78 courses in the 1978–79 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Professor, Chairman A. M. Urquhart, BFA (Buffalo)
Professor V. Burnett, BS (Columbia), MA (California)
Associate Professors
N. L. Patterson, BA (Washington)
D. |. MacKay, BFA (Mt. Allison) MA (Cornell) (Sabbatical 1978-79)
Assistant Professors
A. Green, BFA (Art Instit. of Chicago)
B. Irland, BFA (Illinois), MFA (Massachusetts)
E.Kliman, MA, PhD (Toronto)
J.Uhde, MA (Purkyne’s University Brno, Czechoslovakia), PhD (Waterloo)
Lecturers C. Crockford, BEd (Alberta), MA (UBC) A. Roberts
Fine Arts— Music
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Officer
W.R. Maust, 8S (Eastern Mennonite), BM (Peabody Conservatory), MM, PhD (Indiana University)
Associate Professor H. Martens, BA, MA (Minnesota), PhD (Columbia)
Lecturer L. Enns, BSM (CMBC), BMus (WLU), MMus
Part-time Lecturers
K. Hull, BA (Waterloo), BMus (Western Ontario) M. Jarrett
A. Martin, BMus (Toronto), MMus (Eastman)
Course Descriptions — Fine Arts
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A comparative survey of Prehistoric and Ancient Art, and of Oriental, African, New World, and Oceanian Art, emphasizing visual form as an expression of its historical and cultural context.
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introduction to World Art 2
Acomparative survey of Western Art from the Classical to the Modern period, emphasizing visual form as an expression of its historical and cultural context.
Course Descriptions Fine Arts
An introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of visual art, through a series of experimental studio problems in two and three dimensional materials and media.
Lab fee
A continuation of Fine 120 with emphasis on colour. Prereq: Fine 120
An examination of the history of Modern Art from the late 18th century up to the time of Impressionism.
A continuation of Fine 210, commencing with impressionism and proceeding through the major trends of the early 20th century up to the contemporary period.
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture, especially in Florence and Siena, starting with Giotto and his contemporaries and covering innovations in perspective, anatomy, and iconography through the end of the 15th century.
A continuation of Fine 212 starting with the masters of the High Renaissance, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, and proceeding through Mannerism, Baroque and Rococo in Florence, Venice and Rome.
An examination of British Art from the sixteenth Century up to the modern period.
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Exploration of painting problems in various media as vehicles for serious creative expression. The fundamentals of composition and painting techniques (paint, materials, and preparation of painting surfaces) will be presented through studio projects. Lab fee. Prereq: Fine 120/121
The creation of both non-objective and representational forms on a two-dimensional surface using various mediums. The course will build upon concepts learned in Fine 200 but with more emphasis on individual expression. Lab fee
Prereq: Fine 220
An introduction to clay sculpture. Three-dimensional form will be explored with the emphasis on the handling of clay as an expressive medium enhanced by surface treatment. Primitive reduction and Raku firing methods will be used to understand basic clay and glaze reactions to heat.
Prereq: Fine 120/121 lab fee
An introduction to multi-media sculpture. Additive and subtractive use of wood, metal and plaster casting, together with a mastery of three-dimensional forms ina variety of media.
Prereq: Fine 222, lab fee
Three dimensional studies from the modei. Hollow fired, terra-cotta portraiture and cement fondu casting of the human figure. Lab fee
Prereq: consent of Instructor
Half the time will be devoted to drawing from the model and the remainder to a series of drawing concepts. At
least one field trip will be included: Art Gallery of Ontario or the Albright Knox in Buffalo. Lab fee.
Prereq: Fine 120/121
Analytical and expressive drawing in a variety of media. Lab fee.
Prereq: Fine 120/121
Introduction to materials and methods of printmaking. Current offerings are given below.
Introduction etching with emphasis on intaglio printing. Lab fee.
Prereq: Fine 120/121
Course Descriptions 289 Fine Arts
Introductory relief printing with emphasis on woodcut. Lab fee..
Prereq: Fine 120/121
Introductory silkscreen. Lab fee. Prereq: Fine 120/121
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The history, design and practice of various applied arts will be explored in slide lectures and studio projects. Specific arts will vary from year to year: current offerings are given below.
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A study of contemporary and historical images and effigies in art, ritual, and drama, and a series of studio projects in which three-dimensional images are constructed.
Introduction to film and photographic techniques Basic introduction to the field of audio visual media including film and photographic techniques. Photo supplies, film stock and processing at students expense. intended for Fine Arts majors; Admission by consent of Instructor.
Practical Introduction to film techniques. Theory, experiments and assignments in script writing, production planning, directing, editing and camera work. Further differentiation in film forms.
Prereq: Fine 234 or consent of Instructor
General history of world cinema in its silent era (1885-1928), covering the work of outstanding directors, important movements and the contribution to the film medium as an independent art form. (Regular screening of a variety of films.) Film fee.
