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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 AUP Fine Arts Gallery
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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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For more information about the programs offered in the
Department of Art History and Fine Arts, you may contact the
Department Chair: |
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Contact Christine Baltay |
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baltay@aup.edu |
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+33 1
40.62.06.00 ext. 606 |
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Bosquet, AUP: 31, ave Bosquet, 75007, Paris (Métro:
La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau,
Invalides) |
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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 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
Up to 18 French through French FR 2035
4 French language or literature beyond FR 2035
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 1000 Introduction to Western Art I
AH 2013 Renaissance Art and Architecture
AH 2014 Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
AH 2016 19th- and 20th-Century Art and Architecture
OPTION II
AH 1020 Introduction to Western Art II
AH 2011 Ancient Art and Architecture
AH 2012 Medieval Art and Architecture
AH 2013 Renaissance Art and Architecture
REQUIRED
(12 credits)
AR 1020 Materials and Techniques of the Masters
AH 3090 Junior Seminar (must be taken in the Junior year)
AH 4090 Senior Seminar (may be taken twice for credit)
ELECTIVES (20
credits)
Select five additional Art History courses of which three must be at the
3000- 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 1000 Introduction to Western Art I
AH 1020 Introduction to Western Art II
CM 1023 Media Analysis or
FM 1010 Films and Their Meanings
CM/ES 3037 The Museum as Medium
ES 1010 Europe and Cities: The Modern City
ELECTIVES
Choose six of the following courses, from at least three different
disciplines (24 credits)
Any upper-level AH course (2000-level or above) except
AH 3090 and AH 4090
AH/PL 3074 The Philosophy of Aesthetics
CM 3006 Color as Communication
CM 3055 Visual Rhetoric: Persuasive Images
CM 3062 Media Semiotics
CM 3075 Media Aesthetics
CM/AN 3049 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 3053 Media and Gender
CM/GS 3004 Communicating Fashion
CL 3002 Word and Image: Literature and the Visual Arts
ES 1005 Europe and Cities: The Italian Renaissance
ES/AH 3016 Society and Spectacle
ES/HI 3017 The Islamic City
ES/FM 3000 The Film Culture of Europe’s Cities
FM 2075 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film I
FM 2076 Introduction to the History and Analysis of Film II
FM 2092 Women and Film
FM 3027 Film Theory and Criticism
GS/PY 2008 Gender Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema: A Psychosocial
Approach
GS/HI 2013 Women in Parisian History and the Arts
GS/VC 3014 Art, Culture and Gender in the Italian Renaissance
GS/HI 3019 Women Artists in European History
GS/VC 3032 The Power of Images in Western History
GS/HI 3026 Women in the French Renaissance
PY 3091 Topics in Psychology (if the topic is appropriate)
VC 4095 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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 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.
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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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In December
2011 Jonathan Shimony and Jula Wildberger
presented a paper entitled "Teaching
classics through art: visual arts as a
tool for enhancing text comprehension and
appreciation" at the 2nd Visual Learning
Conference in Budapest, hosted by the
Visual Learning Lab, Department of
Technical Education, Budapest University
of Technology and Economics. The paper
reflects on experiences with an
EnglishBridge module "Images from
Classical Texts" offered at AUP in Spring
2010. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012] |
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George
Wanklyn was invited to participate in the
Journées
d'étude Jean Cousin at the Louvre
and the Institut national d'histoire de
l'art on 15 and 16 November. Jean Cousin
le Père and Jean Cousin le Fils were two
of the most important French artists of
the XVI century. Professor Wanklyn was
specifically invited to be one of the
three members of the
Table
ronde : Cousin et le dessin, but he
participated in several of the six other
table ronde discussions at the INHA. In
1979, he published a drawing on parchment
which he identified as a design for the
sumptuous gift of a gold vessel weighing
almost 13 kilos given by the Ville de
Paris to King Henri II on the occasion of
his Triumphal Entry into his capital in
June 1549. According to Dominique
Cordellier, a Louvre curator and one of
the two organizers of the colloquium, the
design is one of only three drawings which
can be used most surely as the basis for
additional attributions of drawings to the
elder Cousin. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Dec 2011] |
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Kathleen
Wilson-Chevalier's review of the 2011 Art
Institute of Chicago exhibition
King's,
Queen's, and Courtiers. Art in Early
Renaissance France, can be viewed
on the German
art book review site. On November 26,
she chaired a session at the symposium
Miroirs de Charles IX images imaginaires
symboliques (Institut National d'Histoire
de l'Art, Centre Allemand Histoire de
l'Art, University of Chicago). |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Dec 2011] |
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On
November 8 Ralph Petty was interviewed
with author Nancy Huston about their book,
Démons
Quotidiens, on France Inter,
on the program "l'Humeur Vagabonde" with
host Kathleen Evin. |
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[AUP - Posted 11 Nov 2011] |
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On
July 9, Christine Baltay gave a paper,
“Uncommon Curiosity: Caravaggio’s Early
Collectors,” at a conference entitled
Collectors and Display at the Institute
for Historical Research, London. |
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[AUP - Posted 16 Sep 2011] |
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Kathleen
Wilson-Chevalier's chapter, "Picturing
Great Ladies of the Renaissance Who Helped
Pave the Literary Way," has just appeared
in
Teaching
French Women Writers of the Renaissance
and Reformation, Colette H.
Winn ed., New York, The Modern Language
Association of America, 2011, 34-56. This
volume is part of the MLA's "Options for
Teaching" series. She gave a paper
entitled "Madeleine de Savoie and Anne de
Montmorency: Portraiture as Agency in
Sacred Spaces" at the conference Das
Porträt: Mobilisierung und Verdichtung,
which was held at the Philipps-Universität
in Marburg, Germany, June 23-25. She also
participated in the second session of the
Text-Image Relations in Late Medieval
French Culture (14th c.-16th c.) seminar,
organized at the Leeds Humanities Research
Institute on July 9. This was followed by
a paper, "Musings on the Realm of Amazon
Queens (and on How Queen Claude de France
Learned to Read," as part of a session
organized by the same research institute
at the International Medieval Congress,
Leeds, July 11-14. |
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[AUP - Posted 16 Sep 2011] |
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Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier's review of
Monique Chatenet and Pierre-Gilles
Girault's book,
Fastes de
cour. Les enjeux d'un voyage princier à
Blois en 1501 (Presses
universitaires de Rennes, 2010) was
published on the
Cour-de-france website in May.
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[AUP - Posted 7 June 2011] |
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In a letter from President Schenck, the AUP
Community has sadly learned that Filiz Burhan,
Professor of Art History at AUP since 1984,
has passed away.
