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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. This course examines Italian art and architecture, ca. 1260-1580, with emphasis on the historical and social context. Such themes as patronage, functions, theory, materials and techniques, style, and the profession of the artist will be discussed. Artists treated include Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and Palladio. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. An examination of painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts in the Netherlands, Germany, and France, from 1400 to 1600, with emphasis on the historical and social context. Such themes as the status of the artist, art and mysticism, art and the Reformation, theory, and the relationship of Northern European and Italian art and culture will be discussed. Artists include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, and Pieter Bruegel. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. The course investigates European art ca. 1580-1750. Students will be introduced to the major artists, subjects, and stylistic developments during this time period. Additional emphasis will be placed on issues such as patronage, collecting, technique, women artists, and recent discoveries. Artists covered include Caravaggio, Bernini, Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velasquez, and Rubens. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. A thematic examination of art produced in the United States from the colonial period to WWII with special emphasis on the place of art and artists within a democracy. Themes include the relationship between political and visual representation, landscape as metaphor, race and ethnicity in art, and the tension between private and public patronage. Artists include Thomas Jefferson, Stuart Davis, and Frank Lloyd Wright. (Course offered every sixth semester, next offered Fall, 2009.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. A survey of the major European art movements from about 1760 to 1880. Special emphasis is given to the interplay between politics and the emergence of new styles and subject matter in painting. Artists covered include David, Goya, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Courbet, Manet, and Monet. (Course offered every sixth semester; scheduled for Spring, 2011).
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. A survey of European art from 1880 to 1960. Themes examined include "primitivism," the tension between modern art and mass culture, the attempt to combine radical politics with formal innovation, and the development of non-objective styles of painting. Movements discussed include symbolism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. (Course offered every third semester; scheduled for Fall, 2008).
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. A comprehensive introduction to European and American art and art criticism since 1960. Themes examined include the revival of political art in the late sixties (and its resurgence in the late eighties), the emergence of feminist strategies in representation, the rejection of the art object and the culture industry, the ongoing dialogue between modern art and mass culture, the return of history painting in the early eighties, and the emergence of different voices in the art world in the past twenty years. (Course offered every third semester; scheduled for Spring, 2009).
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. An examination of the life and art of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Special attention will be paid to stylistic, interpretive, and methodological issues, as well as the many controversies that have surrounded his life and art from the Renaissance to the present. Works studied will include painting, sculpture, architecture, drawings, and poetry. Class will combine both lecture and seminar formats. (Course offered every third year; scheduled for 2010-2011.)
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. An internship involved with the various aspects of gallery management, such as selection, crating, shipping, publicity design, printing, computer entries, preparation and designing of exhibitions, hanging, lighting, receptions, security, etc. Open to juniors and seniors or with permission of instructor. May be repeated for general degree (non-major) credit.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Fine Arts. A seminar, open to both majors and non-majors, on varying subjects. May be repeated for credit so long as topics are different.
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