0505-505 - Art in the Age of the New Deal

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Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course will examine art in the age of the new deal; that is the art and context of the 1920's and the 1930's that spawned the works of the federal artprojects of the 1030's. We will examine the role of the Roosevelt administration'snew deal that fostered government sponsorship of the arts, including the visual arts, film, theater, literature, music and dance. We will examine the art produced through this sponsorship in the context of the evolution of 20th century modernism, mostly European, which had just begun to influence American art. We will look at the stylistic and ideological affinities of this figurative style, known as the American scene, with the Mexican muralists and other government-sponsored social realist art of the 1930's. Part of the art history concentration and minor and the American artistic experience concentration. It may be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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