Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
ARTHIST100N	The Artist in Ancient Greek Society	Given the importance of art to all aspects of their lives, the Greeks had reason to respect their artists. Yet potters, painters and even sculptors possessed little social standing. Why did the Greeks value the work of craftsmen but not the men them...
ARTHIST101	Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period	The class considers the development of Greek art from 1000-480 and poses the question, how Greek was Greek art? In the beginning, as Greece emerges from 200 years of Dark Ages, their art is cautious, conservative and more abstract than life-like, clo...
ARTHIST102	Introduction to Greek Art II: The Classical Period	The class begins with the art, architecture and political ideals of Periclean Athens, from the emergence of the city as the political and cultural center of Greece in 450 to its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404. It then considers how the Atheni...
ARTHIST102B	Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800	Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...
ARTHIST104A	The Secret Lives of Statues	Statues-human-shaped sculptures-populate the uncanny valley that separates inert matter from living entities. For humans, this 'other population' can engender profound emotional responses, embody potent ideas, and entangle the politics of the past an...
ARTHIST105B	Medieval Journeys: Introduction through the Art and Architecture	The course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages in particular the art and architecture...
ARTHIST106	Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.	This course explores the art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, Thessaloniki, and Palermo, 4th-15th centuries. Applying an innovative approach, we will probe questions of phenomeno...
ARTHIST10AX	Los Angeles Arts Immersion	In this Arts Intensive, students will learn about the dynamic art histories of Mexican American/Chicanx and Black American artists in Los Angeles. Students will visit museums, galleries, and community centers dedicated to nurturing, showcasing, and a...
ARTHIST110	French Painting from Watteau to Monet	This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...
ARTHIST113	All is Fair... Love and War in Italian Renaissance Art	How are love and war comparable? Why must the creative impulse be accompanied by a destructive one? What do we really mean when we say that an artist "executed" a painting or a photographer "shot" a scene? This course explores the agony and ecstasy i...
ARTHIST115	The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success	How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...
ARTHIST116N	Making Sense of the World: Art, Medicine, and Science in Venice	In 1500 Venice was the place you wanted to be. It wasn't just the capital of the world: it was also its scientific center. This course explores the conversation between the arts and the sciences in Renaissance Venice, and, thanks to remote teaching,...
ARTHIST118A	Space, Public Discourse and Revolutionary Practices	This course examines the mediums of public art that have been voices of social change, protestand expressions of community desire. It will offer a unique glimpse into Iran¿scontemporary art and visual culture through the investigation of public art p...
ARTHIST119	Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art	Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
ARTHIST120	Superhero Theory	With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...
ARTHIST127	Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe: The Art World en masse	This course will survey the visual arts in Europe over the course of the long nineteenth century, from history painting of the French Revolution to avant-garde experimentation in the years leading up to World War I. This was a period of dramatic soci...
ARTHIST133E	A Global History of Architecture and Engineering	An introduction to the history of architecture and engineering, and to basic concepts about how we construct the built environment. This course asks one simple question: what does it mean to "make place" during different moments in history? The class...
ARTHIST135	William Blake: A Literary and Visual Exploration of the Illuminated Poetry	An introduction to the illuminated world of William Blake¿poet, prophet, revolutionary, and visionary artist. The course will address Blake's visual iconography, belief system and ideology, unique mythology, and method of relief etching that allowed...
ARTHIST142	Architecture Since 1900	Art 142 is an introduction to the history of architecture since 1900 and how it has shaped and been shaped by its cultural contexts. The class also investigates the essential relationship between built form and theory during this period.
ARTHIST142A	The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves	This course investigates houses, hideaways, and studios that artists and thinkers have designed for themselves with varying degrees of self-consciousness, from subconscious images of the self to knowing stages for the contemplative life. Case studies...
ARTHIST143A	American Architecture	A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre-Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How t...
ARTHIST146	American Dream, American Nightmare: A History of the United States in Art and Literature	Studying the American past, a person could despair or dream or both. In this course, we will move chronologically from the Revolutionary War to the present to consider artists and writers--some famous, some obscure--who've portrayed hope, who've port...
ARTHIST147	Modernism and Modernity	This course focuses on European and American art and visual culture between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. We will begin and end in Paris, exploring visual expressions of modernism as they were shaped by industrialization and urb...
ARTHIST151	Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present	This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem...
ARTHIST152	The American West	The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am...
ARTHIST159B	American Photography Since 1960	Since the publication of Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS (1958), many distinguished American photographers have emerged, creating a density and power of expression that arguably rivals and even surpasses the extraordinary achievements of earlier photogr...
ARTHIST160	Censorship in American Art	This course examines the art history of censorship in the United States. Paying special attention to the suppression of queer, Black and Latinx visual and performance art, including efforts to vandalize works and defund institutions, students will ex...
ARTHIST162	Visual Arts Cuba (1959 - 2015)	The evolution of culture in post-1959 Cuba, with a strong focus on visual arts in all media and film will be introduced in this course. Historical examples will be discussed through lectures, readings and the presentation of audiovisual material. Stu...
ARTHIST163	Queer America	This class explores queer art, photography and politics in the United States since 1930. Our approach will be grounded in close attention to the history and visual representation of sexual minorities in particular historical moments and social contex...
ARTHIST164	History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World	Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...
ARTHIST165	Vincent van Gogh and His World	No artist is more famous than Vincent van Gogh. Yet how well is he known? Perhaps not at all. A victim of cliches and platitudes, his art is rarely seen, or, to put it differently, the power of its call on us is mostly unheeded. What was he searching...
ARTHIST165B	American Style and the Rhetoric of Fashion	Focus on the visual culture of fashion, especially in an American context. Topics include: the representation of fashion in different visual media (prints, photographs, films, window displays, and digital images); the relationship of fashion to its h...
ARTHIST168A	A.I.-Activism-Art	Lecture/studio course exploring arts and humanities scholarship and practice engaging with, and generated by, emerging emerging and exponential technologies. Our course will explore intersections of art and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on...
ARTHIST173N	Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art	From Pop to postmodernism, contemporary art in the United States has often taken up issues of race, gender, and sexuality. In this seminar, we will study how artists from the 1960s to the present have drawn upon a wide range of media (including paint...
ARTHIST180	Art, Meditation, and Creation	Art and meditation invite us to be fully present in our minds and bodies. This class will give you tools to integrate mind and body as you explore artworks on display at the university's museums and throughout campus. In your engagement with activity...
ARTHIST181	Pacific Dreams: Art in California	This lecture course will explore the rich and diverse history of art made in California, with special focus on the interchanges between the fine arts and subcultural expression. From the Carleton Watkins' exquisite mammoth plate photographs of Yosemi...
ARTHIST182B	Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China	The Song dynasty (mid-10th to late 13th c.) was a period of extraordinary diversity and technical accomplishment in Chinese painting, ceramics, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture. Artistic developments emerged within a context of economic dyna...
ARTHIST185	Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800	The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated boo...
ARTHIST186B	Asian American Art	This lecture course explores the work of artists, craftspeople, and laborers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous ex...
ARTHIST188	Imperial Collecting, Patronage, and Taste in China and Japan	Explores how the imperial courts collected and censored art in China and Japan ca. 1000-1800. The imperial control over art collecting activities shaped the way in which court painters represented the world. The imperial court dictated art creations...
ARTHIST188B	From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art	Chinese artistic developments in an era of revolution and modernization, from Shanghai Modern and New National Painting though the politicized art of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao era re-entry into international arenas.
ARTHIST191	African American Art	This course explores major art and political movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and #BlackLivesMatter, that have informed and were inspired by African American artists. Students will read pivotal texts written by Blac...
ARTHIST194	U.S. Latinx Art	This course surveys art made by Latinas/os/xs who have lived and worked in the United States since the 1700s, including Chicanos, Nuyoricans, and other Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists. While exploring the diversity of Latinx art, students will c...
ARTHIST199	Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media	India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...
ARTHIST1A	Decolonizing the Western Canon: Introduction to Art and Architecture from Prehistory to Medieval	Traditional Art History viewed the Renaissance as its pinnacle; it privileged linear perspective and lifelikeness and measured other traditions against this standard, neglecting art from the Near East, Egypt, the Middle Ages, or Islam. This course wi...
ARTHIST1B	How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting	This course explores the relation of art to life - how and why works of art, even from hundreds of years ago, matter in a person's life. It trains students to find the words to share their thoughts about art with their peers, friends, and family. Som...
ARTHIST2	Asian Arts and Cultures	An exploration of the visual arts of East and South Asia from ancient to modern times, in their social, religious, literary and political contexts. Analysis of major monuments of painting, sculpture and architecture will be organized around themes th...
ARTHIST203	Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks	The seminar examines a range of topics devoted to the makers of Greek art and artifacts, the men and women who used them in life and the afterlife, and the miscreants - from Lord Elgin to contemporary tomb-looters and dealers - whose deeds have damag...
ARTHIST203A	Philosophies Behind Architecture: The Work of Antoni Gaudí as a Response to Modernity	The emergence of modern and contemporary Architecture in the West is intimately linked to the background culture that spread across the intellectual centers of Europe and the US between early nineteenth century and the Second World War. Catalan archi...
ARTHIST204	Dialogues with the Dead	This seminar considers the dynamism and resilience of Greek art and culture. The dialogues in question are not with ancient shades in the underworld but with later artists who build on the creative vision (and blind spots) of the past to addressthe i...
ARTHIST205	Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension	Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...
ARTHIST206	The Alchemy of Art: Substance and Transformation in Artistic Practice	This seminar considers materiality and processes of material transformation as core elements of artistic practice and the history of making, largely from Sumer (3rd Millennium BCE) until the Early Modern period (18th Century in the West), but with se...
ARTHIST206A	Persian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image	Featuring several sessions led by distinguished artist Ala Ebtekar, this course traces the nexus of word and image across a millennium of Persian poetry. Our aim is to look at how texts have been represented through images and enacted in public perfo...
ARTHIST206B	Audiovision in the Medieval Cult of Saints	Medieval art is silent in modern times. Often displayed in sterile museum galleries, it is presented without analytical consideration of the intended envelope of sound, chant, prayer, and recitation. Stripped of this aural atmosphere, the objects hav...
ARTHIST207	The Resurrected Body: Animacy in Medieval Art	This course explores the relationship of spirit and matter in medieval art and architecture, more specifically how the changing appearance of objects and spaces evokes the presence of the metaphysical as glitter, reverberation, and shadow. We will e...
ARTHIST207A	Bodies that Remain: Art and Death in the Middle Ages	This seminar investigates medieval attitudes towards dead bodies through the material culture of death, from the cult of relics, to tomb sculpture, to monumental architecture. The place of death in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in medieva...
ARTHIST207B	The Art of Travel: Medieval Journeys to the Unknown	In many ways, the reasons that medieval people traveled are not unlike our own: to see new sights, make new connections, and return home to regale others with their exploits. Of course, travel was also a more complicated affair, limited to those who...
ARTHIST207D	Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe	How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...
ARTHIST207E	Sacred Play: The Material Culture of Christian Festivals	The twentieth-century American poet and esotericist Robert Duncan once called for a return of the medieval calendar, citing its many feast days as an antidote to the modern 'weekend.' Indeed, the medieval Christian calendar was built on festivals, mu...
ARTHIST208	Hagia Sophia	This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes...
ARTHIST208A	Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art	Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro...
ARTHIST208B	The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews	The seminar reveals the religious and ethnic hybridity of the art medieval Spain, where the lives, material cultures, and artistic practices of Muslims, Christians, and Jews were more intertwined than any other region of the medieval world. We work t...
ARTHIST208D	Virginity and Power: The Mother of God and Visions of Empire	Mary has been the most influential female figure in Christianity. Her powers stem from her paradoxical virginal motherhood. Victory over nature means indomitable power. She was perceived as the general of the Christian armies and the protector of ci...
ARTHIST209C	Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West	This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of...
ARTHIST210	Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World	What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...
ARTHIST212	Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds	Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f...
ARTHIST217	Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth	This course examines global origin myths for architecture, for example cosmic symbolism (e.g. the Mandala/dome), and the magic of technologies (e.g. the "petrification" of the wooden hut in permanent architecture). Examples range from Ethiopian rockc...
ARTHIST217B	Architectural Design Theory	This seminar focuses on the key themes, histories, and methods of architectural theory -- a form of architectural practice that establishes the aims and philosophies of architecture. Architectural theory is primarily written, but it also incorporate...
ARTHIST218A	Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy	Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
ARTHIST219	Caravaggio, Vermeer, and the Life of Paintings	Focusing on great paintings by seventeenth-century European painters--Caravaggio's Medusa, Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, Rembrandt's Self-Portraits, and many others--this seminar will consider how and why artists these artists strove to over...
ARTHIST221E	Peripheral Dreams: The Art and Literature of Miró, Dalí, and other Surrealists in Catalonia	Why was Salvador Dalí fascinated with the architecture of Gaudí? Why did André Breton, Paul Éluard and Federico García Lorca visit Barcelona? Moreover, why did Catalonia become such an important cradle for Surrealism? Why is the (Catalan) landscape s...
ARTHIST224	Architecture as Performance from Antiquity to the Enlightenment	This seminar examines the nature of architectural representation in the western tradition, from antiquity until the 18th century. It considers the ancient theatre as an icon of representation and the afterlife of the stage building as a model for wes...
ARTHIST226	New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries	An exploration of new forms of landscape art in China's contemporary era, 1980s-present. Studies of new media platforms for landscape related imagery, imagined landscapes, and expanded concepts of landscape in an era of heightened ecological consciou...
ARTHIST230B	Image and Text in the Arts in China	An examination of many types of interactions between images and texts in Chinese painting. These include poetic lines inscribed on paintings (as response or as a theme given to the artist to paint), paintings that emulate or transform ancient poetic...
ARTHIST231	Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art	Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
ARTHIST238C	Art and the Market	This course examines the relationship between art and the market, from Renaissance artisans to struggling Impressionist painters to the globalized commercial world of contemporary art and NFTs. Using examples drawn from France, this course explores t...
ARTHIST240	Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s	This seminar will examine the art historical legacy of the 1990s, the decade of Bill Clinton, Beavis and Butthead, and Y2K. By placing art in conversation with music, popular culture, and political events, we will explore the dark underbelly of the...
ARTHIST242A	Art History in the First Person	This seminar considers the use of the first person voice in a wide range of writings about art, from fiction to criticism to scholarship. Insofar as graduate students have typically been discouraged from using the first person voice in their scholarl...
ARTHIST243	Black Divinities: Race, God, and Nation in the Photography of Deana Lawson	In recent years the Brooklyn-based photographer Deana Lawson (born 1979) has become rightly famous for her rapturous yet grounded large-sized photographs of everyday black people--those she meets in her neighborhood, as well as on her travels to Braz...
ARTHIST243N	Beyond Words: Early Books and the Design of the Reading Experience	Copiously drawing from the Stanford Archives, this seminar will study the revolutionary design of the first printed books to ask questions about the nature of reading and the commodification of culture. Besides being trained in typography and printin...
ARTHIST245	Art, Business & the Law	This course examines art at the intersection of business and the law from a number of different angles, focusing on how the issues raised by particular case studies, whether legal, ethical and/or financial, impact our understanding of how works of ar...
ARTHIST246	Duchamp Then and Now	This seminar provides an opportunity to explore not only the familiar though endlessly fascinating episodes of Duchamp's career (Nude Descending a Staircase; the readymade; the Large Glass; the Boite-en-valise; the persona of Rrose Sélavy, his films...
ARTHIST247	Russia in Color	This course explores the application, evolution, and perception of color in art, art history, literature, and popular culture - in (Soviet) Russia and emigration. Working closely with the Cantor Arts Center collection at Stanford, this course pairs a...
ARTHIST250A	Printing Protest: The Artist as Social Critic	This seminar explores the history of print and protest. From books to newspapers to posters, printed materials have generated and circulated political and social messages for centuries. The seminar takes a transhistorical and transnational approach t...
ARTHIST251	Warhol's World	Andy Warhol's art has never before been more widely exhibited, published, or licensed for commercial use, product design, and publication than it is today. For all Warhol's promiscuous visibility and global cachet at the current moment, there is much...
ARTHIST252A	Art and Power: From Royal Spectacle to Revolutionary Ritual	From the Palace of Versailles to grand operas to Jacques-Louis David's portraits of revolutionary martyrs, rarely have the arts been so powerfully mobilized by the State as in early modern France. This course examines how the arts were used from Loui...
ARTHIST253	Aesthetics and Phenomenology	This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...
ARTHIST256	What Was Photography?	Digital imaging has largely replaced darkroom work over the past quarter century, yet analog practices still dominate theories of photography. Working closely with the Capital Group Foundation Collection at the Cantor, this class will explore how tho...
ARTHIST260A	Histories of the Museum: Collecting, Preserving, and Exhibiting Art	Museums have a history. This course questions how museums have shaped and been shaped by society, from their origins in early modern cabinets of curiosity to their contemporary transformation into virtual galleries and online exhibitions. Incorporati...
ARTHIST261	Black Aliveness	Based on Kevin Quashie's 2021 book "Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being," this seminar will explore moments of possibility, love, and being in works of literature and art. With Quashie as our guide, we will look closely at poems, stories, photogra...
ARTHIST264B	Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination	Course on the history of twentieth and twenty-first century American images of space and how they shape conceptions of the universe. Covers representations made by scientists and artists, as well as scientific fiction films, TV, and other forms of po...
ARTHIST265A	Word and Image	What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...
ARTHIST272	Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019)	In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...
ARTHIST273	Couture Culture	Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...
ARTHIST273N	What is Contemporary Art?	This course focuses on the production, criticism, and curating of contemporary art. Through a series of required readings, intensive class discussions, class trips, and first-hand encounters with art objects and exhibitions, we will investigate curre...
ARTHIST274	Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature	What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the f...
ARTHIST274A	The Art of the Uncanny	From murderous dolls to evil doppelgängers, humanoid doubles haunt the Western cultural imagination. Beginning with an in-depth look at the contested concept of the "uncanny", the seminar traces the history of anxiety about non-human humans in the We...
ARTHIST277	Colonial Mexico: Images and Power	How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...
ARTHIST281	Chinese Portraiture	Exploration of recent studies of Chinese portraiture, with a focus on modern and contemporary eras. Portrait practices in treaty port cities; photographic portraits, portraits and modernity; political portraits in public arenas, self-erasure in conte...
ARTHIST284	Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America	This course explores the rich history and contemporary state of ceramic production by Asian American/diasporic makers. It is also about the way history, culture, and emotion are carried by process, technique, and materials. Taught by an art historian...
ARTHIST284B	Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary	Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space,...
ARTHIST287	Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture	Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books (ehon) and popular broadsheets (kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through ima...
ARTHIST287A	The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime	This course on the Japanese tea ceremony ('water for tea') introduces the world of the first medieval tea-masters and follows the transformation of chanoyu into a popular pastime, a performance art, a get-together of art connoisseurs, and a religious...
ARTHIST290	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree.
ARTHIST291	Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries	This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...
ARTHIST292	Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman	This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...
ARTHIST293	Black and Brown: American Artists of Color	This course explores the art history of African American and Latina/o/x artists in the United States, Latin America & the Caribbean. Focused on particular exhibition and collection histories, students will consider the artistic, social and political...
ARTHIST293A	Latin American Art and Literature: 100 Years of Modernisms	This course will explore the different kinds of modernisms and modernities that Latin American artists and authors have produced from the early twentieth century to the present. Defined as a break with the past and with tradition, the term "modernism...
ARTHIST293B	The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics and Performance	This seminar explores the sonic and visual aesthetics of punk rock since the 1970s. While studying music, videos, zines, and album covers, students will examine the convergence of art with politics among artists, such as Lydia Lunch and Vaginal Davis...
ARTHIST294	Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing	This course, Writing the Visual: The Art of Art Writing, will explore the relationship between writing and visual art, which has been theorized as everything from an act of translation and interpretation to one of collaboration or competition. Oscar...
ARTHIST295	Visual Arts Internship	Professional experience in a field related to the Visual Arts for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for galleries, museums, art centers, and art publications. Students arrange the internship, provide a confirmation letter from the hostin...
ARTHIST296	Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History	Historiography and methodology. Through a series of case studies, this course introduces a range of influential critical perspectives in art history as a discipline and a practice. The goal is to stimulate thinking about what it means to explore the...
ARTHIST297	Honors Thesis Writing	May be repeated for credit.
ARTHIST298	Individual Work: Art History	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms and payment ar...
ARTHIST3	Introduction to World Architecture	This course offers an expansive and wide-ranging introduction to architecture and urban design from the earliest human constructions to the mid-20th century. The examples range from the Americas to Europe, the Middle East, South and East Asia. The di...
ARTHIST302B	Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800	Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...
ARTHIST305B	Medieval Journeys: Introduction through the Art and Architecture	The course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages in particular the art and architecture...
ARTHIST306	Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.	This course explores the art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, Thessaloniki, and Palermo, 4th-15th centuries. Applying an innovative approach, we will probe questions of phenomeno...
ARTHIST310	French Painting from Watteau to Monet	This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...
ARTHIST315	The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success	How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...
ARTHIST319	Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art	Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
ARTHIST320	Superhero Theory	With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...
ARTHIST342A	The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves	This course investigates houses, hideaways, and studios that artists and thinkers have designed for themselves with varying degrees of self-consciousness, from subconscious images of the self to knowing stages for the contemplative life. Case studies...
ARTHIST343A	American Architecture	A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre-Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How t...
ARTHIST347	Modernism and Modernity	This course focuses on European and American art and visual culture between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. We will begin and end in Paris, exploring visual expressions of modernism as they were shaped by industrialization and urb...
ARTHIST351	Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present	This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem...
ARTHIST359B	American Photography Since 1960	Since the publication of Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS (1958), many distinguished American photographers have emerged, creating a density and power of expression that arguably rivals and even surpasses the extraordinary achievements of earlier photogr...
ARTHIST36	Dangerous Ideas	Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...
ARTHIST362	Visual Arts Cuba (1959 - 2015)	The evolution of culture in post-1959 Cuba, with a strong focus on visual arts in all media and film will be introduced in this course. Historical examples will be discussed through lectures, readings and the presentation of audiovisual material. Stu...
ARTHIST364	History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World	Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...
ARTHIST366	Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History	Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap...
ARTHIST382B	Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China	The Song dynasty (mid-10th to late 13th c.) was a period of extraordinary diversity and technical accomplishment in Chinese painting, ceramics, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture. Artistic developments emerged within a context of economic dyna...
ARTHIST385	Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800	The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated boo...
ARTHIST388	Imperial Collecting, Patronage, and Taste in China and Japan	Explores how the imperial courts collected and censored art in China and Japan ca. 1000-1800. The imperial control over art collecting activities shaped the way in which court painters represented the world. The imperial court dictated art creations...
ARTHIST388B	From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art	Chinese artistic developments in an era of revolution and modernization, from Shanghai Modern and New National Painting though the politicized art of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao era re-entry into international arenas.
ARTHIST401	World War Two: Place, Loss, History	A consideration of how the Second World War still goes on today in the form of haunted absences and vivid representations. Studying literature and art in detail, the seminar will center on some of the places where those absences and representations g...
ARTHIST405	Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension	Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...
ARTHIST405A	Graduate Pedagogy	This course is designed for graduate students in Art History and Film Studies preparing to work as teaching assistants in the Department of Art and Art History. The seminar will focus on a range of theoretical and practical concerns pertaining to th...
ARTHIST406	The Alchemy of Art: Substance and Transformation in Artistic Practice	This seminar considers materiality and processes of material transformation as core elements of artistic practice and the history of making, largely from Sumer (3rd Millennium BCE) until the Early Modern period (18th Century in the West), but with se...
ARTHIST406A	Persian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image	Featuring several sessions led by distinguished artist Ala Ebtekar, this course traces the nexus of word and image across a millennium of Persian poetry. Our aim is to look at how texts have been represented through images and enacted in public perfo...
ARTHIST406B	Audiovision in the Medieval Cult of Saints	Medieval art is silent in modern times. Often displayed in sterile museum galleries, it is presented without analytical consideration of the intended envelope of sound, chant, prayer, and recitation. Stripped of this aural atmosphere, the objects hav...
ARTHIST407	The Resurrected Body: Animacy in Medieval Art	This course explores the relationship of spirit and matter in medieval art and architecture, more specifically how the changing appearance of objects and spaces evokes the presence of the metaphysical as glitter, reverberation, and shadow. We will e...
ARTHIST407B	The Art of Travel: Medieval Journeys to the Unknown	In many ways, the reasons that medieval people traveled are not unlike our own: to see new sights, make new connections, and return home to regale others with their exploits. Of course, travel was also a more complicated affair, limited to those who...
ARTHIST407D	Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe	How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...
ARTHIST407E	Sacred Play: The Material Culture of Christian Festivals	The twentieth-century American poet and esotericist Robert Duncan once called for a return of the medieval calendar, citing its many feast days as an antidote to the modern 'weekend.' Indeed, the medieval Christian calendar was built on festivals, mu...
ARTHIST408	Hagia Sophia	This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes...
ARTHIST408A	Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art	Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro...
ARTHIST408B	The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews	The seminar reveals the religious and ethnic hybridity of the art medieval Spain, where the lives, material cultures, and artistic practices of Muslims, Christians, and Jews were more intertwined than any other region of the medieval world. We work t...
ARTHIST408D	Virginity and Power: The Mother of God and Visions of Empire	Mary has been the most influential female figure in Christianity. Her powers stem from her paradoxical virginal motherhood. Victory over nature means indomitable power. She was perceived as the general of the Christian armies and the protector of ci...
ARTHIST409	Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West	This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of...
ARTHIST409A	Image, Icon, Idol: Theories and Practices in Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West	This course explores the phenomenon of iconoclasm, iconophobia, and aniconism as markers of a vast and profound cultural transformation of the Mediterranean in the period from the seventh to the ninth centuries. As the Arabs established the Umayyad...
ARTHIST410	The Masters: Raphael	Five hundred years after Raphael mysteriously died (April 6, 1520), this seminar reflects on his contributions to the arts. Raphael's art is often defined as a negation of death. He painted eternal myths, unearthly saints, and timeless beauties. His...
ARTHIST411	Childish Enthusiasms, Perishable Manias	Universities are sites of gravitas, but what of levitas -- a lighter, more playful category? Does intellectually credible work depend upon a â¿¿critical distanceâ¿ between scholar and object of study? Can we take something seriously without imposing...
ARTHIST412	Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds	Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f...
ARTHIST417	Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth	This course examines global origin myths for architecture, for example cosmic symbolism (e.g. the Mandala/dome), and the magic of technologies (e.g. the "petrification" of the wooden hut in permanent architecture). Examples range from Ethiopian rockc...
ARTHIST417B	Architectural Design Theory	This seminar focuses on the key themes, histories, and methods of architectural theory -- a form of architectural practice that establishes the aims and philosophies of architecture. Architectural theory is primarily written, but it also incorporate...
ARTHIST418A	Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy	Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
ARTHIST421	Art and Visual Culture in Europe: The 1920s and 30s	This seminar focuses attention on European art institutions, exhibitions, journals, and movements, most of which intersected with one another across national borders during the interwar period, including Cubism, De Stijl, Purism, Art Deco, the Bauhau...
ARTHIST424	Architecture as Performance from Antiquity to the Enlightenment	This seminar examines the nature of architectural representation in the western tradition, from antiquity until the 18th century. It considers the ancient theatre as an icon of representation and the afterlife of the stage building as a model for wes...
