Dr. Rozmeri Basic,

Professor of Art History

Courses Taught:

AHI 1113--UNDERSTANDING ART

Required Text: Marilyn Stokstad, Art: a Brief History, New York: Prentice Hall, Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. Recommended Reference Work: James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art, New York: Icon Editions, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. Course Description: This course is design to give you an understanding of visual culture. Following the order defined by the textbook, lectures will clarify and amplify the material assigned from the text. Students will be tested on the information in the text, lectures, and handouts.

The following courses are seminars:

AHI 4133/5133--AEGEAN ART

Required Texts: Donald Preziosi and Louise A. Hitchcock, Aegean Art and Architecture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. J. Lesley Fitton, Cycladic Art, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. J. Lessley Fitton, The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Lord William Taylor, The Mycenaeans, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1983. Recommended Reference Work: Oliver Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Course Description: This course will examine the cultures of the Aegean as reflected in architecture, sculpture, painting, and minor arts.

AHI 4233/5233--ETRUSCAN ART

Required Texts: Nigel Spivey, Etruscan Art, New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1997. Larissa Bonfante, Ed., Etruscan Life and Afterlife, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986. Recommended Reference Works: Gosta Saflund, Etruscan Imagery, Symbol and Meaning, Jonsered: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1993. Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen, The Etruscans, Malden: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1998. Course Description: This course will examine selected works of art and architecture of the Etruscan civilization.

AHI 4263/5263--BYZANTINE ART

Required Texts: Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art, Oxford: University Press, 2000. Cyril Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453, Sources and Documents, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Constantine Cavarnos, Guide to Byzantine Iconography, Volume One, Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1993. Course Description: Reading and research on selected topics in Byzantine art with emphasis on the influences from the social, political, economic, literary, and religious climate" of the time.                                                                                                      Strongly recommended source: John Lowden, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Phaidon, 1998

AHI 4273/5273-BYZANTINE ICONS
                                                                                                                                    Required and Recommended Texts: Egon Sendler, The Icon, Image of the Invisible: Elements of Theology, Aesthetics and Technique, Oakwood Publications, 1988; Vladimir Lossky, Leonid Ouspensky, G.E. Palmer, Meaning of Icons, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1982; St. John of Damascus, On the Divine Images, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997; Linette Martin, Sacred Doorways: A Beginner's Guide to Icons,  Paraclete Press, 2002. Course Depiction: Byzantine images occupy a principal position at the heart of the Eastern Church and they are an organic part of daily services. The icon represents a vision of the invisible, and therefore a vision founded on divine knowledge which transforms the created work into the “miracle working image.” This class will examine the challenging process of producing holiness and divinity through painting panels.
Strongly recommended source: http://www.iconsexplained.com/iec/iec_idb3r.htm