Art History Courses
ARTH 971: The Woman Artist in Early Modern Europe
Dr. Tania String
Tuesdays, 2-4:40 pm, Hanes Art Center 116
In an art world dominated by ‘great’ male artists, what spaces were available for women to participate in art making in early modern Europe? How did women find opportunities to make art? What challenges and obstacles did they face? How has the discipline of Art History moved on from celebrating canonical male artists as they were first identified in the Renaissance? This seminar will explore the history of women in the arts between 1500 and 1700. In addition to investigating women as producers of works of art, we will also interrogate images of women to see how conventions and mores of the historical past contributed to the representation of women.
ARTH 982: Temporalities of Art and Art History
Dr. Maggie Cao
Mondays, 2:30-5:10 pm, Hanes Art Center 116
Time is neither a straightforward nor neutral framework for understanding works of art. Recent scholarship in a range of disciplines have shown that temporality is both historically determined and constantly evolving in response to technological, social, and economic factors. Consider for instance the imperial ambitions driving the advent of global standard time or the challenges to linear time posed by quantum physics and Indigenous epistemologies. This course will interrogate temporality and its relationship to art and art history. Questions of time force us to question the very models we have for doing art history, from the “period eye” to chronology, the organizing principle of our discipline. Thinking critically about temporality can thus be destabilizing as well as generative for art historians. Over the course of the semester, we will engage with topics such as durational and time-based media, clock time and instantaneity, planetary and ecological time, nonlinear temporalities, anachronism, transhistorical methods, the archive and preservation, among others.
Graduates
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Current UNC Students
Students registered for courses in the same term may audit an Art History course without paying an additional fee. Unregistered students may audit a course for $20.
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Community Members
Community members wishing to audit an Art History course may do so for a $20 fee.
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