ARTHIST426	New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries	An exploration of new forms of landscape art in China's contemporary era, 1980s-present. Studies of new media platforms for landscape related imagery, imagined landscapes, and expanded concepts of landscape in an era of heightened ecological consciou...
ARTHIST430	Cinema and Ideology	The relationship between cinema and ideology from theoretical and historical perspectives, emphasizing Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches. The practice of political filmmaking, and the cinema as an audiovisual apparatus and socio-cultural institu...
ARTHIST430B	Image and Text in the Arts in China	An examination of many types of interactions between images and texts in Chinese painting. These include poetic lines inscribed on paintings (as response or as a theme given to the artist to paint), paintings that emulate or transform ancient poetic...
ARTHIST431	Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art	Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
ARTHIST440	Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s	This seminar will examine the art historical legacy of the 1990s, the decade of Bill Clinton, Beavis and Butthead, and Y2K. By placing art in conversation with music, popular culture, and political events, we will explore the dark underbelly of the...
ARTHIST441	Overlooked/Understudied	This seminar focuses on overlooked artists and understudied artworks in the U.S. from the late 19th century to the present. Rather than reclaiming marginality for its own sake, we will consider how the practice of looking at the overlooked art chan...
ARTHIST442	Art History in the First Person	This seminar considers the use of the first person voice in a wide range of writings about art, from fiction to criticism to scholarship. Insofar as graduate students have typically been discouraged from using the first person voice in their scholarl...
ARTHIST443	Networks: A Visual History	Networks are maps for thinking. They illustrate connections while shaping mental journeys, transforming our self-reflexivity along the way. In this course, we will study the metamorphoses of networks, from medieval genealogies to Renaissance cartogra...
ARTHIST444	Counter-Institution: Performance and Institutional Critique	Out of 100 members of the current US Senate, only one has a college degree in arts. In the House of Representatives, the situation is even bleaker: while some ten representatives, out of 435, have experience in some kind of artistic practice (music,...
ARTHIST446	Duchamp Then and Now	This seminar provides an opportunity to explore not only the familiar though endlessly fascinating episodes of Duchamp's career (Nude Descending a Staircase; the readymade; the Large Glass; the Boite-en-valise; the persona of Rrose Sélavy, his films...
ARTHIST447	Russia in Color	This course explores the application, evolution, and perception of color in art, art history, literature, and popular culture - in (Soviet) Russia and emigration. Working closely with the Cantor Arts Center collection at Stanford, this course pairs a...
ARTHIST448	The Body in Film and other Media	In this seminar, we will consider the body on screen as well as the body before the screen i.e. the spectator but also the profilmic body of the actor to examine corporeal performance and reception. The dancing body, the comic body, dead and live bod...
ARTHIST450A	Printing Protest: The Artist as Social Critic	This seminar explores the history of print and protest. From books to newspapers to posters, printed materials have generated and circulated political and social messages for centuries. The seminar takes a transhistorical and transnational approach t...
ARTHIST451	Warhol's World	Andy Warhol's art has never before been more widely exhibited, published, or licensed for commercial use, product design, and publication than it is today. For all Warhol's promiscuous visibility and global cachet at the current moment, there is much...
ARTHIST453	Aesthetics and Phenomenology	This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...
ARTHIST456	What Was Photography?	Digital imaging has largely replaced darkroom work over the past quarter century, yet analog practices still dominate theories of photography. Working closely with the Capital Group Foundation Collection at the Cantor, this class will explore how tho...
ARTHIST460	Decolonizing Theory	The past year has witnessed a remarkable reckoning with systemic racism and embedded structures of inequality, underscoring once again the epistemic violence of the privileging of a white, western, heteropatriarchal intellectual tradition in the acad...
ARTHIST465A	Word and Image	What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...
ARTHIST466A	Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History	Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap...
ARTHIST469	Drugs and the Visual Imagination	Drugs have profoundly shaped human culture across space and time, from ancient cave paintings to the psychedelic Sixties and contemporary opioid epidemic. This seminar explores the relationship between visual culture and "drugs," broadly conceived, a...
ARTHIST472	Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019)	In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...
ARTHIST473	Couture Culture	Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...
ARTHIST474	Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature	What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the f...
ARTHIST474A	The Art of the Uncanny	From murderous dolls to evil doppelgängers, humanoid doubles haunt the Western cultural imagination. Beginning with an in-depth look at the contested concept of the "uncanny", the seminar traces the history of anxiety about non-human humans in the We...
ARTHIST475	Media Cultures of the Cold War	The intersection of politics, aesthetics, and new media technologies in the U.S. between the end of WW II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics include the aesthetics of thinking the unthinkable in the wake of the atom bomb; abstract expressionism...
ARTHIST481	Chinese Portraiture	Exploration of recent studies of Chinese portraiture, with a focus on modern and contemporary eras. Portrait practices in treaty port cities; photographic portraits, portraits and modernity; political portraits in public arenas, self-erasure in conte...
ARTHIST484	Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America	This course explores the rich history and contemporary state of ceramic production by Asian American/diasporic makers. It is also about the way history, culture, and emotion are carried by process, technique, and materials. Taught by an art historian...
ARTHIST487X	Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture	Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books (ehon) and popular broadsheets (kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through ima...
ARTHIST491	Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries	This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...
ARTHIST492	Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman	This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...
ARTHIST493	The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics and Performance	This seminar explores the sonic and visual aesthetics of punk rock since the 1970s. While studying music, videos, zines, and album covers, students will examine the convergence of art with politics among artists, such as Lydia Lunch and Vaginal Davis...
ARTHIST494	Complicating Minimal Art: Racializing, Queering, and Politicizing a Canon	This seminar focuses on the contributions people of color, women, and queer artists have made to Minimalism, a popular and influential style of art defined by sleek geometric forms. Students will critically engage canonical texts, which often privile...
ARTHIST497	American Mystics	This seminar will consider the role of mysticism in American art and culture. Long denigrated as irrational or escapist, mysticism in fact offers a site from which to investigate and challenge entrenched assumptions of linear time, historical positiv...
ARTHIST499	Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). The Fall Phd Minor Workshop will explore theory and methods in anti-racist and feminist pedagogy through selected readings...
ARTHIST5	Art and Power	Art and Power explores a wide range of artworks from the premodern to the contemporary world to reflect on how art has been shaped by structures of inequality and, conversely, how power relations are represented and reinforced by art. Co-taught by tw...
ARTHIST502	Methods and Debates	This course introduces graduate students to a range of interpretive methods within art history and visual culture studies. In addition to scrutinizing multiple schools of thought and critical debates within the field, the seminar pays particular att...
ARTHIST57Q	10 American Photographs	Preference to sophomores. "The humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures!" wrote Jack Kerouac of photographer Robert Frank's iconic collection, The Americans. This seminar takes Kerouac's enthusiasm and applies it to...
ARTHIST600	Art History Bibliography and Library Methods	No Description Set
ARTHIST600A	Art History Proseminar	N/A
ARTHIST601	IMBY (In My Backyard): Faculty Scholarship in Art History and Film/Media Studies	This seminar links first- and second-year Ph.D. students to faculty members in Art History and Film/Media Studies at Stanford. On a rotating basis, 5 faculty members in the Department discuss their most recent book or essay, which we will be read in...
ARTHIST610	Teaching Praxis	No Description Set
ARTHIST620	Qualifying Examination Preparation	For Art History Ph.D. candidates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ARTHIST640	Dissertation Proposal Preparation	(Staff)
ARTHIST650	Dissertation Research	(Staff)
ARTHIST660	Independent Study	For graduate students only. Approved independent research projects with individual faculty members.
ARTHIST660E	Extended Seminar	May be repeated for credit. (Staff)
ARTHIST670	Dissertation Seminar	For graduate students writing and researching dissertations and dissertation proposals. How to define research projects, write grant proposals, and organize book-length projects.
ARTHIST680	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: Art History Ph.D. candidate.
ARTHIST69SI	Blockchain, NFTs, and the Art World	The most expensive artwork sold in 2021 was an NFT (non-fungible token) created by Beeple, an artist previously unknown to the art world, but well respected by NFT collectors. NFTs, made possible by blockchain, are radically redefining the art world'...
ARTHIST802	TGR Dissertation	TGR Dissertation
ARTHIST80N	Looking into Portraits: Identities in Question	This seminar explores multiple aspects of this basically simple visual category - images of particular persons. We look at portraits from diverse eras and cultures, as many as possible in their original media of painting, sculpture, drawings, prints,...
ARTSTUDI101	Art Practice Foundation I	This course is based on the central role of interdisciplinary connections and exchanges in artistic practice. Students will explore the two-dimensional areas of art: painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. They will work on their projects in...
ARTSTUDI102	Art Practice Foundation II	This course is based on the central role of interdisciplinary connections and exchanges in artistic practice. Students study the work of several prominent artists using different three-dimensional media taught in the department's studio program, incl...
ARTSTUDI123I	Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Music, Art, and Intermedia	How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. Wha...
ARTSTUDI130	Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino	Students use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software is required. Students learn to program the Arduino, a small easy-to-use microprocessor control unit ( see http:...
ARTSTUDI131	Sound Art I	Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)
ARTSTUDI136	The Portable Studio	With a decrease in available real estate and an increase in virtual real estate via the Internet and new technologies, contemporary artists are developing new means of creative production that do not necessarily require the use of a traditional art s...
ARTSTUDI136A	Future Media, Media Archaeologies	Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...
ARTSTUDI139	Portraiture and Facial Anatomy for Artists	Focus is on the art of portraiture and underlying structures of the face, fundamental anatomical elements such as the skull and muscles of facial expressions, and the intersections between human anatomy and art. Studio sessions incorporate plastic mo...
ARTSTUDI140	Drawing I	Functional anatomy and perspective as they apply to problems of drawing the form in space. Individual and group instruction as students work from still life set-ups, nature, and the model. Emphasis is on the development of critical skills and percept...
ARTSTUDI141	Plein Air Painting	Plein Air (Outdoor) Painting is a wonderful way to build skills, explore your relationship to site, and unlock your voice and hand. We will paint at different locations on and off-campus, learning a variety of painting techniques in changing weather...
ARTSTUDI141A	Drawing from Life	The subject of this course is Life as we know it, and artists at all levels will learn to communicate their questions, concerns, and perspectives on paper. The drawing process empowers students to express themselves in their already unique visual lan...
ARTSTUDI141S	Drawing Outdoors	In this introductory class, we take drawing out into the world, exploring different environments, techniques, and approaches as we go. The fundamental nuts-and-bolts of basic drawing techniques: light logic, depicting depth and drawing the figure, ar...
ARTSTUDI142	Mixed-Media Drawing: Art & Aesthetics of Social Media	Why do we ¿like¿ the images we do on social media platforms? Do we only respond to images which pique our emotions, beliefs, and desires? Or do specific design elements in these images influence our preferences? This course challenges you to observe...
ARTSTUDI142A	A Deep Dive in Artmaking During the Time of Covid-19	In this hands-on course, we produce a body of work that responds to key concepts examined in contemporary art with a specific emphasis on the impact of artmaking due to Covid-19. During this historical moment, we explore alternative possibilities of...
ARTSTUDI144	PRINTMAKING AND ACTIVISM	Hands-on studio course that introduces students to a variety of printmaking techniques, while exploring printed matter's role in activism in both history and in current events. This course introduces students to printmaking and graphic art techniques...
ARTSTUDI145	Painting I	Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Still life, landscape, and figure used as subject matter. Emphasis is on painting and drawing from life. (lower level)
ARTSTUDI145A	Painting as Storytelling	This is a special class taught by Holt visiting artist John Bankston. Coulter Gallery will provide a unique classroom space, where student work will be displayed in an ongoing exhibition that will grow over time for the public to observe.Using the fu...
ARTSTUDI145B	Painting: The Expanded Field	This painting class is presented by Holt Resident artist, Kim Anno and builds on two ideas: The first is that the history of painting is intrinsically linked to the lion's share of contemporary art. The second is that the world is upside down in cli...
ARTSTUDI145M	Mural Painting	This rare class explores making a mural in the context of mural history. We will engage the history of mural painting from ancient to contemporary times for an informed production of murals on canvas in one of the painting studios at school. The soci...
ARTSTUDI145S	Painting and Collage	In this introductory class painting and collage techniques are explored and combined in order to expand visual language. Paint as a traditional medium is unified with the prefabricated nature of collage in order to create aesthetic harmony and produ...
ARTSTUDI146	Photoshop and Painting	This is a focused introduction to still life painting and Photoshop. Students will learn to indicate simple form with a single light source and then learn to paint form lights, various forms, and cast shadows. Students will also gain an understanding...
ARTSTUDI146M	Painting Off the Wall	This course introduces a range of alternative processes in painting! Using a variety of paints, surfaces, and additives, you will create works which challenge the traditional boundaries of the painted image. We will cover the fundamentals mediums and...
ARTSTUDI147	Art Book Object	This mixed introductory and upper level studio course explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object. Students learn to use both traditional and digital tools and techniques for creating artists' books, and integrate tho...
ARTSTUDI148	Monotype	Introduction to printmaking using monotype, a graphic art medium used by such artists as Blake, Degas, Gauguin, and Pendergast. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 140. (lower level). May be repeated 2 times for total of 8 units.
ARTSTUDI148A	Introduction to Lithography	The classic technique of printing from limestones and metal plates. Students will learn techniques to draw and etch their imagery onto the stone/plate. The prints will be created in numbered editions. Students will have the opportunity to work in col...
ARTSTUDI148B	Introduction to Printmaking	Techniques such as monotype, monoprint, photocopy transfers, linocut and woodcut, intaglio etching. Demonstrations of these techniques. Field trips to local print collections or print exhibitions. (lower level)
ARTSTUDI148P	The Hybrid Print	This class explores experimental printmaking methods where digital and traditional practices collide. It focuses on the interchange between conventional and new methods of printmaking, and possibilities for the print beyond paper and the flat picture...
ARTSTUDI148S	Printing Without a Press	In this introductory class, we explore printmaking through different techniques and approaches without using a press. This approach allows students to learn techniques to make prints anywhere. Class projects focus on relief, monotypes, rubbings, and...
ARTSTUDI149	Fiber and Wearable Art	In this project-based studio course, students will investigate how wearable art is situated in the conversations around contemporary art. Particular attention will be directed to how artists confront ideas around the body, gender identity, performanc...
ARTSTUDI149C	Etching	In this class students will explore various techniques of etching (or intaglio) on zinc plates such as, hard ground, soft ground, aquatint, marbling aquatint and sugar lift, through an electrolytic process that uses no acid but sulfates and very low...
ARTSTUDI150N	Queer Sculpture	Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal these are among the attitudes that make up queer in its contemporary usage. -David J. Getsy....
ARTSTUDI150Q	Queer Sculpture	Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal these are among the attitudes that make up queer in its contemporary usage. David J. GetsyTh...
ARTSTUDI151	Sculpture I	Traditional and non-traditional approaches to sculpture production through working with materials including wood, metal, and plaster. Conceptual and technical skills, and safe and appropriate use of tools and materials. Impact of material and techniq...
ARTSTUDI152	Soft Sculpture	Textiles lend themselves to be formed and constructed to fit around three-dimensional objects and become a skin to the object within. They can hold materials inside of them, produce imagery, and divide space. This sculpture course investigates fibers...
ARTSTUDI153	Ecology of Materials	Studio-based sculpture course. Materials used in sculpture and environmental concerns surrounding them. Artists concerned with environmental impact and the interconnection of art with other fields. The impact of material and technique upon form and c...
ARTSTUDI155	Social Sculpture	This course investigates the body as sculptural material in order to investigate private and social spaces. Through the development of projects in the realm of social practice, performance, and/or audience interaction, students will explore what it m...
ARTSTUDI156	Installation Art in Time and Space	This hands on studio based sculpture course focuses on developing concepts, and creating a site-specific installation art project. This class will addresses the impact of material and technique upon form and content; therefore understanding the physi...
ARTSTUDI158M	Ephemerality: Time in Sculpture and Digital Media	This course is a survey of ephemeral art within the context of sculpture and digital media. Students consider the art object made to last forever, in contrast with the object meant to disintegrate, decompose, or fall apart. Through a series of activi...
ARTSTUDI160	Intro to Digital / Physical Design	Contemporary production processes, both manufacturing and media processes often span the digital and the physical. 3D Depth cameras can scan real world models or movements, which can be manipulated or adjusted digitally, then re-output to the physica...
ARTSTUDI160M	Performance Art	In this introductory course, students will learn about the fundamentals of performance art and create their own performance-based projects. We will be making works critically engaging race, culture, gender and identity to evoke self empowerment and s...
ARTSTUDI160X	Tele-Reality: Live-Streaming Art	This course examines the field of live-feed media through the lens of art practice, exploring previous experiments and the potential of the medium. Using social media outlets and user-to-user communication platforms¿such as Youtube, FaceTime, Twitch,...
ARTSTUDI161	Constructing Color	This hands-on introductory level studio art class addresses color through traditional, digital, and experimental mediums. Students learn to compose and communicate via color, experimenting with light, paint, pigments, dye, code, context, and culture....
ARTSTUDI162	Embodied Interfaces	Our computers, phones and devices see us predominantly as fingers and eyes staring at screens. What would happen if our technology acknowledged more of our rich physical presence and capabilities in its design? How have artists and designers used dif...
ARTSTUDI163	Drawing with Code	This studio course will engage coding practices as drawing tools. What makes a good algorithmic composition? How do we craft rule-sets and parameters to shape an interesting work? What changes if we conceive of still outputs, ongoing processes, or in...
ARTSTUDI164M	Art of Resistance: Community Building and Self Preservation through Zine Making	This class explores the history, practice, and technique of creating fanzines as a device for protest or community building. Discussions, projects, and readings focus on the history of self-publishing for the preservation of minority and marginalized...
ARTSTUDI165A	Intro to Art & Technology	This introductory studio course provides a practical and conceptual foundation for students interested in digital, electronic, and interactive art. Students learn basic electronics, creative code, and digital art making techniques culminating in phys...
ARTSTUDI165M	Practice, Practice, Practice: Cultivating Creative Rituals and Routines	Focuses on the importance of daily rituals and routines through experiments and exercises in various mediums. We divide time between examining those who create daily using meditation, writing, drawing, performance, photography and more to tackle conc...
ARTSTUDI166	Sculptural Screens / Malleable Media	In this mixed intro and upper level studio course, students will experiment with video and computational outputs embedded in physical scenarios. What new physical formats are made possible by contemporary screen and projection-mapping technologies? H...
ARTSTUDI167	Introduction to Animation	Projects in animation techniques including flipbook, cutout/collage, stop-motion such as claymation, pixilation, and puppet animation, rotoscoping, and time-lapse. Films. Computers used as post-production tools, but course does not cover computer-gen...
ARTSTUDI167M	Animated By Origins: Africa and The Americas	When working with experimental animation, what can we learn from the Shangaan about compositing, layering and collaging, from the Dogon about counter-rhythms and remixing, or from the Lakota about observation and improvisation? In this class, we will...
ARTSTUDI167S	DIY Animation and Video	This course will introduce students to stop-motion animation and video editing techniques for art making, created on cell phones and with freely available software and tools. Students in this class will analyze and create lo-res or "DIY" works design...
ARTSTUDI168	Data as Material	How can data be used as material in art and design projects? Beyond straight-forward ideas of data-visualization, this studio course investigates how we construct meaning from sets of information, and how the construction of those sets determines the...
ARTSTUDI169	Virtual Reality: the possibility and peril of immersive artwork	How can we use virtual reality systems to create powerful, beautiful and socially engaged artworks? Is it possible to use technically sophisticated (and sometimes frustrating) tools to share our unique personal visions? What can working in virtual re...
ARTSTUDI170	Light and Shadow	Through film and dark room instruction, students learn to use a SLR 35-mm camera and to operate manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed). They develop an awareness of light and its various properties and possibilities. Students become familia...
ARTSTUDI171	Introduction to Photography	This is an introductory course in photography that explores lens-based practices and the imperative of visual literacy in today's world. The history of photography starts now, in a context of image-making that proceeds all around us with unprecedente...
ARTSTUDI171M	The Photography Zine	The course combines the critical analysis and creation of photography and photo zines that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. A zine is a DIY small-circulation, self-published print work of original or appr...
ARTSTUDI172	Art and Teratology	This studio course looks at the relationships between biology and art, particularly as they relate to the topic of "monsters". Rather than addressing the ways in which art has assisted the biological sciences (as in medical illustration), we'll focus...
ARTSTUDI172M	Lifecycles in Art	This interdisciplinary hands-on course covers the lifecycle of an Artwork in which we work together as a class to imagine, create, and document a temporary public installation at the Anderson Collection alongside a guest artist. We subsequently publi...
ARTSTUDI173A	Introductory Photography: Blue	This introductory course into photography invites students to experience, reflect on and be inspired by images of blue. They will create work using the process of cyanotyping, the low-cost photographic printing technique of a century ago that now fun...
ARTSTUDI173E	Cell Phone Photography	The course combines the critical analysis of cell phone photography with the creation of photographic art works that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. The increasing ubiquity of cell phone photography has...
ARTSTUDI173M	Beyond Representation: Conceptual Photography	This workshop course expands the perception of images and their interpretation. Is it possible to photograph a dream or an emotion? In a series of lectures, readings, and assignments, we approach photography more as a reference and allusion than a si...
ARTSTUDI173S	Cell Phone Photography	The course combines the critical analysis of cell phone photography with the creation of photographic art works that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. The increasing ubiquity of cell phone photography has...
ARTSTUDI174	Interdisciplinary Animation	There is no medium or form of study that animation cannot touch and expand ¿ it is interdisciplinary. At its core, animation enables the practitioner to find inherent life in materials and thereby transform them. Structured in-class experiments cover...
ARTSTUDI174B	Creativity in the Age of Facebook: Making Art for and from Networks	This class explores the history, practice and technique of creating art on and for the internet. Discussions, projects and readings focus on the ways in which internet art embodies changing ideas about artistic creation, technology, and interactivity...
ARTSTUDI175	Sound Installation	This class will cover creative, historical and theoretical aspects of sited artworks based in sound. We will create, install and critique new works that use sound with special attention the ways that sound intersects with time, space and architecture...
ARTSTUDI175A	Video Installation	Video Installation is a hybrid studio critique and seminar class that explores the potential of cinematic arts within the context of spatial dynamics and formal configuration. The emphasis will be on the conceptual and experimental, rather than a con...
ARTSTUDI176	Installation: Sensorial Concepts	This course considers the history of installation art to develop an expanded understanding through sensorial practices. Students will explore the process and work of contemporary artists working in installation art and discuss the various approaches...
ARTSTUDI177	Video Art	Video holds the ability to bear witness and reconstruct realities of space and time. In this class we study the development of the medium in the 1970s and how artists have since used it as an experimental apparatus. Projects involve creating short vi...
ARTSTUDI177M	DIY Movies	Using a 'do it yourself' approach, we will create short films in response to key concepts in cinema. In this course, we will experiment with unconventional and traditional methods of filmmaking that employ a diverse range of media. Together, we will...
ARTSTUDI178	Art and Electronics	Analog electronics and their use in art. Basic circuits for creating mobile, illuminated, and responsive works of art. Topics: soldering; construction of basic circuits; elementary electronics theory; and contemporary electronic art. (lower level)
ARTSTUDI179	Digital Art I	Contemporary electronic art focusing on digital media. Students create works exploring two- and three-dimensional, and time-based uses of the computer in fine art. History and theoretical underpinnings. Common discourse and informative resources for...
ARTSTUDI180	Media Art in the Age of Surveillance	How can media art practices effectively interrogate our data environment? This studio course investigates systems that collect personal data, such as video and consumer databases, by turning their regulatory, contractual and legislative frameworks on...
ARTSTUDI180M	Creating Public Art: Concept to Commission	This course introduces the skills needed for creating Public Art. The course develops an appreciation and understanding of public artwork, but focuses on the process of applying to and creating work for public spaces. Students develop an understandin...
ARTSTUDI182	Queered Tech and Speculative Design	What does it mean to `queer' something? Expanding this term's meaning beyond gender and sexuality, `to queer' is to question, challenge, subvert, and reimagine social norms and structures of power. In this course, we build from queer theory to consid...
ARTSTUDI182M	Queer Storytelling: We Have Always Been Here	For centuries, storytelling has been used as a way to connect with those around us and to bring others into our inner world. QTBIPOC communities use storytelling as a way to be recognized and carve our own space within a cis-heteronormative society....
ARTSTUDI185	Interactive Storytelling	This course explores strategies for crafting interactive stories. It takes students from story-teller to game designer to book maker. Through a series of narrative exercises, readings, lectures, and technical demos; students create a story-based game...
ARTSTUDI186	Black Experimental Narrative	How do Black video artists and filmmakers use materials, space, and language to construct the subjective space of storytelling? Black Experimental Narrative surveys the aesthetics, history, and theories that characterize experimental Black cinema and...
ARTSTUDI187	Animation, Memory, and the Self-Portrait	This introductory experimental animation and media course will explore color, images, and the remains of our memories to reconstruct, reimagine, and expand ideas of the Westernized archetype of self-portraiture. Where do fiction and autobiography emb...
ARTSTUDI188	Papermaking: Eastern and Western Traditions	TBD
ARTSTUDI19N	An Artist's Life: Diverse Voices and Changing Contexts	This course is designed for students considering an Art Practice minor or major. In this course, students gain confidence and experience connecting to their artistic voices as we explore the myriad possible career paths artists take to build sustaina...
ARTSTUDI201	Art Practice Major Seminar	In this WIM course, students develop writing skills specific to the Art Practice discipline, including Artists Statements, Research Statements, and Grant Proposals, which are required of all professional artists. These written materials are created i...
ARTSTUDI215	Metaspore: The Networked Sensorium	Metaspore is a research initiative founded by conceptual artist Anicka Yi to generate "spores" of social trust and interdisciplinary exploration for the 21st century. Recognizing a planetary paradigm shift fueled by the multivalent advances and crise...
ARTSTUDI21AX	Bay Area Arts Immersion	Students explore the arts in San Francisco, the East Bay, the North Bay, the Peninsula, and the South Bay with Kevin B. Chen. The Bay Area Arts Immersion combines field trips with on-campus workshops.
ARTSTUDI22AX	Drawing and Creative Writing	Drawing and Creative Writing is a dynamic mix of hands-on drawing studio time and guided writing assignments. This hybrid studio course invites students to experience the perceptual power of drawing and the written word in concert. Drawing and writin...
ARTSTUDI230	Interdisciplinary Art Survey	This course is designed to develop diversity of concepts and strategies within the student's artistic practice. The course includes a survey of artists using different media taught in the department's studio program such as painting, drawing, video...
ARTSTUDI231A	Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino	Students use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software is required. Students learn to program the Arduino, a small easy-to-use microprocessor control unit ( see http:...
ARTSTUDI236	Future Media, Media Archaeologies	Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...
ARTSTUDI239	Intermedia Workshop	Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...
ARTSTUDI23AX	Drawing	Two fun activities on campus during the summer are drawing in the studio and being outdoors. In this Arts Intensive Drawing class students will do both. The course will revolve around composition and layout, expressive mark-making, and basic drawing...
ARTSTUDI240	Drawing II	Intermediate/advanced. Observation, invention, and construction. Development of conceptual and material strategies, with attention to process and purpose. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 140 or consent of instructor. (upper level)
ARTSTUDI241	Expression in Brush and Ink	In this upper-level drawing class, students learn to use brush and ink as unique expressive means though the study of traditional and contemporary ink paintings, drawing from life as well as free experimentation. Observation, expression and abstracti...
ARTSTUDI241A	Drawing from Life	The subject of this course is Life as we know it, and artists at all levels will learn to communicate their questions, concerns, and perspectives on paper. The drawing process empowers students to express themselves in their already unique visual lan...
ARTSTUDI242	Drawing and Creative Writing	A dynamic mix of guided writing and drawing assignments, and self-driven studio time. We will get dirty with the ABCs of drawing while playing with freeing constraints and looking closely into the visual dimension of words. Through a spirited, daily...
ARTSTUDI242A	Drawing and Cameras	How do images move, and what does living in the crossfire of so many cameras do to our seeing? What else can we do with drawing, besides becoming perfect cameras? Students respond to their own questions and archives by thinking visually through a ser...
ARTSTUDI243	Anatomy for Artists	Lectures highlight the intersections and influences between human anatomy and art. Studio sessions provide an opportunity for students to immerse in anatomically inspired studio projects. Drawing, mixed media, and some painting mediums will be used d...
ARTSTUDI245	Painting II	Symbolic, narrative, and representational self-portraits. Introduction to the pictorial strategies, painting methods, and psychological imperatives of Dürer, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Kahlo, Beckmann, Schiele, and Munch. Students paint from life, memory, r...
ARTSTUDI246	Individual Work: Drawing and Painting	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...
ARTSTUDI247	Collage	Collage has influenced painting and drawing practices, as well as film and photography through juxtaposition, scale shifts, and reappropriation of the found image. Although many iconic works in this medium date to the 20th century, this course focuse...
ARTSTUDI247A	Art Book Object	This mixed introductory and upper level studio course explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object. Students learn to use both traditional and digital tools and techniques for creating artists' books, and integrate tho...
ARTSTUDI248P	The Hybrid Print	This class explores experimental printmaking methods where digital and traditional practices collide. It focuses on the interchange between conventional and new methods of printmaking, and possibilities for the print beyond paper and the flat picture...
ARTSTUDI249	Major Capstone	This course aims to prepare senior Art Practice majors for future artistic careers by developing rigorous practice and critical research and presentation skills. Class engagement includes informal discussions, written reflections, and critiques with...
ARTSTUDI250	Individual Work: Sculpture	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...
ARTSTUDI251	Mold Making + Casting	This sculpture course offers instruction in various methods of mold making including one and two part plaster molds, one time throw away molds, flexible molds, mother molds, simple body casts and casting in hydrocal plaster, wax, and clay. Students u...
ARTSTUDI252	Sculpture II	Builds upon 151. Installation and non-studio pieces. Impact of material and technique upon form and content; the physical and expressive possibilities of diverse materials. Historical and contemporary forming methods provide a theoretical basis for t...
ARTSTUDI254	Kinetic Sculpture	This course is focused on developing a practical, hands on understanding of kinetic mechanisms applied to objects and materials in sculpture and installation. Class time will take the form of lectures and technical demos, and hands-on labs where you...
