Art

PROFESSOR

David P. McCarthy. 1991. B.A., Gettysburg College; Ph.D., University of Delaware. (Modern, contemporary, and American art history.)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

A. Victor Coonin. Chair. 1995. B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. Syracuse University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. (Renaissance, Baroque, and Medieval art history.)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Erin Harmon. 2003. B.A., San Diego State University; M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design. (Painting and Drawing.)
Glenda Swan. 2005. B.A., University of Texas; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton. (Classical Art and Archaeology.)

PART-TIME INSTRUCTORS

Hallie Salky Charney. 1997. B.F.A., University of Tennessee; M.F.A., University of Memphis. (Photography.)
Hamlett Dobbins. 2002. B.F.A., University of Memphis; M.F.A., University of Iowa. (Painting, Drawing, and Alternative Media.)

DIRECTOR, CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY

Hamlett Dobbins. 2002. B.F.A., University of Memphis; M.F.A., University of Iowa.

CURATOR, VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTION

Louella Weaver. 2007. B.A., Rhodes College; M.A. University of Memphis.

STAFF

Karen M. Winterton. Departmental Assistant.
The Department of Art offers to the student, regardless of experience or major, the opportunity to develop a sensitivity to visual language through studio work and the study of the history of art. The department requires a balanced program in studio and art history that may be augmented to suit particular student interests and needs.

The Clough-Hanson Gallery, located in Clough Hall, brings to campus exhibitions of contemporary art from September through March. In April and early May, the gallery hosts two student exhibitions: the Juried Student Exhibit and the Senior Thesis Exhibit.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAJOR IN ART

A student may choose one of the two following tracks. Majors may petition to pursue their own course of study to meet particular goals.

I. Concentration in Studio
For the student interested in art as a vocation, for teaching, or for further study in graduate school, a program of studies balanced between studio and art history is preferable. The following courses are required.

A total of fifty-six (56) credit hours as follows:

Studio Art: two 100-level courses, 385, 485, 486.
Art History: 231, 232, 345.
Six additional courses, at least two of which must be at the level of 300 or above in studio. Students may petition the department in writing to count up to two cognates towards this requirement.

II. Concentration in Art History
For those students interested in the study of art history with graduate school as a definite goal, this program of study is suggested. The following courses are required
A total of fifty-six (56) credit hours as follows:

Studio Art: two 100-level courses.
Art History: 231, 232, 485, plus 6 additional courses, two of which will come from ancient studies (Prehistoric through Roman), two of which will come from Medieval through Baroque, and two of which will come from Modern (post 1800).
Three additional courses in studio or art history. Students may petition the department in writing to count up to two cognates towards this requirement.

German and/or French through the 201-level are strongly recommended for those students planning to pursue graduate work in art history.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN ART

A total of twenty-eight (28) credit hours as follows:

Studio Art: two 100-level courses.
History of Art: 231, 232.
Either one 300-level studio course and Studio 385 or one 300-level Art History course and Art History 485.
One additional course at 300 level or above (or pre-approved 200-level Topics courses).

Sample List of Cognate Courses:
Archaeology 210: Introduction to Material Culture or Anthropology 250
Archaeology 220: Archaeological Methods or Art 220
Anthropology 207: Becoming Human: Archaeology and the Origins of Culture
Anthropology 208: Pyramids and Palaces: Archaeology of Complex Societies
Archaeology 450: Archaeological Field School
English 241: History and Criticism of American Cinema
English 242: World Film
English 245: Special Topics in Film
English 381: Advanced Topics in Film
English 382: Film Theory
Greek and Roman Studies 283: Archaeology of Western Asia Minor
Greek and Roman Studies 361: GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology
Religious Studies 260: Archaeology and the Biblical World
Religious Studies 265: Archaeology and the Biblical World: Field Work
Other courses (especially Topics courses) as approved by departmental Chairperson.

HONORS IN ART

In the spring of the junior year, an art major, in consultation with an appropriate member of the art faculty, may write a proposal for honors work in the senior year. The department must approve the proposal.
An overall grade of A- on the thesis or project itself is required for honors credit.

COURSE OFFERINGS

Introductory Studio Art.
Introductory Studio Art Students interested in commencing studio work are encouraged to enroll in the introductory studio courses in their first year. These courses are designed for students with no previous background in the designated areas. Special emphasis is given to introducing media, exploring basic techniques, and problem solving. Studio courses require 138 hours of work per term for four credits. A studio fee may be required for studio courses to cover the expense of materials and equipment.

101. Drawing.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
An introduction to drawing in various media.

103. Life Study.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
Figure drawing from life.

105. Painting.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
An introduction to the fundamentals of painting, including its formal and conceptual properties.

107. Sculpture.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
Emphasis will be on the development of ideas as they relate to traditional and non-traditional approaches to making art. Students will develop skills in the use of metal working, wood working, casting, and alternative media. This course situates students within the contemporary art world and challenges them to articulate thoughts and concepts through the art making process.

