Art History

2026-2027

117 courses

ARTH 10100Introduction to Art
ARTH 14006Introduction to Byzantine Art
ARTH 14402Introduction to the Arts of the Italian Renaissance
ARTH 15631Intro South Asian Art and Architecture I
ARTH 15636Modern Korean Art
ARTH 15780Western Modern Art from the Enlightenment until Today
ARTH 15800Contemporary Art
ARTH 16100Art of the East: China
ARTH 16107Moving Objects, Dispersed Cultures: Case Studies from China and the Middle East
ARTH 16800Arts of Japan
ARTH 17201Art in the Age of Computation: From Cybernetics to AI
ARTH 17213Portraits
ARTH 17512Modern Architecture in Algeria, France, French Algeria, and Algerian France
ARTH 17551Beyond the Vitruvian Man: Architecture and the Body in the Italian Renaissance
ARTH 17602Contemporary Art Beyond Korea
ARTH 17761Introduction to Modern Architecture: Modernity and Its Other
ARTH 17781Women in 20th-Century Architecture
ARTH 17904Chinatown, the Japanese Garden, the Period Room: Diasporic Architecture from East Asia
ARTH 18160Islamic Arts of the Book
ARTH 18704Contemporary Art Beyond Korea
ARTH 20164Exhibiting the Environmental Humanities: Curatorial Practicum
ARTH 20336Researching Chicago's Historic Parks and Neighborhoods
ARTH 20500Arts + Public Life: Relationships, Engagement and Cultural Stewardship on Chicago's South Side
ARTH 20618What Was Art? What Is Art? What Will Art Be?
ARTH 20692Armenian History through Art and Culture
ARTH 20705City Imagined
ARTH 20706City Observed
ARTH 20908Media Revolutions Then and Now
ARTH 21013Plunder, Theft, Forgery: Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today
ARTH 21014Medieval Indian Cities
ARTH 21310Art and Technology: From the Historical Avant Gardes to the Algorithmic Present
ARTH 21326Can a Photograph Change the World?
ARTH 21333(Re)Branding the Balkan City: Comtemp. Belgrade/Sarajevo/Zagreb
ARTH 21416Avant-Garde and Kitsch" in the 21st Century: Socialism, Modernism, Elitism
ARTH 21426Marx's Theory of Class
ARTH 21702Ekphrasis: Art, Description and Religion
ARTH 21821(Re-)Living Nazi Germany through the Eyes of the Graphic Novel
ARTH 22115Iconoclasm
ARTH 22120Ecocritical Art History: Perspectives from South Asia
ARTH 22305Interpreting and Exhibiting Textiles from North Africa and Southwest Asia
ARTH 22338Heaven・Earth・People in Korean Arts and Letters
ARTH 22410Architecture Studio: Bodies, Objects, Spaces
ARTH 22814Who's to Blame for the Renaissance?
ARTH 22816Narrative Frescos in Early Modern Italy
ARTH 23324The Human Form in Contemporary Art
ARTH 23325Touch and Tactility in East Asian Art
ARTH 23401Revision, Expression & Portfolio Design
ARTH 23816Scroll, Screen, Stela: East Asian Art and Its Mediums
ARTH 24030Sexuality Studies in American Art
ARTH 24045Painting Landscapes in 19th century France
ARTH 24091Environmental Art History
ARTH 24092Public and Political Locations of South Asian Art History
ARTH 24181Introductory Architecture Studio: House, Housing
ARTH 24190Imagining Chicago's Common Buildings
ARTH 24193Water Water Everywhere?
ARTH 24199The Life of Buildings
ARTH 24267Architecture of Memory
ARTH 24612Global Art Nouveau
ARTH 24613Rhoades Seminar: Provenance Research into the Art Institute of Chicago's Collections
ARTH 24614Public Art, Land Art in Europe-Gold Gorvy Traveling Seminar
ARTH 24618Rhoades Seminar: Unamerican Photographs
ARTH 24621Do You Read Me? Curating Postwar Artists's Books
ARTH 24651Latest Experiments in Architectural History
ARTH 24712Envisioning Tokyo: City, Capital, Metropolis (Traveling Seminar)
ARTH 24713Animated Things in Premodern China
ARTH 24815Collecting the Ancient World: Museum Practice and Politics
ARTH 25115Winckelmann: Enlightenment Art Historian and Philosopher
ARTH 25116The Art of Inca Sovereignty
ARTH 25118Color Everywhere: Synthetic Dyes and Modern Art
ARTH 25119Architecture and Colonialism in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
ARTH 25120Design with A Mission
ARTH 25121Architecture Studio: Drawing, Visualization & Modeling:Architectural Skills in Depth
ARTH 25140Aesthetic Ecologies
ARTH 25203The History of Collecting from Treasury to Museum
ARTH 25712Photography and Political Ecology
ARTH 2588520th Century American Drama
ARTH 26001Religion and Visual Culture in the Late Antique Mediterranean
ARTH 26004Introduction to Art, Religion, and Spirituality
ARTH 26367Objects, Place and Power
ARTH 26384Art and the Archive in Greater Latin America