ARTSTUDI256	Advanced Installation	This hands on studio based sculpture course focuses on developing concepts, and creating a site-specific installation art project. This class will addresses the impact of material and technique upon form and content; therefore understanding the physi...
ARTSTUDI257	Advanced Sculpture Seminar	Students engage in professional sculpture (studio) practices that prepare them to apply and extend the skills, methods and techniques they have learned in previous courses, including technical and conceptual skills in woodworking, metal working, mold...
ARTSTUDI258	Resisting Monuments at the End of the World	This hands-on contemporary art and sculpture class explores falling monuments and rising memorials around the world. Departing from individualistic hero narratives of traditional monuments we address collective agency and new forms of shared power. S...
ARTSTUDI261	Individual Work: Emerging Practices in Design & Technology	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...
ARTSTUDI262	Performing with Digital Media	This interdisciplinary studio course will explore time-based media through the practice of live visual performance with an emphasis on digital means of production. Through a series of individual and collaborative assignments, students will learn to u...
ARTSTUDI266	Sculptural Screens / Malleable Media	In this mixed intro and upper level studio course, students will experiment with video and computational outputs embedded in physical scenarios. What new physical formats are made possible by contemporary screen and projection-mapping technologies? H...
ARTSTUDI267	Emerging Technology Studio	This course is an upper level studio course featuring a different guest artist each year whose artwork makes use of emerging technologies. Course material will be based on the guest artist's area of expertise. Past examples include artists whose work...
ARTSTUDI270	Advanced Photography Seminar	Students interested in taking this class should apply with a project proposal they aim to develop over the length of the course. Since these projects require a considerable amount of independent work outside of class time, each student must submit a...
ARTSTUDI270A	CREATING EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA	This course is dedicated to creating at the crossroads of art and cinema. This experimental video art course will address practical filmmaking, taking as its baseline assumption the notion that experimentation is crucial to overcoming encrusted socia...
ARTSTUDI271A	Intermediate Photography: On Queerness	In this studio course, we explore potentiality and experimentation in contemporary photography to challenge conventions, question definitions, and expand meanings. We approach photography as a strategic tool to subvert, intervene, resist, and bridge...
ARTSTUDI271B	Intermediate Photography: Composite and Time	This course introduces students to the use of several techniques and methodologies that combine multiple images into a single composite photograph. Students develop skills to pre-visualize and plan the work they envision through high definition range...
ARTSTUDI271C	Intermediate Photography: Performance	This course introduces students to the role performance can play in a lens-based practice, centered in the belief that art can be defined through gesture as well as object. We study the work of various prominent artists to gauge their influence and t...
ARTSTUDI271D	Intermediate Photography: Constructed Image	This course begins with the idea that all photographs are constructed. Students explore conceptual photographic practices through the frame of images as constructs, examining the various choices and expanded practices involved in the process of creat...
ARTSTUDI271E	Intermediate Photography: New Landscapes	This course investigates notions of landscape photography by expanding upon its traditional, geography-based paradigm of pictorial beauty. Students explore how the perception and representation of landscapes relate to physical and cognitive mapping,...
ARTSTUDI271F	Intermediate Photography: DIY Publishing	The book has been a form to share photographs since the medium's earliest days, offering photographers a way to present their work outside of exhibitions. Developments in digital technology have democratized access to print production, leading to a p...
ARTSTUDI272	Individual Work: Photography	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...
ARTSTUDI273	Individual Work: Experimental Media	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...
ARTSTUDI275	Photography II: Digital	Students continue to use DLSR cameras, with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/ white balance). They are taught intermediate-level digital printing (in color) using large-format printers....
ARTSTUDI277	Intermediate Photography Seminar	This is a mentorship class designed to expand on personal projects in photography. Students engage in professional photographic practices that prepare them to apply and expand upon the skills, methods and techniques they have learned in previous cour...
ARTSTUDI277A	Advanced Video	Video, criticism, and contemporary media theory investigating the time image. Students create experimental video works, addressing the integration of video with traditional art media such as sculpture and painting. Non-linearity made possible by Inte...
ARTSTUDI278	Photography II: Black and White	Students are introduced to and provided with medium-format film cameras, which they learn to use with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed). Students are introduced to metering for film using hand-held ligh...
ARTSTUDI280	Media Art in the Age of Surveillance	How can media art practices effectively interrogate our data environment? This studio course investigates systems that collect personal data, such as video and consumer databases, by turning their regulatory, contractual and legislative frameworks on...
ARTSTUDI286	Intermediate Photography: Portraiture	This course explores contemporary practices of portrait photography, examining its history and discourse on representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. We look at the complexities of portraiture in terms of skill sets and processes, aesthe...
ARTSTUDI287	Animation II	This course expands upon techniques and storytelling methods learned in Animation I. We continue to survey the field of independent animation primarily through short films and other social digital platforms. As our media consumption is increasingly c...
ARTSTUDI288	Intermediate Photography: Documentary	The documentary image has constituted a keystone of the photographic medium since the earliest days of its existence. In this class, we approach documentary photography from a contemporary perspective and in a context of active engagement with the wo...
ARTSTUDI290	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree.
ARTSTUDI295	Visual Arts Internship	Professional experience in a field related to the Visual Arts for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for galleries, museums, art centers, and art publications. Students arrange the internship, provide a confirmation letter from the hostin...
ARTSTUDI297	Honors Thesis Exhibition	May be repeated for credit.
ARTSTUDI297S	AP HONORS SEMINAR	Led by the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art Practice, the Honors Seminar provides students the opportunity to create projects for the honors exhibition and complete the written thesis under the guidance of faculty advisors, and assisted with...
ARTSTUDI310B	Directed Reading: Studio	No Description Set
ARTSTUDI310C	Directed Reading: Studio	No Description Set
ARTSTUDI32XSI	Sustainable Design and Practice in Native American Architecture	This lecture series highlights and celebrates Native American design practices, both in architectural design and in materials use. As practicing Indigenous architects and designers, the guest speakers aim to share how Indigineity and Nativeness influ...
ARTSTUDI342	MFA Project: Tutorial	Students construct an individual tutorial with an instructor selected from the studio art faculty, including visiting artists. The student must take tutorials with at least three different faculty members during the six-quarter program. Prior approv...
ARTSTUDI342A	MFA: Object Seminar	Weekly seminars, studio practice, and individual tutorials. Student work is critiqued on issues of identity, presentation, and the development of coherent critical language. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only.
ARTSTUDI342B	MFA: Concept Seminar	Weekly seminars, studio practice, and individual tutorials. Modes of conceptualization to broaden the base of cognitive and generative processes. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only.
ARTSTUDI342C	M.F.A Seminar	Professional practices; preparation of documentation; exhibition and presentation. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only. May be repeat for credit total units allowed 45 and total completion 6
ARTSTUDI350A	Art & Design I: History and Theory	This two part graduate level course is required for all first year JPD students (both MFA and ME students), and open to all MFA Art Practice students. The first quarter of the course is a seminar, which focuses on the history of design practices and...
ARTSTUDI390	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree.
ARTSTUDI40SI	Introduction to Art in Entertainment	Art and artists play a huge role in the production of video games, films, television shows, comics, and other forms of popular visual media. In this course, students are introduced to the different roles art has in the realm of entertainment. Over th...
ARTSTUDI801	TGR Project	No Description Set
FILMEDIA100A	History of World Cinema I, 1895-1929	Provides an overview of cinema made around the globe between its emergence as a mass medium in the late-19th century, and the rise of synchronized sound around 1930. This is a fecund period in which the 'language' of film was at once established, cha...
FILMEDIA100B	History of World Cinema II: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch	Provides an overview of cinema made around the world between 1930 and 1960, highlighting technical, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped mid-twentieth-century cinema. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards developing...
FILMEDIA100C	History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World	Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...
FILMEDIA101	Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media	India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...
FILMEDIA102	Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image	This course examines influential theories of film and media from the early twentieth century to the present. Prerequisites: FILMEDIA 4.
FILMEDIA107N	Documentary Film: Telling it Like it Is?	Documentary films have become a "lingua franca," thanks to ubiquitous streaming services and our devotion to screen time. Offering compelling stories, intriguing "characters," and a lingering resonance, they often function as a Rorschach test that el...
FILMEDIA110N	Coming-of-Age Movies	Physical changes, religious rituals, and new legal rights and responsibilities outwardly mark the transition from childhood to adulthood. They imply inward transformation such as loss of innocence and maturation of perspective. This combination of in...
FILMEDIA112	Women in Contemporary French Cinema	Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FILMEDIA114	Reading Comics	The modern medium of comics throughout its 150 year history (mostly North American). The flexibility of the medium explored through the genres of humorous and dramatic comic strips, superheroes, undergrounds, independents, kids and comics, journalism...
FILMEDIA115	Documentary Issues and Traditions	Issues include objectivity/subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice. Parallel focus on form and content.
FILMEDIA11Q	Art in the Metropolis	This seminar is offered in conjunction with the annual "Arts Immersion" trip to New York that takes place over the spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Enrollment in this course a requirement for taking part in the trip...
FILMEDIA120	Superhero Theory	With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...
FILMEDIA125	Horror Film	From its beginnings, the cinema evinced an affinity with the phantom realm of specters, ghosts, and supernatural beings. Not only does horror have deep and diverse roots in the international history of film; it emerges as a trope of film itself, as a...
FILMEDIA129	Animation and the Animated Film	The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...
FILMEDIA131	Is Visibility a Trap (Door)? Gender, Race, and the Stakes of Representation	This course examines key theoretical debates surrounding the fraught political and epistemological potential of visibility and representation. Who gets to set the premises for recognition, and how do sexuality, gender, and race affect the ways in whi...
FILMEDIA132A	Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Cinema	This course will provide an overview of cinema from India, the world's largest producer of films. We will trace the history of Indian cinema from the silent era, through the studio period, to state-funded art filmmaking to the contemporary production...
FILMEDIA135	Around the World in Ten Films	This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural,...
FILMEDIA137	Love in the Time of Cinema	Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other...
FILMEDIA145	Politics and Aesthetics in East European Cinema	From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...
FILMEDIA152	Hollywood/Bollywood: The Musical Two Ways	A comparative approach to the musical as Hollywood genre and as fundamental mode in Bollywood (where even horror movies have song-and-dance sequences!). The pleasurable interplay among song, dance, and screen directs us to the interplay of cultural i...
FILMEDIA153	Queer Cinema in the World	In his manifesto, 'A Queer('s) Cinema,' Manuel Betancourt declares, queer cinema is global cinema, queer cinema is not universal, is intersectional, is an aesthetic sensibility. Through film and video from Kenya, Hong Kong, India, France, The Dominic...
FILMEDIA165B	American Style and the Rhetoric of Fashion	Focus on the visual culture of fashion, especially in an American context. Topics include: the representation of fashion in different visual media (prints, photographs, films, window displays, and digital images); the relationship of fashion to its h...
FILMEDIA173	Digital and Interactive Media	This course introduces a variety of ways of thinking about digital and interactive media. As examples, we will think about the impact of algorithmic processes on cinema and other moving-image media; we will consider the relation of narrative to inter...
FILMEDIA178	History of Latin American Revolutions	This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an...
FILMEDIA210A	Documentary Perspectives: The Essay Film	In this class we will explore the essay film as a distinct genre of documentary filmmaking. The course is organized as an inquiry into the nature of the essay film, its historical and formal development, as well as a survey of the major works that ma...
FILMEDIA210B	Documentary Perspectives: Observational Cinema	Historical, political, aesthetic, and formal developments of documentary film. Subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice.
FILMEDIA211N	Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias	This course has a simple premise: Effective scholarship need not suck the joy from the world. G. K. Chesterton once wrote that 'it is the duty of every poet, and even of every critic, to dance in respectful imitation of the child.' What could it mean...
FILMEDIA216	Media and the Environment	How are environmental issues represented in various media, from cinema and television to videogames, VR, and experimental art? And how are these media themselves involved in environmental change? In this course, we look at media and the environment a...
FILMEDIA221	Out of Order	This course explores the rise of nonlinear approaches to storytelling in global narrative cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. We will begin with Rashomon and end somewhere around Inception, also considering examples from Hong Kong, Se...
FILMEDIA223	How to Watch TV	'How to watch TV' may seem like the most obvious thing in the world. Yet when we look at the historical development of television as a technological, social, and cultural form, we find that people have engaged with it in a variety of different ways....
FILMEDIA224	Films of Stanley Kubrick	This seminar will explore the cinema of Stanley Kubrick, a widely acclaimed film auteur known for works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon. The seminar will focus on close analysis of practically all of Kubrick's film...
FILMEDIA234	Media Theory and the Sea	This seminar serves as an introduction to media theory by turning to the sea as a medium. Designed for third- and fourth-year German majors, the course explores the way the ocean has served as a constant vehicle for poetic and philosophical reflectio...
FILMEDIA245B	Eastern European Cinema	From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...
FILMEDIA253	Aesthetics and Phenomenology	This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...
FILMEDIA256	Horror Comics	This seminar will explore the vast array of horror comics. How does horror work in comics, as distinct from prose and cinema? How and why are non-moving images scary? The different narrational strategies of short stories, self-contained works, and co...
FILMEDIA256Q	Horror Comics	This seminar will explore the vast array of horror comics. How does horror work in comics, as distinct from prose and cinema? How and why are non-moving images scary? The different narrational strategies of short stories, self-contained works, and co...
FILMEDIA257	Black Contemporary Filmmakers	Despite the systemic inequalities of the Hollywood system, there is a robust, stylistically diverse cohort of African-American writer/directors at work, including Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, and Ryan Coogler. Jenkins' films (Moonlight, If Beale Stre...
FILMEDIA264B	Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination	Course on the history of twentieth and twenty-first century American images of space and how they shape conceptions of the universe. Covers representations made by scientists and artists, as well as scientific fiction films, TV, and other forms of po...
FILMEDIA270	German Media Theory	In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...
FILMEDIA280	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree. Students must obtain a new I-20 with CPT authorization prior to the employment start date. Professional experience in a field related to the cinematic arts (film, television, media) fo...
FILMEDIA281	Contemporary Asian Filmmakers	Films and moving image works by contemporary filmmakers from Asia, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Topics include explorations of national and local histories, aesthetics of slowness and duration, and cross...
FILMEDIA290	Movies and Methods: The Films Of Vincente Minnelli	Working at MGM, the most opulent of Hollywood studios, Vincente Minnelli epitomized the studio system, and yet his films remain idiosyncratic, distinct, and personal. He is thus a curious figure within the history of auteurist study. Minnelli's work...
FILMEDIA291	Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries	This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...
FILMEDIA295	Films & Media Studies Internship	Professional experience in a field related to the cinematic arts (film, television, media) for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for production companies, producers, studios, networks, films, television series, directors, screenwriters,...
FILMEDIA297	Honors Thesis Writing	May be repeated for credit.
FILMEDIA299	Independent Study: Film and Media Studies	Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms and payment ar...
FILMEDIA300A	History of World Cinema I, 1895-1929	Provides an overview of cinema made around the globe between its emergence as a mass medium in the late-19th century, and the rise of synchronized sound around 1930. This is a fecund period in which the 'language' of film was at once established, cha...
FILMEDIA300B	History of World Cinema II: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch	Provides an overview of cinema made around the world between 1930 and 1960, highlighting technical, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped mid-twentieth-century cinema. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards developing...
FILMEDIA300C	History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World	Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...
FILMEDIA301	Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media	India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...
FILMEDIA302	Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image	This course examines influential theories of film and media from the early twentieth century to the present. Prerequisites: FILMEDIA 4.
FILMEDIA306	Media and Mediums	What is a medium? This course starts from the assumption that the answer to this question is not as obvious as it might at first appear. Clearly, we know some media when we see them: radio, film, and television are in many ways paradigmatic media of...
FILMEDIA307	Close Analysis: Film Sound	The close analysis of film, with an emphasis on sound, music, and audio-visuality. Films from various historical periods, national cinemas, directors, and genres. Prerequisite: FILMSTUD 4 or equivalent. Recommended: ARTHIST 1 or FILMSTUD 102. Course...
FILMEDIA314	Reading Comics	The modern medium of comics throughout its 150 year history (mostly North American). The flexibility of the medium explored through the genres of humorous and dramatic comic strips, superheroes, undergrounds, independents, kids and comics, journalism...
FILMEDIA315	Documentary Issues and Traditions	Issues include objectivity/subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice. Parallel focus on form and content.
FILMEDIA320	Superhero Theory	With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...
FILMEDIA325	Horror Film	From its beginnings, the cinema evinced an affinity with the phantom realm of specters, ghosts, and supernatural beings. Not only does horror have deep and diverse roots in the international history of film; it emerges as a trope of film itself, as a...
FILMEDIA329	Animation and the Animated Film	The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...
FILMEDIA332A	Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Cinema	This course will provide an overview of cinema from India, the world's largest producer of films. We will trace the history of Indian cinema from the silent era, through the studio period, to state-funded art filmmaking to the contemporary production...
FILMEDIA335	Around the World in Ten Films	This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural,...
FILMEDIA337	Love in the Time of Cinema	Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other...
FILMEDIA345	Politics and Aesthetics in East European Cinema	From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...
FILMEDIA352	Hollywood/Bollywood: The Musical Two Ways	A comparative approach to the musical as Hollywood genre and as fundamental mode in Bollywood (where even horror movies have song-and-dance sequences!). The pleasurable interplay among song, dance, and screen directs us to the interplay of cultural i...
FILMEDIA353	Queer Cinema in the World	In his manifesto, 'A Queer('s) Cinema,' Manuel Betancourt declares, queer cinema is global cinema, queer cinema is not universal, is intersectional, is an aesthetic sensibility. Through film and video from Kenya, Hong Kong, India, France, The Dominic...
FILMEDIA38	Comics: More than Words	This research unit looks at Comics from a transnational, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. Each quarter we organize a series of lectures, reading sessions, and workshops around a main topic. Some previous topics that we have explored...
FILMEDIA4	Introduction to Film Study	Introduction to Film Study introduces you to film as art, as entertainment, a field of study, and an everyday cultural practice. This course enables you to analyze films in terms of their formal elements, themes, and narrative structures. You learn t...
FILMEDIA406	Montage	Graduate seminar in film aesthetics. Theoretical and practical approaches to editing/montage. Stylistic, semiotic, epistemological, and ideological functions of montage considered in film-historical contexts including: development of the continuity s...
FILMEDIA408	Attention	Throughout the twentieth century, cinema has been theorized as a machine that molds the senses and produces new forms of attention. This course delves into debates about the impact of audio-visual media on a history of attention, from the rise of rep...
FILMEDIA410A	Documentary Perspectives: The Essay Film	In this class we will explore the essay film as a distinct genre of documentary filmmaking. The course is organized as an inquiry into the nature of the essay film, its historical and formal development, as well as a survey of the major works that ma...
FILMEDIA410B	Documentary Perspectives: Observational Cinema	Historical, political, aesthetic, and formal developments of documentary film. Subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice.
FILMEDIA411	Childish Enthusiasms, Perishable Manias	Universities are sites of gravitas, but what of levitas -- a lighter, more playful category? Does intellectually credible work depend upon a â¿¿critical distanceâ¿ between scholar and object of study? Can we take something seriously without imposing...
FILMEDIA414	Methods and Theories in Film and Media Studies	This seminar offers an overview of methods in film and media studies. It covers key debates and interventions that have shaped the field, such as the paradigm of classical cinema, historical reception studies, genre and authorship, political moderni...
FILMEDIA416	Media and the Environment	How are environmental issues represented in various media, from cinema and television to videogames, VR, and experimental art? And how are these media themselves involved in environmental change? In this course, we look at media and the environment a...
FILMEDIA422	Sergei Eisenstein: Theory, Practice, Method	The work of Sergei Eisenstein has been central to the study of film since before his death in 1948, but some of his most significant work was first published only in the new millennium and is generating rich interdisciplinary scholarship. This semina...
FILMEDIA424	Films of Stanley Kubrick	This seminar will explore the cinema of Stanley Kubrick, a widely acclaimed film auteur known for works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon. The seminar will focus on close analysis of practically all of Kubrick's film...
FILMEDIA429	Animation and the Animated Film	The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...
FILMEDIA430	Cinema and Ideology	The relationship between cinema and ideology from theoretical and historical perspectives, emphasizing Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches. The practice of political filmmaking, and the cinema as an audiovisual apparatus and socio-cultural institu...
FILMEDIA445B	Eastern European Cinema	From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...
FILMEDIA448	The Body in Film and other Media	In this seminar, we will consider the body on screen as well as the body before the screen i.e. the spectator but also the profilmic body of the actor to examine corporeal performance and reception. The dancing body, the comic body, dead and live bod...
FILMEDIA450	Screened Thought	This seminar considers the varied ways film represents thought. What forms of thinking do films enable and forestall? How do particular films, and film genres, activate or elide characters' cognition, interiority, self-consciousness, reflection, etc....
FILMEDIA453	Aesthetics and Phenomenology	This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...
FILMEDIA460	Decolonizing Theory	The past year has witnessed a remarkable reckoning with systemic racism and embedded structures of inequality, underscoring once again the epistemic violence of the privileging of a white, western, heteropatriarchal intellectual tradition in the acad...
FILMEDIA465	Post War American Avant-Garde Film	Permission of instructor required for enrollment.
FILMEDIA469	Drugs and the Visual Imagination	Drugs have profoundly shaped human culture across space and time, from ancient cave paintings to the psychedelic Sixties and contemporary opioid epidemic. This seminar explores the relationship between visual culture and "drugs," broadly conceived, a...
FILMEDIA470	German Media Theory	In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...
FILMEDIA481	Contemporary Asian Filmmakers	Films and moving image works by contemporary filmmakers from Asia, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Topics include explorations of national and local histories, aesthetics of slowness and duration, and cross...
FILMEDIA490	Movies and Methods: The Films Of Vincente Minnelli	Working at MGM, the most opulent of Hollywood studios, Vincente Minnelli epitomized the studio system, and yet his films remain idiosyncratic, distinct, and personal. He is thus a curious figure within the history of auteurist study. Minnelli's work...
FILMEDIA491	Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries	This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...
FILMEDIA4S	Language of Film	This course familiarizes students with various elements of film language (cinematography, editing, sound, etc.) and introduces them to a range of approaches to cinematic analysis (authorship, genre, close formal reading, socio-historical consideratio...
FILMEDIA50Q	The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture	In this seminar, we explore what it means to 'write with video,' and we learn to make effective and engaging video essays. Specifically, we examine strategies for communicating through video, and we conduct hands-on exercises using digital video edit...
FILMEDIA6	Media and Mediums	What is a medium? This course starts from the assumption that the answer to this question is not as obvious as it might at first appear. Clearly, we know some media when we see them: radio, film, and television are in many ways paradigmatic media of...
FILMEDIA620	Qualifying Examination Preparation	For Art History Ph.D. candidates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMEDIA660	Independent Study	For graduate students only. Approved independent research projects with individual faculty members.
FILMEDIA660E	Extended Seminar	May be repeated for credit. (Staff)
FILMEDIA680	Curricular Practical Training	CPT course required for international students completing degree.
FILMEDIA69SI	Blockchain, NFTs, and the Art World	The most expensive artwork sold in 2021 was an NFT (non-fungible token) created by Beeple, an artist previously unknown to the art world, but well respected by NFT collectors. NFTs, made possible by blockchain, are radically redefining the art world'...
FILMPROD101	Screen Writing I: Visual Writing	A writing workshop that is an exploration of visual storytelling. Beginning with visual literacy, the class progresses from basic cinematic techniques through scene exercises to revisions and ultimately to connecting scenes in order to build sequence...
FILMPROD101T	Writing the Television Pilot	A writing workshop in which students are introduced to the basic structures and genre of television pilots and to writing within the screenwriting/television writing form. Students will develop, outline, and workshop their own original pilot episode...
FILMPROD102	Topics in Screenwriting: Inside the Writers' Room	A workshop where Showrunner and Stanford alum Cheo Hodari Coker guides a select group of students through the writers' room process: workshopping a single idea into the first act of a television show while also shaping their individual script ideas a...
FILMPROD104	Screenwriting II: Intermediate Screenwriting	Priority to Film and Media Studies majors and minors, and seniors. Craft, form, and approaches to writing for the screen. Students will write, workshop and rewrite the first act of a feature screenplay and create rough outline material for the rest o...
FILMPROD105	Script Analysis	Analysis of screenplay, film, and television from the writer's perspective, with focus on ideation, structure, and dramatic tension in narrative features. Sources include screenplays and screenings.
FILMPROD106	Image and Sound: Filmmaking for the Digital Age	Despite the rise of emerging forms like two-minute YouTube videos, six second Vines, or interactive storytelling modules, many core principles of visual storytelling remain unchanged. In this hands-on film production class students will learn a broad...
FILMPROD107	Industry Immersion: Film and Media	What is the entertainment industry today? A survey of film and media practice, this course will feature weekly invited guests, including screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, executives, and scholars. Attendance and student participation in Q&...
FILMPROD110	Screen Writing III: Advanced Screenwriting	Advanced writing workshop in which students develop and complete a feature-length screenplay. Prerequisites: FP101 Screenwriting and approval of the instructor. Enrollment is limited.
FILMPROD114	Introduction to Film and Video Production	Hands-on. Techniques of film and video making including conceptualization, visualization, story structure, cinematography, sound recording, and editing. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority to junior/senior Film & Media Studies majors.Admissio...
FILMPROD115	Immersive Cinema: Experiments in Virtual Reality	In this exploratory workshop, students will use a variety of tools (360 video/ VR cameras and binaural sound design, digital video, and traditional sound recorders) to tell immersive "stories". Students will use the conceptual framework of experimen...
FILMPROD117	Filmmaking: Ethno-fictions and Shared Anthropologies	Ethnographic documentary film, just like ethnography itself, began as a colonial practice. It has relied on unacknowledged biases and personal experiences of the filmmakers to create portraits of cultures and communities around the world. To study do...
FILMPROD118	Remixing the Moving Image	Focusing on the art of editing, and specifically repurposing `found' footage, this hands-on filmmaking course will immerse students in the rich cinematic tradition of appropriating existing footage and remixing it into provocative, personal, and even...
FILMPROD119	Documentary Cinematography	Focusing on the art of non-fiction cinematography, this hands-on filmmaking course will immerse students in a wide variety of traditions and technical approaches to shooting films in the real world. Students will participate in weekly workshops and e...
FILMPROD121	New York Films	This course will be taught at Stanford in New York in winter quarter.
FILMPROD12AX	Narrative Filmmaking: From Script to Screen	Narrative Filmmaking: From Script to Screen is a hybrid writing/production course that guides students through the process of completing a 2-3 minute narrative film. Students will write scripts for short fiction films, and then, by filming them, lear...
FILMPROD13AX	Immersive Cinema	In this exploratory workshop, students will use a variety of tools (Audio recorders/360 cameras/Photogrammetry/Volumetric Capture/XR/Unity Programming) to tell immersive, interactive, and spatial stories. The aim of the projects will be to find forgo...
FILMPROD301T	Writing the Television Pilot	A writing workshop in which students are introduced to the basic structures and genre of television pilots and to writing within the screenwriting/television writing form. Students will develop, outline, and workshop their own original pilot episode...
FILMPROD304	Screenwriting II: Intermediate Screenwriting	Priority to Film and Media Studies majors and minors, and seniors. Craft, form, and approaches to writing for the screen. Students will write, workshop and rewrite the first act of a feature screenplay and create rough outline material for the rest o...
FILMPROD305	Script Analysis	Analysis of screenplay, film, and television from the writer's perspective, with focus on ideation, structure, and dramatic tension in narrative features. Sources include screenplays and screenings.
FILMPROD400	Film/Video Writing and Directing	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Emphasis is on the development of the research, conceptualization, visualization, and preproduction skills required for nonfiction filmmaking. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD401	Nonfiction Film Production	Restricted to M.F.A documentary students. 16mm production techniques and concepts. Multiple short exercises and a final project with multitrack sound design. Enrollment limited to students in MFA Documentary Film Program. Prerequisite: consent of ins...
FILMPROD402	Digital Video	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Fundamentals of digital storytelling. Working with small format cameras, interviewing techniques, and nonlinear editing skills. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD403	Advanced Documentary Directing	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Further examination of structure, emphasizing writing and directing nonfiction film. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD404	Advanced Video Production	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Techniques of visual storytelling and observational shooting. Final quarter of professional training in documentary video production. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD405	Producing Practicum: The Non-Fiction Film	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Advanced producing principles through the preproduction of the M.F.A. thesis project, including development of a professional film proposal. Practical training in fundraising. Prerequisite: consent of instru...
FILMPROD406A	Documentary M.F.A. Thesis Seminar I	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Production of film or video project. Focus is on shooting strategies, ethical challenges, and practical production issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD406B	Documentary M.F.A.Thesis Seminar II	Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Editing and post-production of film or video project. Emphasis is on aesthetic choices (structure, narration, music), distribution, contracts, and audience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
FILMPROD450	INDEPENDENT STUDY	Independent study supervised by Documentary Film faculty; available to DocFilm MFA students only. Permission of instructor required to enroll.
FILMPROD801	TGR Project	No Description Set

