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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here. FAH101H1 Consideration of the stylistic and contextual significance of representative monuments in the history of art. FAH102H1 An investigation of the intellectual foundations of the discipline and an introduction to working methods in the study of art history. HUM199H1 HUM199Y1 Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first year students. It may serve as a distribution requirement course; See page 52. FAH206H1 An overview of the major monuments, artifacts, themes and problems in the study of the archaeology, art and architecture of the Aegean region and the east Mediterranean to 1000BC. FAH207H1 An overview of the major monuments, artifacts, themes and problems in the study of the archaeology, art and architecture of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. FAH215H1 An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of Western Europe and the Byzantine East from the third until the eleventh century. FAH216H1 An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of Western Europe and the Byzantine East from the eleventh until the fifteenth century. FAH230H1 A selective survey of the major art centres and types of artistic and architectural production in Italy and northern Europe, from the early fifteenth century to the mid-sixteenth. Themes include the relations--artistic, economic and ideological--between northern and southern Europe during this period, the changing role of art in religious life, the emergence of secular themes, and the legacies left by Renaissance art to modern life and culture. FAH231H1 Major forms of expression in the visual arts ca. 1600 - ca. 1750 with particular attention to forms, techniques, theories, and patronage of the arts as well as biographies of artists in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany and England. FAH245H1 An introduction to the advent and development of art movements including Rococo and Neoclassicism; Romanticism and Revolution, Realism and the advent of Photography, Impressionism; Academic art; Post-Impressionism. FAH246H1 An introduction to the consolidation of Modernist tendencies in Europe to the mid 20th century and to the many contemporary responses to these achievements. Individual artists, including Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, and Matthew Barney are considered in their relationship to various art movements and the theories that supported them, including Expressionism; Abstraction and Constructivism; Dada and Surrealism; Neue Sachlichkeit; Abstract Expressionism; Pop; Conceptual Art; Earth Art; Feminist Art; Postmodernism; New Media Art. FAH248H1 An introductory survey of the history of painting and sculpture in Canada from the 17th to the 20th century. FAH260H1 An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Tibet), from the neolithic to the present. FAH262H1 An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Tibet) and its diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. FAH270H1 A survey of architecture from pre-history to the start of modernism, with attention given to the ways in which architecture shapes human experience. FAH272H1 An introduction to the buildings, issues and ideas from Neoclassicism to the present. FAH299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. FAH300H1 An investigation of the major archaeological sites and landscapes of the ancient Greek world, c.750-100BC. FAH303H1 This course investigates the material culture, art and architecture of the Aegean civilizations from the Neolithic through to the building of the palaces of Crete aroUND 2000BC. FAH304H1 An investigation of the palace civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece in the second millennium BC; their development, art, architecture, foreign connections, religion, and collapse, and role in the foundations of Classical Greece. FAH305H1 The art, archaeology and architecture of the Roman empire outside Rome. FAH309H1 The art, architecture and archaeology of the city of Rome to AD476. FAH310H1 Approaches to and investigations of the extraordinary wealth of imagery on Greek vases from the 8th to 4th centuries BC and the evidence these provide for accessing ancient society in the Greek world. FAH311H1 Examination of the contexts in which Greek statuary was made, displayed and viewed, and its cultural significance. FAH312H1 Transformation in the visual arts, paintings, sculpture, and mosaics of the expanding Greek world c.400BC to c.100BC; the response to Hellenization from the new artistic centres of Asia Minor and Italy. FAH313H1 A general introduction to Greek mythology and its uses (and abuses) by the Greeks and Romans through the art of antiquity. Students will learn about gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, their attributes and stories which constituted the subjects of (not only) ancient art. FAH316H1 Pilgrimage, relics, and icons are among the vehicles for gaining access to God and the saints in the Middle Ages that are examined in this course. FAH318H1 An examination of the role played by monks and nuns in the creation and use of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. FAH319H1 A focused survey of different types of manuscripts and their images from the origins of the book in Late Antiquity to the invention of printing. FAH325H1 The church was the primary locus of artistic elaboration in the Middle Ages. This course explores the wall paintings, mosaics, sculptures, textiles, and stained glass