Art History 290hw - Colloquium: Topics in Art History-Home as a Work of Art

Colq: T-Home as Art

Spring
2025
01
4.00
John E. Moore

M W 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM

Smith College
ARH-290hw-01-202503
Hillyer 103
jmoore@smith.edu
This course examines dwellings, some with adjacent gardens, constructed for monarchs, aristocrats, upper- and middle-class individuals, workers, and the indigent, with an eye, first, toward identifying criteria that governed design, and second, toward understanding how articulated and decorated space shaped behavior and expressed meaning in specific social and cultural contexts. In addition to mining a rich trove of printed images and books related to domestic architecture, students study objects intended for the home, among them furniture, wall hangings, ceramics, commissioned ensembles of paintings and sculptures, and decorations executed in wood, stucco, and metal. Restrictions: ARH 290 may be taken for credit a total of 4 times with different topics. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)

[CE] ARH 290 Limit

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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