Prehistory to the Present
(also offered as GBLS 1F98)
Critical survey of major styles in architecture, sculpture and painting from antiquity to the 20th century. Principal monuments, buildings or studio artifacts, their period characteristics, the artist's cultural role and the critical or theoretical trends that have influenced our reading of the history of art.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: no studio work. Materials fee required.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in VISA 1F90.
Introduction to Drawing
Fundamental principles of drawing. Analytic, creative and graphic notation.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to VISA or VISA (single or combined) majors.
Note: portfolio assessment required prior to registration. Enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Figure Drawing
Fundamentals of drawing the figure anatomically and expressively.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to VISA or VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P93.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Foundation Studio
Basic aesthetic and conceptual processes that underlie visual art production. Two- and three-dimensional formal principles, fundamental critical issues and stylistic/material development. Examples from historic and contemporary art practice provide context for studio projects and readings.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to VISA, or VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Note: portfolio assessment required prior to registration. Enrolment limited to 18 students in studio courses. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Studio Now: Introduction to Contemporary Practice
The making, thinking and language of contemporary art from the perspective of the studio practitioner. Exploration of the dynamics between contemporary art practice and theory. Emphasizing multimedia, alternative or marginal practices, current studio trends and the cultural reception of art.
Lectures, studio work, gallery visits, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to VISA, or VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P96.
Note: enrolment limited to 18 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Introduction to Sculpture
Fundamentals of three-dimensional work: design, construction and formal analysis. Emphasizing modeling techniques and principles of assemblage including mold or form making, casting and fabrication.
Lectures, studio work, 20 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Note: offered in spring session only. Enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Introduction to Photography
Fundamentals of the camera, the exposure and processing of black and white film and basic darkroom printing emphasizing non-silver and alternative processes and their relationship to other art forms. Reference to the history of photography, critical analysis and photographic theory will supplement group critiques.
Lectures, studio work, off-campus visits, 20 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P97 or permission of the instructor.
Note: offered in spring session only. Enrolment limited to 15 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Introduction to Digital Imaging
(also offered as COMM 2F95)
Basic concepts in two-dimensional image creation and manipulation for print and the web. Systematic overview and project-based application of fundamental graphic software including Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Flash and Dreamweaver.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) or COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P97, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Interdisciplinary Workshop I
Currency of multimedia and the influences of interdisciplinary practice on conceptual, video, performance and information art, public projections and site-specific or installation art. Emphasizing collective and individual exhibition practices, alternative spaces, applied technology and critical approaches to institutional, cultural or independent models of art.
Lectures, studio work, off-campus projects, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P97 or permission of the instructor.
Note: enrolment limited to 18 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Reading the Italian City
(also offered as ITAL 2F99)
Exploring key monuments, churches, museums and urban sites culminating with the Venice Biennale. Concept of the city as expressed through art, literature and architecture from Mediaeval to Post-modern times. Historical and geographical influences and factors in shaping the city, its culture and traditions, from fine arts to culinary arts and oenology. Cities may include Rome, Orvieto, Assisi, Siena, Florence and Venice.
Prerequisites: two ITAL or VISA credits or permission of the Department.
Note: Offered in Italy. Open to students whose interests include either art history or studio. Registrants are expected to pay their own expenses.
Special Studies in Studio
Studies in a specialized area of the visual arts.
Lectures, studio work, field trip, 5 hours per week.
Painting I
Fundamentals of painting: introduction to colour theory, media and methods.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisites: VISA 1F98 (1F90); VISA 1P94 or 1P97 or permission of the instructor.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Painting II
Fundamentals of painting: introduction to the analytic, narrative and expressive concepts of acrylic painting.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: VISA 2P02.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Architecture
(also offered as ITAL 2P40)
Major monuments, buildings and artworks of the period from several critical perspectives including the humanist influence on the arts in Florence and Rome, the issue of patronage and the question of the artist's cultural status.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90), ITAL 1F90, or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ITAL 2P10.
