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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2005. Examines the visual arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. The relationship of visual culture to political, social, and economic developments is emphasized. Includes museum visits.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys principal movements in European and American art from 1900 to the present. Presents a thematic approach, exploring fauvism, cubism, abstraction, dadaism and surrealism, modernist paradigms, and postmodern interventions. Course is writing intensive. Includes visits to museums and galleries.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2005. Explores the role of gender in the visual arts including such topics as women as creators, subjects, and patrons, and issues of art, gender roles, and sexuality. Concentrates on three distinct periods: early modernism through surrealism; the Renaissance; and contemporary culture.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a broad survey of the history of American painting and sculpture from the seventeenth century to the present. Explores the social and cultural forces as well as the aesthetic and intellectual concerns that shape the evolution of art in the United States. Includes frequent visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2005. Surveys the techniques and development of printmaking in Europe and the United States from the earliest print media to the present, and explores the various implications of the multiplied image on paper. From their inception around 1400 in Europe, the graphic media have established social functions and aesthetic criteria that differ considerably from those of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
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4.00 Credits
Explores photography from its origins in 1839 to its maturity after World War II. Examines technological advances, the documentary aesthetic, art photography, and theoretical approaches to the study of the medium. Photographs are studied as art objects, personal statements, and historical artifacts. Includes museum visits.
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4.00 Credits
Explores conceptual principles underlying the professional practice of design including visual problem solving, terminology, and methodology. Explores constructive drawing, which is used in graphic design to investigate creative alternatives.
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4.00 Credits
Applies graphic design principles to the correlation of forms with their function, content, and context. Explores a variety of media including letterform, photographic image making and manipulation, and three-dimensional forms as elements of visual solutions. Exposes students to many forms of visual expression including artists' books and moving images. Constructive drawing is explored in the context of graphic designers' needs.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces letterforms in visual communication. Studies typography as form and explores visual principles affecting organization and access of typographic information. Introduces use of the typographic grid and issues of hierarchy and legibility through assigned projects, readings, and lectures. Includes the historical evolution of typefaces and their classification as a rational system. Guides students in the application of typography as the basis of graphic design.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2005. Surveys major international developments in film from the late nineteenth century to the present. Examines national movements, technological and aesthetic innovations, important figures, and significant films. Includes films, lectures, and discussions.
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