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An on-site, comprehensive examination of the painting, sculpture and architecture produced during the Golden Age of Venice, the Veneto and southern Lombardy, 1200-1800. There will be a classroom component at MassArt, in which students will discuss relevant art historical texts and learn conversational Italian. Beginning with a week-long stay in the great city itself, we will study the evolution of Venetian culture from its origins as an outpost of the Byzantine Empire to its rise as the greatest and most enduring republic the world has ever known, as well as one of the richest and most magnetic artistic centers in Europe. After seven days in Venice, we will leave for Mantua, stopping first in the foothills of the Alps to view Palladio's Villa Barbaro, and then at Padua to view the frescoes by Giotto in the Arena Chapel, which for many mark the beginning of the Renaissance. In Mantua we will study the architecture of Alberti, the frescoes by Mantegna in the Ducal Palace, and finally, the tour-de-force of Renaissance pleasure construction, Giulio Romano's Palazzo Te. SEE TRAVEL COURSE SECTION FOR OFFICIAL REGISTRATION PROCEDURES. TRAVEL TO ITALY REQUIRED. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: TRAVEL Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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The long tradition of Chinese art is an important part of human aesthetic experience and a part of the cultural heritage of every modern woman and man in the global family. This class is a chronologically organized survey of the canon of Chinese art, including ceramic, jade, bronze, sculpture, architecture, garden, furniture, calligraphy, painting, and religious art. This survey is meant to provide a historical perspective on the works of art in their historical and social context over the centuries in China and to introduce the students to a repertoire of usable methods of approach to art. The concept of "China" itself is culturallyconstructed. Students in this class will be asked to think and examine critically how the works of art under the label "Chinese"constitute a special tradition and how this tradition develops, changes, and interacts with other traditions of art through the ages. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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The aim of this course is to acquaint the student with the most significant individuals and movements in the history or American painting and sculpture from the Colonial Period to 1940. Rather than taking an encyclopedic approach, class lecture and discussion will focus on a limited group of topics, which together will give the student an overview of the high points of greatest cultural significance in our country's art history. Required reading includes sections from the text that parallel classroom topics. In addition, students are required to read a section of articles that treat some course topics in greater depth and detail. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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Focusing on how artists have engaged with their environment from the eighteenth century through the twentieth, this class will subject the subject matter of landscape to close scrutiny. This class will look at parallel developments in Europe and America, and will consider how various stylistic movements in 18th, 19th and 20th century painting, as well as photography, graphic arts and even sculpture have reacted to the significance of space and place, and humankind's impact on the land. Through regular reading assignments, student presentations and research projects, students will track their own relationship to the land, the city and the environment in which we live. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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A history of the invention and development of printmaking techniques through the study of the work of major historical and contemporary artists. Material is drawn primarily from Western traditions and includes cross-cultural influences. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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This course is a general survey of the main developments of Modern Mexican art in its social, economic, and political contexts. It runs from the late eighteenth-century founding of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City to the major movements of the 1960s, including La Ruptura. This includes discussion of easel painting, mural painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, popular arts and cinema. The final lectures focus on art that offers a critique of Muralism and on Chicano art, which continues an ancient tradition of discourse between Mexico and North America. Particular attention is given to the Muralist movement and the works of Posada, Herran, Rivera, Siquieros, Orozco, Tamayo and Kahlo. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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This course will survey the art produced in Latin America during the colonial period, an era that began with the arrival of Cortes in Mexico in 1519 and ended in the nineteenth century when Spain and Portugal lost the last of their American territories. Students will examine the art produced during this period in the context of both preexisting indigenous traditions and contemporary European trends. In particular we will focus on how indigenous art forms and concepts were able to persist amidst dominating colonial forces. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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This course will explore the cultural and social context of Abstract Expressionism. We will consider American and European influences, ways in which the artists saw their own work, and critical assessments of the period. We will also consider the myriad of artistic responses to Abstract Expressionism throughout the 1950s and 1960s. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective Friday, March 13, 2009 Page C6 of 9
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This course will survey the most significant achievements in painting and sculpture from the Ashcan School to the origins and early development of abstract expressionism. Emphasis will be given to the relationships between American modernism and its European sources as well as to the more-or-less-constant presence of realism in American art. The instructor will prepare a reader for the course which will include scholarship of monographic focus as well as selections from such classic studies about the period as Milton W. Brown's American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, Abraham A. Davidson's Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935, and Irving Sandler's The Triumph of American Painting. A special feature of the course will be the inclusion of assignments in American literature of specific pertinence. Selections from Hart Crane's The Bridge will be studied in relation to visual representations of the Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio will be read in conjunction with the paintings of Charles Burchfield. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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The history of communication design, from the Industrial Revolution to the present, with selected references to pre-industrial developments. The course investigates diverse languages and technologies of visual communication to help students understand their own role as producers and/or consumers of communication design. Prerequisites: HART 100 Type: lecture seminar Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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