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Undergraduate Courses 2011-2012
The Visual Arts Department at Western is prepared to offer a broad range of courses in Studio, Art History and Visual Culture. Not all courses in the program will be offered in each academic year, but we endeavour to offer a spectrum of courses to enable students to complete their modules in a timely way. If you have questions about this year’s offerings, please contact the Department.
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Important Message to All VA Students regarding Art Criticism Course Requirement: Students registered in the Honours Specialization in Visual Arts, the Honors Specialization in Studio Art, the Major in Visual Arts, and the Major in Museum and Curatorial Studies are required to take 1 course in Art Criticism. Normally this is VAS2281F and VAS3381G. However, this year a FULL COURSE, VAS3380E is being offered instead. Students in 2nd or 3rd year may register for this course to fulfill their Art Criticism requirement. To view when specific courses are offered please refer to the Offical UWO Academic Timetable. For course despcriptions please see the UWO Academic Calendar.
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ART HISTORY
Course # & Outlines |
Course Title |
Instructor |
| VAH 1040 | History of Western Art | Sprengler |
| VAH 1052G | Art and Popular Culture | Kellett |
| VAH 2240E | Theories & Practices (Hist. & Vis. Cult.) | Aylen |
| VAH 2247E | Greek Art | Wilson |
| VAH 2251E | Early Mediaeval Art | Stead |
| VAH 2258E | Italian Renaissance Art | Fisher/Barteet |
| VAH 2276E | Canadian Art | Villar |
| VAH 2277E | Modern Art | Elliott |
| VAH 2283E | Art & Mass Media | Sprengler |
| VAH 2291F | A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Special Topics in Visual Arts (Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics) *NEW* |
Sean Smith |
| VAH 3384 | Introduction to Gallery Practices | Edelstein |
| VAH 3385E | Introduction to Museum Studies | Robertson |
| VAH 3387F | Histories of Ornamental Art, Textiles,etc | Elliott |
| VAH 3392F | Special Topics - Pigging out: A Survey of Food Art and its History | Radu |
| VAH 3392G | Special Topics - Modern | Petican |
| VAH 3393F | Special Toipcs - Baroque Sightings in Modern and Contemporary Art | Hatch |
| VAH 3394G | The Work of Art and Its Texts (cross-listed with CLC - 2293G and SP 2210G) | Robin |
| VAH 4477G | Seminar: Urban Culture in the 1920s and 1930s: film and other fleeting and fragmentary art forms in Berlin, Paris and New York | Elliott |
| VAH 4482G | Seminar in Photography | Bassnett |
| VAH 4490B | Internship in the Visual Arts | TBA |
VISUAL ARTS STUDIO
Course # |
Course Title |
Instructor |
VAS 1020 (001) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Shepherd |
VAS 1020 (002) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Johnson |
VAS 1020 (003) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Johnson |
VAS 1020 (004) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Lariviere |
VAS 1020 (005) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Walde |
VAS 1020 (006) |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
Hallows |
VAS 1025 (001) |
Advanced Foundations |
Mahon |
VAS 1025 (002) |
Advanced Foundations |
Glabush |
| VAS 2100A | Image Explorations | Eurich/Mitrow |
| VAS 2100B | Image Explorations | Mitrow/Eurich |
| VAS 2104A (001) | Drawing Explorations | Turnbull/Yabut |
| VAS 2104A (002) | Drawing Explorations | Gurney/Black |
| VAS 2104B (001) | Drawing Explorations | Yabut/Turnbull |
| VAS 2104B (002) | Drawing Explorations | Black/Yoo |
| VAS 2204A | Introduction to Drawing | Klassen/Brown |
| VAS 2210 (001) | Drawing/Painting | Moodie |
| VAS 2210 (002) | Drawing/Painting | Walde |
| VAS 2216B | Introduction to Painting | Brown/Klassen |
| VAS 2220 | Sculpture,Installation&Performance | Jazvac |
| VAS 2236A | Introduction to Printmaking | Johnson |
| VAS 2236B | Introduction to Printmaking | Quail |
| VAS 2244A | Introduction to Photography | Kaipainen |
| VAS 2246A | Digital Photography | Kemp |