Baroque Art and Architecture
Influence of such artists as Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Rubens and Poussin examined in terms of the broader definition of Baroque art within 17th- and 18th-century Europe.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Identities: From Nouvelle France to the Mid-20th Century
Canadian cultural life from Nouvelle France to the art and architecture of Confederation; from 18th-century topographical sketches to the landscape icons of the Group of Seven; from the Social Realism of the 1930s to the beginnings of abstraction; emphasizing historical identity, cultural definition and nationalism in art.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Art since 1960: Contemporary Trends
Major conceptual, critical and theoretical concerns of the visual artist; from Les Automatistes to neo-expressionism, Pop to neo-Pop, conceptual art to photo-conceptualism, installation to site-specific sculpture, video to multi-media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Art in Revolution: 1750-1851
(also offered as GBLS 2Q90)
Art's role and function within the paradigm shifts of the modern world, its relation to politics, social and cultural change. Neoclassicism and the principal movements leading up to the French Revolution and beyond, Romanticism, Realism and the Industrial Revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Contemporaneity: 1851-1907
(also offered as GBLS 2Q91)
Thematic examination of individuality, contemporaneity and progress in the context of the period's cultural, political and technological changes.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Drawing III
Further investigation of drawing materials and techniques emphasizing compositional structures.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: VISA 1P94.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Drawing IV
Idea development, integration of media and conceptual approaches.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to VISA (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: VISA 2P93.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
The Artistic Experience
(also offered as GBLS 2Q98 and PHIL 2Q98)
Classical theories of art through analysis of painting, photography, video, film, music, and drama examining concepts such as beauty, creativity, artistic intention, perception, interpretation, and the nature and possible role of art.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98, one PHIL credit or permission of the instructor.
Interdisciplinary Workshop II
(also offered as DART 3F96)
Studio workshop for the development of independent projects based on the multi-disciplinary examination of critical discourses with reference to identity, visual culture, representation and the construction of meaning. Projects involve new media exploration, collaboration, collective practice and investigation of alternatives in public dissemination.
Lectures, studio work, off-campus projects, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 2F96 or permission of the instructor.
Note: enrolment limited to 18 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply. Several field trips are organized outside of the regular course meeting time. Students participating in field trips are expected to pay their own expenses.
Honours Tutorial
Advanced study in an area of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: students must have a minimum 75 percent major average and permission of the Department.
Note: a written proposal, normally submitted in May of each year, must be approved by the Department before registration.
Special Studies in Art History
Art Studies Abroad
Unique cultural, architectural or regional setting examined through the eye of the visual artist, critic or art historian. Utilizing the host country's institutional resources, museums and galleries. For students with an interest in both studio and art history.
Restriction: permission of the Chair.
Prerequisite: one VISA credit or permission of the instructor.
Study in Mediterranean Lands
(also offered as CLAS 3M20-3M29)
Topographical investigations of ancient sites and monuments. Study tours of the great cities and museums of the Mediterranean world emphasizing the art and architecture of the Prehistoric, Classical and later periods.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: offered in the spring or summer session for three or four weeks of intensive study abroad. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in VISA (CLAS) 4M00-4M09.
Special Studies in Visual Arts
Studies that combine theory and studio.
Painting III
Personal painting strategies reflecting individual ideas. Writing artist's statements. Readings in contemporary practice.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 2P03.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Painting IV
Creation of a body of paintings that reflect the inter-relationships among critical strategies, personal mythologies, process and meaning.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 3P02.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
The European Avant-Garde: 1905-1970
Contextual analysis of the European and Russian avant-garde movements in art, design and architecture emphasizing principal artists, theoretical or primary documents and the critical reaction.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
The American Avant-Garde: 1912-1970
From the Armory Show to the European influence on American art and photography of the Early Century, the International Style in architecture, to the emergence of the New York school, the Pop movement, Minimalism and conceptual art, and their hold on the art and culture of the 60s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Art and Architecture of Iron Age Italy and the Roman Republic
(also offered as CLAS 3P22)
Art and architecture of the cultures of the Italian peninsula, in the first millennium BC, within the framework of cultural change and external influences.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97.
Art and Architecture of Rome in the Imperial Age
(also offered as CLAS 3P23)
Roman art and architecture from Augustus to Late Antiquity. Christian art and architecture and the influence of Roman aesthetics on the Renaissance and beyond.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97.
Art and Architecture of Early Greece
(also offered as CLAS 3P24)
Greek art and architecture from the Bronze age through the end of the Archaic period within the framework of historical and cultural change.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97.
