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The educational experience
of Art History majors at The American
University of Paris offers an in-depth
understanding of the development of Western
Art as product and agent of history and
society. In addition to class lectures
exceptional exposure to original works of
European art and architecture, both in
museums and on-site, is an integral part of
the course of study.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will acquire a broad grasp of the
evolution of Western Art in the framework of
social and historical developments. Using
discipline-specific terminology they will
learn to analyze art works thematically and
stylistically. Students will be able to
apply a variety of theoretical approaches to
individual works of art as well as to
specific monuments.
Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Minors in Art History, Fine Arts, Classical
Civilization, Medieval Studies, Middle
Eastern and Islamic Cultures, Renaissance
Studies, Urban Studies, Visual Culture.
Centers and Partnerships
Louvre Partnership: “Les jeunes ont la
parole”;
The Arts Arena.
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Madeleine Beaufort
Senior Lecturer Emerita
BA, University of Connecticut.
MAT, Yale University.
MA, PhD, Institute of Fine
Arts, New York University.
Suse Childs
Assistant Professor Emerita
BA, MLS, State University of New York, Albany.
MA, MPhil, Columbia University.
Charlotte Lacaze
Schiff-Dupee Associate Professor Emerita
BA, New York University.
MA, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Françoise Weinmann
Associate Professor Emerita
Licence, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Université de
Paris-Sorbonne.
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. |
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Requirements for the Major in
ART
HISTORY |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 110 College Writing, EN 220 Writing and Criticism
Up to 18 French through French FR 235
4 French language or literature beyond FR 235
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Select one of the following two options (16 credits)
OPTION I
AH 100 Introduction to Western Art I
AH 213 Renaissance Art and Architecture
AH 214 Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
AH 216 19th- and 20th-Century Art and Architecture
OPTION II
AH 120 Introduction to Western Art II
AH 211 Ancient Art and Architecture
AH 212 Medieval Art and Architecture
AH 213 Renaissance Art and Architecture
REQUIRED
(12 credits)
AR 120 Materials and Techniques of the Masters
AH 390 Junior Seminar (must be taken in the Junior year)
AH 490 Senior Seminar (may be taken twice for credit)
ELECTIVES (20
credits)
Select five additional Art History courses of which three must be at the
300- level or above,
(only one of these may be cross listed) plus two other Art History or cross
listed AH courses.
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 Credits |
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Requirements for the Major in
ART
HISTORY with a VISUAL CULTURE TRACK |
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CORE (20 credits)
AH 100 Introduction to Western Art I
AH 120 Introduction to Western Art II
CM 123 Media Analysis or
FM/CM 110 Films and Their Meanings
CM/ES 337 The Museum as Medium
ES 110 Europe and Cities: The Modern City
ELECTIVES
Choose six of the following courses, from at least three different
disciplines (24 credits)
AH/PL 374 The Philosophy of Aesthetics
CM 306 Color as Communication
CM 355 Visual Rhetoric: Persuasive Images
CM 362 Media Semiotics
CM 375 Media Aesthetics
CM/AN 349 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 353 Media and Gender
CM/GS 304 Communicating Fashion
CL 302 Word and Image: Literature and the Visual Arts
ES 105 Europe and Cities: The Italian Renaissance
ES/AH 316 Society and Spectacle
ES/HI 317 The Islamic City
ES/FM 300 The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM 275 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film I
FM 276 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film II
FM 292 Women and Film
FM 327 Film Theory and Criticism
GS/PY 208 Gender Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema: A Psychosocial
Approach
GS/HI 213 Women in Parisian History and the Arts
GS/VC 314 Art, Culture and Gender in the Italian Renaissance
GS/HI 319 Women Artists in European History
GS/VC 332 The Power of Images in Western History
GS/HI 326 Women in the French Renaissance
PY 391 Topics in Psychology (if the topic is appropriate)
VC 495 SENIOR THESIS OR SENIOR PROJECT: interdisciplinary in nature, linking
an art historical
issue to at least one other discipline (4 credits)