The Artist in Ancient Greek Society

Given the importance of art to all aspects of their lives, the Greeks had reason to respect their artists. Yet potters, painters and even sculptors possessed little social standing. Why did the Greeks value the work of craftsmen but not the men them...

ARTHIST101

Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period

The class considers the development of Greek art from 1000-480 and poses the question, how Greek was Greek art? In the beginning, as Greece emerges from 200 years of Dark Ages, their art is cautious, conservative and more abstract than life-like, clo...

ARTHIST102

Introduction to Greek Art II: The Classical Period

The class begins with the art, architecture and political ideals of Periclean Athens, from the emergence of the city as the political and cultural center of Greece in 450 to its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404. It then considers how the Atheni...

ARTHIST102B

Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...

ARTHIST104A

The Secret Lives of Statues

Statues-human-shaped sculptures-populate the uncanny valley that separates inert matter from living entities. For humans, this 'other population' can engender profound emotional responses, embody potent ideas, and entangle the politics of the past an...

ARTHIST105B

Medieval Journeys: Introduction through the Art and Architecture

The course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages in particular the art and architecture...

ARTHIST106

Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.

This course explores the art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, Thessaloniki, and Palermo, 4th-15th centuries. Applying an innovative approach, we will probe questions of phenomeno...

ARTHIST10AX

Los Angeles Arts Immersion

In this Arts Intensive, students will learn about the dynamic art histories of Mexican American/Chicanx and Black American artists in Los Angeles. Students will visit museums, galleries, and community centers dedicated to nurturing, showcasing, and a...

ARTHIST110

French Painting from Watteau to Monet

This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...

ARTHIST113

All is Fair... Love and War in Italian Renaissance Art

How are love and war comparable? Why must the creative impulse be accompanied by a destructive one? What do we really mean when we say that an artist "executed" a painting or a photographer "shot" a scene? This course explores the agony and ecstasy i...

ARTHIST115

The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success

How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...