| VAS 2246B | Digital Photography | Myhr |
| VAS 2250 (001) | Intro. to Contemporary Media Art | Myhr |
| VAS 2250 (002) | Intro. to Contemporary Media Art | Sneppova/Kaipainen |
| VAS 2274A | Art Now! I | Lyons |
| VAS 2275B | Art Now! II | TBA |
| VAS 2282A | Honors Studio Seminar I | Merritt |
| VAS 2282B | Honors Studio Seminar I | Pak |
| VAS 2294A | A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Special Topics in Visual Arts (Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics) *NEW* |
Sean Smith |
| VAS 3300 | Advanced Drawing | Merritt |
| VAS 3310 (001) | Advanced Painting | Glabush/Howlett |
| VAS 3310 (002) | Advanced Painting | Howlett |
| VAS 3330 | Advanced Printmaking | Carney/Mahon |
| VAS 3340 | Advanced Photography | Miner/Sparling |
| VAS 3351A | Digital Sound | Myhr |
| VAS 3352B | Digital Video | Myhr |
| VAS 3380 | Art Criticism | Buj |
| VAS3382B (001) | Honors Studio Seminar II | Moodie |
| VAS 3384 | Introduction to Gallery Practices | Edelstein |
| VAS 3385E | Introduction to Museum Studies | Robertson |
| VAS 4430 | Practicum | Howlett/Rogers |
| VAS 4451A | Digital Sound | Myhr |
| VAS 4452B | Digital Video | Myhr |
| VAS 4490A | Internship in the Visual Arts | TBA |
| VAS 4490B | Internship in the Visual Arts | TBA |
| VAS 4499X | Inter-Institutional Installation | TBA |
| VAS 4491A | Independent Projects in Studio (common with VAS 3330) | Carney |
| VAS 4492B | Independent Projects in Studio (common with VAS 3330) | Mahon |
Special Topics
VAS 2294A/VAH 2291F –A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Special Topics in Visual Arts (Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics)
Sean Smith
What if one's gait could see? Take Dziga Vertov’s concept of kino-eye and vision it anew in the age of gait-based detection and surveillance: the skin-as-camera. Think with others on questions of performance, politics and pedagogy as mobile subjects in the contemporary vision machine. This course will be of interest to artists, academics, activists or others working with questions of moving bodies, visioning technologies, public spaces and politics in the common sphere.
VAH 3392F Pigging out: A Survey of Food Art and its History
S. Radu
This course will track the history of food in art and will introduce students to the theories developed in response to the inclusion of food into the realm of aesthetics. It will explore how artists, from Antiquity to today, have incorporated food into their practices in an attempt to comment on a wide-ranging field of controversial issues (hunger, class relations, sexuality, and religious doctrines). The course will investigate the differences between earlier iconographic representations of food (e.g. medieval biblical scenes and baroque still life paintings) and more contemporary works, which directly employ real foods as a material for art (e.g. the rotting food paintings of Dieter Roth and the chocolate sculptures of Janine Antoni), exploring how food has become managed and conceptualized by the art world and its institutions.
VAH 3392G: Italian Art in the Twentieth Century
Laura Petican
The course will cover key movements in Italian art and culture throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including developments in painting, sculpture, architecture, conceptual art, performance, installation, and design. Analysis of artworks and cultural developments will be conducted in relation to the larger socio-political context, ranging from the effects of fascism on cultural production in the inter-war era, to the apparent break with tradition following World War II, as well as the effects of the miracolo italiano and Italy’s role in the international artistic arena in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Conceptual themes such as the baroque and neo-baroque, cultural memory and inheritance, nationalism, and the co-existence of the present and the past will be considered with respect to Italy’s cultural specificity in the context of late twentieth-century globalization, mass markets, and neo-liberal economics.