111. Photography.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
An introduction to basic camera and darkroom techniques. (The student will provide camera, film, and supplies.)

113. Digital Arts.
Fall. Credits: 4, F5.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
An introduction to digital arts, focused on the exploration and production of still Images through electronic media.

166. Topics in Studio Art.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Topics will vary from year to year with the instructor. Course may be repeated as long as topics are different.

Intermediate Studio Art.
Students taking intermediate studio courses will explore issues concerning media and methods relevant to individually designated concepts and investigations. Students are expected to spend twelve hours per week on research and production. Students must have permission from the instructor before registration. Studio courses require 138 hours of work per term for four credits. A studio fee may be required for studio courses to cover the expense of materials and equipment.

301. Intermediate Drawing.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 101, 103 or 105.

303. Life Study.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5.
Figure drawing from life.
Prerequisites: Art 101, 103, or 105.

305. Intermediate Painting.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 105.

307. Intermediate Sculpture.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 107.

311. Intermediate Photography.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 111.

313. Digital Art: Advanced Projects.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Advanced studio work in digital arts, focused on creating electronic media-based projects geared toward individual student interests.

366. Advanced Topics in Studio Art.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A seminar, open to both majors and non-majors, on varying subjects. May be repeated for credit. Topics courses include landscape painting and figure painting.

385. Junior Seminar.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Individually designed creative projects or research undertaken with the approval and guidance of the art faculty. Students are required to propose a fifteen-week program of research, develop a relevant body of work and artist statement, meet weekly for critiques with the instructor, and maintain a digital portfolio of their work. In addition each student will participate in one formal critique with art faculty and a peer group at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, successful completion of all 100-level courses required for the major, and at least one 300-level studio course or permission of instructor. Required for all majors in the studio track.

Advanced Studio Art.
Students taking advanced studio courses will further explore issues concerning media and methods relevant to individually designated concepts and investigations. Students are expected to spend twelve hours per week on research and production. Directed Inquiries can be accommodated through any of the advanced studio offerings. Studio courses require 138 hours of work per term for four credits. A studio fee is required for every studio course to cover the expense of materials and equipment.

401. Drawing.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 300, 301 or 305.

405. Painting.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 305.

407. Sculpture.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 307.

411. Photography.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Prerequisites: Art 311.

413. Digital Art: Advanced Projects II.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Advanced studio work in digital arts, focused on creating electronic media-based projects geared toward individual student interests
Prerequisites: Art 313.

460. Art / Architectural Internship.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 1-4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Students are placed with local artists and/or regional galleries, design firms or architectural firms.
Prerequisites: Art major with junior or senior standing; successful completion of all one-hundred level courses in the art department required for the appropriate track; and approval of the art department. May be repeated for a total of six credits. Students may apply a maximum of four credits towards the Art major or minor.

485. Senior Seminar.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Individually designed creative projects or research undertaken with the approval and guidance of the art faculty. Students are required to propose a fifteen-week program of research, develop a relevant body of work and artist statement, meet weekly for critiques with the instructor, and maintain a digital portfolio of their work. In addition each student will participate in one formal critique with art faculty and a peer group at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and successful completion of all 100- and 200 -level courses required for the major. Required of all majors in the studio and track.

486. Senior Thesis.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
The continuation of the senior seminar in which students further develop and refine creative projects with the approval and guidance of the art faculty. This course culminates in a Thesis Gallery Exhibition.
Prerequisites: Art 485.

HISTORY OF ART

220. Archaeological Methods.
Fall. Credits: 4, F5.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
This class will expose students to a range of archaeological methods used in the field, laboratory and museum to find, record, date, preserve and contextualize physical materials. Basic methods of investigation and research will be discussed through the examination of site survey, excavation and the analysis of artifacts. Students will be introduced to various systems of archaeological classification and analytical techniques for understanding objects such as lithic artifacts, pottery, human skeletal remains, and other historic and prehistoric artifacts. Artifact illustration, photography, cataloguing and curating will also be discussed. (Course offered every third year; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

231. History of Western Art I.
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5, F3.
A survey of Western art from pre-history through the middle ages. Emphasis is placed on examining art within the producing cultures of ancient Egypt, the ancient near east, classical Greece and Rome, the Byzantine East, and medieval Europe. Students will be exposed to the basic methods of art historical analysis.

232. History of Western Art II.
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts, F5, F3.
A survey of Western art from 1300 to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on the development and expansion of Renaissance ideals of art, and then the reassessment of these ideals in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Students will be exposed to the basic methods of art historical analysis.

265. Topics in Art History.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Topics will vary from year to year with the instructor. Course may be repeated as long as topics are different.

