FAPA 330A - Once Upon a Time- Fairy Tales and the Arts

Institution:

Eastern University

Subject:

Fine & Performing Arts

Description:

A Fine Arts course designed to examine the influence of the ancient stories we call 'Fairy Tales' on all aspects of art making covering a period from roughly the mid 1800's to the present. One only has to look at the titles of the DVDs on any shelf in any retail store to see the pervasiveness of Fairy Tales in our culture. Quite often, these titles are not addressed to children. Why should this be so? This course seeks to attempt to answer that question while acquainting the student with superb examples of art(ballet, radio, film, animation, concert music, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, etc.)that were inspired or influenced by Fairy Tales. Students will also become familiar with several methods of analysis(Freudian, Jungian, Christian), which will be used as lenses to view each story. Fairy Tales from the Grimm Brothers will obviously be represented, but the course will spend about a third of the semester looking at non-Western Fairy Tales, and consequently non-Western art forms as well.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.eastern.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 341-5800

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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