VAH 3393F: Baroque Sightings in Modern and Contemporary Art
Prof. John Hatch
This course proposes to examine the curious revivals in Baroque thought that litter the landscape of 20th-century art and theory. We'll begin with the revival as phrased initially by the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin; then we'll examine the various definitions of the Baroque that currently exist and may exist; this is followed by a study of the different guises it took in art and architecture as shaped by Theo van Doesburg, Lucio Fontana, Francis Bacon, Michelangelo Pistoletto, the Situationist International, Gordon Matta-Clark, Marina Abramovic, David Salle, Frank Gehry, to name but a very few, all the while, meandering our way through the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, etc.
VAH 3394G: The Work of Art and Its Texts
Alena Robin
The purpose of this course is to acquire iconographic references from the text that most inspired artists in the Western tradition: The Holy Bible, Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Homer’s Illad, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Goethe’s Faust. (Cross listed with Comp Lit and Culture – 2293G and Spanish 2210G.)
VAH 4477G: Urban Culture in the 1920s and 1930s: film and other fleeting and fragmentary art forms in Berlin, Paris and New York
Bridget Elliott
This course examines the interrelationship between art and film during the 1920s and 1930s in the metropolitan centres of Berlin, Paris, Moscow and New York. Starting with a selected corpus of early experimental films, we will focus on analogous developments in painting, collage, photography, graphic design, fashion and architecture. In particular, we will explore the proliferation of fragmentary and fleeting art forms and their theoretical, cultural and social significance.
VAH 4480F – Seminar in Art Criticism
TBA
Description to follow.
Prerequisite – any second year VAS or VAH course.
VAH 4482G: Photography and Urbanization
Sarah Bassnett
When photography was invented in 1839, cities all over the world were in the process of growing and modernizing. This course addresses how urbanization and experiences of modernity and later of postmodernity were both constituted and mediated by photography. Taking a thematic and generally chronological approach, it looks at a range of issues, including the ways in which certain visual tropes were mobilized in articulating experiences of the city and how the city became at once the site and the object of visual consumption. Looking at everything from portraits and governmental photography to press photography and contemporary art, we will consider the diverse ways photographs have changed the way we think about and experience cities.
VAS 4499X: Inter-Institutional Installation
Kelly Jazvac
Advanced Sculpture and Installation for the 2011/2012 academic year will be replaced by a special, one-time only course made possible by funding from the Cohen Explorations Program. The course is a full credit, but will be held in the winter semester only, meeting Tuesdays and Fridays from 12:30 to 4:30. The class is a fourth year studio course that will be held in conjunction with Installation, an advanced course offered at NSCAD University. Both courses will work together towards hosting two site-specific exhibitions: one held in London, Ontario and one in Halifax.
Students will spend the term making work for exhibition, as well as communicating and planning with NSCAD students about shipping, installation requirements and catalogue development. Students will use software such as Skype and Sketch Up to virtually plan two cohesive exhibitions.
Courses without Prerequisites
VAH1040 History of Western Art
A survey of architecture, sculpture, painting and related arts from pre-historic times to the present.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour, 1.0 course.
VAS1020 Foundations of Visual Arts
A studio course designed to introduce students to techniques and processes of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media; the theoretical concepts which inform and direct studio practice will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): Priority will be given to students registered in a Visual Arts program.
Extra Information: 6 studio hours, 1.0 course.
Note: Some sessions may involve drawing from the nude (female or male) as a required component of the course.
VAS2100 Image Explorations
An introductory design and imaging course exploring two-dimensional design and imaging principles, including colour theory, the study of composition and other formal concerns. The course will present critical frameworks for reading and constructing images using basic technical means.
Extra Information: 4 studio hours, 0.5 course
VAS2104 Drawing Explorations
An introductory course exploring a wide range of traditional and contemporary aspects of drawing in order to develop an understanding of its application to the Visual Arts as well as other frameworks.
Antirequisite(s): VAS 2204A/B
Extra Information: 4 studio hours, 0.5 course.
VAS2274/5a/b Art Now
An introduction to contemporary artistic production and practice, featuring dialogues with artists on their work and critics on the criticism of contemporary art. Emphasis will be placed on major recent art movements and tendencies. The course will also focus on developing critical writing skills and vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s): At least one first year course from the Faculties of Arts and Humanities or Social Science, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
Also available without pre-requisites:
VAH 1052G |
Art and Popular Culture |
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