Art and Architecture of Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World
(also offered as CLAS 3P25)
Greek art and architecture from the early Classical era through the Hellenistic period within the framework of historical and cultural change.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97.
Art and Architecture of the Byzantine Empire
(also offered as CLAS 3P26)
Material culture of the Byzantine Empire from its origins in late antiquity to the Ottoman conquest. Monumental mosaic, painting, sculpture, the luxury arts and domestic artifacts within the architectural framework of house, church and city.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 1P92, 2P36, 2P38, 2P99.
Methods and Principles of Curating
The curatorial function of the museum, gallery and cultural organizations and the role of the curator in society. Critical and theoretical aspects of curating and methodological approaches to interpretation, dissemination and presentation of cultural artifacts, artworks and new forms of media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: VISA 1F98 (1F90); two credits from VISA 2P50, 2P51, 2P90, 2P91, 3P05, 3P06.
Note: enrolment limited to 15 students.
Approaches to Curatorial Practice
Practical application of methodological and theoretical approaches to curating.
Workshop, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisites: VISA 1F98 (1F90); two credits from VISA 2P50, 2P51, 2P90, 2P91, 3P05, 3P06 and 3P40.
Note: enrolment limited to 15 students. Participants may be required to travel to locations other than on campus.
Readings in Contemporary Art I: 1970-1990
Advanced seminar emphasizing what constitutes the paradigm shift from Late Modernism to Postmodernism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisites: VISA 1F98 (1F90); two credits from VISA 2P50, 2P51, 2P90, 2P91, 3P05, 3P06 or permission of the instructor.
Note: required for all Honours students in VISA.
Readings in Contemporary Art II: Art Now
Current trends in the production, reception and interpretation of art and discursive approaches to contemporary issues including the critical text, theoretical and cultural readings.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: VISA 3P90.
Note: required for all Honours students in VISA.
Expressive Drawing
Advanced drawing as a means of expressing personal and subjective imagery.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 2P94 (2F92).
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Contemporary Drawing
Advanced drawing which questions the boundaries of media, process and creative expression.
Lectures, studio work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 3P93.
Note: enrolment limited to 24 students. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply.
Honours Studio
Advanced studio practice from concept to public exhibition. Readings, grant applications, production schedules, exhibition coordination, catalogue preparation, and advertising.
Studio work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum 75 percent major average and permission of the Department.
Note: enrolment may be restricted due to limitations of space. A written proposal, normally submitted in May of each year, must be approved by the Department before registration. Honours standing in VISA is required. Materials fee required. Students might need additional materials, which they must supply. Several field trips are required outside regular course meeting time. Students participating in field trips are expected to pay their own expenses. Students should contact the Department for further information.
Arts Administration
(also offered as STAC 4F40 and DART 4F40)
Development, organization and management of the arts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 10 overall credits.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CCST 4F40 and THEA 4F40
Honours Thesis
Critical, historical or creative project in the visual arts of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: students must have a minimum 75 percent major average and permission of the Department.
Note: projects must be arranged in the spring for the following year. A written proposal, normally submitted in May of each year, must be approved by the Department before registration. Honours standing in VISA is required.
Art and Archaeology of Cyprus
(also offered as CLAS 4P13)
Cultural history of Cyprus from the Neolithic period through the early Byzantine period, based on the archaeological record. Role of Cyprus in the civilization of the eastern Mediterranean.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one CLAS credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the instructor.
The Aegean Bronze Age
(also offered as CLAS 4P14)
Development of the Bronze Age cultures of the Aegean Basin from 3000 to 1100 BC. Art and architecture of the Minoans on Crete and the Mycenaeans on the Greek mainland will be stressed.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one CLAS credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the instructor.
Architecture
(also offered as CLAS 4V30-4V39)
Topics and problems in current art historical and archaeological research pertaining to the art and architecture of the ancient Greek or Roman world.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: VISA 1F98 (1F90) or one credit from CLAS 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25.
2004-2005: Topography and Monuments of Athens
History and development of public space in Athens from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Imperial times. Focussing on the Acropolis and its immediate environs, the Agora, Pnyx, South-east Athens, fortifications, cemeteries and suburban gymnasia with consideration of the socio-political, religious and economic influences on public architecture.