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 Credit |
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Art History
Classical Civilization
Fine Arts
Medieval Studies
Urban Studies
Visual Cultures |
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 AUP
is now a partner of the Cour de France, a publication space
for documents, essays and scholarly resources for research on the
court of France from its beginnings to the 19th century. Please
visit:
http://cour-de-france.fr |
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 Louvre: Les jeunes ont la parole
Each Fall and Spring semester, Art History students are offered the
privilege of participating in 'Les jeunes ont la parole', one facet
of the Louvre Museum's Friday evening program Les nocturnes du
Louvre. Alongside peers from other Parisian institutions,
students may elect to do in-depth research on a specific work of art
in the Louvre, around which they enter into dialogue with young
visitors and/or the general public on two or three designated
evenings, in the languages of their choice. The program culminates
in both one AUP credit and a certificate from the Louvre. Please see
Professor
Christine Baltay, Chair of the Department, for further
information. |
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Anna Russakoff will be presenting a paper
entitled "Images that come to life:
Miracles of the Virgin and the Vierges
Ouvrantes" at the Historians of
Netherlandish Art conference in Amsterdam,
held from May 27-29. She is also
co-organizing a conference for the
International Medieval Society in Paris,
in collaboration with the research group
LAMOP-Paris I Sorbonne, on the theme of
Translation, to be held at the Sorbonne
from June 24-26. For the program and
registration form, see
www.ims-paris.org |
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[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010] |
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Kathleen
Wilson-Chevalier attended the annual
meeting of the Renaissance Society of
America which was held in Venice from
April 7-8. She chaired a session at the
Fondazione Cini in which Sabine Frommel (Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) and
Lorenz Baumer (Chair, Classical
Archeology, Université de Genève)
presented papers on French architecture
and sculpture during the 1540s. Her own
paper, "Madeleine de Savoie - Madame la
Connétable - and the Gendering of
Montmorency Patronage" was presented in a
session chaired by Sheila ffolliott
(Emeritus, George Mason University) at the
University of Ca'Foscari; companion papers
were given by Elizabeth L'Estrange (Université
de Liège) and Peggy Brown (Emeritus,
CUNY). Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet (Université
de Toulouse) published a positive review
of her book Patronnes et mécènes en
France à la Renaissance in Clio
(29-2009), available
online. This book also led to an
interview which will be integrated into a
prime time television program dedicated to
the patronage of Diane de Poitiers at Anet,
to be aired this summer on France 2 as
part of its series “Secrets d’Histoire.” |
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[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010] |
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Ralph
Petty exhibited his new work, paintings,
and drawings at the T&S Gallery in Tokyo
from March 3-20. He will also show five
large paintings at the Eumeria Gallery
located in the downtown Ginza district of
Tokyo, from May 10-22, in a group show
comprising four other international
artists. There will be a symposium on Fuji
television on the program “Prime Time
News” on May 14 from 20:00-22:00 (Tokyo
time) featuring the exhibition with the
theme “Globalisation, localisation in the
arts.” Prime Time News is one of the major
cultural television programs on Japanese
television. Ralph’s drawings and
poem/songs were published in
Encounters: A Riff on the Senses
(La Nana Creek Press, 2009, Nacogdoches,
Texas) in a limited edition of forty
hand-printed and hand-bound hardcover fine
artist books with original writings and
drawings by Ralph Petty and Charles Jones. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010] |
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Anna
Russakoff's contribution, “Miracles de la
Vierge et handicap au XIIIe siècle,” has
just been published in
Handicaps
et sociétés dans l’histoire : l’estropie,
l’aveugle et le paralytique de l’Antiquité
aux temps modernes, edited by
Franck Collard (Université Paris X-Nanterre)
and Evelyne Samama (Université de Reims).
Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010, pp. 129-144. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010] |
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