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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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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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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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This course introduces students to certain aesthetic theories, critical debates, and social contexts that shape the diverse practices of art in the 20th century in Europe and the Americas. Grading will be based on in-class participation, exams, and written assignments.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the visual arts from 1900 to World War II. The course covers major artists and movements of the early 20th century, as well as critical debates over modernism, avant-garde, mass culture, art and politics, gender and sexuality and the nature of artistic production. Grading is based on classroom participation, exams, and written assignments.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the issues and history of global contemporary art from 1970 to the present. We will discuss the major artistic movements, aesthetic theories and critical debates of art in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to gain a better understanding of the diversity of contemporary visual practices in a globalized art world.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the discipline of art history through a variety of cultural and geographic perspectives. Rather than offering a comprehensive narrative that attempts to document centuries of artistic production, we instead focus on key histories, sites, and objects that allow us to explore significant themes and concepts that have challenged cultures over time. We will explore defining issues such as the respective roles of tradition and innovation in the production and appreciation of art; the relation of art and visual culture to its broader intellectual and historical contexts; the role of display and exchange in creating meaning in art; and the changing concepts of the artist, style, and art itself.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the complex ways in which artists and art historians have engaged with the politics of gender and representation in the 20th and 21st centuries. The first part of the course explores pre-modern artworks through the lens of feminist art history, and the second part considers how feminist theory and practice have transformed practices of representation in the modern and contemporary world.
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