318. Greek Art and Architecture.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A chronological and thematic examination of the visual and material culture of ancient Greece from its Bronze Age (ca. 3rd millenium B.C.E.) to the end of the Hellenistic era (1st century B.C.E.). Special attention will be given to the historical and ideological context of cult buildings, monumental sculpture, and vase paintings as they might have been experienced by Greek viewers. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)

319. Roman Art and Architecture.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
This course traces the development of Roman art and architecture in its variable contexts with an eye to understanding the cultural and political institutions that created it, from Rome’s earliest Etruscan roots in the 8th century BCE to its relocation to Byzantium in Asia Minor in the 4th century CE. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

320. Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt and the Near East.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A chronological study of the material cultures of ancient Egypt and the Near East. Students will be introduced to current scholarship on the art and architecture of these cultures and emphasis will be placed on understanding these forms in their social and political contexts. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)

321. Art and Spirituality in the Middle Ages.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
An examination of the visual arts in Europe during the period normally known as the Middle Ages, ca. 313-1348. Attention will also focus on the art emanating from the Byzantine east. Art works discussed will include both secular and religious objects, and topics covered will include issues of aesthetics, iconography, style, functionality, and spirituality. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)

323. Italian Renaissance Art.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
This course examines Italian art and architecture, ca. 1260-1580, with emphasis on the historical and social context. Such themes as patronage, functions, theory, materials and techniques, style, and the profession of the artist will be discussed. Artists treated include Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and Palladio. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

326. Northern Renaissance Art.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
An examination of painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts in the Netherlands, Germany, and France, from 1400 to 1600, with emphasis on the historical and social context. Such themes as the status of the artist, art and mysticism, art and the Reformation, theory, and the relationship of Northern European and Italian art and culture will be discussed. Artists include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, and Pieter Bruegel. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)

328. Baroque Painting from Caravaggio to Rembrandt.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
The course investigates European art ca. 1580-1750. Students will be introduced to the major artists, subjects, and stylistic developments during this time period. Additional emphasis will be placed on issues such as patronage, collecting, technique, women artists, and recent discoveries. Artists covered include Caravaggio, Bernini, Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velasquez, and Rubens. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

334. American Art.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A thematic examination of art produced in the United States from the colonial period to WWII with special emphasis on the place of art and artists within a democracy. Themes include the relationship between political and visual representation, landscape as metaphor, race and ethnicity in art, and the tension between private and public patronage. Artists include Thomas Jefferson, Stuart Davis, and Frank Lloyd Wright. (Course offered every sixth semester, next offered Fall, 2009.)

341. Modern Art I.
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A survey of the major European art movements from about 1760 to 1880. Special emphasis is given to the interplay between politics and the emergence of new styles and subject matter in painting. Artists covered include David, Goya, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Courbet, Manet, and Monet. (Course offered every sixth semester; scheduled for Spring, 2011).

342. Modern Art II.
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A survey of European art from 1880 to 1960. Themes examined include “primitivism,” the tension between modern art and mass culture, the attempt to combine radical politics with formal innovation, and the development of non-objective styles of painting. Movements discussed include symbolism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. (Course offered every third semester; scheduled for Fall, 2008).

345. Contemporary Art.
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A comprehensive introduction to European and American art and art criticism since 1960. Themes examined include the revival of political art in the late sixties (and its resurgence in the late eighties), the emergence of feminist strategies in representation, the rejection of the art object and the culture industry, the ongoing dialogue between modern art and mass culture, the return of history painting in the early eighties, and the emergence of different voices in the art world in the past twenty years. (Course offered every third semester; scheduled for Spring, 2009).

356. Michelangelo.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
An examination of the life and art of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Special attention will be paid to stylistic, interpretive, and methodological issues, as well as the many controversies that have surrounded his life and art from the Renaissance to the present. Works studied will include painting, sculpture, architecture, drawings, and poetry. Class will combine both lecture and seminar formats. (Course offered every third year; scheduled for 2010-2011.)

360. Gallery Management.
Spring. Credits: 4.
An internship involved with the various aspects of gallery management, such as selection, crating, shipping, publicity design, printing, computer entries, preparation and designing of exhibitions, hanging, lighting, receptions, security, etc. Open to juniors and seniors or with permission of instructor. May be repeated for general degree (non-major) credit.

365. Advanced Topics in Art History.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
A seminar, open to both majors and non-majors, on varying subjects. May be repeated for credit so long as topics are different.

399. Tutorial for Honors Candidates.
Spring. Credits: 1.
Students interested in reading for honors in the Department of Art are required to enroll in a preparatory tutorial in the spring semester of their junior year. Successful completion of the tutorial does not necessarily guarantee acceptance into the Honors Program.

461. Museum/ Gallery Internship.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 1-4.
An internship with a gallery or museum with a focus on the visual arts. Prerequisites: Approval of department Chair and offer of placement from an approved gallery or museum. Normally open only to art majors and minors with junior or senior standing. Students may apply a maximum of four credits towards the Art major or minor.

485. Senior Seminar.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Fine Arts.
Art History Track. Advanced seminar involving theory, methodology, and historiography. Students will submit a major research paper and conduct an oral presentation. Topics vary with instructor. Required of all majors in the art history track. Prerequisites: Art 231, 232 and any 300-level art history course. With the permission of the instructor, Juniors may take the seminar as Art 365.

495-496. Honors Tutorial.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4, 4.

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