ARTHIST116N

Making Sense of the World: Art, Medicine, and Science in Venice

In 1500 Venice was the place you wanted to be. It wasn't just the capital of the world: it was also its scientific center. This course explores the conversation between the arts and the sciences in Renaissance Venice, and, thanks to remote teaching,...

ARTHIST118A

Space, Public Discourse and Revolutionary Practices

This course examines the mediums of public art that have been voices of social change, protestand expressions of community desire. It will offer a unique glimpse into Iran¿scontemporary art and visual culture through the investigation of public art p...

ARTHIST119

Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art

Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...

ARTHIST120

Superhero Theory

With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...

ARTHIST127

Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe: The Art World en masse

This course will survey the visual arts in Europe over the course of the long nineteenth century, from history painting of the French Revolution to avant-garde experimentation in the years leading up to World War I. This was a period of dramatic soci...

ARTHIST133E

A Global History of Architecture and Engineering

An introduction to the history of architecture and engineering, and to basic concepts about how we construct the built environment. This course asks one simple question: what does it mean to "make place" during different moments in history? The class...

ARTHIST135

William Blake: A Literary and Visual Exploration of the Illuminated Poetry

An introduction to the illuminated world of William Blake¿poet, prophet, revolutionary, and visionary artist. The course will address Blake's visual iconography, belief system and ideology, unique mythology, and method of relief etching that allowed...

ARTHIST142

Architecture Since 1900

Art 142 is an introduction to the history of architecture since 1900 and how it has shaped and been shaped by its cultural contexts. The class also investigates the essential relationship between built form and theory during this period.

ARTHIST142A

The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves

This course investigates houses, hideaways, and studios that artists and thinkers have designed for themselves with varying degrees of self-consciousness, from subconscious images of the self to knowing stages for the contemplative life. Case studies...

ARTHIST143A

American Architecture

A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre-Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How t...

ARTHIST146

American Dream, American Nightmare: A History of the United States in Art and Literature

Studying the American past, a person could despair or dream or both. In this course, we will move chronologically from the Revolutionary War to the present to consider artists and writers--some famous, some obscure--who've portrayed hope, who've port...

ARTHIST147

Modernism and Modernity

This course focuses on European and American art and visual culture between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. We will begin and end in Paris, exploring visual expressions of modernism as they were shaped by industrialization and urb...

ARTHIST151

Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present

This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem...

ARTHIST152

The American West

The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am...

ARTHIST159B

American Photography Since 1960

Since the publication of Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS (1958), many distinguished American photographers have emerged, creating a density and power of expression that arguably rivals and even surpasses the extraordinary achievements of earlier photogr...

ARTHIST160

Censorship in American Art

This course examines the art history of censorship in the United States. Paying special attention to the suppression of queer, Black and Latinx visual and performance art, including efforts to vandalize works and defund institutions, students will ex...

ARTHIST162

Visual Arts Cuba (1959 - 2015)

The evolution of culture in post-1959 Cuba, with a strong focus on visual arts in all media and film will be introduced in this course. Historical examples will be discussed through lectures, readings and the presentation of audiovisual material. Stu...

ARTHIST163

Queer America

This class explores queer art, photography and politics in the United States since 1930. Our approach will be grounded in close attention to the history and visual representation of sexual minorities in particular historical moments and social contex...

ARTHIST164

History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World

Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...

ARTHIST165

Vincent van Gogh and His World

No artist is more famous than Vincent van Gogh. Yet how well is he known? Perhaps not at all. A victim of cliches and platitudes, his art is rarely seen, or, to put it differently, the power of its call on us is mostly unheeded. What was he searching...

ARTHIST165B

American Style and the Rhetoric of Fashion

Focus on the visual culture of fashion, especially in an American context. Topics include: the representation of fashion in different visual media (prints, photographs, films, window displays, and digital images); the relationship of fashion to its h...

ARTHIST168A

A.I.-Activism-Art

Lecture/studio course exploring arts and humanities scholarship and practice engaging with, and generated by, emerging emerging and exponential technologies. Our course will explore intersections of art and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on...

ARTHIST173N

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art

From Pop to postmodernism, contemporary art in the United States has often taken up issues of race, gender, and sexuality. In this seminar, we will study how artists from the 1960s to the present have drawn upon a wide range of media (including paint...

ARTHIST180

Art, Meditation, and Creation

Art and meditation invite us to be fully present in our minds and bodies. This class will give you tools to integrate mind and body as you explore artworks on display at the university's museums and throughout campus. In your engagement with activity...

ARTHIST181

Pacific Dreams: Art in California

This lecture course will explore the rich and diverse history of art made in California, with special focus on the interchanges between the fine arts and subcultural expression. From the Carleton Watkins' exquisite mammoth plate photographs of Yosemi...

ARTHIST182B

Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China

The Song dynasty (mid-10th to late 13th c.) was a period of extraordinary diversity and technical accomplishment in Chinese painting, ceramics, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture. Artistic developments emerged within a context of economic dyna...

ARTHIST185

Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800

The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated boo...

ARTHIST186B

Asian American Art

This lecture course explores the work of artists, craftspeople, and laborers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous ex...

ARTHIST188

Imperial Collecting, Patronage, and Taste in China and Japan

Explores how the imperial courts collected and censored art in China and Japan ca. 1000-1800. The imperial control over art collecting activities shaped the way in which court painters represented the world. The imperial court dictated art creations...

ARTHIST188B

From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art

Chinese artistic developments in an era of revolution and modernization, from Shanghai Modern and New National Painting though the politicized art of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao era re-entry into international arenas.

ARTHIST191

African American Art

This course explores major art and political movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and #BlackLivesMatter, that have informed and were inspired by African American artists. Students will read pivotal texts written by Blac...

ARTHIST194

U.S. Latinx Art

This course surveys art made by Latinas/os/xs who have lived and worked in the United States since the 1700s, including Chicanos, Nuyoricans, and other Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists. While exploring the diversity of Latinx art, students will c...

ARTHIST199

Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media

India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...

ARTHIST1A

Decolonizing the Western Canon: Introduction to Art and Architecture from Prehistory to Medieval

Traditional Art History viewed the Renaissance as its pinnacle; it privileged linear perspective and lifelikeness and measured other traditions against this standard, neglecting art from the Near East, Egypt, the Middle Ages, or Islam. This course wi...

ARTHIST1B

How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting

This course explores the relation of art to life - how and why works of art, even from hundreds of years ago, matter in a person's life. It trains students to find the words to share their thoughts about art with their peers, friends, and family. Som...

ARTHIST2

Asian Arts and Cultures

An exploration of the visual arts of East and South Asia from ancient to modern times, in their social, religious, literary and political contexts. Analysis of major monuments of painting, sculpture and architecture will be organized around themes th...

ARTHIST203

Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks

The seminar examines a range of topics devoted to the makers of Greek art and artifacts, the men and women who used them in life and the afterlife, and the miscreants - from Lord Elgin to contemporary tomb-looters and dealers - whose deeds have damag...

ARTHIST203A

Philosophies Behind Architecture: The Work of Antoni Gaudí as a Response to Modernity

The emergence of modern and contemporary Architecture in the West is intimately linked to the background culture that spread across the intellectual centers of Europe and the US between early nineteenth century and the Second World War. Catalan archi...

ARTHIST204

Dialogues with the Dead

This seminar considers the dynamism and resilience of Greek art and culture. The dialogues in question are not with ancient shades in the underworld but with later artists who build on the creative vision (and blind spots) of the past to addressthe i...

ARTHIST205

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...

ARTHIST206

The Alchemy of Art: Substance and Transformation in Artistic Practice

This seminar considers materiality and processes of material transformation as core elements of artistic practice and the history of making, largely from Sumer (3rd Millennium BCE) until the Early Modern period (18th Century in the West), but with se...

ARTHIST206A

Persian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image

Featuring several sessions led by distinguished artist Ala Ebtekar, this course traces the nexus of word and image across a millennium of Persian poetry. Our aim is to look at how texts have been represented through images and enacted in public perfo...

ARTHIST206B

Audiovision in the Medieval Cult of Saints

Medieval art is silent in modern times. Often displayed in sterile museum galleries, it is presented without analytical consideration of the intended envelope of sound, chant, prayer, and recitation. Stripped of this aural atmosphere, the objects hav...

ARTHIST207

The Resurrected Body: Animacy in Medieval Art

This course explores the relationship of spirit and matter in medieval art and architecture, more specifically how the changing appearance of objects and spaces evokes the presence of the metaphysical as glitter, reverberation, and shadow. We will e...

ARTHIST207A

Bodies that Remain: Art and Death in the Middle Ages

This seminar investigates medieval attitudes towards dead bodies through the material culture of death, from the cult of relics, to tomb sculpture, to monumental architecture. The place of death in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in medieva...

ARTHIST207B

The Art of Travel: Medieval Journeys to the Unknown

In many ways, the reasons that medieval people traveled are not unlike our own: to see new sights, make new connections, and return home to regale others with their exploits. Of course, travel was also a more complicated affair, limited to those who...

ARTHIST207D

Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe

How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...

ARTHIST207E

Sacred Play: The Material Culture of Christian Festivals

The twentieth-century American poet and esotericist Robert Duncan once called for a return of the medieval calendar, citing its many feast days as an antidote to the modern 'weekend.' Indeed, the medieval Christian calendar was built on festivals, mu...

ARTHIST208

Hagia Sophia

This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes...

ARTHIST208A

Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art

Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro...

ARTHIST208B

The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews

The seminar reveals the religious and ethnic hybridity of the art medieval Spain, where the lives, material cultures, and artistic practices of Muslims, Christians, and Jews were more intertwined than any other region of the medieval world. We work t...

ARTHIST208D

Virginity and Power: The Mother of God and Visions of Empire

Mary has been the most influential female figure in Christianity. Her powers stem from her paradoxical virginal motherhood. Victory over nature means indomitable power. She was perceived as the general of the Christian armies and the protector of ci...

ARTHIST209C

Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West

This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of...

ARTHIST210

Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World

What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...

ARTHIST212

Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds

Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f...

ARTHIST217

Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth

This course examines global origin myths for architecture, for example cosmic symbolism (e.g. the Mandala/dome), and the magic of technologies (e.g. the "petrification" of the wooden hut in permanent architecture). Examples range from Ethiopian rockc...

ARTHIST217B

Architectural Design Theory

This seminar focuses on the key themes, histories, and methods of architectural theory -- a form of architectural practice that establishes the aims and philosophies of architecture. Architectural theory is primarily written, but it also incorporate...

ARTHIST218A

Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy

Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...

ARTHIST219

Caravaggio, Vermeer, and the Life of Paintings

Focusing on great paintings by seventeenth-century European painters--Caravaggio's Medusa, Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, Rembrandt's Self-Portraits, and many others--this seminar will consider how and why artists these artists strove to over...

ARTHIST221E

Peripheral Dreams: The Art and Literature of Miró, Dalí, and other Surrealists in Catalonia

Why was Salvador Dalí fascinated with the architecture of Gaudí? Why did André Breton, Paul Éluard and Federico García Lorca visit Barcelona? Moreover, why did Catalonia become such an important cradle for Surrealism? Why is the (Catalan) landscape s...

ARTHIST224

Architecture as Performance from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

This seminar examines the nature of architectural representation in the western tradition, from antiquity until the 18th century. It considers the ancient theatre as an icon of representation and the afterlife of the stage building as a model for wes...

ARTHIST226

New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries

An exploration of new forms of landscape art in China's contemporary era, 1980s-present. Studies of new media platforms for landscape related imagery, imagined landscapes, and expanded concepts of landscape in an era of heightened ecological consciou...

ARTHIST230B

Image and Text in the Arts in China

An examination of many types of interactions between images and texts in Chinese painting. These include poetic lines inscribed on paintings (as response or as a theme given to the artist to paint), paintings that emulate or transform ancient poetic...

ARTHIST231

Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art

Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...

ARTHIST238C

Art and the Market

This course examines the relationship between art and the market, from Renaissance artisans to struggling Impressionist painters to the globalized commercial world of contemporary art and NFTs. Using examples drawn from France, this course explores t...

ARTHIST240

Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s

This seminar will examine the art historical legacy of the 1990s, the decade of Bill Clinton, Beavis and Butthead, and Y2K. By placing art in conversation with music, popular culture, and political events, we will explore the dark underbelly of the...

ARTHIST242A

Art History in the First Person

This seminar considers the use of the first person voice in a wide range of writings about art, from fiction to criticism to scholarship. Insofar as graduate students have typically been discouraged from using the first person voice in their scholarl...

ARTHIST243

Black Divinities: Race, God, and Nation in the Photography of Deana Lawson

In recent years the Brooklyn-based photographer Deana Lawson (born 1979) has become rightly famous for her rapturous yet grounded large-sized photographs of everyday black people--those she meets in her neighborhood, as well as on her travels to Braz...

ARTHIST243N

Beyond Words: Early Books and the Design of the Reading Experience

Copiously drawing from the Stanford Archives, this seminar will study the revolutionary design of the first printed books to ask questions about the nature of reading and the commodification of culture. Besides being trained in typography and printin...

ARTHIST245

Art, Business & the Law

This course examines art at the intersection of business and the law from a number of different angles, focusing on how the issues raised by particular case studies, whether legal, ethical and/or financial, impact our understanding of how works of ar...

ARTHIST246

Duchamp Then and Now

This seminar provides an opportunity to explore not only the familiar though endlessly fascinating episodes of Duchamp's career (Nude Descending a Staircase; the readymade; the Large Glass; the Boite-en-valise; the persona of Rrose Sélavy, his films...

ARTHIST247

Russia in Color

This course explores the application, evolution, and perception of color in art, art history, literature, and popular culture - in (Soviet) Russia and emigration. Working closely with the Cantor Arts Center collection at Stanford, this course pairs a...

ARTHIST250A

Printing Protest: The Artist as Social Critic

This seminar explores the history of print and protest. From books to newspapers to posters, printed materials have generated and circulated political and social messages for centuries. The seminar takes a transhistorical and transnational approach t...

ARTHIST251

Warhol's World

Andy Warhol's art has never before been more widely exhibited, published, or licensed for commercial use, product design, and publication than it is today. For all Warhol's promiscuous visibility and global cachet at the current moment, there is much...

ARTHIST252A

Art and Power: From Royal Spectacle to Revolutionary Ritual

From the Palace of Versailles to grand operas to Jacques-Louis David's portraits of revolutionary martyrs, rarely have the arts been so powerfully mobilized by the State as in early modern France. This course examines how the arts were used from Loui...

ARTHIST253

Aesthetics and Phenomenology

This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...

ARTHIST256

What Was Photography?

Digital imaging has largely replaced darkroom work over the past quarter century, yet analog practices still dominate theories of photography. Working closely with the Capital Group Foundation Collection at the Cantor, this class will explore how tho...

ARTHIST260A

Histories of the Museum: Collecting, Preserving, and Exhibiting Art

Museums have a history. This course questions how museums have shaped and been shaped by society, from their origins in early modern cabinets of curiosity to their contemporary transformation into virtual galleries and online exhibitions. Incorporati...

ARTHIST261

Black Aliveness

Based on Kevin Quashie's 2021 book "Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being," this seminar will explore moments of possibility, love, and being in works of literature and art. With Quashie as our guide, we will look closely at poems, stories, photogra...

ARTHIST264B

Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination

Course on the history of twentieth and twenty-first century American images of space and how they shape conceptions of the universe. Covers representations made by scientists and artists, as well as scientific fiction films, TV, and other forms of po...

ARTHIST265A

Word and Image

What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...

ARTHIST272

Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019)

In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...

ARTHIST273

Couture Culture

Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...

ARTHIST273N

What is Contemporary Art?

This course focuses on the production, criticism, and curating of contemporary art. Through a series of required readings, intensive class discussions, class trips, and first-hand encounters with art objects and exhibitions, we will investigate curre...

ARTHIST274

Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature

What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the f...

ARTHIST274A

The Art of the Uncanny

From murderous dolls to evil doppelgängers, humanoid doubles haunt the Western cultural imagination. Beginning with an in-depth look at the contested concept of the "uncanny", the seminar traces the history of anxiety about non-human humans in the We...

ARTHIST277

Colonial Mexico: Images and Power

How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...

ARTHIST281

Chinese Portraiture

Exploration of recent studies of Chinese portraiture, with a focus on modern and contemporary eras. Portrait practices in treaty port cities; photographic portraits, portraits and modernity; political portraits in public arenas, self-erasure in conte...

ARTHIST284

Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America

This course explores the rich history and contemporary state of ceramic production by Asian American/diasporic makers. It is also about the way history, culture, and emotion are carried by process, technique, and materials. Taught by an art historian...

ARTHIST284B

Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary

Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space,...

ARTHIST287

Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture

Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books (ehon) and popular broadsheets (kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through ima...

ARTHIST287A

The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime

This course on the Japanese tea ceremony ('water for tea') introduces the world of the first medieval tea-masters and follows the transformation of chanoyu into a popular pastime, a performance art, a get-together of art connoisseurs, and a religious...

ARTHIST290

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree.

ARTHIST291

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...

ARTHIST292

Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman

This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...

ARTHIST293

Black and Brown: American Artists of Color

This course explores the art history of African American and Latina/o/x artists in the United States, Latin America & the Caribbean. Focused on particular exhibition and collection histories, students will consider the artistic, social and political...

ARTHIST293A

Latin American Art and Literature: 100 Years of Modernisms

This course will explore the different kinds of modernisms and modernities that Latin American artists and authors have produced from the early twentieth century to the present. Defined as a break with the past and with tradition, the term "modernism...

ARTHIST293B

The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics and Performance

This seminar explores the sonic and visual aesthetics of punk rock since the 1970s. While studying music, videos, zines, and album covers, students will examine the convergence of art with politics among artists, such as Lydia Lunch and Vaginal Davis...

ARTHIST294

Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing

This course, Writing the Visual: The Art of Art Writing, will explore the relationship between writing and visual art, which has been theorized as everything from an act of translation and interpretation to one of collaboration or competition. Oscar...

ARTHIST295

Visual Arts Internship

Professional experience in a field related to the Visual Arts for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for galleries, museums, art centers, and art publications. Students arrange the internship, provide a confirmation letter from the hostin...

ARTHIST296

Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History

Historiography and methodology. Through a series of case studies, this course introduces a range of influential critical perspectives in art history as a discipline and a practice. The goal is to stimulate thinking about what it means to explore the...

ARTHIST297

Honors Thesis Writing

May be repeated for credit.

ARTHIST298

Individual Work: Art History

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms and payment ar...

ARTHIST3

Introduction to World Architecture

This course offers an expansive and wide-ranging introduction to architecture and urban design from the earliest human constructions to the mid-20th century. The examples range from the Americas to Europe, the Middle East, South and East Asia. The di...

ARTHIST302B

Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...

ARTHIST305B

Medieval Journeys: Introduction through the Art and Architecture

The course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages in particular the art and architecture...

ARTHIST306

Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.

This course explores the art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Damascus, Thessaloniki, and Palermo, 4th-15th centuries. Applying an innovative approach, we will probe questions of phenomeno...

ARTHIST310

French Painting from Watteau to Monet

This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...

ARTHIST315

The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success

How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...

ARTHIST319

Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art

Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...

ARTHIST320

Superhero Theory

With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...

ARTHIST342A

The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves

This course investigates houses, hideaways, and studios that artists and thinkers have designed for themselves with varying degrees of self-consciousness, from subconscious images of the self to knowing stages for the contemplative life. Case studies...

ARTHIST343A

American Architecture

A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre-Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How t...

ARTHIST347

Modernism and Modernity

This course focuses on European and American art and visual culture between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. We will begin and end in Paris, exploring visual expressions of modernism as they were shaped by industrialization and urb...

ARTHIST351

Migration and Diaspora in American Art, 1800-Present

This lecture course explores American art through the lens of immigration, exile, and diaspora. We will examine a wide range of work by immigrant artists and craftsmen, paying special attention to issues of race and ethnicity, assimilation, displacem...

ARTHIST359B

American Photography Since 1960

Since the publication of Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS (1958), many distinguished American photographers have emerged, creating a density and power of expression that arguably rivals and even surpasses the extraordinary achievements of earlier photogr...

ARTHIST36

Dangerous Ideas

Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...

ARTHIST362

Visual Arts Cuba (1959 - 2015)

The evolution of culture in post-1959 Cuba, with a strong focus on visual arts in all media and film will be introduced in this course. Historical examples will be discussed through lectures, readings and the presentation of audiovisual material. Stu...

ARTHIST364

History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World

Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...

ARTHIST366

Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History

Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap...

ARTHIST382B

Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China

The Song dynasty (mid-10th to late 13th c.) was a period of extraordinary diversity and technical accomplishment in Chinese painting, ceramics, calligraphy, architecture and sculpture. Artistic developments emerged within a context of economic dyna...

ARTHIST385

Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800

The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated boo...

ARTHIST388

Imperial Collecting, Patronage, and Taste in China and Japan

Explores how the imperial courts collected and censored art in China and Japan ca. 1000-1800. The imperial control over art collecting activities shaped the way in which court painters represented the world. The imperial court dictated art creations...

ARTHIST388B

From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art

Chinese artistic developments in an era of revolution and modernization, from Shanghai Modern and New National Painting though the politicized art of the Cultural Revolution and post-Mao era re-entry into international arenas.

ARTHIST401

World War Two: Place, Loss, History

A consideration of how the Second World War still goes on today in the form of haunted absences and vivid representations. Studying literature and art in detail, the seminar will center on some of the places where those absences and representations g...

ARTHIST405

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

Explores the relationship between chant and images in medieval art. Examples are sourced from both Byzantium and the Latin West including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Ste. Foy at Conques, and Santiago de Compostela...

ARTHIST405A

Graduate Pedagogy

This course is designed for graduate students in Art History and Film Studies preparing to work as teaching assistants in the Department of Art and Art History. The seminar will focus on a range of theoretical and practical concerns pertaining to th...

ARTHIST406

The Alchemy of Art: Substance and Transformation in Artistic Practice

This seminar considers materiality and processes of material transformation as core elements of artistic practice and the history of making, largely from Sumer (3rd Millennium BCE) until the Early Modern period (18th Century in the West), but with se...

