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3.00 Credits
3 credits Semester One begins with an introduction to the art of the ancient world and the Middle Ages, then explores in greater depth European art from the time of Giotto until the beginning of the Romantic period. Semester Two continues the story in Europe and America from the early nineteenth century until about 1960. The course will consider the visual, social, psychological, and aesthetic components that shape artistic expression through a chronological study of pivotal styles and artists, with the aim of providing student artists with A knowledge and understanding of the history of art that can support their own creative efforts. The course will draw extensively on the rich visual resources of the Boston/Cambridge area.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The curriculum follows that of IAHIS 1200/ 1210, but seeks to develop A deeper understanding of the many forms of artistic expression. This occurs through A variety of critical approaches to the interpretation of images.
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1.50 Credits
1.5 credits each Working in A meeting format, This course provides students with the experience of conceptualizing, planning, publicizing and implementing schoolwide projects completed during the academic year. The emphasis is on interdepartmental art projects, including thematic student exhibitions, and student organized faculty slide presentations. Students learn project management and teamwork skills, and gain hands-on experience mounting exhibitions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course examines transformations of form during the modern period (c.1850 to the present), with emphasis on the crosscurrents between the various fields of design-graphic design, industrial design, and architecture-and their impact on developments in the fine arts. Prequisites: AIAHIS 1200 and 1210 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course covers Photographic History from 1900-2000. Topics include: Pictorialism at the Turn of the Century; Stieglitz and Modernism; The Classical Tradition in America: Strand, Weston, Adams, Cunningham; The Surrealist Movement in Europe, America and Mexico; 35mm Photography Comes of Age; The New Vision: Callahan, Siskind, and White; Landscape Photography and New Topographics; and The End of Modernism: Postmodernism & Post Postmodernism.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores key movements and figures in art from c.1890 up to the outbreak of World Was II, A time often known as the Modern Period. Emphasis is on European painting and sculpture. We study artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Arp, Mondrian and Brancusi, who questioned long-standing assumptions about the appearance and purpose of art, and strove to forge radically new artistic languages to express their individual experiences of the rapidly changing modern world. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1100 and 1110, or IAHIS 1200 and 1210, or instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An historical survey of illustration from its earliest beginnings to the present, including important social and technological changes that have directly affected the illustrator's art. Through slides, assignments, and A term project, students become familiar with both the work of important illustrators, and stylistic trends of the past. This information is used to enhance individual creativity. Prerequisite: IILLU 2300 .
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3.00 Credits
3 credits No longer perceived as "a children's media," animatiohas A rich, diverse history and is now experiencing an exciting revival. In this course, animation and the evolution of the art form are viewed and examined, from early Disney works to contemporary hits like The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, and MTV. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1200, IAHIS 1210, or instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Students examine the complexity and ambivalence of humankind's relationship to the natural world, and the rich variety of artistic responses it has inspired. Taking A thematic approach, the course explores selected topics across chronological, geographic and cultural lines, including: varieties of landscape painting in the West and the East; the expressive shaping of landscape across the centuries, from Neolithic earth formations, landscape design and development of the Olmsted urban park systems, to recent Land Art, and the rise of A modern-day ecological consciousness with its expression in art. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1100, IAHIS 1110 or instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the major turning points in the perception and definition of sculpture in the twentieth century, with special attention to its relation to the modernist and postmodernist discourses in painting, photography, and architecture. Prerequisites:
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