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This course will examine American art from the time of European settlement to the Civil War with special emphasis on political, social and cultural contexts. The course is both chronological and thematic. It focuses on major figures, such as Jjohn Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles W. Peale, and Thomas Cole. It also focuses on issues such as the construction of an American identity, the role of the fine arts in American society, and the tensions of class, gender, race and ethnicity in American art. This course will combine slide lecture with discussion of secondary readings. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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This course will trace the evolution of American architecture from the country's earliest days to recent years. It will explore how national identity, landscape, and history have factored into the creation of a uniquely American architectural dialogue. The course will engage primary source texts and local sites to illustrate the nuances of important themes. Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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Advanced study of the artists and issues of the visual arts since 1945, with emphasis on the arts of the 70's, 80's, and 90's. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective Friday, March 13, 2009 Page C3 of 9
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A survey of the major artists, movements, criticism and theory in the visual arts from Minimalism to the 1990s. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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A survey of modern art and architecture in Latin America from the beginning of the 20th century. The course will explore issues of national identity and cultural autonomy that informed the emergence of modernism; the "postcolonial" relationship toEuropean art; the tension between nationalism and internationalism, and how the experiences of exile and diaspora affect these feelings and the artistic expressions thereof; how artists respond to forces such as imperialism, authoritarianism, and revolution; and how globalizing and transnational social, economic and political processes call into question the notion of "Latin American" art. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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Concentrating on the visual language of film, this course will consider the pictorial traditions upon which the new medium draws, and out of which, to some extent, it can be said to grow. We will compare the composition of the standard modules of cinema, the shot and the scene, with precedents drawn from Western art history, from Greek vase paintings to Renaissance fresco cycles and nineteenth-century English narrative pictures. We will simultaneously consider what is unique to the new medium. Weekly examinations of film clips in order to illustrate traditional and nontraditional visual techniques of cinematic narrative will be complemented by wide-ranging readings and regular viewing and reviewing of full-length films. Following a brief history of the medium before the Second World War, we will identify and examine many of the traditional ways in which cinematic artists compose their visual narratives. We will then undertake an indepth study of some of the major works of cinema since 1945, including films by Rossellini, Bresson, Hitchcock, the French New Wave directors and those of Das Neue Kino in Germany, and the American Independents. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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An introduction to the history of photography from the inventions of Daguerre and Fox Talbot to the 20th century masters. The course addresses problems and issues arising from the different techniques of, and the interrelationships between, art, photography, science, and society. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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An investigation of the designed and built environment, from the end of the 19th century to the present day. This course examines the influence of technology, aesthetics, politics, social history and economics on modern architecture and urban planning, including the Chicago School, Art Nouveau, international modernism of the 1920s to the 1960s, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism and worldwide contemporary theory and practice. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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What is Sound Art? Imagine mind-bending sound pieces using nothing but the echo of a space, vegetable instruments that turn into soup, a "Sound Chair" that propels you through the room, and meditations that reveal sounds in daily life that you never dreamed were there. The course will provide a solid knowledge of sound history and basic acoustic principals, and examine works by artists who have blurred traditional boundaries between music and other disciplines such as science, design, visual arts and philosophy. This is an ideal course for artists engaged in multi-media work that includes sound (i.e., video, film, animation, installation, performance art, circuit-bending) and people interested in experimental music of any genre. No previous experience with sound or music needed. For more information please contact: Judy.Dunaway@massart.edu 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will undertake to identify and examine various narrative techniques utilized throughout the history of Western civilization by both visual and literary artists. We will also devote considerable attention to an exploration of the reverberations and transformations of narrative traditions in the major crossdisciplinary medium of the twentieth century, cinema. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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