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This course explores Black art and culture in the 20th century, focusing on the art works themselves and how these works use Black culture as subject and context.It traces the development of African-American art from the social upheavals and rapid identity transformations of the Civil War Era through World War I, to the emergence of the "New Negro" of the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, to the return of Black folk imagery in Depression and post-Depression art, to the social and political awareness of the Civil Rights era, to the reconsideration of "blackness" explored during the feminist and postmodern decades.The course gives equal consideration throughout to the artistic dialogue including text, criticism, and vi deo.This course meets the U.S. diversity requireme nt. Three credit
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Photography, one of the youngest artistic media, is the medium most evident in and crucial to 20th-century culture.This course traces the history of photography in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the interplay between the growth of photography as an art form and technological developments of the medium, and the multiple functions photography fills in modern and postmodern culture.The course stresses photographic movements and the work of individual photographers and analyzes the relationship of photography to other art forms.Three credits.
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This interdisciplinary approach to the visual Zeitgeist of these major political/national crises in Europe between 1917 and 1945 surveys the visual rhetoric of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Bolshevik Russia through the widest possible definition of the visual arts.The course includes the traditional fine arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the mass cultural outlets of film, radio, propaganda posters, and the staging of public events.The class eliminates the distinctions between high and utilitarian mediums of expression; all means of persuasion are fair game.This course allows students to better understand the complexities of these political/nationalist issues; the "window" is the lens provided by the visual arts and mass media.In doing so, students recognize how the symbolic languages of mythology were married to political ideologies and shaped public opinion from the national consciousness.Three credits.
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Students will study the history of plaster cast collections in Europe and the U.S.including Fairfield's growing collection.Emphasis will be given to the Fairfield collection by conducting research on the new gifts of plaster casts.Students will write individual entries for museum labels and the website.Students will clean and apply light restoration to plaster casts in preparation for their eventual display in different areas on campus.Class visits to the Slater Museum, the Institute for Classical Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be scheduled.Consultation with curators and sculptors will provide additional guidance to students.Three credits.
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Greek and Roman art serve as a rich depository of Greek mythology with a wide range of representations that evolved across the centuries.As a source of information, classical art sometimes preserves myths that are otherwise unknown in the surviving literature.In some cases visual representations date earlier than an extant literary description or differ in the story details.This course focuses on ancient sources - visual and literary - to study the Olympian gods; the heroes, Perseus, Herakles, Theseus, and Odysseus; the Trojan War; and battles such as the gods and giants, Lapiths and Centaurs, and Amazons and Greeks.The course compares the appearance of certain of these myths on specific monuments during certain periods in the classical world, emphasizing examples in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection at Fairfield.(Prerequisite: one 100-level or lower art history course or permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course examines the conventions, religious functions, philosophical conceptions, symbolism, and magic that underlie ancient Egypt by exploring several puzzling questions: Can we really comprehend ancient Egyptian masterpieces just by looking at them Can we rely on ancient Egyptian sculpture and painting to reflect Egyptians' physical appearance, cults, and habits Can we call Egyptian art "art" or Egyptian portraits "portraits" What is the difference between Egyptian writing and representations What could Egyptians themselves appreciate in the art of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: its innovation or its traditionalism What is the difference between tradition and archaism in ancient Egyptian art (*UC only) Three credi
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This course explores the art and architecture produced in Ireland, Northumbria, and Scotland during the early medieval period, often called the "Golden Age" of insular art.It was an era of rich cultural exchange during which Irish and continental monks were instrumental in the spread of Christianity throughout the British Isles; Irish settled in Scotland; the Anglo-Saxon kingdom was established in England; and Vikings invaded Ireland and Britain.Arts in all media combined pre-Christian Celtic and Germanic traditions with new Christian forms.Irish monasteries throughout the British Isles were centers of production for sumptuous manuscripts such as the Book of Kells and liturgical vessels including the Ardagh Chalice.Monastic architecture and high crosses will also be considered, as well as secular objects such as aristocratic jewelry.Three credits.
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This course surveys the art and architecture produced in the complex cultural landscape of early modern Spain.Students examine art traditionally termed Renaissance and baroque in the context of Spain's multicultural past and its ever-expanding role in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds.Topics include the role of art collections in introducing foreign tastes to Spain, Philip II as a patron of the arts, the building and decoration of El Escorial and the Alcázar in Madrid, Diego Velázquez and the notion of a courtier-artist, the architecture of the Churriguera family, and the colonial art and architecture of the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru.Three credits
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This course offers a historical, critical, and stylistic analysis of major trends in contemporary art in Europe and the United States such as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, neodada, neo-expressionism, postmodernism, and feminist art, giving special consideration to artist dialogue (text and video) and criticism.The course specifically examines artistic dialogue against the broader cultural, political, social, and philosophical context of the artwork.The course emphasizes objects in area museums and includes one class on location at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.Previously listed as AH 175.Three credits.
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Students conduct an in-depth study of a specific subject in the history of art.Open to invited students only.Three credits.
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