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3.00 Credits
This course examines the arts of the African diaspora with particular focus on the Caribbean and the Americas from the eighteenth century to the present. Through commerce and the slave trade, African arts and culture traveled to these areas and were negotiated in unique ways by artists. In exploring the arts of the diaspora, the course considers and challenges constructions of race, ethnicity, and Africanicity from insiders' and outsiders' perspectives. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 15. A. Bessire.
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3.00 Credits
Students who have arranged to participate in a nonpaid internship at the Bates College Museum of Art may receive one Short Term credit by taking this course at the same time. Permission may be given for internships carried out at other institutions, including the Portland Museum of Art, upon petition to the Department of Art and Visual Culture in advance. Students may have internships throughout their college careers, but may receive credit for one Short Term internship only. Enrollment limited to 30. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every year. R. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
Documentary photographs generally describe human social situations that aim to be objective transcriptions of events into images. This course examines changes in style and methodology from classical documentary approaches of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary modes of documentary photography. Using either traditional darkroom or digital imaging techniques, students produce projects that address the photograph's function as a document. Concepts of documentary photographs as witness and testimony are analyzed as is the issue of how these notions are challenged and manipulated by many contemporary artists. Prerequisite(s): Art and Visual Culture 218 or 219. Enrollment limited to 15. E. Morris.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the bountiful English art world from the rise of the Elizabethan "prodigy houses" through the Arts and Crafts Movement. Particular attention is devoted to the architectural history of London after 1666; the country house: its architecture, art collections, and landscape gardens; the Gothic Revival; and the flowering of Romantic landscape painting. Enrollment limited to 10. Instructor permission is required. E. Harwood.
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3.00 Credits
Choosing media they would like to investigate closely, students focus on methods and ideas in order to develop their work. Students are encouraged to investigate the possibilities that arise when they choose limitations on subjects, materials, processes, and form and make a group of closely related works. This course offers an opportunity to try to maintain a regular, independent, and self-sustaining studio practice for five weeks. Access to some technical facilities may be limited. Prerequisite(s): one studio art course in any medium. Not open to students who have received credit for Art and Visual Culture s34. Enrollment limited to 14. Instructor permission is required. R. Feintuch.
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3.00 Credits
Continued study of intensive studio practice. Prerequisite(s): one course in any medium and Art and Visual Culture s34A. Instructor permission is required. R. Feintuch.
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3.00 Credits
Guided individual research into various drawing media including etching, as well as consideration of the problems of landscape painting, figure drawing, and similar genres. Each Short Term focuses on one of the above categories. The Short Term registration material includes a description of the particular focus for the Short Term course at hand, including specific prerequisites. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 10. Instructor permission is required. J. Nicoletti.
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3.00 Credits
The course consists of field trips in and around the provinces of Tuscany and Umbria, and takes full advantage of the unique landscape and cultural opportunities of the region. Studio work alternates with regular visits to regional cities such as Florence, Siena, Perugia, and Assisi to study painting, sculpture, and architecture. Prerequisite(s): two studio courses. Recommended background: Art and Visual Culture 212, 213 or 214, 265, 266. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 10. Instructor permission is required. J. Nicoletti.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the rich history of European ceramics, using history as a springboard for the production of personal work that is technically proficient, historically referential, and conceptually robust. The course consists of demonstrations, supervised studio work, critiques, discussions, and slide lectures. It is designed to cover a wide range of processes including coil building, slab building, and bisque and press molds. Enrollment limited to 13. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Guided individual and collaborative research into various drawing methods including systemic approaches, off-press printing processes, mechanical reproduction, drawing as ritual, and perceptual drawing. Consideration is given to the relationship between function, form, image, and idea. Students have an opportunity to respond to an expanding definition of drawing that could include text, movement, and sound. Course work culminates in a site-specific drawing installation. Prerequisite(s): Art and Visual Culture 205A, 212A, or 231A and one additional course in either studio art, music composition, theater design, playwriting, directing, contemporary performance, theater production, dance composition, fiction writing, poetry writing, or documentary video. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 18. P. Johnson.
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