programs used to decorate churches throughout the medieval period. FAH326H1 Religious practices in the Middle Ages were expressed and enhanced with a variety of objects often made of precious materials. This course examines the forms and functions of these sacred implements. FAH327H1 A consideration of art and architecture made for the court, the aristocracy, and other patrons outside the realm of the Christian church. FAH328H1 An examination of the Gothic cathedral from its origins in Paris in THE 1130’s through its development and elaboration in France, England and Italy. This course also considers monumental decorations in painted glass, wall painting, tapestry and portal sculpture. FAH330H1 Albrecht Dürer and the painting and printmaking of his contemporaries. Consideration of the great Hall churches of Saxony and the altarpieces of Tilman Riemenschneider and his contemporaries; the status of the arts and attitudes towards Italian art, and the consequences of the Reformation for religious imagery. FAH331H1 Painting, sculpture and architecture of the Netherlands in the sixteenth century with reference to the arts in Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Consideration of Netherlandish art in the context of literature, religion, urban expansion, political and economic developments; and as a system of communication. Particular attention devoted to Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, the rise of secular art. FAH333H1 Focusing on developments in Venice, Florence and Rome during the Renaissance, this course examines altarpieces both as aesthetic objects and as expressions of the social, religious and political structures for which they were made. FAH335H1 Love is studied not only as a favorite theme of Renaissance art, but as the basis of some of its fundamental aesthetic claims. The question of love connects Renaissance art to important strains of philosophical thought and religious spirituality, as well as to some urgent realities of social life. FAH339H1 A wide array of works in architecture, painting and sculpture studied in light of some of the most important political and social developments of the period: the French invasion of Italy, the rise of Savonarola and the fate of the Medici, the imperialization of the papacy under Julius II, and the Sack of Rome. FAH340H1 Concentration on the major masters of Holland’s Golden Age, ca. 1580-ca. 1700. Particular attention is paid to genre painting and the notion of “Dutch realism.” Consideration of art within its social and historical contexts. FAH341H1 Form and meaning, theory and practice of painting and architecture in Venice, ca. 1450-ca. 1600. Social, political and cultural contexts of making and viewing art, including works by Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and Palladio. FAH342H1 The symptoms and causes of Mannerism, ca. 1520 to ca. 1600, as seen through shifting historical perspectives. The contested status of Mannerism opens questions about the relation of style and content, the uses of quotation and formulae in art, and the rhetorical functions of beauty in religious art. FAH344H1 Introduction to the art of Rembrandt and Rubens in the context of Netherlandish painting of the seventeenth century. Lectures will treat the approaches of these two artists to biblical and mythological subjects, landscape, portraiture, and their involvement in contemporary politics. FAH345H1 This course explores the painting, sculpture, and graphic arts of the Romantic era in France, from abOUT 1820 to 1850. Major emphasis on Gericault, Delacroix, and Ingres in their artistic, cultural, and political context. Key topics in Romanticism, including Orientalism and gender, are also explored. FAH346H1 The origin and development of Impressionism in France and Europe, 1860-1886, in its social, political and intellectual context. Painting, graphics and sculpture by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley, Cassatt and Morisot. FAH347H1 An investigation of the birth and development of Cubism, Futurism and Orphism in Europe and North America. FAH348H1 The origins and development of the Dada and Surrealist movements in early 20th-century Western art, and their lasting impact on art after World War II. Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and the theoretical preoccupation which accompanied artistic production. FAH349H1 The origins, development, and critical issues pertaining to abstract or non-figurative modes of art as manifested in painting, sculpture and other selected media in the 20th century. Movements include European abstract art before World War II as well as post-war developments. FAH350H1 An investigation of the different definitions and issues of minimal art including seriality, materials, process, objecthood, chance, installation, reception, relations to music and film, and the influence of structuralism. FAH351H1 The role of Theory in the art of the modern period. The texts studied include works by the principal theoreticians and critics from the late 18th century to the present. FAH354H1 Survey of the visual arts in Canada from THE 1960’s to the present. A large and diverse range of media, practices, artists, and theoretical contexts will be examined. Emphasis is placed on work that can be seen in the original. FAH361H1 Bronze vessels, tomb furnishings, and Buddhist images are among the images and objects explicitly manufactured for ritual use to be examined in this course. FAH362H1 In East Asia the idea of landscape significantly shaped artistic production. This course explores