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4.00 Credits
This introductory course provides a foundation for art-making methods, design composition skills, and digital image creation. The course will focus on twodimensional images, making use of both raster and vector graphics software programs. This course will introduce students to the new vitality of digital imaging and encourage reflection on the computer as a visual-thinking tool. Prerequisite: none. STAFF. Incorporated into each of the media-oriented problems of these courses listed above are drawing and design components that ensure each student's recognition of the relationship among drawing, design, and the designated medium. These courses develop important and useful skills in these areas.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of women's involvement in the visual arts. Concerned with ways of analyzing changing relationships among gender, culture, and creativity. The focus is on a historical study of women as producers of art, with emphasis on the various ways women have responded to social conditions determining the production of art, and on defining the issues and methods of investigations, based on feminist critiques of conventional art historical approaches. Prerequisite: Art 103, or Gender and Women's Studies 111, or permission of instructor. STRAUBER.
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Study of major developments in architecture and art from the Carolingian through Gothic periods (9th-14th centuries). Primary focus on architectural design and structure (as at Durham, Canterbury, Lincoln, Cluny, Paris, Chartres, Amiens), including the roles of sculpture and manuscript painting within their social, political, religious, and intellectual climates. Option of executing projects in architectural design or doing reading in French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. CHASSON.
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Examination of 19th-century Romantic and Realist painting as critical responses to the period's dramatic political, industrial, and cultural transformations and as the foundation of artistic "modernity." Emphasis on issues of high and massculture; art and political voice; representations of non-Europeans; relevance of the canon; tensions between the urban and natural worlds; and creation of the avant-garde. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. STRAUBER.
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4.00 Credits
A study of major artists, works, and issues in European Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting and sculpture (c. 1865-1900). Specific movements include Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. STRAUBER.
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4.00 Credits
A study of Italian culture from the late 13th through the late 16th centuries as expressed in painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design. Emphasis on political, social, religious, and intellectual factors shaping artistic theory and expression in Florence, Siena, Rome, Venice, and the courts at Mantua and Urbino. Option of doing some reading in French, German, Italian, or Latin. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. CHASSON.
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Primarily a study of Netherlandish and German painting and printmaking of the 15th and 16th centuries (Van Eyck, Bosch, Gruenewald, Duerer, Baldung Grien, Holbein, Bruegel). Emphasis on the functions and audiences for religious and secular work in light of original sources and recent criticism. Use of late medieval and Renaissance images and prints in the College Art Collection. Option of doing some reading in French, German, or Latin. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. CHASSON.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of major movements in European art from 1900-1940, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, and Socialist Realism. Focus upon the historical contexts of art production and reception. Readings range from contemporary criticism to historical analysis. Investigation of recurrent problems such as primitivism, gender, authorship, and cultural politics. Prerequisite: Art 103 or permission of instructor. ANGER.
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