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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This class investigates the visual arts of the Italian peninsula, c. 1400-1580. Students will examine the social conditions of art production and patronage, as well as the various roles for images in religious, urban and domestic settings.
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3.00 Credits
The 17th century was a time of dynamic political, social, and religious changes calling for a re-examination of tradition and the purposes of art. Many artists in Italy, Flanders, Holland, Spain, France, and England experimented with ways of involving the viewer in their art for persuasion and more engagement in the issues of the day.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines European visual and material culture in the context of the religious, social and political transformations of the Protestant Reformation and its aftermath. The late medieval context will form an initial background to our exploration of the intensive critique and physical destruction of religious imagery by Reformers in Northern Europe. While the emphasis is on religious artifacts, we will be concerned with the changing functions, concepts, and uses of a range of images over the course of the sixteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
This class examines the visual and material culture of the Dutch Republic, c. 1580-1700. Major themes include: mercantile culture and the art market, relationship between art and science, global trade, and gender and domesticity.
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3.00 Credits
In the early modern cabinet of wonders, objects, and devices drawn from intersecting realms of art, science, and technology offered a new model of learning, one founded in the embodied acquisition of knowledge. This course explores how such collections gave impetus to the development of experimental science and related forms of multi-sensory inquiry in Europe, ca. 1500-1800. Through a series of focused case studies, we will examine the rich interplay between making, collecting, perceiving, and knowing that developed around early modern artworks, artifacts, scientific instruments, and technological devices.
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3.00 Credits
A study of transformations in the art and culture of Europe and America during the age of Enlightenment, viewed in relation to key scientific, social, and cultural developments. Students examine the role of visual experience in the rise of empiricism, the development of the public sphere, humanitarian reform, and the culture of sensibility.
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3.00 Credits
The visual arts and material culture of Europe and America viewed in relation to social and political change from the time of the American and French Revolutions until the European Revolutions of 1848.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the major currents of art production and visual experience in second half of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the ways in which artistic experimentation challenged traditional social and political orders in concert with-and sometimes in contrast to-such phenomena as mass uprising, imperial conquest, civil war, industrial and technological development.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American art with a focus on historical encounters among diverse cultures, structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and aesthetic exchanges between high art and vernacular expression.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of fine art and popular culture in relation to concepts of the public from the 18th century to present. Topics may include such areas as the history of exhibition and display, institutional practice and pedagogy, communications and new media, and the politics of collectivity and selfhood.
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