human representation of, and architectonic intervention in the landscape through media that include tombs, Buddhist caves, painting, gardening, and architecture. FAH363H1 East Asian images differ from Western ones in material support, format, and technologies of image-making. This course probes how East Asian images -- painting on objects, handscrolls, prints, optical media, film, and new media – work. FAH364H1 An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Afghanistan), from the Indus Valley Civilization (3500 BCE) to the present. Includes first-hand study of objects in ROM collection. FAH365H1 Intersections of politics and the production of visual culture during the 19th and early 20th century are examined in this course, from picturesque paintings by European visitors to early Bollywood cinema. Includes first-hand study of objects in ROM collection. FAH368H1 Artistic production moved fluidly within and beyond East Asia. To understand the artistic world of East Asia, this course probes phenomena that may include Buddhist art, art of conquest dynasties, Chinoiserie, art of the Pacific Rim, film, and contemporary art. FAH370H1 Architecture and architectural theory ca. 1400 – ca. 1600. FAH371H1 Architecture studied through its various building types and in its urban context. Themes include architecture and power under Absolutism, and the rise of the modern city. FAH372H1 Major monuments and key figures in architecture and urbanism in Europe and North America from the Enlightenment to the birth of Modernism. FAH373H1 Major monuments and key figures in architecture and urbanism from Industrialization to the mid-twentieth century. Topics may include architectural theory, colonialism, and new technologies. FAH374H1 An examination of architectural theory and practice from the end of Modernism to the present. FAH375H1 Vernacular traditions of the colonial period, patterns of settlement and urbanization, the emergence of the architect and development of high styles of architecture throughout representative parts of what is now the United States, from ca. 1650 to ca. 1925. FAH376H1 Vernacular traditions in building, patterns of settlement and urbanization, and development of high styles in architecture in New France, British North America, and what is now Canada, from ca. 1650 to ca. 1925. Material economy, cultural identity, local character, regional expression, national symbolism and international influences. FAH380H1 FAH380Y1 The study of various aesthetic, cultural, social, political, and theoretical aspects of Western art and photography across the centuries. FAH381H1 This course investigates the changing definition of Jewish art and the status of Jewish artists. Other issues explored include Jewish-Christian visual polemics, the construction of individual and communal Jewish identity through art, architecture, and texts, and the conceptual transformation of Jewish craft and ritual objects into art. FAH390H1 FAH390Y1 Investigates the intersection of art and power in history and in our own time. Explores how city plans, landscapes, buildings, paintings, sculpture, costumes, advertisements, monuments, parades, and other art forms create and expand personal, national, institutional, political, sexual, spiritual, and other kinds of power. May be offered at St. George or abroad through Woodsworth College. FAH391Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in ancient art, architecture, and archaeology/permission of instructor FAH392Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in medieval art and architecture/permission of instructor FAH393Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in Renaissance or Baroque art and architecture/permission of instructor FAH394Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in Modern or Contemporary art and architecture/permission of instructor FAH395Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in Canadian art and architecture/permission of instructor FAH396Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in Asian art and architecture/permission of instructor FAH397Y0 Prerequisite: one FAH half course in architectural history/permission of instructor FAH398H0 FAH399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. FAH401H1 Investigation of the wall-paintings of the Minoan, Cycladic and Mycenaean worlds in the second millennium BC: context, associations, viewing and historical interpretations. FAH403H1 Examination of the art, archaeology and architecture of Cyprus from its first colonization c.10,000BC through to the 7th century AD. FAH404H1 Architecture and its development in Archaic through Classical Greece, looking at the major monuments of Greece and the wider Greek world. FAH406H1 An examination of selected works in sculpture and/or painting from the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods through a consideration of iconography, style, technique, distribution, and use. FAH407H1 Issues explored might cover Republican and Imperial painting; its Hellenistic sources and parallel media (mosaic, relief). The four distinctive genres of Roman sculptural production: the portrait, the historical relief, sarcophagi, and replicas of famous Greek sculptures. Styles, themes and modes of display in cultural context. FAH418H1 In-depth examination of key monuments and issues in art and architecture from the Early Christian (1st-5th centuries) or Byzantine (6th-15th centuries) periods. FAH420H1 In-depth examination of monuments and issues in the art and architecture of Western Europe from the sixth to the