Art History: Art History MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered each year. Check the departmental website for course availability under the current timetable.

Methods

Course Code Course Title
FAH1001H
Methods of Art History

Ancient

Course Code Course Title
FAH2021H
Myth and Fantasy in Roman Painting
FAH2023H
Mind and Materiality: Views from Art History and Archaeology
FAH2025H
Visual Narrative and Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Art
FAH2027H
Women and Gender in Ancient Greece
FAH2028H
Art and the Philosophy of Time
FAH2034H
Topics in Roman Imperial Art
FAH2037H Empathy, Embodiment, and Emotion in Ancient Art
FAH2038H Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Royal Ontario Museum
FAH2041H Greek Vases at the Royal Ontario Museum
FAH2060H Artisans and Artists in the Ancient Mediterranean

Medieval

Course Code Course Title
FAH1118H
The Medieval Treasury
FAH1119H
Global Medieval Art in China
FAH1127H
Early Medieval Art
FAH1130H Architecture of the Otherworld
FAH1175H Early Islamic Architecture: 7th–10th c.
FAH1176H History of Islamic Cairo (7th–16th c.)
FAH1177H Building the Islamic Empire: Architecture of the Umayyads

Early Modern

Course Code Course Title
FAH1202H
Correggio and the Problem of Italian Renaissance Art
FAH1204H
The Cassinese Art of Reform in Renaissance Italy
FAH1205H
Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1206H Artistic Localities in the Early Modern World
FAH1207H Formalism and Its Objects
FAH1210H Chinese Painting: Objects, Theories, Methods
FAH1220H Multi-Media Transmorphism
FAH1221H
Inside the Painter's Studio
FAH1229H
Architecture of the Global Renaissance
FAH1231H
Northern European Sculpture 1400–1600
FAH1232H Liquescent Art and Cultures

Modern and Contemporary

Course Code Course Title
FAH1410H Artwriting Past and Present
FAH1411H Art and Analogy
FAH1416H Art History and the Digital
FAH1457H Vernacular Photography
FAH1460H Wallace Berman and His Countercultural Circles
FAH1462H Photography and Scientific Representation in the 19th Century
FAH1463H Realisms
FAH1475H Picasso in View of Nanette
FAH1476H Surrealism and Art
FAH1486H
Bloomsbury and Vorticism
FAH1488H The Nature of Landscape
FAH1489H Re: Vision (Comparative Histories of the Senses)
FAH1490H Photography and the Occult
FAH1495H Art, Empire, Colonization
FAH1500H
Augmented Reality Art
FAH1756H Acoustic Space
FAH1757H Animal Images
FAH1758H What Images Do: Approaches From South Asia
FAH1759H Modern Architecture and Its Representations
FAH1820H Modern Craft
FAH1870H The Visual Arts in Canada in International Perspective
FAH1920H
Primitivism to Globalism: Theories of Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Arts
FAH1921H
GeoAesthetics
FAH1922H Contemporary Art and Ethnography: Renewed Exchanges
FAH1934H Cosmopolitan/Comparative Modernisms
FAH1935H Contemporary Art Practices and the Modernist Archive
FAH1940H
Photography and Humour
FAH1951H
Contemporary Chinese Art and its Discontents
FAH1960H Indigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes
FAH1961H Art and Activism
FAH1965H The Sixties Revisited

Reading Courses

Course Code Course Title
FAH3000H
Special Studies in History of Art (only 1.0 FCE with this prefix is permitted in any one degree program)
FAH3011H
Readings in Ancient Art
FAH3012H
Readings in Medieval Art
FAH3013H
Readings in Renaissance and Baroque Art
FAH3014H
Readings in Modern and Contemporary Art
FAH5000Y
Comprehensive Examinations and Dissertation Topic Reading Course

Undergraduate/Graduate Courses

Periodically, the department may offer fourth-year undergraduate courses that have been recognized for graduate credit. Please visit the departmental website and discuss with the Graduate Coordinator.

Relevant Courses in Other Departments

Course Code Course Title
EAS1229H
Topics in Chinese Aesthetics
EAS1339H
Topics in Chinese Art Theories
MSL2240H
The Photographic Record