A continuation of Fine 244 the expression of film history into the sound era (since 1929) including the most recent period. (Regular screening of a variety of films). Film fee.
A theological approach to the study of film as a world transofrming phenomenon for man. An assessment of film’s special characteristics as an art form capable of addressing man’s quest for a significant existence. Consideration of a wide range of films and directors, with particular emphasis on Ingmar Bergman. Film fee $5.00
Anexploration of selected themes— death, evil, guilt, fate alienation, love, redemption— in the films of several of today’s leading directors: Bunuel, Pasolini, Kurosawa, Fellini, Antonioni, Polanski. Film fee $5.00
A survey of the art and architecture of the ancient Greek world from the Minoan to the Hellenistic periods. Consult Classics listings
A survey of the art and architecture of the Roman world from Etruscan to Imperial times.
Consult Classic listing.
An in-depth survey from the Middie Ages to the eighteenth century that included the Romanesque and Gothic cathedral in France, Flemish painting, Northern Mannerism, Rubens. and Dutch Art of the seventeenth century.
A study of eighteenth and nineteenth century art with special emphasis on the development of Romanticism.
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Not offered in 1978–79.
The arts and crafts of Canadian Indian and Inuit (Eskimo) peoples are examined with slide lectures, films, and student presentations.
Course Descriptions Fine Arts
An examination of Canadian Art extending through the important styles of settlers, expecially from Britain and France, in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the development of the nationalist styles of early twentieth century, culminating in contemporary Canadian art.
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A seminar exploring contemporary artistic concepts through critical analysis, historical correlation, discussions with artists and visits to studios and galleries. Prereq: consent of instructor.
Anexploration of various painting techniques as a means of creating both non-objective and representational forms on a 2-dimensional surface. Lab fee.
Prereq: 221 or consent of instructor
An exploration of the technique of watercolour painting as a means of creating both non-objective and representational forms on a two-dimensional surface. Prereq: Fine 220 or consent of instructor
A continuation of Fine 320 with emphasis on independent problems.
Anexploration of sculpture problems in a variety of media | as vehicles for serious creative expression. Wood, metal, glass and soapstone will be used for visual portrayal of spatial ideas.
Prereq: Fine 222/223 lab fee
Organisation and integration of sculptural concepts in clay to develop a series of representationalor abstract sculptures. Clay and glaze technology for oxidation stoneware firing will be stressed.
Prereq: Fine 322
A two and three dimensional study of the various aspects of assemblage, including visual poetry, processes, events, conceptualization, and structuralism.
A course in which drawing is investigated as a means of expression and communication. An understanding of the human figure—its structure, its movement, and its connotation- will be a central goal of the work. Objects and the landscape will also be studied as sources of artistic possibility. The student will be encouraged to experiment with imagery, to develop personal vision, and to devise individual formal means of expressions. Lab fee. .
Prereq: Fine 224 and consent of instructor
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A continuation of Fine 326 with emphasis on independent problems. Lab fee. Prereq: Fine 326
A study of the art of written forms, combining studio projects with slide lectures on the history of writing, illuminating, and lettering. Students will strive for mastery in various calligraphic forms including Roman, Uncial, Gothic, Italic and Fraktur.
Lab fee.
Studio work in techniques and theory of book illustration, together with slide lectures on the history of printed forms.
Prereq: Consent of Instructor
3C,std 0.5
Further exploration in documentary film. Visual significance, motivation and other aspects of script writing. Film stock and processing paid by students.
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Special topics will be announced from year to year.
0.5/0.5
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Discussion of the aesthetic aspects of cinematographic work (principles known as ‘‘film language’’).
Prereq: consent of instructor
An extension of Fine370. The main accent will be placed upon major theories of cinematography, such as those of Kracauer, Metz, and Eisenstein, and upon the development of the students’ own judgement in the form of critical expression. The impact of the film medium upon modern society will also be discussed as well as the relationship between film and television.
Prereq: Fine 370
390 F R- 0.5
Selected Subjects in Fine Arts
Research and reading courses under the direction of individual instructors.
Admission by consent of instructor
For students planning a Senior Honours Presentation in Art History as it is currently understood. Students will examine methods of formal and stylistic analysis, iconographical interpretation and the application of social and political history to understanding of works of art. Required of all art history majors who take
Fine 490/491.
Prereq: consent of instructor
Research and reading courses under the direction of individual instructors.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Studio and practice under the direction of individual instructors.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Studio and practice courses under the direction of individual instructors.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Admission by consent of instructor.
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Admission by consent of instructor.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Admission by consent of instructor.
Each student will work under the direction of a Fine Arts faculty member on an advanced creative project: The result of this endeavour will be presented in the formofan exhibition or its equivalent (i.e.: film, illustrated book, portfolio, or essay), which will be examined by faculty members of Fine Arts and also where pertinent, by members of other departments.
Required of all students in Honours Fine Arts Admission by permission only
A continuation of Fine 490
Admission by permissiom only
Course Descriptions Fine Arts/Music
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