fifteenth century. FAH421H1 A focused examination of urbanism, art and architecture of a specific medieval city, such as Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, or Paris. FAH424H1 A consideration of individual types of books, their decoration, function, and cultural context. Topics might include, for example, Gospels, Psalters, or Books of Hours. FAH425H1 An investigation of the role played by gender in the creation and use of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. FAH426H1 First hand examination of objects of medieval art from local Toronto collections. FAH430H1 The study of Pieter Bruegel’s works in the context of Netherlandish culture. Emphasis on secular works. FAH432H1 The life and work of Caravaggio in the context of 17th-century Roman and Neapolitan art theory and patronage, with a particular emphasis on the contentious issue of realism. FAH434H1 The convulsive redefinitions of art during the sixteenth and twentieth centuries serve as an indirect introduction to modern aesthetics and a basis for reflection on the future of art. Classes in seminar room and in art galleries. Readings by Hans Belting, T. J. Clark, Arthur Danto, Rosalind Krauss. FAH438H1 A careful reading of some classic accounts of the “High Renaissance”, from Vasari and Reynolds to Wolfflin and Freedberg, serves as the basis for an analysis of developments within various genres and types of art production in the period: drawings, altarpieces, portraits, cabinet pictures and sculpture. FAH439H1 Consideration of European art ca. 1500 in the context of the reform debates that mark the period. Students study original works of art in the AGO and read period texts by, among others, Girolamo Savonarola, Desiderius Erasmus, and Martin Luther. FAH440H1 Study of so-called “scenes of everyday life.” Special attention given to cultural context and problems of interpretation, the work of Jan Vermeer, and the reputation of this art in following centuries. FAH443H1 A history of gesture and physiognomy in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and literature as narrative and rhetorical techniques. FAH445H1 French painting, sculpture, and criticism of the mid-19th century, with particular to the key role played by the Paris Salon: its emergence and decline as a public space for exhibitions, its impact on the shape of artistic careers, and the relation between the Salon and artistic practices. Attention both to Modernist artists, such as Manet, and to their opponents. Students will engage in critical readings of primary and secondary texts (Baudelaire, T. J. Clark, Michael Fried), as well as conduct original research on important Salon paintings and sculptures. Assignments will include a book review, an annotated bibliography, and a research paper. FAH446H1 An examination of mid-19th century French Realism with emphasis on Courbet, Millet, the Barbizon School, Daumier and Manet. FAH447H1 Investigation of English, French, German and Swiss landscape painting from the birth of the Romantic movement to Post-Impressionism. FAH448H1 Developments in the mainstream of Western painting and sculpture since World War II with special emphasis upon interrelations between Europe and North America. FAH449H1 Selected aspects of the complex array of international contemporary art movements, their artists, objects, and critical discourses. Potential issues include the theoretical, philosophical, and political concerns addressed by given artworks and artists; the role of art journals, the private patron, and museum display. FAH457H1 Focused, thematic examinations of the visual arts in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. FAH458H1 Focused, thematic examinations of the visual arts in Canada fROM 1940 to the present. FAH461H1 Methodologically-focused seminar engaged with recovering and articulating in Western terms indigenous ways of seeing and thinking about East Asian art. FAH462H1 Methodologically- and historiographically-focused seminar that attends to the contiguities and ruptures of approaching East Asian art through Western art historical methods. FAH463H1 Seminar based on firsthand examination of East Asian objects in Toronto collections that attends to the historical processes by which such objects were valued and collected. FAH464H1 In-depth examination of the play of East Asian Art within and beyond East Asia. FAH466H1 Examination of current issues in and methods of studying contemporary art from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora. Includes first-hand study of objects in ROM collection, exhibit and studio visits, and possible guest lectures. FAH470H1 An in-depth study of themes and problems in architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. FAH471H1 A close study of the major architects, designers and theorists of 20th-century architecture FAH477H1 A first-hand study of the architecture and urban planning of Toronto. FAH480H1 Students work together designing and installing an exhibition of works of art, normally drawn from the collections of the University Art Centre. The course meets every two weeks at the University Art Centre over the entire academic year. FAH481H1/Y1 The internship is designed to offer hands-on experience pertaining to the study,
exhibition, and care of works of art, focused on the collections and activities
of the University Art Centre, an auction house, a public museum, or a private
gallery. Students must provide proof of their acceptance as an intern by
the Art Centre/auction house/museum/gallery in order to be enrolled in the
course.