ARTHIST406A

Persian Poetry: Text, Space, and Image

Featuring several sessions led by distinguished artist Ala Ebtekar, this course traces the nexus of word and image across a millennium of Persian poetry. Our aim is to look at how texts have been represented through images and enacted in public perfo...

ARTHIST406B

Audiovision in the Medieval Cult of Saints

Medieval art is silent in modern times. Often displayed in sterile museum galleries, it is presented without analytical consideration of the intended envelope of sound, chant, prayer, and recitation. Stripped of this aural atmosphere, the objects hav...

ARTHIST407

The Resurrected Body: Animacy in Medieval Art

This course explores the relationship of spirit and matter in medieval art and architecture, more specifically how the changing appearance of objects and spaces evokes the presence of the metaphysical as glitter, reverberation, and shadow. We will e...

ARTHIST407B

The Art of Travel: Medieval Journeys to the Unknown

In many ways, the reasons that medieval people traveled are not unlike our own: to see new sights, make new connections, and return home to regale others with their exploits. Of course, travel was also a more complicated affair, limited to those who...

ARTHIST407D

Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe

How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...

ARTHIST407E

Sacred Play: The Material Culture of Christian Festivals

The twentieth-century American poet and esotericist Robert Duncan once called for a return of the medieval calendar, citing its many feast days as an antidote to the modern 'weekend.' Indeed, the medieval Christian calendar was built on festivals, mu...

ARTHIST408

Hagia Sophia

This seminar uncovers the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia, the church dedicated to Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. Rather than a static and inert structure, the Great Church emerges as a material body that comes...

ARTHIST408A

Abject Subjects and Divine Anamorphosis in Byzantine Art

Entering the space of the church immediately interpellated the medieval subject, transforming him/her into an abject self, marred by sin. This psychological effect of pricking the conscience was enhanced by the architectural panopticon channeled thro...

ARTHIST408B

The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews

The seminar reveals the religious and ethnic hybridity of the art medieval Spain, where the lives, material cultures, and artistic practices of Muslims, Christians, and Jews were more intertwined than any other region of the medieval world. We work t...

ARTHIST408D

Virginity and Power: The Mother of God and Visions of Empire

Mary has been the most influential female figure in Christianity. Her powers stem from her paradoxical virginal motherhood. Victory over nature means indomitable power. She was perceived as the general of the Christian armies and the protector of ci...

ARTHIST409

Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West

This seminar explores the role of images in the three major powers of the medieval Mediterranean: the Umayyads, the Carolingians, and the Byzantines. For each the definition of an image- sura, imago, or eikon respectively-became an important means of...

ARTHIST409A

Image, Icon, Idol: Theories and Practices in Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West

This course explores the phenomenon of iconoclasm, iconophobia, and aniconism as markers of a vast and profound cultural transformation of the Mediterranean in the period from the seventh to the ninth centuries. As the Arabs established the Umayyad...

ARTHIST410

The Masters: Raphael

Five hundred years after Raphael mysteriously died (April 6, 1520), this seminar reflects on his contributions to the arts. Raphael's art is often defined as a negation of death. He painted eternal myths, unearthly saints, and timeless beauties. His...

ARTHIST411

Childish Enthusiasms, Perishable Manias

Universities are sites of gravitas, but what of levitas -- a lighter, more playful category? Does intellectually credible work depend upon a â¿¿critical distanceâ¿ between scholar and object of study? Can we take something seriously without imposing...

ARTHIST412

Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds

Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f...

ARTHIST417

Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth

This course examines global origin myths for architecture, for example cosmic symbolism (e.g. the Mandala/dome), and the magic of technologies (e.g. the "petrification" of the wooden hut in permanent architecture). Examples range from Ethiopian rockc...

ARTHIST417B

Architectural Design Theory

This seminar focuses on the key themes, histories, and methods of architectural theory -- a form of architectural practice that establishes the aims and philosophies of architecture. Architectural theory is primarily written, but it also incorporate...

ARTHIST418A

Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy

Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...

ARTHIST421

Art and Visual Culture in Europe: The 1920s and 30s

This seminar focuses attention on European art institutions, exhibitions, journals, and movements, most of which intersected with one another across national borders during the interwar period, including Cubism, De Stijl, Purism, Art Deco, the Bauhau...

ARTHIST424

Architecture as Performance from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

This seminar examines the nature of architectural representation in the western tradition, from antiquity until the 18th century. It considers the ancient theatre as an icon of representation and the afterlife of the stage building as a model for wes...

ARTHIST426

New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries

An exploration of new forms of landscape art in China's contemporary era, 1980s-present. Studies of new media platforms for landscape related imagery, imagined landscapes, and expanded concepts of landscape in an era of heightened ecological consciou...

ARTHIST430

Cinema and Ideology

The relationship between cinema and ideology from theoretical and historical perspectives, emphasizing Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches. The practice of political filmmaking, and the cinema as an audiovisual apparatus and socio-cultural institu...

ARTHIST430B

Image and Text in the Arts in China

An examination of many types of interactions between images and texts in Chinese painting. These include poetic lines inscribed on paintings (as response or as a theme given to the artist to paint), paintings that emulate or transform ancient poetic...

ARTHIST431

Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art

Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...

ARTHIST440

Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s

This seminar will examine the art historical legacy of the 1990s, the decade of Bill Clinton, Beavis and Butthead, and Y2K. By placing art in conversation with music, popular culture, and political events, we will explore the dark underbelly of the...

ARTHIST441

Overlooked/Understudied

This seminar focuses on overlooked artists and understudied artworks in the U.S. from the late 19th century to the present. Rather than reclaiming marginality for its own sake, we will consider how the practice of looking at the overlooked art chan...

ARTHIST442

Art History in the First Person

This seminar considers the use of the first person voice in a wide range of writings about art, from fiction to criticism to scholarship. Insofar as graduate students have typically been discouraged from using the first person voice in their scholarl...

ARTHIST443

Networks: A Visual History

Networks are maps for thinking. They illustrate connections while shaping mental journeys, transforming our self-reflexivity along the way. In this course, we will study the metamorphoses of networks, from medieval genealogies to Renaissance cartogra...

ARTHIST444

Counter-Institution: Performance and Institutional Critique

Out of 100 members of the current US Senate, only one has a college degree in arts. In the House of Representatives, the situation is even bleaker: while some ten representatives, out of 435, have experience in some kind of artistic practice (music,...

ARTHIST446

Duchamp Then and Now

This seminar provides an opportunity to explore not only the familiar though endlessly fascinating episodes of Duchamp's career (Nude Descending a Staircase; the readymade; the Large Glass; the Boite-en-valise; the persona of Rrose Sélavy, his films...

ARTHIST447

Russia in Color

This course explores the application, evolution, and perception of color in art, art history, literature, and popular culture - in (Soviet) Russia and emigration. Working closely with the Cantor Arts Center collection at Stanford, this course pairs a...

ARTHIST448

The Body in Film and other Media

In this seminar, we will consider the body on screen as well as the body before the screen i.e. the spectator but also the profilmic body of the actor to examine corporeal performance and reception. The dancing body, the comic body, dead and live bod...

ARTHIST450A

Printing Protest: The Artist as Social Critic

This seminar explores the history of print and protest. From books to newspapers to posters, printed materials have generated and circulated political and social messages for centuries. The seminar takes a transhistorical and transnational approach t...

ARTHIST451

Warhol's World

Andy Warhol's art has never before been more widely exhibited, published, or licensed for commercial use, product design, and publication than it is today. For all Warhol's promiscuous visibility and global cachet at the current moment, there is much...

ARTHIST453

Aesthetics and Phenomenology

This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...

ARTHIST456

What Was Photography?

Digital imaging has largely replaced darkroom work over the past quarter century, yet analog practices still dominate theories of photography. Working closely with the Capital Group Foundation Collection at the Cantor, this class will explore how tho...

ARTHIST460

Decolonizing Theory

The past year has witnessed a remarkable reckoning with systemic racism and embedded structures of inequality, underscoring once again the epistemic violence of the privileging of a white, western, heteropatriarchal intellectual tradition in the acad...

ARTHIST465A

Word and Image

What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...

ARTHIST466A

Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History

Since the emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), artists have been central to the fight against the state's violence and neglect of those with HIV/AIDS. In this story, however, race and gender are marginalized as frameworks that shap...

ARTHIST469

Drugs and the Visual Imagination

Drugs have profoundly shaped human culture across space and time, from ancient cave paintings to the psychedelic Sixties and contemporary opioid epidemic. This seminar explores the relationship between visual culture and "drugs," broadly conceived, a...

ARTHIST472

Feminist Avant-Garde Art in Germany and Beyond (1968-2019)

In "Woman's Art: A Manifesto" (1972), the artist, performer and filmmaker Valie Export (1940) proposed the transfer of women's experience into an art context and considered the body "a signal bearer of meaning and communication." In reconceptualizing...

ARTHIST473

Couture Culture

Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...

ARTHIST474

Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature

What falls below, or beyond, rational inquiry? How do we write about the awe we feel in front of certain works of art, in reading lines of poetry or philosophy, or watching a scene in a film without ruining the feeling that drove us to write in the f...

ARTHIST474A

The Art of the Uncanny

From murderous dolls to evil doppelgängers, humanoid doubles haunt the Western cultural imagination. Beginning with an in-depth look at the contested concept of the "uncanny", the seminar traces the history of anxiety about non-human humans in the We...

ARTHIST475

Media Cultures of the Cold War

The intersection of politics, aesthetics, and new media technologies in the U.S. between the end of WW II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics include the aesthetics of thinking the unthinkable in the wake of the atom bomb; abstract expressionism...

ARTHIST481

Chinese Portraiture

Exploration of recent studies of Chinese portraiture, with a focus on modern and contemporary eras. Portrait practices in treaty port cities; photographic portraits, portraits and modernity; political portraits in public arenas, self-erasure in conte...

ARTHIST484

Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America

This course explores the rich history and contemporary state of ceramic production by Asian American/diasporic makers. It is also about the way history, culture, and emotion are carried by process, technique, and materials. Taught by an art historian...

ARTHIST487X

Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture

Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books (ehon) and popular broadsheets (kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through ima...

ARTHIST491

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...

ARTHIST492

Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman

This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...

ARTHIST493

The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics and Performance

This seminar explores the sonic and visual aesthetics of punk rock since the 1970s. While studying music, videos, zines, and album covers, students will examine the convergence of art with politics among artists, such as Lydia Lunch and Vaginal Davis...

ARTHIST494

Complicating Minimal Art: Racializing, Queering, and Politicizing a Canon

This seminar focuses on the contributions people of color, women, and queer artists have made to Minimalism, a popular and influential style of art defined by sleek geometric forms. Students will critically engage canonical texts, which often privile...

ARTHIST497

American Mystics

This seminar will consider the role of mysticism in American art and culture. Long denigrated as irrational or escapist, mysticism in fact offers a site from which to investigate and challenge entrenched assumptions of linear time, historical positiv...

ARTHIST499

Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Required for PhD Minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). The Fall Phd Minor Workshop will explore theory and methods in anti-racist and feminist pedagogy through selected readings...

ARTHIST5

Art and Power

Art and Power explores a wide range of artworks from the premodern to the contemporary world to reflect on how art has been shaped by structures of inequality and, conversely, how power relations are represented and reinforced by art. Co-taught by tw...

ARTHIST502

Methods and Debates

This course introduces graduate students to a range of interpretive methods within art history and visual culture studies. In addition to scrutinizing multiple schools of thought and critical debates within the field, the seminar pays particular att...

ARTHIST57Q

10 American Photographs

Preference to sophomores. "The humor, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures!" wrote Jack Kerouac of photographer Robert Frank's iconic collection, The Americans. This seminar takes Kerouac's enthusiasm and applies it to...

ARTHIST600

Art History Bibliography and Library Methods

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ARTHIST600A

Art History Proseminar

N/A

ARTHIST601

IMBY (In My Backyard): Faculty Scholarship in Art History and Film/Media Studies

This seminar links first- and second-year Ph.D. students to faculty members in Art History and Film/Media Studies at Stanford. On a rotating basis, 5 faculty members in the Department discuss their most recent book or essay, which we will be read in...

ARTHIST610

Teaching Praxis

No Description Set

ARTHIST620

Qualifying Examination Preparation

For Art History Ph.D. candidates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

ARTHIST640

Dissertation Proposal Preparation

(Staff)

ARTHIST650

Dissertation Research

(Staff)

ARTHIST660

Independent Study

For graduate students only. Approved independent research projects with individual faculty members.

ARTHIST660E

Extended Seminar

May be repeated for credit. (Staff)

ARTHIST670

Dissertation Seminar

For graduate students writing and researching dissertations and dissertation proposals. How to define research projects, write grant proposals, and organize book-length projects.

ARTHIST680

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: Art History Ph.D. candidate.

ARTHIST69SI

Blockchain, NFTs, and the Art World

The most expensive artwork sold in 2021 was an NFT (non-fungible token) created by Beeple, an artist previously unknown to the art world, but well respected by NFT collectors. NFTs, made possible by blockchain, are radically redefining the art world'...

ARTHIST802

TGR Dissertation

ARTHIST80N

Looking into Portraits: Identities in Question

This seminar explores multiple aspects of this basically simple visual category - images of particular persons. We look at portraits from diverse eras and cultures, as many as possible in their original media of painting, sculpture, drawings, prints,...

ARTSTUDI101

Art Practice Foundation I

This course is based on the central role of interdisciplinary connections and exchanges in artistic practice. Students will explore the two-dimensional areas of art: painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. They will work on their projects in...

ARTSTUDI102

Art Practice Foundation II

This course is based on the central role of interdisciplinary connections and exchanges in artistic practice. Students study the work of several prominent artists using different three-dimensional media taught in the department's studio program, incl...

ARTSTUDI123I

Undergraduate Seminar in Composition: Music, Art, and Intermedia

How do music and art relate? How does one speak for, with, the other? In the past century, Western visual art turned towards abstraction and time-based works. Techniques and processes for interaction between image and sound expanded dramatically. Wha...

ARTSTUDI130

Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino

Students use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software is required. Students learn to program the Arduino, a small easy-to-use microprocessor control unit ( see http:...

ARTSTUDI131

Sound Art I

Acoustic, digital and analog approaches to sound art. Familiarization with techniques of listening, recording, digital processing and production. Required listening and readings in the history and contemporary practice of sound art. (lower level)

ARTSTUDI136

The Portable Studio

With a decrease in available real estate and an increase in virtual real estate via the Internet and new technologies, contemporary artists are developing new means of creative production that do not necessarily require the use of a traditional art s...

ARTSTUDI136A

Future Media, Media Archaeologies

Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...

ARTSTUDI139

Portraiture and Facial Anatomy for Artists

Focus is on the art of portraiture and underlying structures of the face, fundamental anatomical elements such as the skull and muscles of facial expressions, and the intersections between human anatomy and art. Studio sessions incorporate plastic mo...

ARTSTUDI140

Drawing I

Functional anatomy and perspective as they apply to problems of drawing the form in space. Individual and group instruction as students work from still life set-ups, nature, and the model. Emphasis is on the development of critical skills and percept...

ARTSTUDI141

Plein Air Painting

Plein Air (Outdoor) Painting is a wonderful way to build skills, explore your relationship to site, and unlock your voice and hand. We will paint at different locations on and off-campus, learning a variety of painting techniques in changing weather...

ARTSTUDI141A

Drawing from Life

The subject of this course is Life as we know it, and artists at all levels will learn to communicate their questions, concerns, and perspectives on paper. The drawing process empowers students to express themselves in their already unique visual lan...

ARTSTUDI141S

Drawing Outdoors

In this introductory class, we take drawing out into the world, exploring different environments, techniques, and approaches as we go. The fundamental nuts-and-bolts of basic drawing techniques: light logic, depicting depth and drawing the figure, ar...

ARTSTUDI142

Mixed-Media Drawing: Art & Aesthetics of Social Media

Why do we ¿like¿ the images we do on social media platforms? Do we only respond to images which pique our emotions, beliefs, and desires? Or do specific design elements in these images influence our preferences? This course challenges you to observe...

ARTSTUDI142A

A Deep Dive in Artmaking During the Time of Covid-19

In this hands-on course, we produce a body of work that responds to key concepts examined in contemporary art with a specific emphasis on the impact of artmaking due to Covid-19. During this historical moment, we explore alternative possibilities of...

ARTSTUDI144

PRINTMAKING AND ACTIVISM

Hands-on studio course that introduces students to a variety of printmaking techniques, while exploring printed matter's role in activism in both history and in current events. This course introduces students to printmaking and graphic art techniques...

ARTSTUDI145

Painting I

Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Still life, landscape, and figure used as subject matter. Emphasis is on painting and drawing from life. (lower level)

ARTSTUDI145A

Painting as Storytelling

This is a special class taught by Holt visiting artist John Bankston. Coulter Gallery will provide a unique classroom space, where student work will be displayed in an ongoing exhibition that will grow over time for the public to observe.Using the fu...

ARTSTUDI145B

Painting: The Expanded Field

This painting class is presented by Holt Resident artist, Kim Anno and builds on two ideas: The first is that the history of painting is intrinsically linked to the lion's share of contemporary art. The second is that the world is upside down in cli...

ARTSTUDI145M

Mural Painting

This rare class explores making a mural in the context of mural history. We will engage the history of mural painting from ancient to contemporary times for an informed production of murals on canvas in one of the painting studios at school. The soci...

ARTSTUDI145S

Painting and Collage

In this introductory class painting and collage techniques are explored and combined in order to expand visual language. Paint as a traditional medium is unified with the prefabricated nature of collage in order to create aesthetic harmony and produ...

ARTSTUDI146

Photoshop and Painting

This is a focused introduction to still life painting and Photoshop. Students will learn to indicate simple form with a single light source and then learn to paint form lights, various forms, and cast shadows. Students will also gain an understanding...

ARTSTUDI146M

Painting Off the Wall

This course introduces a range of alternative processes in painting! Using a variety of paints, surfaces, and additives, you will create works which challenge the traditional boundaries of the painted image. We will cover the fundamentals mediums and...

ARTSTUDI147

Art Book Object

This mixed introductory and upper level studio course explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object. Students learn to use both traditional and digital tools and techniques for creating artists' books, and integrate tho...

ARTSTUDI148

Monotype

Introduction to printmaking using monotype, a graphic art medium used by such artists as Blake, Degas, Gauguin, and Pendergast. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 140. (lower level). May be repeated 2 times for total of 8 units.

ARTSTUDI148A

Introduction to Lithography

The classic technique of printing from limestones and metal plates. Students will learn techniques to draw and etch their imagery onto the stone/plate. The prints will be created in numbered editions. Students will have the opportunity to work in col...

ARTSTUDI148B

Introduction to Printmaking

Techniques such as monotype, monoprint, photocopy transfers, linocut and woodcut, intaglio etching. Demonstrations of these techniques. Field trips to local print collections or print exhibitions. (lower level)

ARTSTUDI148P

The Hybrid Print

This class explores experimental printmaking methods where digital and traditional practices collide. It focuses on the interchange between conventional and new methods of printmaking, and possibilities for the print beyond paper and the flat picture...

ARTSTUDI148S

Printing Without a Press

In this introductory class, we explore printmaking through different techniques and approaches without using a press. This approach allows students to learn techniques to make prints anywhere. Class projects focus on relief, monotypes, rubbings, and...

ARTSTUDI149

Fiber and Wearable Art

In this project-based studio course, students will investigate how wearable art is situated in the conversations around contemporary art. Particular attention will be directed to how artists confront ideas around the body, gender identity, performanc...

ARTSTUDI149C

Etching

In this class students will explore various techniques of etching (or intaglio) on zinc plates such as, hard ground, soft ground, aquatint, marbling aquatint and sugar lift, through an electrolytic process that uses no acid but sulfates and very low...

ARTSTUDI150N

Queer Sculpture

Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal these are among the attitudes that make up queer in its contemporary usage. -David J. Getsy....

ARTSTUDI150Q

Queer Sculpture

Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal these are among the attitudes that make up queer in its contemporary usage. David J. GetsyTh...

ARTSTUDI151

Sculpture I

Traditional and non-traditional approaches to sculpture production through working with materials including wood, metal, and plaster. Conceptual and technical skills, and safe and appropriate use of tools and materials. Impact of material and techniq...

ARTSTUDI152

Soft Sculpture

Textiles lend themselves to be formed and constructed to fit around three-dimensional objects and become a skin to the object within. They can hold materials inside of them, produce imagery, and divide space. This sculpture course investigates fibers...

ARTSTUDI153

Ecology of Materials

Studio-based sculpture course. Materials used in sculpture and environmental concerns surrounding them. Artists concerned with environmental impact and the interconnection of art with other fields. The impact of material and technique upon form and c...

ARTSTUDI155

Social Sculpture

This course investigates the body as sculptural material in order to investigate private and social spaces. Through the development of projects in the realm of social practice, performance, and/or audience interaction, students will explore what it m...

ARTSTUDI156

Installation Art in Time and Space

This hands on studio based sculpture course focuses on developing concepts, and creating a site-specific installation art project. This class will addresses the impact of material and technique upon form and content; therefore understanding the physi...

ARTSTUDI158M

Ephemerality: Time in Sculpture and Digital Media

This course is a survey of ephemeral art within the context of sculpture and digital media. Students consider the art object made to last forever, in contrast with the object meant to disintegrate, decompose, or fall apart. Through a series of activi...

ARTSTUDI160

Intro to Digital / Physical Design

Contemporary production processes, both manufacturing and media processes often span the digital and the physical. 3D Depth cameras can scan real world models or movements, which can be manipulated or adjusted digitally, then re-output to the physica...

ARTSTUDI160M

Performance Art

In this introductory course, students will learn about the fundamentals of performance art and create their own performance-based projects. We will be making works critically engaging race, culture, gender and identity to evoke self empowerment and s...

ARTSTUDI160X

Tele-Reality: Live-Streaming Art

This course examines the field of live-feed media through the lens of art practice, exploring previous experiments and the potential of the medium. Using social media outlets and user-to-user communication platforms¿such as Youtube, FaceTime, Twitch,...

ARTSTUDI161

Constructing Color

This hands-on introductory level studio art class addresses color through traditional, digital, and experimental mediums. Students learn to compose and communicate via color, experimenting with light, paint, pigments, dye, code, context, and culture....

