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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A selected topic in Modern and Contemporary Art will be examined. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
A course designed to give an overview of the artistic developments in Rome during the past 25 years and to offer insight into the diverse trends of contemporary art in the city. Visits are made to galleries, specific exhibitions, and artists’ studios. Note: This course is taught in Rome.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the major artists and movements in art from 1900 to 1945, placing them within a larger social and political context. Movements to be considered include: Fauvism; Cubism; Futurism; German Expressionism; the Russian Avant-Garde; De Stijl; Purism; the Bauhaus; Dada; Surrealism; and American Early Modernism. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the major artists and movements in art from 1945 to the present, placing them within a larger social and political context. Developments to be considered include: Abstract Expressionism; Neo-Dada; Nouveaux Realism; Assemblage; Environments; Happenings; Pop; Op; Minimal; Post-Minimal; Performance; Earthworks; Conceptual; Installation; New Image; Neo-Expressionism; Post/Neo-Conceptual; and others. Issues of feminism, multiculturalism, and critical theory are also considered. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates certain movements within Modernism that explore fantasy, psychology, imagination, humor, irrationality, violence, the
grotesque, the unconscious, the abject, and the absurd. Symbolism and some aspects of Expressionism are approached in relation to the key twentieth-century international developments of Metaphysical Art, Dada and Surrealism. Works in various media are considered, including those outside the visual arts (such as poetry and music), paying particular attention to challenges to the definition of art and the social and political implications of these challenges. Artists considered include: Moreau, Redon,
Gauguin, Van Gogh, Munch, Rousseau, de Chirico, Duchamp, Picabia, Tzara, Arp, Man Ray, Bréton, Schwitters, Höch, Grosz, Ernst, Masson, Miro, Magritte, Matta, Kahlo, Tanguy, Dali, Gorky and others. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the work of four major modern artists - Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, and Brancusi- and places them in a variety of cultural, social, esthetic, and historical contexts. Because the works of these artists are strongly represented in the Philadelphia Museum and in other local collections, several trips to examine work first-hand are planned.
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4.00 Credits
A selected topic in American Art will be examined. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
Ashcan School, Early American Modernism, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Assemblage, Pop-Optical Art, Minimal Art, Photo-Realism, and Neo-Expressionism will be discussed. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the painting, sculpture, photography and popular illustration of the 19th century in the United States and its cultural context. Visual material is considered as it corresponds to a series of historical moments, including the establishment of the academy, the era of Jacksonian Democracy, the rise of tourism, the birth of photography, the opening of the American West, the Civil War, the rise of Industrial Capitalism, and the emergence of the New Woman. Readings will incorporate a range of methodological approaches as well as a selection of primary source material. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores visual art produced in North America since the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Some pre-contact, pre-Columbian art will be included, but the course is designed to concentrate on works produced since the beginning of European colonialism and the ensuing encounter of diverse cultures, which have contributed to the rich diversity of North American art for the past five hundred years. Although course content focuses on art of the United States, works by some Mexican, Canadian, and Native American artists will be considered as well. A broad purpose of the course is to investigate the role of visual art in creating and negotiating various meanings of “America.” Major trends in American art – colonial portraiture, Hudson River landscape painting, Realism, Aestheticism, the Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, and Postmodernism, among others – will be examined in the context of American cultural history. The course will introduce students to a multitude of artists and works in a wide variety of media, using an exploratory approach designed to foster visual literacy and historical understanding, not just memorization of minor facts or established stylistic categories. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, readings, exams, and a fieldtrip, the course provides an introductory survey of the arts in North America while encouraging students to look, think, speak, and write critically about what they see. Note: Field trips are mandatory for this class.
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