. FAH482H1 This course develops art historical, connoisseurship, and analytical skills based on works of art in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The course is designed to expose students to key issues in visual analysis, art history, and art historical interpretation arising from the direct study and investigation of art objects. The course will be located at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Its focus may shift around different aspects of the collections (works on paper, modern and contemporary art, the Thompson Collection, and other collections, depending availability and access. FAH483H1 An introduction to conservation, designed to give students a basic understanding of the field, its techniques, and its purposes. Sessions conducted by specialists in the Royal Ontario Museum conservation department. FAH484H1 This course examines the history, meaning and consumption of Western European textiles (Late Antique - 18th century) and fashionable dress (18th - 21st centuries). Analysis and research will combine student seminars with the study of actual artefacts in the Textile & Costume Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. FAH485H1 Theoretical and first-hand practical engagement with the Canadian picture collection (18th-20th C) in the ROM. Through seminars, workshops, and lectures, we address issues of collecting, display, and the interpretation of objects that historically have been collected primarily as “documentary art.” FAH486H1 In-depth investigation of objects at the Royal Ontario Museum. Content will vary according to the museum department offering the course in any given semester. FAH489H1 Focused examination of special topics in any period of Mediterranean, European, North American, or Asian art and architecture. FAH491H1 FAH491Y1 FAH492H1 FAH492Y1 FAH493H1 FAH493Y1 FAH494H1 FAH494Y1 FAH495H1 FAH495Y1 FAH496H1 FAH496Y1 FAH497H1 FAH497Y1 DR=HUM; BR=TBA VIS120H1 Visual concepts introduces students to a wide range of topics situated in Modernism and Post-modernism that inform current art practice and critical discourse. The course investigates post-1970 art practice through the diverse societal, cultural and political influences of post-modernism. VIS130H1 A studio based course that employs intensive and diverse investigation of drawing strategies that stress the formulation and communication of visual ideas.NOTE enrolment instructions in the Registration Handbook and Timetable for this course! A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition. VIS201H1 This is a hands-on course that deals with technical and theoretical issues of painting in the early 21st century. The act of painting and the relevance of painting are stressed through both historical and current issues. This course is very project oriented. A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition. VIS202H1 A studio course that introduces the history and contemporary practice of video art. In addition to hands-on instruction in digital production and post-production, the course includes seminars, readings and screenings. Students produce a number of short digital video projects and participate in group seminars and critiques. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition. VIS203H1 A studio course examining the particular properties of various time-based art forms, including audio and audio installation, video and video installation, interactive performance and other time-based media used by artists. Readings, gallery visits and screenings and slide presentations provide background to these art practices. Students produce projects responding to assignments. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition. VIS204H1 This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of working in 3 dimensions, using projects, slide lectures and writing. A studio fee of $50.00 is payable with tuition. VIS205H1 Studio-based projects explore drawing practice in the early 21st century. Materials and approaches both bear witness to continuity and respond to changing contemporary cultural issues. (A studio fee of $25 is payable with tuition.) VIS206H1 Principles and practices of Relief Printmaking. Projects in single and multiple block edition production. (A studio fee of $120 is payable with tuition.) VIS207H1 An introduction through studio projects to the principle forms of intaglio printmaking, including etching and collagraph. (A studio fee of $120 is payable with tuition.) VIS208H1 Practical and aesthetic concerns in the evolution of Performance against the backdrop of critical and historical perspectives. Students explore a range of Performance possibilities, alone and collaboratively to develop both intellectual and physical skills which will inform both their performance work and their view of art. Seminars focus on critical aspects of Performance. VIS209H1 The emergence and incorporation of the feminist perspective in current art theory and practice form the basis of lectures, seminars, projects and essays that focus on language, photography and other mediums that signal the shift to a variety of strategies shaping art in the post-modern era. VIS211H1 A studio based course which explores the potential of paper from drawing to object making, in the context of contemporary art practice. A studio fee of $25 is payable with tuition. VIS212H1 Colour may be claimed as the property of all: for most everyone sees, uses, and knows colour. Studying colour takes us into areas of humanities and sciences. This study, through lectures, projects and readings aims to develop a student’s understanding and use of colour. A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition. VIS213H1 Drawing strategies and media are explored through the reference of the human form. The body becomes the site of self and a vehicle for expression. A studio fee of $30.00 is payable with tuition. VIS217H1 Photobased projects in which the fundamentals of optical-chemical-mechanical photographic processes and technologies are integrated with concepts in contemporary photobased practice. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition.; student must have light metre and 35mm camera that allows full manual control. VIS218H1 Photobased projects in which the fundamentals of optical/digital photographic processes and technologies are integrated with concepts in contemporary photobased practice. