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1.00 Credits
The evolution of domestic interior architecture in the early modern period along with the rise of importation of new raw and finished goods from Asia, Africa and the Americas led to a dramatic elaboration of the decorative or useful arts in secular society. There was a parallel decline in the variety and richness of ritual objects used for ecclesiastical and monarchical settings. This course would consider the changes in institutions, trade, social mores and architectural settings that informed the creation of objects for everyday use and would study the specific craft traditions for woodworking, ceramics, textiles, precious metals, glass and stonework as they applied to the making of furniture, tapestry, food service, objects for personal hygiene, transportation, garden ornament, decorative objects, scientific instruments, mirrors, lighting fixtures, heating, clothing and jewelry. The course would include required museum visits. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Paul Cezanne has long been described as the father of cubism, the essential forerunner of abstract art, or even as the progenitor of modern painting in its entirety. No less than Picasso and Matisse would claim him as the essential forbearer. Yet despite the special place the artist holds in relation to the development of modernism, few 19th-century painters offer an oeuvre so richly varied, powerfully original, or strikingly reflective of the unique moment in history in which it was created. This course will examine the integral layers of biographical, pictorial and larger cultural and historical constructions Cezanne's painting addresses even in its earliest forms and will aim to situate his work not only at the inception of the 20th-century art but within the heady environment of late 19th-century France, one that Cezanne knew well and embraced. A 300-level offering, this course will consist of lectures, discussion of recent critical readings, museum visits, and student presentations. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interior architecture and decorative arts of the United States from the colonial period through the eclectic revivals of the 19th century and the reforms of the colonial revival and aesthetic movements at the turn of the 20th century. Themes such as the influence of foreign tastes, technological innovation, and social history on the evolution of rooms and their use will be examined. Consideration will also be given to the architects, craftsmen, and patrons who created them. Field visits to historic houses and decorative arts collection will be included. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course will examine American painting, architecture, urbanism, and material culture (furnishings, silver) of the period from roughly 1876-1914. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of artifacts to their social settings. The course will focus on such prominent cultural centers as New York, Hartford, Boston, and Newport. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
From backyard barbecues to SUV's, the suburban lifestyle is now shared by the majority of Americans. This course will be a social and architectural history of suburbia in the United States, going back to its origins in the 1840s and extending to the present. The course will take advantage of the rich literature on suburbia of the past ten years. Topics to be covered will be housing types, land-use patterns, the impact of the automobile, suburban lifestyles and values, the politics of suburbia; and suburbia's critics, including the so-called "new Urbanist" towns like Seaside and Celebration, Florida. There will be two class presentations (one called "My Suburb") and on longer presentation, as well as one final paper. Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in AHIS265 or AHIS 286 or AHIS161 or CTYP202. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
The art museum in the United States is a unique social institution because of its blend of public and private support and its intricate involvement with artists, art historians, collectors, the art market, and the government. This course will study the art museum's history and status in our society today. Special consideration will be given to financial, legal, and ethical issues that face art museums in our time. The emphasis will be on American institutions and particularly on the Wadsworth Atheneum. Short papers, oral reports, and visits with directors, curators, and other museum officials in nearby museums will be included along with a detailed study of a topic of one's choice. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This seminar will study the two artists whose paintings, far removed from the constructs of impressionism and avant-garde Paris, would make them forefathers of much of French symbolist and later modernist art. While each offers a biography that in itself has become mythic, this course will focus on Van Gogh's and Gauguin's shared vision of the timeless, uncorrupted idol, their efforts to establish an independent artists' colony far from the confines of Paris, and their parallel searches for expressive, decorative styles and remote utopian worlds that would both shape their art and reveal much about the society and art world they escaped. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Images created in multiple have been the most powerful way of disseminating visual imagery in human history. Woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography, silkscreen and now digital processes have all been used to create images which could be used alone as artistic expression or aids in collective enterprises such as book illustration, propaganda, journalism or advertising. The seminar will provide an opportunity for students to to learn the rudiments of print connoisseurship and to study the history of printmaking, print publishing and the history of the illustrated book. The students will work with original prints in the collections of Trinity College and at other Connecticut institutions and works in private collections. 1.00 units, Seminar
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Working hands-on with original drawings from the museum collections, this course will present a survey of the history of drawings from the sixteenth century through to the present day. Based on strengths of the collection, emphasis will be given to European and American drawings of the early twentieth century. Exploring issues of both connoisseurship and historical context, seminar topics will include identifying technique, papers, watermarks, collector's marks as well as the changing role of drawings in the history of art and the evolving social positions of making and collecting drawings. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course will cover the history of European travel and travel destinations, guidebooks in the 17th and 18th centuries. While most studies of travel in this period address only British travelers to Italy, this course will look at French and central European travelers to Italy as well as travel to England and France. The resources of the Watkinson Library will be used to study period guidebooks and illustrated travel books. 1.00 units, Seminar
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