ARTSTUDI162

Embodied Interfaces

Our computers, phones and devices see us predominantly as fingers and eyes staring at screens. What would happen if our technology acknowledged more of our rich physical presence and capabilities in its design? How have artists and designers used dif...

ARTSTUDI163

Drawing with Code

This studio course will engage coding practices as drawing tools. What makes a good algorithmic composition? How do we craft rule-sets and parameters to shape an interesting work? What changes if we conceive of still outputs, ongoing processes, or in...

ARTSTUDI164M

Art of Resistance: Community Building and Self Preservation through Zine Making

This class explores the history, practice, and technique of creating fanzines as a device for protest or community building. Discussions, projects, and readings focus on the history of self-publishing for the preservation of minority and marginalized...

ARTSTUDI165A

Intro to Art & Technology

This introductory studio course provides a practical and conceptual foundation for students interested in digital, electronic, and interactive art. Students learn basic electronics, creative code, and digital art making techniques culminating in phys...

ARTSTUDI165M

Practice, Practice, Practice: Cultivating Creative Rituals and Routines

Focuses on the importance of daily rituals and routines through experiments and exercises in various mediums. We divide time between examining those who create daily using meditation, writing, drawing, performance, photography and more to tackle conc...

ARTSTUDI166

Sculptural Screens / Malleable Media

In this mixed intro and upper level studio course, students will experiment with video and computational outputs embedded in physical scenarios. What new physical formats are made possible by contemporary screen and projection-mapping technologies? H...

ARTSTUDI167

Introduction to Animation

Projects in animation techniques including flipbook, cutout/collage, stop-motion such as claymation, pixilation, and puppet animation, rotoscoping, and time-lapse. Films. Computers used as post-production tools, but course does not cover computer-gen...

ARTSTUDI167M

Animated By Origins: Africa and The Americas

When working with experimental animation, what can we learn from the Shangaan about compositing, layering and collaging, from the Dogon about counter-rhythms and remixing, or from the Lakota about observation and improvisation? In this class, we will...

ARTSTUDI167S

DIY Animation and Video

This course will introduce students to stop-motion animation and video editing techniques for art making, created on cell phones and with freely available software and tools. Students in this class will analyze and create lo-res or "DIY" works design...

ARTSTUDI168

Data as Material

How can data be used as material in art and design projects? Beyond straight-forward ideas of data-visualization, this studio course investigates how we construct meaning from sets of information, and how the construction of those sets determines the...

ARTSTUDI169

Virtual Reality: the possibility and peril of immersive artwork

How can we use virtual reality systems to create powerful, beautiful and socially engaged artworks? Is it possible to use technically sophisticated (and sometimes frustrating) tools to share our unique personal visions? What can working in virtual re...

ARTSTUDI170

Light and Shadow

Through film and dark room instruction, students learn to use a SLR 35-mm camera and to operate manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed). They develop an awareness of light and its various properties and possibilities. Students become familia...

ARTSTUDI171

Introduction to Photography

This is an introductory course in photography that explores lens-based practices and the imperative of visual literacy in today's world. The history of photography starts now, in a context of image-making that proceeds all around us with unprecedente...

ARTSTUDI171M

The Photography Zine

The course combines the critical analysis and creation of photography and photo zines that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. A zine is a DIY small-circulation, self-published print work of original or appr...

ARTSTUDI172

Art and Teratology

This studio course looks at the relationships between biology and art, particularly as they relate to the topic of "monsters". Rather than addressing the ways in which art has assisted the biological sciences (as in medical illustration), we'll focus...

ARTSTUDI172M

Lifecycles in Art

This interdisciplinary hands-on course covers the lifecycle of an Artwork in which we work together as a class to imagine, create, and document a temporary public installation at the Anderson Collection alongside a guest artist. We subsequently publi...

ARTSTUDI173A

Introductory Photography: Blue

This introductory course into photography invites students to experience, reflect on and be inspired by images of blue. They will create work using the process of cyanotyping, the low-cost photographic printing technique of a century ago that now fun...

ARTSTUDI173E

Cell Phone Photography

The course combines the critical analysis of cell phone photography with the creation of photographic art works that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. The increasing ubiquity of cell phone photography has...

ARTSTUDI173M

Beyond Representation: Conceptual Photography

This workshop course expands the perception of images and their interpretation. Is it possible to photograph a dream or an emotion? In a series of lectures, readings, and assignments, we approach photography more as a reference and allusion than a si...

ARTSTUDI173S

Cell Phone Photography

The course combines the critical analysis of cell phone photography with the creation of photographic art works that explore this specific medium's experimental, social and documentary potential. The increasing ubiquity of cell phone photography has...

ARTSTUDI174

Interdisciplinary Animation

There is no medium or form of study that animation cannot touch and expand ¿ it is interdisciplinary. At its core, animation enables the practitioner to find inherent life in materials and thereby transform them. Structured in-class experiments cover...

ARTSTUDI174B

Creativity in the Age of Facebook: Making Art for and from Networks

This class explores the history, practice and technique of creating art on and for the internet. Discussions, projects and readings focus on the ways in which internet art embodies changing ideas about artistic creation, technology, and interactivity...

ARTSTUDI175

Sound Installation

This class will cover creative, historical and theoretical aspects of sited artworks based in sound. We will create, install and critique new works that use sound with special attention the ways that sound intersects with time, space and architecture...

ARTSTUDI175A

Video Installation

Video Installation is a hybrid studio critique and seminar class that explores the potential of cinematic arts within the context of spatial dynamics and formal configuration. The emphasis will be on the conceptual and experimental, rather than a con...

ARTSTUDI176

Installation: Sensorial Concepts

This course considers the history of installation art to develop an expanded understanding through sensorial practices. Students will explore the process and work of contemporary artists working in installation art and discuss the various approaches...

ARTSTUDI177

Video Art

Video holds the ability to bear witness and reconstruct realities of space and time. In this class we study the development of the medium in the 1970s and how artists have since used it as an experimental apparatus. Projects involve creating short vi...

ARTSTUDI177M

DIY Movies

Using a 'do it yourself' approach, we will create short films in response to key concepts in cinema. In this course, we will experiment with unconventional and traditional methods of filmmaking that employ a diverse range of media. Together, we will...

ARTSTUDI178

Art and Electronics

Analog electronics and their use in art. Basic circuits for creating mobile, illuminated, and responsive works of art. Topics: soldering; construction of basic circuits; elementary electronics theory; and contemporary electronic art. (lower level)

ARTSTUDI179

Digital Art I

Contemporary electronic art focusing on digital media. Students create works exploring two- and three-dimensional, and time-based uses of the computer in fine art. History and theoretical underpinnings. Common discourse and informative resources for...

ARTSTUDI180

Media Art in the Age of Surveillance

How can media art practices effectively interrogate our data environment? This studio course investigates systems that collect personal data, such as video and consumer databases, by turning their regulatory, contractual and legislative frameworks on...

ARTSTUDI180M

Creating Public Art: Concept to Commission

This course introduces the skills needed for creating Public Art. The course develops an appreciation and understanding of public artwork, but focuses on the process of applying to and creating work for public spaces. Students develop an understandin...

ARTSTUDI182

Queered Tech and Speculative Design

What does it mean to `queer' something? Expanding this term's meaning beyond gender and sexuality, `to queer' is to question, challenge, subvert, and reimagine social norms and structures of power. In this course, we build from queer theory to consid...

ARTSTUDI182M

Queer Storytelling: We Have Always Been Here

For centuries, storytelling has been used as a way to connect with those around us and to bring others into our inner world. QTBIPOC communities use storytelling as a way to be recognized and carve our own space within a cis-heteronormative society....

ARTSTUDI185

Interactive Storytelling

This course explores strategies for crafting interactive stories. It takes students from story-teller to game designer to book maker. Through a series of narrative exercises, readings, lectures, and technical demos; students create a story-based game...

ARTSTUDI186

Black Experimental Narrative

How do Black video artists and filmmakers use materials, space, and language to construct the subjective space of storytelling? Black Experimental Narrative surveys the aesthetics, history, and theories that characterize experimental Black cinema and...

ARTSTUDI187

Animation, Memory, and the Self-Portrait

This introductory experimental animation and media course will explore color, images, and the remains of our memories to reconstruct, reimagine, and expand ideas of the Westernized archetype of self-portraiture. Where do fiction and autobiography emb...

ARTSTUDI188

Papermaking: Eastern and Western Traditions

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ARTSTUDI19N

An Artist's Life: Diverse Voices and Changing Contexts

This course is designed for students considering an Art Practice minor or major. In this course, students gain confidence and experience connecting to their artistic voices as we explore the myriad possible career paths artists take to build sustaina...

ARTSTUDI201

Art Practice Major Seminar

In this WIM course, students develop writing skills specific to the Art Practice discipline, including Artists Statements, Research Statements, and Grant Proposals, which are required of all professional artists. These written materials are created i...

ARTSTUDI215

Metaspore: The Networked Sensorium

Metaspore is a research initiative founded by conceptual artist Anicka Yi to generate "spores" of social trust and interdisciplinary exploration for the 21st century. Recognizing a planetary paradigm shift fueled by the multivalent advances and crise...

ARTSTUDI21AX

Bay Area Arts Immersion

Students explore the arts in San Francisco, the East Bay, the North Bay, the Peninsula, and the South Bay with Kevin B. Chen. The Bay Area Arts Immersion combines field trips with on-campus workshops.

ARTSTUDI22AX

Drawing and Creative Writing

Drawing and Creative Writing is a dynamic mix of hands-on drawing studio time and guided writing assignments. This hybrid studio course invites students to experience the perceptual power of drawing and the written word in concert. Drawing and writin...

ARTSTUDI230

Interdisciplinary Art Survey

This course is designed to develop diversity of concepts and strategies within the student's artistic practice. The course includes a survey of artists using different media taught in the department's studio program such as painting, drawing, video...

ARTSTUDI231A

Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino

Students use electronics and software to create kinetic and interactive elements in artwork. No prior knowledge of electronics or software is required. Students learn to program the Arduino, a small easy-to-use microprocessor control unit ( see http:...

ARTSTUDI236

Future Media, Media Archaeologies

Hand-on. Media technologies from origins to the recent past. Students create artworks based on Victorian era discoveries and inventions, early developments in electronic media, and orphaned technologies. Research, rediscover, invent, and create devic...

ARTSTUDI239

Intermedia Workshop

Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimen...

ARTSTUDI23AX

Drawing

Two fun activities on campus during the summer are drawing in the studio and being outdoors. In this Arts Intensive Drawing class students will do both. The course will revolve around composition and layout, expressive mark-making, and basic drawing...

ARTSTUDI240

Drawing II

Intermediate/advanced. Observation, invention, and construction. Development of conceptual and material strategies, with attention to process and purpose. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 140 or consent of instructor. (upper level)

ARTSTUDI241

Expression in Brush and Ink

In this upper-level drawing class, students learn to use brush and ink as unique expressive means though the study of traditional and contemporary ink paintings, drawing from life as well as free experimentation. Observation, expression and abstracti...

ARTSTUDI241A

Drawing from Life

The subject of this course is Life as we know it, and artists at all levels will learn to communicate their questions, concerns, and perspectives on paper. The drawing process empowers students to express themselves in their already unique visual lan...

ARTSTUDI242

Drawing and Creative Writing

A dynamic mix of guided writing and drawing assignments, and self-driven studio time. We will get dirty with the ABCs of drawing while playing with freeing constraints and looking closely into the visual dimension of words. Through a spirited, daily...

ARTSTUDI242A

Drawing and Cameras

How do images move, and what does living in the crossfire of so many cameras do to our seeing? What else can we do with drawing, besides becoming perfect cameras? Students respond to their own questions and archives by thinking visually through a ser...

ARTSTUDI243

Anatomy for Artists

Lectures highlight the intersections and influences between human anatomy and art. Studio sessions provide an opportunity for students to immerse in anatomically inspired studio projects. Drawing, mixed media, and some painting mediums will be used d...

ARTSTUDI245

Painting II

Symbolic, narrative, and representational self-portraits. Introduction to the pictorial strategies, painting methods, and psychological imperatives of Dürer, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Kahlo, Beckmann, Schiele, and Munch. Students paint from life, memory, r...

ARTSTUDI246

Individual Work: Drawing and Painting

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...

ARTSTUDI247

Collage

Collage has influenced painting and drawing practices, as well as film and photography through juxtaposition, scale shifts, and reappropriation of the found image. Although many iconic works in this medium date to the 20th century, this course focuse...

ARTSTUDI247A

Art Book Object

This mixed introductory and upper level studio course explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object. Students learn to use both traditional and digital tools and techniques for creating artists' books, and integrate tho...

ARTSTUDI248P

The Hybrid Print

This class explores experimental printmaking methods where digital and traditional practices collide. It focuses on the interchange between conventional and new methods of printmaking, and possibilities for the print beyond paper and the flat picture...

ARTSTUDI249

Major Capstone

This course aims to prepare senior Art Practice majors for future artistic careers by developing rigorous practice and critical research and presentation skills. Class engagement includes informal discussions, written reflections, and critiques with...

ARTSTUDI250

Individual Work: Sculpture

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...

ARTSTUDI251

Mold Making + Casting

This sculpture course offers instruction in various methods of mold making including one and two part plaster molds, one time throw away molds, flexible molds, mother molds, simple body casts and casting in hydrocal plaster, wax, and clay. Students u...

ARTSTUDI252

Sculpture II

Builds upon 151. Installation and non-studio pieces. Impact of material and technique upon form and content; the physical and expressive possibilities of diverse materials. Historical and contemporary forming methods provide a theoretical basis for t...

ARTSTUDI254

Kinetic Sculpture

This course is focused on developing a practical, hands on understanding of kinetic mechanisms applied to objects and materials in sculpture and installation. Class time will take the form of lectures and technical demos, and hands-on labs where you...

ARTSTUDI256

Advanced Installation

This hands on studio based sculpture course focuses on developing concepts, and creating a site-specific installation art project. This class will addresses the impact of material and technique upon form and content; therefore understanding the physi...

ARTSTUDI257

Advanced Sculpture Seminar

Students engage in professional sculpture (studio) practices that prepare them to apply and extend the skills, methods and techniques they have learned in previous courses, including technical and conceptual skills in woodworking, metal working, mold...

ARTSTUDI258

Resisting Monuments at the End of the World

This hands-on contemporary art and sculpture class explores falling monuments and rising memorials around the world. Departing from individualistic hero narratives of traditional monuments we address collective agency and new forms of shared power. S...

ARTSTUDI261

Individual Work: Emerging Practices in Design & Technology

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...

ARTSTUDI262

Performing with Digital Media

This interdisciplinary studio course will explore time-based media through the practice of live visual performance with an emphasis on digital means of production. Through a series of individual and collaborative assignments, students will learn to u...

ARTSTUDI266

Sculptural Screens / Malleable Media

In this mixed intro and upper level studio course, students will experiment with video and computational outputs embedded in physical scenarios. What new physical formats are made possible by contemporary screen and projection-mapping technologies? H...

ARTSTUDI267

Emerging Technology Studio

This course is an upper level studio course featuring a different guest artist each year whose artwork makes use of emerging technologies. Course material will be based on the guest artist's area of expertise. Past examples include artists whose work...

ARTSTUDI270

Advanced Photography Seminar

Students interested in taking this class should apply with a project proposal they aim to develop over the length of the course. Since these projects require a considerable amount of independent work outside of class time, each student must submit a...

ARTSTUDI270A

CREATING EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

This course is dedicated to creating at the crossroads of art and cinema. This experimental video art course will address practical filmmaking, taking as its baseline assumption the notion that experimentation is crucial to overcoming encrusted socia...

ARTSTUDI271A

Intermediate Photography: On Queerness

In this studio course, we explore potentiality and experimentation in contemporary photography to challenge conventions, question definitions, and expand meanings. We approach photography as a strategic tool to subvert, intervene, resist, and bridge...

ARTSTUDI271B

Intermediate Photography: Composite and Time

This course introduces students to the use of several techniques and methodologies that combine multiple images into a single composite photograph. Students develop skills to pre-visualize and plan the work they envision through high definition range...

ARTSTUDI271C

Intermediate Photography: Performance

This course introduces students to the role performance can play in a lens-based practice, centered in the belief that art can be defined through gesture as well as object. We study the work of various prominent artists to gauge their influence and t...

ARTSTUDI271D

Intermediate Photography: Constructed Image

This course begins with the idea that all photographs are constructed. Students explore conceptual photographic practices through the frame of images as constructs, examining the various choices and expanded practices involved in the process of creat...

ARTSTUDI271E

Intermediate Photography: New Landscapes

This course investigates notions of landscape photography by expanding upon its traditional, geography-based paradigm of pictorial beauty. Students explore how the perception and representation of landscapes relate to physical and cognitive mapping,...

ARTSTUDI271F

Intermediate Photography: DIY Publishing

The book has been a form to share photographs since the medium's earliest days, offering photographers a way to present their work outside of exhibitions. Developments in digital technology have democratized access to print production, leading to a p...

ARTSTUDI272

Individual Work: Photography

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...

ARTSTUDI273

Individual Work: Experimental Media

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory studio course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms are requ...

ARTSTUDI275

Photography II: Digital

Students continue to use DLSR cameras, with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/ white balance). They are taught intermediate-level digital printing (in color) using large-format printers....

ARTSTUDI277

Intermediate Photography Seminar

This is a mentorship class designed to expand on personal projects in photography. Students engage in professional photographic practices that prepare them to apply and expand upon the skills, methods and techniques they have learned in previous cour...

ARTSTUDI277A

Advanced Video

Video, criticism, and contemporary media theory investigating the time image. Students create experimental video works, addressing the integration of video with traditional art media such as sculpture and painting. Non-linearity made possible by Inte...

ARTSTUDI278

Photography II: Black and White

Students are introduced to and provided with medium-format film cameras, which they learn to use with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed). Students are introduced to metering for film using hand-held ligh...

ARTSTUDI280

Media Art in the Age of Surveillance

How can media art practices effectively interrogate our data environment? This studio course investigates systems that collect personal data, such as video and consumer databases, by turning their regulatory, contractual and legislative frameworks on...

ARTSTUDI286

Intermediate Photography: Portraiture

This course explores contemporary practices of portrait photography, examining its history and discourse on representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. We look at the complexities of portraiture in terms of skill sets and processes, aesthe...

ARTSTUDI287

Animation II

This course expands upon techniques and storytelling methods learned in Animation I. We continue to survey the field of independent animation primarily through short films and other social digital platforms. As our media consumption is increasingly c...

ARTSTUDI288

Intermediate Photography: Documentary

The documentary image has constituted a keystone of the photographic medium since the earliest days of its existence. In this class, we approach documentary photography from a contemporary perspective and in a context of active engagement with the wo...

ARTSTUDI290

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree.

ARTSTUDI295

Visual Arts Internship

Professional experience in a field related to the Visual Arts for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for galleries, museums, art centers, and art publications. Students arrange the internship, provide a confirmation letter from the hostin...

ARTSTUDI297

Honors Thesis Exhibition

May be repeated for credit.

ARTSTUDI297S

AP HONORS SEMINAR

Led by the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art Practice, the Honors Seminar provides students the opportunity to create projects for the honors exhibition and complete the written thesis under the guidance of faculty advisors, and assisted with...

ARTSTUDI310B

Directed Reading: Studio

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ARTSTUDI310C

Directed Reading: Studio

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ARTSTUDI32XSI

Sustainable Design and Practice in Native American Architecture

This lecture series highlights and celebrates Native American design practices, both in architectural design and in materials use. As practicing Indigenous architects and designers, the guest speakers aim to share how Indigineity and Nativeness influ...

ARTSTUDI342

MFA Project: Tutorial

Students construct an individual tutorial with an instructor selected from the studio art faculty, including visiting artists. The student must take tutorials with at least three different faculty members during the six-quarter program. Prior approv...

ARTSTUDI342A

MFA: Object Seminar

Weekly seminars, studio practice, and individual tutorials. Student work is critiqued on issues of identity, presentation, and the development of coherent critical language. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only.

ARTSTUDI342B

MFA: Concept Seminar

Weekly seminars, studio practice, and individual tutorials. Modes of conceptualization to broaden the base of cognitive and generative processes. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only.

ARTSTUDI342C

M.F.A Seminar

Professional practices; preparation of documentation; exhibition and presentation. Restricted to M.F.A. studio students only. May be repeat for credit total units allowed 45 and total completion 6

ARTSTUDI350A

Art & Design I: History and Theory

This two part graduate level course is required for all first year JPD students (both MFA and ME students), and open to all MFA Art Practice students. The first quarter of the course is a seminar, which focuses on the history of design practices and...

ARTSTUDI390

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree.

ARTSTUDI40SI

Introduction to Art in Entertainment

Art and artists play a huge role in the production of video games, films, television shows, comics, and other forms of popular visual media. In this course, students are introduced to the different roles art has in the realm of entertainment. Over th...

ARTSTUDI801

TGR Project

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FILMEDIA100A

History of World Cinema I, 1895-1929

Provides an overview of cinema made around the globe between its emergence as a mass medium in the late-19th century, and the rise of synchronized sound around 1930. This is a fecund period in which the 'language' of film was at once established, cha...

FILMEDIA100B

History of World Cinema II: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch

Provides an overview of cinema made around the world between 1930 and 1960, highlighting technical, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped mid-twentieth-century cinema. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards developing...

FILMEDIA100C

History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World

Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...

FILMEDIA101

Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media

India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...

FILMEDIA102

Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image

This course examines influential theories of film and media from the early twentieth century to the present. Prerequisites: FILMEDIA 4.

FILMEDIA107N

Documentary Film: Telling it Like it Is?

Documentary films have become a "lingua franca," thanks to ubiquitous streaming services and our devotion to screen time. Offering compelling stories, intriguing "characters," and a lingering resonance, they often function as a Rorschach test that el...

FILMEDIA110N

Coming-of-Age Movies

Physical changes, religious rituals, and new legal rights and responsibilities outwardly mark the transition from childhood to adulthood. They imply inward transformation such as loss of innocence and maturation of perspective. This combination of in...

FILMEDIA112

Women in Contemporary French Cinema

Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...

FILMEDIA114

Reading Comics

The modern medium of comics throughout its 150 year history (mostly North American). The flexibility of the medium explored through the genres of humorous and dramatic comic strips, superheroes, undergrounds, independents, kids and comics, journalism...

