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3.00 Credits
Historical survey of art focusing on Prehistory; the Ancient Near East and Egypt; the Aegean, Greece, and Rome; Early Christian and Byzantine art; and Early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic art. Works of art from each period of civilization are analyzed for individual qualities and compared with previous examples to demonstrate influences and the development of styles. Emphasis is upon art and architecture as cultural expression and upon the relationship of art and society.
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3.00 Credits
Historical survey of art focusing on the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo; the 19th century, including Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism; movements since 1900, including Fauvism, Cusism, Expressionism, Abstractionism, Surrealism, Modern architecture, and the New York School. Works of art from each period or movement are analyzed for individual qualities and compared to previous examples to demonstrate influences and the development of styles. Emphasis is upon art and architecture as cultural expression and upon the relationship between art and social and technological changes.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the art and architecture in continental U.S. from the time of the first European voyages of discovery up to the Armory Show of 1913. Course explores the role of the visual arts in establishing the new nation's self identity, in interpreting the native landscape and everyday life against European models and traditions, an in tracing the rise of the professional American art establishment which by the early 20th century finally considered itself the equal of its European counterparts.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the artistic and cultural traditions of native peoples in both North America and South America. Attention is placed on the collecting and studying of relevant artifacts and the evolution of competing methods for interpreting them.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the traditional art forms of Western and Central Asia, North Africa, and Spain while under Islamic rule. The arts of Africa, especially Sub-Saharan, will also be covered by tribe and region.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the artistic and cultural traditions of Asia (focusing on India, China, Japan) from the bronze age to developments in the 20th century. Course emphasis is on the development of traditional art forms as they evolved within courtly and/or religious (especially Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto) frameworks.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the paintings and sculptures of European art from just before the French Revolution (Jacques-Louis David, Antonio Canova, and Neoclassicism) to the radical aesthetic changes ushered in by the Symbolists (such as Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin) at the very end of the 19th century.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
Beginning in the 1890s, this course is a broad overview of the major visual art forms of the twentieth century from the Symbolists to the peaking of Modernism in the 1970s. Painting and sculpture are covered as well as architecture and design, with limited coverage of photography and the cinema.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the full global range of recent visual culture since about 1980-from traditional art media (painting, sculpture, illustration, and photography) through innovations involving craft forms (ceramics, glass, weaving, etc.) to electronic and computer-generated images that have revolutionized graphic design.
Prerequisite:
ARTH 220 OR ARTH 221
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4.00 Credits
A survey of astronomy, including historical observations and star maps; celestial motions of the sun, moon, planets and stars; electromagnetic radiation, including radiation laws and spectral classification; astronomical instruments and methods; the stars, including formation, evolution, properties, and types of stars; the universe, including the Milky Way Galaxy, other galaxies, theories of formation and evolution. The laboratory section for the class will include work at night in the FMU Observatory.
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