This course will familiarize the student with the concepts and various aspects of conservation, its role in museums and the care of collections, and will give specific emphasis on the materials, structure, deterioration, and preservation of material culture. This class explores the Goddess and her many guises from prehistory through the present day. Sacred images of women drawn from archaic and classical mythology, Biblical and Christian sources will be analyzed from a feminist perspective. This is a travel course to selected locations to study major monuments and collections of art and architecture. The primary goal in this course is to learn methods and resources for doing research in subject areas where there is little or no published research.
Students do original research.
ARTH 4814 Seminar in Medieval Art Selected topics, advanced research papers, reports. ARTH 4821 Seminar in Renaissance Art Selected topics, advanced research papers, reports. Seminar in 18th Century Art Selected topics, advanced research papers, reports. ARTH 4833 Seminar in 20th Century Art Selected topics, advanced research papers, reports. ARTH 4836 Seminar in American Art Selected topics, advanced research papers, reports.