FILMEDIA115

Documentary Issues and Traditions

Issues include objectivity/subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice. Parallel focus on form and content.

FILMEDIA11Q

Art in the Metropolis

This seminar is offered in conjunction with the annual "Arts Immersion" trip to New York that takes place over the spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Enrollment in this course a requirement for taking part in the trip...

FILMEDIA120

Superhero Theory

With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...

FILMEDIA125

Horror Film

From its beginnings, the cinema evinced an affinity with the phantom realm of specters, ghosts, and supernatural beings. Not only does horror have deep and diverse roots in the international history of film; it emerges as a trope of film itself, as a...

FILMEDIA129

Animation and the Animated Film

The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...

FILMEDIA131

Is Visibility a Trap (Door)? Gender, Race, and the Stakes of Representation

This course examines key theoretical debates surrounding the fraught political and epistemological potential of visibility and representation. Who gets to set the premises for recognition, and how do sexuality, gender, and race affect the ways in whi...

FILMEDIA132A

Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Cinema

This course will provide an overview of cinema from India, the world's largest producer of films. We will trace the history of Indian cinema from the silent era, through the studio period, to state-funded art filmmaking to the contemporary production...

FILMEDIA135

Around the World in Ten Films

This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural,...

FILMEDIA137

Love in the Time of Cinema

Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other...

FILMEDIA145

Politics and Aesthetics in East European Cinema

From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...

FILMEDIA152

Hollywood/Bollywood: The Musical Two Ways

A comparative approach to the musical as Hollywood genre and as fundamental mode in Bollywood (where even horror movies have song-and-dance sequences!). The pleasurable interplay among song, dance, and screen directs us to the interplay of cultural i...

FILMEDIA153

Queer Cinema in the World

In his manifesto, 'A Queer('s) Cinema,' Manuel Betancourt declares, queer cinema is global cinema, queer cinema is not universal, is intersectional, is an aesthetic sensibility. Through film and video from Kenya, Hong Kong, India, France, The Dominic...

FILMEDIA165B

American Style and the Rhetoric of Fashion

Focus on the visual culture of fashion, especially in an American context. Topics include: the representation of fashion in different visual media (prints, photographs, films, window displays, and digital images); the relationship of fashion to its h...

FILMEDIA173

Digital and Interactive Media

This course introduces a variety of ways of thinking about digital and interactive media. As examples, we will think about the impact of algorithmic processes on cinema and other moving-image media; we will consider the relation of narrative to inter...

FILMEDIA178

History of Latin American Revolutions

This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an...

FILMEDIA210A

Documentary Perspectives: The Essay Film

In this class we will explore the essay film as a distinct genre of documentary filmmaking. The course is organized as an inquiry into the nature of the essay film, its historical and formal development, as well as a survey of the major works that ma...

FILMEDIA210B

Documentary Perspectives: Observational Cinema

Historical, political, aesthetic, and formal developments of documentary film. Subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice.

FILMEDIA211N

Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias

This course has a simple premise: Effective scholarship need not suck the joy from the world. G. K. Chesterton once wrote that 'it is the duty of every poet, and even of every critic, to dance in respectful imitation of the child.' What could it mean...

FILMEDIA216

Media and the Environment

How are environmental issues represented in various media, from cinema and television to videogames, VR, and experimental art? And how are these media themselves involved in environmental change? In this course, we look at media and the environment a...

FILMEDIA221

Out of Order

This course explores the rise of nonlinear approaches to storytelling in global narrative cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. We will begin with Rashomon and end somewhere around Inception, also considering examples from Hong Kong, Se...

FILMEDIA223

How to Watch TV

'How to watch TV' may seem like the most obvious thing in the world. Yet when we look at the historical development of television as a technological, social, and cultural form, we find that people have engaged with it in a variety of different ways....

FILMEDIA224

Films of Stanley Kubrick

This seminar will explore the cinema of Stanley Kubrick, a widely acclaimed film auteur known for works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon. The seminar will focus on close analysis of practically all of Kubrick's film...

FILMEDIA234

Media Theory and the Sea

This seminar serves as an introduction to media theory by turning to the sea as a medium. Designed for third- and fourth-year German majors, the course explores the way the ocean has served as a constant vehicle for poetic and philosophical reflectio...

FILMEDIA245B

Eastern European Cinema

From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...

FILMEDIA253

Aesthetics and Phenomenology

This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...

FILMEDIA256

Horror Comics

This seminar will explore the vast array of horror comics. How does horror work in comics, as distinct from prose and cinema? How and why are non-moving images scary? The different narrational strategies of short stories, self-contained works, and co...

FILMEDIA256Q

Horror Comics

This seminar will explore the vast array of horror comics. How does horror work in comics, as distinct from prose and cinema? How and why are non-moving images scary? The different narrational strategies of short stories, self-contained works, and co...

FILMEDIA257

Black Contemporary Filmmakers

Despite the systemic inequalities of the Hollywood system, there is a robust, stylistically diverse cohort of African-American writer/directors at work, including Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, and Ryan Coogler. Jenkins' films (Moonlight, If Beale Stre...

FILMEDIA264B

Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination

Course on the history of twentieth and twenty-first century American images of space and how they shape conceptions of the universe. Covers representations made by scientists and artists, as well as scientific fiction films, TV, and other forms of po...

FILMEDIA270

German Media Theory

In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...

FILMEDIA280

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree. Students must obtain a new I-20 with CPT authorization prior to the employment start date. Professional experience in a field related to the cinematic arts (film, television, media) fo...

FILMEDIA281

Contemporary Asian Filmmakers

Films and moving image works by contemporary filmmakers from Asia, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Topics include explorations of national and local histories, aesthetics of slowness and duration, and cross...

FILMEDIA290

Movies and Methods: The Films Of Vincente Minnelli

Working at MGM, the most opulent of Hollywood studios, Vincente Minnelli epitomized the studio system, and yet his films remain idiosyncratic, distinct, and personal. He is thus a curious figure within the history of auteurist study. Minnelli's work...

FILMEDIA291

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...

FILMEDIA295

Films & Media Studies Internship

Professional experience in a field related to the cinematic arts (film, television, media) for six to ten weeks. Internships may include work for production companies, producers, studios, networks, films, television series, directors, screenwriters,...

FILMEDIA297

Honors Thesis Writing

May be repeated for credit.

FILMEDIA299

Independent Study: Film and Media Studies

Prerequisite: student must have taken a course with the instructor and/or completed relevant introductory course(s). Instructor consent and completion of the Independent Study Form are required prior to enrollment. All necessary forms and payment ar...

FILMEDIA300A

History of World Cinema I, 1895-1929

Provides an overview of cinema made around the globe between its emergence as a mass medium in the late-19th century, and the rise of synchronized sound around 1930. This is a fecund period in which the 'language' of film was at once established, cha...

FILMEDIA300B

History of World Cinema II: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch

Provides an overview of cinema made around the world between 1930 and 1960, highlighting technical, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped mid-twentieth-century cinema. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards developing...

FILMEDIA300C

History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinema around the World

Provides an overview of cinema from around the world since 1960, highlighting the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped various film movements over the last six decades. We study key film movements and national cinemas towards dev...

FILMEDIA301

Close Cinematic Analysis - Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media

India is the world's largest producer of films in over 20 languages, and Bollywood is often its most visible avatar, especially on US university curricula. This course will introduce you to a range of media from the Indian subcontinent across commerc...

FILMEDIA302

Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image

This course examines influential theories of film and media from the early twentieth century to the present. Prerequisites: FILMEDIA 4.

FILMEDIA306

Media and Mediums

What is a medium? This course starts from the assumption that the answer to this question is not as obvious as it might at first appear. Clearly, we know some media when we see them: radio, film, and television are in many ways paradigmatic media of...

FILMEDIA307

Close Analysis: Film Sound

The close analysis of film, with an emphasis on sound, music, and audio-visuality. Films from various historical periods, national cinemas, directors, and genres. Prerequisite: FILMSTUD 4 or equivalent. Recommended: ARTHIST 1 or FILMSTUD 102. Course...

FILMEDIA314

Reading Comics

The modern medium of comics throughout its 150 year history (mostly North American). The flexibility of the medium explored through the genres of humorous and dramatic comic strips, superheroes, undergrounds, independents, kids and comics, journalism...

FILMEDIA315

Documentary Issues and Traditions

Issues include objectivity/subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice. Parallel focus on form and content.

FILMEDIA320

Superhero Theory

With their fantastic powers, mutable bodies, multiple identities, complicated histories, and visual dynamism, the American superhero has been a rich vehicle for fantasies (and anxieties) for 80+ years across multiple media: comics, film, animation, T...

FILMEDIA325

Horror Film

From its beginnings, the cinema evinced an affinity with the phantom realm of specters, ghosts, and supernatural beings. Not only does horror have deep and diverse roots in the international history of film; it emerges as a trope of film itself, as a...

FILMEDIA329

Animation and the Animated Film

The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...

FILMEDIA332A

Bollywood and Beyond: An Introduction to Indian Cinema

This course will provide an overview of cinema from India, the world's largest producer of films. We will trace the history of Indian cinema from the silent era, through the studio period, to state-funded art filmmaking to the contemporary production...

FILMEDIA335

Around the World in Ten Films

This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural,...

FILMEDIA337

Love in the Time of Cinema

Romantic coupling is at the heart of mainstream film narratives around the world. Through a range of film cultures, we will examine cinematic intimacies and our own mediated understandings of love and conjugality formed in dialog with film and other...

FILMEDIA345

Politics and Aesthetics in East European Cinema

From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...

FILMEDIA352

Hollywood/Bollywood: The Musical Two Ways

A comparative approach to the musical as Hollywood genre and as fundamental mode in Bollywood (where even horror movies have song-and-dance sequences!). The pleasurable interplay among song, dance, and screen directs us to the interplay of cultural i...

FILMEDIA353

Queer Cinema in the World

In his manifesto, 'A Queer('s) Cinema,' Manuel Betancourt declares, queer cinema is global cinema, queer cinema is not universal, is intersectional, is an aesthetic sensibility. Through film and video from Kenya, Hong Kong, India, France, The Dominic...

FILMEDIA38

Comics: More than Words

This research unit looks at Comics from a transnational, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. Each quarter we organize a series of lectures, reading sessions, and workshops around a main topic. Some previous topics that we have explored...

FILMEDIA4

Introduction to Film Study

Introduction to Film Study introduces you to film as art, as entertainment, a field of study, and an everyday cultural practice. This course enables you to analyze films in terms of their formal elements, themes, and narrative structures. You learn t...

FILMEDIA406

Montage

Graduate seminar in film aesthetics. Theoretical and practical approaches to editing/montage. Stylistic, semiotic, epistemological, and ideological functions of montage considered in film-historical contexts including: development of the continuity s...

FILMEDIA408

Attention

Throughout the twentieth century, cinema has been theorized as a machine that molds the senses and produces new forms of attention. This course delves into debates about the impact of audio-visual media on a history of attention, from the rise of rep...

FILMEDIA410A

Documentary Perspectives: The Essay Film

In this class we will explore the essay film as a distinct genre of documentary filmmaking. The course is organized as an inquiry into the nature of the essay film, its historical and formal development, as well as a survey of the major works that ma...

FILMEDIA410B

Documentary Perspectives: Observational Cinema

Historical, political, aesthetic, and formal developments of documentary film. Subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice.

FILMEDIA411

Childish Enthusiasms, Perishable Manias

Universities are sites of gravitas, but what of levitas -- a lighter, more playful category? Does intellectually credible work depend upon a â¿¿critical distanceâ¿ between scholar and object of study? Can we take something seriously without imposing...

FILMEDIA414

Methods and Theories in Film and Media Studies

This seminar offers an overview of methods in film and media studies. It covers key debates and interventions that have shaped the field, such as the paradigm of classical cinema, historical reception studies, genre and authorship, political moderni...

FILMEDIA416

Media and the Environment

How are environmental issues represented in various media, from cinema and television to videogames, VR, and experimental art? And how are these media themselves involved in environmental change? In this course, we look at media and the environment a...

FILMEDIA422

Sergei Eisenstein: Theory, Practice, Method

The work of Sergei Eisenstein has been central to the study of film since before his death in 1948, but some of his most significant work was first published only in the new millennium and is generating rich interdisciplinary scholarship. This semina...

FILMEDIA424

Films of Stanley Kubrick

This seminar will explore the cinema of Stanley Kubrick, a widely acclaimed film auteur known for works such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon. The seminar will focus on close analysis of practically all of Kubrick's film...

FILMEDIA429

Animation and the Animated Film

The fantasy of an image coming to life is ancient, but not until the cinema was this fantasy actualized. The history of the movies begins with optical toys, and contemporary cinema is dominated by films that rely on computer animation. This course co...

FILMEDIA430

Cinema and Ideology

The relationship between cinema and ideology from theoretical and historical perspectives, emphasizing Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches. The practice of political filmmaking, and the cinema as an audiovisual apparatus and socio-cultural institu...

FILMEDIA445B

Eastern European Cinema

From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Cz...

FILMEDIA448

The Body in Film and other Media

In this seminar, we will consider the body on screen as well as the body before the screen i.e. the spectator but also the profilmic body of the actor to examine corporeal performance and reception. The dancing body, the comic body, dead and live bod...

FILMEDIA450

Screened Thought

This seminar considers the varied ways film represents thought. What forms of thinking do films enable and forestall? How do particular films, and film genres, activate or elide characters' cognition, interiority, self-consciousness, reflection, etc....

FILMEDIA453

Aesthetics and Phenomenology

This course explores central topics in aesthetics where aesthetics is understood both in the narrow sense of the philosophy of art and aesthetic judgment, and in a broader sense as it relates to questions of perception, sensation, and various modes o...

FILMEDIA460

Decolonizing Theory

The past year has witnessed a remarkable reckoning with systemic racism and embedded structures of inequality, underscoring once again the epistemic violence of the privileging of a white, western, heteropatriarchal intellectual tradition in the acad...

FILMEDIA465

Post War American Avant-Garde Film

Permission of instructor required for enrollment.

FILMEDIA469

Drugs and the Visual Imagination

Drugs have profoundly shaped human culture across space and time, from ancient cave paintings to the psychedelic Sixties and contemporary opioid epidemic. This seminar explores the relationship between visual culture and "drugs," broadly conceived, a...

FILMEDIA470

German Media Theory

In this seminar, we will interrogate major currents in media-theoretical work from the German-speaking world from the 1980s to today. Starting from the surprisingly controversial term 'German media theory' itself, which has been described as 'neither...

FILMEDIA481

Contemporary Asian Filmmakers

Films and moving image works by contemporary filmmakers from Asia, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Topics include explorations of national and local histories, aesthetics of slowness and duration, and cross...

FILMEDIA490

Movies and Methods: The Films Of Vincente Minnelli

Working at MGM, the most opulent of Hollywood studios, Vincente Minnelli epitomized the studio system, and yet his films remain idiosyncratic, distinct, and personal. He is thus a curious figure within the history of auteurist study. Minnelli's work...

FILMEDIA491

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This seminar explores the visual legacy of civil unrest in the United States. Focusing on the 1965 Watts Rebellion, 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 2014 Ferguson Uprising, and 2020 George Floyd Uprisings students will closely examine photographs, television...

FILMEDIA4S

Language of Film

This course familiarizes students with various elements of film language (cinematography, editing, sound, etc.) and introduces them to a range of approaches to cinematic analysis (authorship, genre, close formal reading, socio-historical consideratio...

FILMEDIA50Q

The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture

In this seminar, we explore what it means to 'write with video,' and we learn to make effective and engaging video essays. Specifically, we examine strategies for communicating through video, and we conduct hands-on exercises using digital video edit...

FILMEDIA6

Media and Mediums

What is a medium? This course starts from the assumption that the answer to this question is not as obvious as it might at first appear. Clearly, we know some media when we see them: radio, film, and television are in many ways paradigmatic media of...

FILMEDIA620

Qualifying Examination Preparation

For Art History Ph.D. candidates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMEDIA660

Independent Study

For graduate students only. Approved independent research projects with individual faculty members.

FILMEDIA660E

Extended Seminar

May be repeated for credit. (Staff)

FILMEDIA680

Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree.

FILMEDIA69SI

Blockchain, NFTs, and the Art World

The most expensive artwork sold in 2021 was an NFT (non-fungible token) created by Beeple, an artist previously unknown to the art world, but well respected by NFT collectors. NFTs, made possible by blockchain, are radically redefining the art world'...

FILMPROD101

Screen Writing I: Visual Writing

A writing workshop that is an exploration of visual storytelling. Beginning with visual literacy, the class progresses from basic cinematic techniques through scene exercises to revisions and ultimately to connecting scenes in order to build sequence...

FILMPROD101T

Writing the Television Pilot

A writing workshop in which students are introduced to the basic structures and genre of television pilots and to writing within the screenwriting/television writing form. Students will develop, outline, and workshop their own original pilot episode...

FILMPROD102

Topics in Screenwriting: Inside the Writers' Room

A workshop where Showrunner and Stanford alum Cheo Hodari Coker guides a select group of students through the writers' room process: workshopping a single idea into the first act of a television show while also shaping their individual script ideas a...

FILMPROD104

Screenwriting II: Intermediate Screenwriting

Priority to Film and Media Studies majors and minors, and seniors. Craft, form, and approaches to writing for the screen. Students will write, workshop and rewrite the first act of a feature screenplay and create rough outline material for the rest o...

FILMPROD105

Script Analysis

Analysis of screenplay, film, and television from the writer's perspective, with focus on ideation, structure, and dramatic tension in narrative features. Sources include screenplays and screenings.

FILMPROD106

Image and Sound: Filmmaking for the Digital Age

Despite the rise of emerging forms like two-minute YouTube videos, six second Vines, or interactive storytelling modules, many core principles of visual storytelling remain unchanged. In this hands-on film production class students will learn a broad...

FILMPROD107

Industry Immersion: Film and Media

What is the entertainment industry today? A survey of film and media practice, this course will feature weekly invited guests, including screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, executives, and scholars. Attendance and student participation in Q&...

FILMPROD110

Screen Writing III: Advanced Screenwriting

Advanced writing workshop in which students develop and complete a feature-length screenplay. Prerequisites: FP101 Screenwriting and approval of the instructor. Enrollment is limited.

FILMPROD114

Introduction to Film and Video Production

Hands-on. Techniques of film and video making including conceptualization, visualization, story structure, cinematography, sound recording, and editing. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority to junior/senior Film & Media Studies majors.Admissio...

FILMPROD115

Immersive Cinema: Experiments in Virtual Reality

In this exploratory workshop, students will use a variety of tools (360 video/ VR cameras and binaural sound design, digital video, and traditional sound recorders) to tell immersive "stories". Students will use the conceptual framework of experimen...

FILMPROD117

Filmmaking: Ethno-fictions and Shared Anthropologies

Ethnographic documentary film, just like ethnography itself, began as a colonial practice. It has relied on unacknowledged biases and personal experiences of the filmmakers to create portraits of cultures and communities around the world. To study do...

FILMPROD118

Remixing the Moving Image

Focusing on the art of editing, and specifically repurposing `found' footage, this hands-on filmmaking course will immerse students in the rich cinematic tradition of appropriating existing footage and remixing it into provocative, personal, and even...

FILMPROD119

Documentary Cinematography

Focusing on the art of non-fiction cinematography, this hands-on filmmaking course will immerse students in a wide variety of traditions and technical approaches to shooting films in the real world. Students will participate in weekly workshops and e...

FILMPROD121

New York Films

This course will be taught at Stanford in New York in winter quarter.

FILMPROD12AX

Narrative Filmmaking: From Script to Screen

Narrative Filmmaking: From Script to Screen is a hybrid writing/production course that guides students through the process of completing a 2-3 minute narrative film. Students will write scripts for short fiction films, and then, by filming them, lear...

FILMPROD13AX

Immersive Cinema

In this exploratory workshop, students will use a variety of tools (Audio recorders/360 cameras/Photogrammetry/Volumetric Capture/XR/Unity Programming) to tell immersive, interactive, and spatial stories. The aim of the projects will be to find forgo...

FILMPROD301T

Writing the Television Pilot

A writing workshop in which students are introduced to the basic structures and genre of television pilots and to writing within the screenwriting/television writing form. Students will develop, outline, and workshop their own original pilot episode...

FILMPROD304

Screenwriting II: Intermediate Screenwriting

Priority to Film and Media Studies majors and minors, and seniors. Craft, form, and approaches to writing for the screen. Students will write, workshop and rewrite the first act of a feature screenplay and create rough outline material for the rest o...

FILMPROD305

Script Analysis

Analysis of screenplay, film, and television from the writer's perspective, with focus on ideation, structure, and dramatic tension in narrative features. Sources include screenplays and screenings.

FILMPROD400

Film/Video Writing and Directing

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Emphasis is on the development of the research, conceptualization, visualization, and preproduction skills required for nonfiction filmmaking. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD401

Nonfiction Film Production

Restricted to M.F.A documentary students. 16mm production techniques and concepts. Multiple short exercises and a final project with multitrack sound design. Enrollment limited to students in MFA Documentary Film Program. Prerequisite: consent of ins...

FILMPROD402

Digital Video

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Fundamentals of digital storytelling. Working with small format cameras, interviewing techniques, and nonlinear editing skills. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD403

Advanced Documentary Directing

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Further examination of structure, emphasizing writing and directing nonfiction film. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD404

Advanced Video Production

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Techniques of visual storytelling and observational shooting. Final quarter of professional training in documentary video production. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD405

Producing Practicum: The Non-Fiction Film

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Advanced producing principles through the preproduction of the M.F.A. thesis project, including development of a professional film proposal. Practical training in fundraising. Prerequisite: consent of instru...

FILMPROD406A

Documentary M.F.A. Thesis Seminar I

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Production of film or video project. Focus is on shooting strategies, ethical challenges, and practical production issues. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD406B

Documentary M.F.A.Thesis Seminar II

Restricted to M.F.A. documentary students. Editing and post-production of film or video project. Emphasis is on aesthetic choices (structure, narration, music), distribution, contracts, and audience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

FILMPROD450

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent study supervised by Documentary Film faculty; available to DocFilm MFA students only. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

FILMPROD801

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Department: Art & Art History