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Art and Archaeology   

  • An Introduction to the History of Art: Meanings in the Visual Arts

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  • Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from diverse historical periods, regions, and cultures. Faculty members of the Department of Art and Archaeology lecture in their fields of expertise; precepts balance hands-on work, readings, and student projects. In Fall 2021, coursework is designed to encourage students to apply the methods and questions of art history in order to explore the Princeton community. We pay particular attention this year to the various forms of art and engagement.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Rachel Saunders

  • Capacity Remaining: -6

  • Semester Dates: 1/26/2026 - 4/22/2026 

  • Times: 9:35 AM - 10:25 AM

  • Sessions: 24

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  • Art and Power in the Middle Ages

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  • The course explores how art worked in politics and religion from ca. 300-1200 CE in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Students encounter the arts of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam, great courts and migratory societies; dynamics of word and image, multilingualism, intercultural connection, and local identity. We examine how art can represent and shape notions of sacred and secular power. We consider how the work of 'art' in this period is itself powerful and, sometimes, dangerous. Course format combines lecture on various cultural contexts with workshop discussion focused on specific media and materials, or individual examples.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Charles Barber

  • Capacity Remaining: -1

  • Semester Dates: 1/27/2026 - 4/23/2026 

  • Times: 2:25 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Sessions: 24

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  • Global Contemporary Art

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  • What does it mean to make art about the contemporary world? What does it mean for a work of art to make that world? This course traces contemporary artistic practice to key moments of internationalism and globalization, from decolonial movements and Cold War realignments to the watershed events of 1989, current considerations of ecological crisis, and the rise of new nationalisms. Mobilizing interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and foregrounding first-hand engagement with art on campus, it introduces contemporary art as a vital means to comprehend and reimagine our disputed, but incontrovertibly shared globality today.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Irene Small

  • Capacity Remaining: -4

  • Semester Dates: 1/27/2026 - 4/23/2026 

  • Times: 7:30 PM - 8:20 PM

  • Sessions: 24

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  • Roman Art and Archaeology

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  • Roman painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts from the early Republic to the late Empire, focusing upon the official monuments of Rome itself and the civic and private art of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Emphasis on historical representation, imperial propaganda, portraiture, narrative technique, and classical art theory. For department majors, this course satisfies the Group 1 distribution requirement. Two lectures, one preceptorial.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: John Sigmier

  • Capacity Remaining: -7

  • Semester Dates: 1/27/2026 - 4/23/2026 

  • Times: 1:20 PM - 2:10 PM

  • Sessions: 24

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  • The Art of Invention

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  • Artistic invention refers to original concepts, new techniques, novel media and fresh approaches in the creation of art. This course examines invention in European art from around 1400 to 1650, a period that (unlike contemporary ideas about unprecedented originality) considered imitation as a paradigmatic mode of innovation. As well as exploring historical modes of creative imitation, we examine theories of imagination, the intersection of new technologies and materials with artistic ingenuity, the marketing of authenticity through signatures, copyrights and novel technique, concepts of authorship and collaboration, and the rise of fakes.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Carolina Mangone

  • Capacity Remaining: -4

  • Semester Dates: 1/26/2026 - 4/22/2026 

  • Times: 1:20 PM - 2:10 PM

  • Sessions: 24

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