.

An introduction to women's studies and gender studies in relation to visual, theatrical, and musical culture in the United States and Europe.

A survey of visual art produced by people of African descent in the United States with an emphasis on the twentieth century and its sociohistorical framework. Changes in modes of expression, formal concerns, pictorial themes, and the impact of the Black Arts movement, feminism, and Afrocentrism on art are explored, as well as the relationship of the work of black artists to art from West and Central Africa and the visual traditions of European and Euro-American artists.

Examine the factors which gave rise to the Harlem Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on art and artists.

Examine issues raised at the intersection of Blackness and photography in contemporary art of the United States.

Examines a wide range of artists, practicing in different parts of the world, who are part of the African diaspora via such factors as the Atlantic slave trade and various patterns of international migration.

A look at a wide range of artists, practicing in Britain, who are part of the African diaspora via such factors as the Atlantic slave trade and various patterns of international migration.

An exploration of border crossing by cultures and groups including Yorubas, Jews, Armenians, Tibetans, Hamish, Pakistanis, and Indians and the production of images by immigrants, exiles, and nomads in alien lands.

A look at a wide range of artists from the countries of the Caribbean, including examples of cinema and reggae music packaging.

Examine work made in the past several decades by independent film-makers from different parts of the world, including the United States, which speaks to the history, challenges, and multiple identities of people in the African Diaspora.

Investigates the lives and works of several artists who have made substantial contributions to the definition, history, and interpretation of the visual arts.

Analysis of the diverse modes of presentation, mediums, definitions, and influences of Africana women artists in the diaspora. Designed to use critical theory and art history found in oral and written literatures, music, films, and other formal and informal documents.

Painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, performance, mixed media, photography, films, and the aesthetic ideas behind the production of African visual cultures from the perspectives of rituals, rites of passage, celebrations, initiations, documentations, and expressions.

Introduction to the origins and earliest developments in Mesoamerican art, architecture, and civilization, with emphasis on the social context of art and visual culture in preclassic Mesoamerica.

The growth of civilization in South America from the earliest decorated textiles, pottery, and ceremonial buildings to the imperial Inca style.

Mesoamerican art, architecture, and its archaeological context, with emphasis on the social function of art and visual culture in ancient Mesoamerica up to the time of European contact.

Introduction to the artistic traditions of the ancient Maya, tracing their development up to the time of European contact. Students will examine various important themes of Maya culture including history, ritual, and cosmology as revealed in sculpture, hieroglyphs, painting, and architectural design.

An introduction to the art, symbolism, and visual culture of the ancient Aztecs. Subjects include the representations of history and mythology in architecture, stone monuments, and pictorial manuscripts.

Examines the scripts of ancient Mesoamerica, focusing mostly on Maya and Aztec hieroglyphic writing. Subjects include methods of decipherment, the visual encoding of language in art and script, and the cultures of literacy in precolumbian Mesoamerica.

Explore the ancient world of the Maya through the lens of architecture and sculpture.

Examine the artistic traditions of South Asia up to the fifth century C.E., with an emphasis on social and religious factors shaping its development.

Examines the development of artistic and architectural traditions in South Asia from the fifth through fourteenth centuries with an emphasis on their social and religious significance.

Examination of the period when Islamic dynasties controlled much of the subcontinent and how a unique mix of forms and cultural practices shaped the development of monuments such as the Taj Mahal.

Explores the development of Buddhist art in South Asia, the land of its origin as well as its spread elsewhere. Focus on the question of "what is" Buddhist art.

Examines developments in various Himalayan regions, such as Tibet and Nepal, by focusing on certain subjects and styles in order to comprehend the roles of art in shaping culture and society.

Examines Chinese art and visual culture from the early twentieth century to the present. Analyzes complex issues involving modern and contemporary art scenes in China through artworks, artists' lives, and sociopolitical changes in China during this period.

Explore the southern Chinese coast as an integral part of the Indian Ocean world, whose multi-directional networks connect this East Asian region to South and Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the East African coast.

An introduction to feminist and gender theories in relation to issues concerning visual representation.

Art and architecture of Guatemala.

Explore issues related to the acquisition, stewardship, and repatriation of the art of the African Diaspora in the face of an increasingly virtual and market-driven art world.

Examination of the theories and methods used by art historians and the changing nature of art historical inquiry.

Individual projects to be completed under faculty supervision.

Individual conference course in which student researches and writes a thesis.

Examine art and activism in contemporary Brazil to explore how artists are relating to, reflecting on, and resisting the democratic erosion in the country.

Examine scholarly methodologies for understanding how imagery encoded messages and how viewers developed strategies for making sense of them.

Examine the products of ongoing preservation and restoration of the Parthenon, its history and contemporary relevance.

Examine textual and theoretical accounts of the religious phenomenon of epiphany across various belief systems.

Examine how scholars in the past and the present have used evidence of visual representation and material culture to understand human beings living in Pompeii and Ostia.

Explore the art and architecture of Republican Rome circa 500-44 B.C. and its relationship with visual culture and politics of the time.

Study Roman architecture from Republic to Empire periods. Explore evidence for different phases of ancient buildings' lives - from construction to restoration to demolition - with a view to determining their political significances.

Examine public art and architecture created in Rome during the last decades of the Republic (circa 100-44 BCE).

Examine the gendered experience of religion in Late Antiquity using the evidence of artistic record, with a primary focus on the Mediterranean world.

Explore the morphology, sociology, and historiography of cities in the Islamic world over time, from the medieval period to the present.

Examine the work of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) in the context of his patrons and the history of the period in which he worked.

Explore the language of art criticism and to investigate the historical origin of some of the terms that have become central to the discourse of contemporary art.

Study the special problems facing those who write about contemporary art, which does not already have an established historical record or a generally accepted canonical interpretation.

Examine the formal, theoretical, and social circumstances of the integration of various film cultures and surrealism in Europe and the United States during the post-war period.

Examine an overview of the work of a variety of individuals who consider history, biography, and the study of archives through the lens of the ephemeral and lived experience. Explore the relationship between writing biography and autobiography, archives and archival research and the production of knowledge, and the impact these choices have on the writing of history.

Examine the magazine as archive and whether its temporal and material limit-terms constitute a viable frame for the writing of history.

Examine the work of modern and contemporary artists that touches on or explores the issue of slavery.

Examine an overview of influential examples of poststructuralist theory and how such theory can be applied to interpretive issues in the visual arts. Explore the writings of Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Benjamin, and others.

Study situations in which the theoretical position that guides an interpretation comes into conflict with the nature of the technical practices of the artist whose work is being interpreted.

Examine transatlantic computational art systems as expressive practices for computing aesthetics and interconnectivity of gendered, racial, and sexualized bodies.

Survey major issues in the field of museum studies.

Conference course for students preparing for dissertation colloquium.

Teaching under the close supervision of the course instructor for one semester; weekly group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period.