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3.00 Credits
Analysis of strategies of empowerment for women in the arts in the 21st Century, including separatism and integration, art and social activism, gender and cultural identity.
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Performance and the Body focuses on the use of the physical body in the production of expressive art since 1960. Issues such as audience, collaboration, feminism, identity, body as site, (etc.) are addressed, as is the ability of this medium to question art institutions and the role of the artist. In addition, the controversial nature of many of these artists will give rise to a discussion of censorship and the arts. This class will be a mixture of lecture and round-table discussion, meant to encourage students to actively engage with topical issues and offer fresh perspectives as artists on a medium unfolding in the contemporary art world. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts Elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
Exhibitionism focuses on issues related to the museum, the gallery, and art outside the "clean white cube," Students will encounter varieties of collections from traditional art to the very weird; the real and the fake; viewing and spectatorship. We will examine work by artists who have responded to these issues, which are of primary importance to us as both producers and consumers of culture. Satisfies: Curatorial Studies Major and Minor requirements as well as Art History/Liberal arts elective requirements.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available
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3.00 Credits
Theory, Criticism and Aesthetics traces the development of art history as a discipline, while also providing an overview of the significant philosophical and critical theories that have influenced aesthetic debates in relation to the field. Kant ? ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime, Hege l? s dialectic, Winckelma nn ? promotion of the Antique, Marxism, Ado rn o? critique of the Culture Industry, Gomb ri ch? approach to art and illusion, and La can? notion of the Gaze will be explored. Students will also engage actively with various methodologies that influence the interpretation of works of art and past cultural history, including biography, formalism, iconography, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, colonialism/postcolonialism, and feminism/postfeminism, through the work of Benjamin, Bryson, Derrida, Faludi, Foucault, Fry, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Panofsky, Vasari, and Wollflin (among others). Satisfies: Art History Emphasis and Art History Minor requirements as well as Art History/Liberal Arts Elective require
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3.00 Credits
3.0 GPA in all Art History courses; cannot enroll if on probation in the major Students will study the mechanics of art historical scholarship, how to find a viable student-generated art history topic for in-depth research, how to focus research on a clearly defined problem, how to use the resources of libraries, museums, archives, and internet sources, and how to develop outlines in preparation for findings in written or oral form. Various approaches to art historical research will be examined-- archival investigation, textual study, connoisseurship, iconographic interpretation, stylistic analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Must complete AH 400 with 3.0 or better; cannot enroll if on probation in the major Completion of written art history thesis and public oral presentation. Culminating experience for the Art History major.
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3.00 Credits
In the summer between the junior and senior year, students are required to intern with a suitable employer. The AH Professional Development course is the framework in which the appropriate intern/employer match is identified. Credit hours for the summer internship are applied to the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. Satisfies: Major Requirement
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3.00 Credits
In the summer between the junior and senior year, students are required to intern with a suitable employer. The AH Professional Development course is the framework in which the appropriate intern/employer match is identified. Credit hours for the summer internship are applied to the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. Satisfies: Major Requirement
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the current conditions under which art and its aesthetic evaluation/critique exist in the contemporary scene. Emphasis is placed on postmodern approaches toward international art and culture, as well as the various aesthetic debates that drive current trends in art. As a seminar, this course delves into intensive dialogues in the classroom that reflect course content and readings with the goal of providing an entry into graduate level art historical ideas, issues, and vocabularies that can be transferred into the studio. A wide variety of media and artists are examined, with particular attention focused on international voices involved in the future directions of art in the twenty-first century.
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