|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary course in Western landscape representation (painting, prints, gardens, villas) from the late middle ages to the present. Course charts shifts in the major modes of landscape: garden, pastoral, agriculture, seascape, and wilderness. Students will read primary sources and write analysis of art works for each class. This is the same course as Environmental Studies 224. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35 students. R. Baldwin
-
4.00 Credits
This course will take a topical approach to the arts of India, China, and Japan. Lectures typically focus on one or two monuments as case studies so as to treat them in greater depth. Case studies will highlight specific genres such as narrative painting, devotional sculpture, funerary art, landscape, and popular subjects. The course presumes no previous exposure to the arts of Asia. This is the same course as East Asian Studies 225. Enrollment limited to 35 students. Q. Ning
-
4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the arts and religions of China and an introduction to the technique of visual analysis in historical studies. It examines Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism from the perspective of visual representation and religious practice. Lamaism in Tibet, Mazu cult in Taiwan, and other local religions in the bordering regions of China will also be introduced. This is the same course as Religious Studies 223. Enrollment limited to 35 students. Q. Ning
-
4.00 Credits
Course examines the rise of Renaissance art and humanism between 1350-1500, the invention of modern ideas on "art" and "artist," and the beginning of new genres such as mythologportraiture, history painting and landscape. Art is examined within a larger social history focusing on the changing moral, political, economic, and sexual values of church, court, and burgher elites. Artists include Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Donatello, Piero, Botticelli, and Bellini. No prerequisite, but Course 122 is recommended. Enrollment limited to 35 students. R. Baldwin
-
4.00 Credits
Course examines Italian Renaissance art and humanism between 1500-1600, the expansion of mythology, portraiture, history painting and landscape, the rise of villa culture and new forms of pastoral and gardens. Art is examined within a larger social history focusing on the changing moral, political, economic, and sexual values of church, court, and burgher elites. Artists include Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Palladio, and Bronzino. No prerequisite, but Course 122 is recommended. Enrollment limited to 35 students. R. Baldwin
-
4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Philosophy 251. Refer to the Philosophy listing for a course description.
-
4.00 Credits
A survey of major European and American developments in the visual arts from Matisse and Picasso to Dali and Pollock. The complexities of modernism from ca. 1905 to 1945 and the historical and social forces that shaped it. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35 students. B. Zabel
-
4.00 Credits
Visual arts produced after World War II from Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol to Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and other artists of the present, with emphasis on American art and on the ideological shift from Modernism to Postmodernism. Open to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35 students. B. Zabel
-
4.00 Credits
Religious, political and social values in the art and architecture of Counter-Reformation Rome and the absolutist courts of Versailles and Madrid. Major artists include Caravaggio, Carracci, Bernini, Cortona, Poussin, Claude, La Tour, Le Brun and Velasquez. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 35 students. Formerly Course 221; cannot receive credit for both courses. R. Baldwin
-
4.00 Credits
Visual arts in the U.S. from the Civil War to the Second World War with a concentration on painting and sculpture and with attention to multi-cultural perspectives in American art. Topics include the image of Native-Americans, African-Americans and women, American Impressionism, New York Dada, the Harlem Renaissance and Social Realism. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors and to freshmen who have had Course 122. Enrollment limited to 35 students. B. Zabel
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|