The Terra Visiting Professor at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute JoAnne Mancini (Maynooth University) offered the following courses on American Art in the Summer Term 2022: 

• Sounding American Art (BA course)

Tuesdays 10 a.m. – noon, Kennedy Institute (Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin) room 340; course number 32101-S22, first session on April 19, 2022.

Since the eighteenth century, when the silversmith and printer Paul Revere engraved the frontispiece to the first book of published music by a US composer, William Billings, there has been an ongoing relationship between American art and American music.  Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this module will consider that relationship from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.  At the same time, it will also explore some of the ways in which intersection has been explored not only by art historians but also by musicologists and others outside of art history. 

• Topics American Art History (MA course)

Tuesdays 2 – 4 p.m., Kennedy Institute (Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin) room 340; course number 32114-S22, first session on April 19, 2021.

This module will explore the history of American art through recent research and writing.  Focusing on a series of topics explored by contemporary scholarship, its aim will be to develop familiarity with current approaches to American art by art historians and interdisciplinary scholars. 

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Winter Term 2021/22: 

• Landscapes of American Art (BA course)

Tuesdays 4 – 6 p.m. Kennedy Institute (Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin) room 319; course number 32104 first session on November 2, 2021. This course will be online in November and December, starting in January there might be in-person teaching if possible.

This module will explore the history of American art through the theme ‘Landscapes of American Art’. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it will consider some of the ways in which American artists have engaged with built and natural environments, how that engagement has changed over time, and how that engagement relates to broader trends in American culture. At the same time, it will also explore some of the ways in which the making and unmaking of landscapes is itself an aspect of American visual and material culture, analysed not only by art historians but also by disciplines such as geography, history, and urban studies.

• Issues in American Art History (MA course)

Tuesdays 2 – 4 p.m., Kennedy Institute (Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin) room 319; course number 32117 first session on November 2, 2020. This course will be online in November and December, starting in January there might be in-person teaching if possible.

This module will explore the history of American art through recent research and writing. What issues, themes, and concepts have motivated recent scholarship? How has recent scholarship attempted to change the discourse and the discipline of American art? How have recent scholars in the field engaged with other disciplines, and what might the future hold for American art history?