ARTS 1650H - Art in New York City

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

Art (Undergrad Women)

Description:

This Honors course is an intensive investigation of the visual arts of New York through firsthand experience of some of the City’s most important museums, galleries and private institutions. It introduces students to a broad range of cultures and stylistic movements – from ancient to contemporary art, using key paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, decorative arts and architectural monuments as primary sources. Through readings, critical analysis, discussion – and close observation, in particular – students are encouraged to engage issues having to do with the collection, preservation and display of art in the modern world. New York serves as the backdrop and one of the themes of the course. Just as we will analyze the art that is in New York, so will we investigate the art that is New York. Themes to be discussed include: the encyclopedic museum, cultural patrimony, private taste and patronage, non-traditional settings and media, religious and ethnic identity in art, principles of Modernism, folk tradition in the modern world, the direction of contemporary art, and the New York as a subject and source of artistic inspiration.

Credits:

0.00 - 3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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