|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
This course serves as an introductory study of the techniques and aesthetics of clay as an art medium. Class emphasis is on the basic processes for handbuilt forms: pinching, coiling, slabs and molds. Students are challenged with progressively more difficult projects requiring creative problem solving skills that also allow opportunities for personal expression. Through demonstrations, slide lectures and critiques, students learn to create and evaluate, as well as appreciate the relationship of art to our lives. Two three-hour periods per week. Every semester. (4 credits)
-
4.00 Credits
This course serves as an introductory study of the techniques and aesthetics of clay as an art medium. Class emphasis is on the basic processes for wheel thrown forms. Through the semester students are challenged with progressively more difficult projects that explore possibilities for wheel-thrown forms, as well as basic decorating, glazing and firing techniques. Through demonstrations, slide lectures and critiques, students are exposed to ideas and attitudes for understanding ceramic aesthetics in a contemporary, social and historical context. Fall semester. (4 credits)
-
4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce and explore issues concerning women and art with a focus on the twentieth century. Students will learn about works in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography, conceptual and performance art, video and film among them, by artists from the sixteenth century to present. Gender, race, class and sexuality along with issues of aesthetics, creativity and access will be discussed in relation to art practices. The impact of feminism and the changing role of women in society on the history, theory and practice of art will be the central theme of this class. Three hours per week. Spring semester. (4 credits)
-
4.00 Credits
This course investigates the function of images in the social and political life of 20th century China. From the last decades of dynastic rule through the rise of Communism and ending with China's current presence on the global stage, we explore the role of the image in representations of cultural identity, the relationship between tradition and modernity, and changes in technology and media. Every year. (4 credits)
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines the development and the architecture of ancient cities and sanctuary sites, as well as the archaeological methods used to uncover them. The course focuses on the political, ideological, and religious importance of art and architecture and how scholars interpret architectural statements and built environments. The political use of space, the city as an institution, and the interpretation of material culture are prominent issues in the course. Prerequisite: 123 Introduction to Archaeology, 160 Introduction to Classical Art, or 155 January in Rome. Instructor permission required. Alternate years. (4 credits)
-
4.00 Credits
A study of European and British painting and sculpture from the French revolution to 1900. Through consideration of the principal artists of the period, emphasis is placed on the multiple ways in which one may talk about a work of art. Three hours per week. Alternate years. (4 credits)
-
4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of topics in European art from the late 14th century to the second decade of the 20th century. Stylistic periods covered include Italian and Northern Renaissance; Mannerism; Baroque art in Italy, Spain and Northern Europe; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism, Realism; Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; Expressionism; and Cubism. In addition to questions of style, the course addresses other issues such as the identification of subject matter, the function of art and its relation to the culture that produced it. Three hours per week. Spring semester. (4 credits)
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines visual arts in the United States and Europe from mid-1970s to the present. It analyzes major artists and art movements that shape the character of contemporary art within sociopolitical and cultural context in which they have been produced. The course includes exploration of Post-Modernism and the most current debates in visual arts such as globalization, internationalism, and multiculturalism. Offered in alternate years. Pre-requisite: Principles of Art (149), Art History Survey II (261) or any other upper-division art history class. Spring semester. (4 credits)
-
3.00 Credits
This course explores the major topics in 20th century art. It will be a comparative analysis of modern international movements with emphasis on art since the turn-of-the-century in cultural, political and social contexts. Relevant discussion of contemporary art movements will be included. The course will make use of resources available in area museums and art collections. Three hours per week. Prerequisite: Art 261 or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. (4 credits)
-
3.00 Credits
This course offers a broad view of the painting, sculpture and architecture produced in Italy in the years between 1250 and 1500. It will study a wide range of commissions in the various Italian city-states, as well as in papal Rome, in an effort to understand the many ways in which art played a political role in this period. Works by artists such as Giotto, Cimabue, Duccio, the Lorenzetti brothers, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Alberti, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli, among many others, will be thoroughly discussed. In order to address the most important historical developments of this period, issues such as the Black Death, the French invasion of Italy, and the fall of the Medici in Florence, will also be explored. Three hours per week. Prerequisites: Art 160, Art 261, or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|