AI 336 - Contempy Amer Music & Art

Institution:

DePaul University

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Description:

The artist stands between the world in which she/he lives and the product of his/her work - while using a particular medium to grasp and communicate an image and vision of that world. This course will survey and compare seminal ideas and trends that have taken place in music and the visual arts during the past forty years. Emphasis will be on how these two art forms responded to the same set of social circumstances and how artists in different media realized bith parallel and divergent concerns. Some of the artists that will be compared and John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, Earle Brown and Alexander Calder, and Philip Glass and Donald Judd. Wherever possible illustrations will be drawn from film, literature, dance, and te other arts. Students will develop the tools and confidence to compare works in different media in order to gain insights into how artists, through similar formal concerns, arrive at results which are appropriate to their media. The course will try to develop the student's awareness of artist's social concerns primarily through their own perceptions and inferences and, secondarily, through reading artists' statements and writings.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.depaul.edu

Phone Number:

(312) 362-8000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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