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition. VIS220H1 Painting and the subject continue the exploration of formal and material issues introduced in Painting, Method and Materials. Representation and abstraction are investigated through the development of subject matter and themes drawn from personal, social and cultural sources. A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition. VIS301H1 This studio based, project oriented course critically examines contemporary visual culture through painting. Projects are presented and discussed during regular class critiques. Lectures will take place throughout the course. VIS302H1 Emphasis on pre-production, production and post-production of a video project. Students script, shoot and edit a tape through rough cut to fine cut. Class discussions focus on all stages of the work-in-progress. Strategies for distribution, exhibition and funding are examined. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition VIS303H1 A studio course that continues the students’ development in all areas of time-based art practice through seminars, readings and self-directed projects. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition. VIS305H1 Time and place in drawing and painting. This course provides a discourse with which to continue the evolution of the students’ work in drawing and painting. VIS306H1 An investigation into the history and practice of site/installation and 3 dimensional fabrication through slide lectures, projects and seminar discussions. Earth works, large scale public projects, and site specific installations will be explored. VIS307H1 Applying art to the borders of other disciplines or issues within the university community, students develop projects with the objective of opening spaces for discourse: art as a transgressive device. VIS309H1 Seminars and studio projects give the more advanced students the opportunity to address issues of transformation in Print technology. A studio fee of $120 is payable with tuition. VIS310H1 Studio projects complemented by seminars and readings examine plastic, social and gender politics in contemporary imaging. VIS311H1 Students propose and produce projects in media that are offered in Visual Studies. VIS312H1 An investigation of collage through the 20th century. The evolution of collage as a means of expression will be explored in the form of studio projects and lectures. VIS313H1 Ideas about the body are challenged by developments in technology, culture and politics. This course studies the metamorphosis of gender, age and culture through projects, lectures and readings. VIS318H1 Studio projects are based on issues and writing relevant to contemporary photobased practice; seminars and readings are integral. Students will work with both chemical and digital processes. A studio fee of $75 is payable with tuition. VIS319H1 The concept of “landscape” is the entry point for investigating the relationship between people and their environments: landscape as both the source of inspiration and the vehicle of expression. Exploration through open media studio projects, written work, readings and seminars. VIS320H1 Projects and seminars, in collaboration with The Power Plant, develop an understanding of curatorial and critical practices in contemporary visual and media arts. VIS321H1 Production of artists’ multiples in various media is augmented with gallery and archive visits, screenings and artist talks. Historical and contemporary technologies for reproduction are examined. VIS322H1 Composing an image is a skill. Students increase their skill and methodology in constructing their own images; they explore the construction of the image as an intersection of theory and practice. VIS323H1 Painting: Contemporary Practice introduces philosophical and theoretical issues raised by the conceptual relationship of painting to other artistic strategies and the contemporary environment. Studio work will be complemented by the study of advanced artists working in this medium. A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition. VIS324H1 This interdisciplinary seminar course examines the aesthetic qualities of objects and experiences not usually considered by philosophers, including such things as sports, food, human relationships and weather. Projects are based on the textbook, “The Aesthetics of Everyday Life” and students will be evaluated through open-media studio projects and class participation. VIS325H1 Everything was contemporary once; this course explores the idea of contemporaneity. Students will be asked to identify themselves in the present-day landscape and to convey that awareness in seminar discussions and studio projects. VIS326H1 A project-based studio course in which each student works to advance and to articulate their visual arts practice, and to develop individual process, themes and influences, the articulation. Group critiques, seminars, reading and writing assignments. Open media, students must have access to own means of production. DRM354Y1 The course explores the meaning and function of stage and costume design for the theatre with emphasis on creative thinking, text analysis and concept development. Limited enrolment for Visual Studies students who must be at the 3rd-year level. VIS401H1 This course is taken in conjunction with VIS402H1 : Thesis Project students develop and fabricate a series of projects over the course of the academic year. Studio, ,textual and critical analysis forms the basis for the final exhibition. The student is required to actively participate in all aspects of the course. Class discussions with faculty. This class is intended for 3rd and 4th year VIS Majors and Specialists. VIS402H1 Students realize projects embarked upon in VIS401H1 Thesis Text and Critique. Class discussions with faculty. VIS403H1 A variety of projects developed in various media with a strong interdisciplinary focus. VIS404H1 Individual advanced projects, including texts, that are subject to group critiques. VIS405H1 A one semester Internship provides placement at a gallery, media arts centre, artist run centre, artist or publication with a focus on contemporary art practice VIS410H1 Students work under the supervision of a visiting artist who provides the students with a full introduction to the specifics of her/his practice as an artist. A variety of media are explored specific to the visitor’s own practice. Seminars are augmented with critiques in response to assignments. |
Internship
(formerly FAH455H1) [24S]