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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the arts of painting, printmaking, and sculpture in the northern and southern Netherlands, Germany, and France from 1400 to 1600.Students consider the work of major masters such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, and Pieter Bruegel as well as the development of certain themes - the depiction of popular proverbs, landscape scenes, and scenes of daily life, for example - that were particularly popular in northern art.The course emphasizes the relationship of the arts to the rest of society.Students examine works in local collections and travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a superb collection of northern Renaissance art.Previously listed as AH 230.Three credits
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This survey of the architecture and urbanism of 15th- through early 18th-century Europe and its colonial world addresses topics such as the Renaissance revival of antiquity and its impact on architecture, the changing nature of architectural practice, the role of religious orders like the Jesuits in the dissemination of architectural style and taste, and the importance of illustrated books in advancing theoretical and practical notions about architecture and the city.The course term paper assignment considers the legacy of Renaissance and baroque architecture in the northeastern United States.Three credits.
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The 17th century in Europe was marked by profound shifts in politics, religion, and culture, which are reflected in the art produced during then.This course surveys painting, sculpture, architecture, and urbanism of the Baroque era, with a focus on Italy, Spain, and France.Among the themes explored are: the impact of religious reform on the visual arts of Catholic lands; the notion of classicism as an artistic ideal; the role of academies and the market in promoting the arts; the phenomenal output of portraiture and self-portraiture; and the shaping of cities as works of art.Three credits.
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This introductory course surveys the major periods and key monuments in the history of architecture - largely in the West - from antiquity to the present.Topics include Greek and Roman temples and civic architecture; Medieval mosques and cathedrals; Renaissance and Baroque cities and their monuments; Early Modern factories and gardens; Machine Age museums and houses; and contemporary architectural developments of all sorts.Students will work with actual buildings in writing assignments, and learn the skills necessary to critique and interpret the built environment of the past and present in the United States and beyond.Three credits.
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This survey of art and architecture during the turbulent 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America includes the neo-classical style favored by Napoleon and Jefferson, the dramatic emotionalism of the Romantic era, the clarity of realist style, and the revolutionary invention of photography.This course is recommended as the basis for studying 20th-century painting.Three credits.
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This course examines the shifting styles and currents of modern art from the realists Courbet and Manet, and their contemporaries, to the rebellious years of the Impressionists.The course explores the 20th century from the Fauvists' explosion of color to the new spatial-physics of cubism under Picasso, and documents the triumphs and failures of modern civilization in the experimental efforts of the constructivists, Dadaists, surrealists, and abstract expressionists.A principal concern in the course is the question: What is the artist of the 20th century telling us about our world Three credits.
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This course studies the 19th-century French art movement that revolutionized painting, covering Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Pissaro along with their contemporaries in Paris, their students, and their followers.It also studies the post-impressionists and their innovations and includes museum trips to study original works.Three credits.
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This course examines the art of building in America from pre-Columbian times to the present, including tradition, economics, engineering, and environmental factors influencing its development.Students examine the home, the church, the school, the business center, and the sports complex as reflections of the American way of life, emphasizing the architecture of today.The course develops an understanding of the man-made environment and its special relations to individuals and to society.Three credits.
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The first two centuries of American art reflect the dramatic individualism of the early settlers; English, Dutch and Spanish immigrants created varied and vigorous styles of art and architecture.The course examines these styles, from Colonial towns and plantations to Federal architecture commissioned by Washington and Jefferson, as well as vividly realistic images of the Civil War by Winslow Homer and photographer Matthew Brady.American history and American studies students find this course, which includes field trips focused on original architecture, painting, and furniture in public and private collections, useful.Three credits.
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This course examines the arts and architecture of the early republic introduced in AH 163, expanding into the major movements and masters of American art from the Civil War to the present.In tracing the themes and artistic statements of American artists the course takes special notice of unifying national myths such as the Founding Fathers, Manifest Destiny, America as the new Eden, the frontier from the Rockies to the lunar surface, heroes from Davy Crockett to Superman, and America as utopia.Through the masterpieces of Church, Cole, Homer, Eakins, Sloan, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko, Wyeth, Warhol, and the Downtown art scene, the course answers the question: What is uniquely American about American art Three credits.
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