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3.00 Credits
The ideas, forms, and practices that are the basis of abstract expressionism evolved clearly from earlier movements in twentieth-century art such as Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. It is also a movement essentially intertwined with the broader culture of its time, from politics to psychoanalysis. The course examines the emergence of abstract expressionism and its subsequent influence over the art of the 1950s and 1960s. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 40. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
A study of European and British artistic culture from 1700 to 1800 with particular consideration of the relationships among the arts of painting, architecture, landscape architecture, and sculpture and their broader social, political, and cultural contexts. Topics include Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the rise of the English landscape garden. Artists include Watteau, Hogarth, Boucher, Fragonard, and David. Open to first-year students. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive investigation of British and French painting from 1850 to 1900. Artists and movements studied include the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Whistler, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas, and Renoir. The course concludes with a brief consideration of Post-Impressionism. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 50. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive investigation of European art from 1880 to 1930, with special attention to Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, the emergence of abstraction, and Dada and Surrealism. Artists studied include Seurat, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, and Mondrian. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 50. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns contemporary art, with a focus on art of the United States created in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Topics include changing definitions of art; the relation of art production to the mechanisms for exhibition, criticism, and sale; the contentious interaction of form and content; and the increased attention of artists and critics to matters of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 30 per section. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
The course considers European and British painting in the period from 1770 to 1850, with particular consideration of the work in its broader social, political, and cultural contexts. Artists and topics include Blake, David, Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, imperialism and art, orientalist painting, and the rise of Romantic landscape painting. The course serves as an essential bridge between Art and Visual Culture 280 and Art and Visual Culture 281. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 40. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the development and transformation of a major art form, the landscape garden, from its beginnings in fifteenth-century Italy through its later manifestations in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England. While the garden provides the visual and historical framework for the course, the pervasive theme is humanity's changing attitudes toward and interpretations of nature and the world. Open to first-year students. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
The importance of landscape painting in the Romantic period is a clear reflection of complex cultural change. The course examines the forms and meanings of the varied approaches to landscape painting in England, Europe, and the United States between 1750 and 1850. Artists and groups considered may include Constable, Turner, Friedrich, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the Barbizon and Hudson River schools. Open to first-year students. [W2] E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers visual constructions of race in art and popular culture, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. General topics include the role of visual culture in creating and sustaining racial stereotypes, racism, and white-skin privilege; the effects upon cultural producers of their own perceived race in terms of both their opportunities and their products; and the relations of constructions of race to those of gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 30 per section. [W2] E. Rand.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern European and American architecture. This course examines practical, social, and aesthetic dimensions related to the development of modern architecture. Special consideration is given to styles and collective movements such as the Bauhaus, the International Style, the Chicago School, and postmodernism. Architects considered at length include Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe, and Robert Venturi. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 40. E. Harwood.
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