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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses ways in which art and visual experience have been shaped through technologies of vision such as the art of spectacle, methods of scientific imaging and investigation, and innovation in the representation of time, space and movement. Emphasis is on the cultural social and aesthetic meanings of technological development and change.
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3.00 Credits
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
The class examines a range of American and European art from the 1940s to the 1980s. Lectures and readings cover the periods major movements - including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Process and Performance Art - as well as the critical debates over modernism, mass culture, gender and sexuality, and the nature of artistic production.
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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
The course explores topics in the history of sculpture, public monuments and memorials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Themes include the sculptural practices of major movements of modern and contemporary art; the history of public monuments; counter-monuments and contemporary memorial practices. The course balances introductory overviews and a case study approach with field work in local collections and public sculptures and monuments.
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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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3.00 Credits
This class will explore how modernity was absorbed and reflected in the visual arts of Latin America during the 19th and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Within this genealogy we will address how art sustains real and imagined narratives of a Latin American identity with particular attention to class, gender, race and ethnic representations.
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3.00 Credits
This class will investigate Brazilian artistic production from the 1600s to the present. The course is oriented around the role of different institutions such as the church, slavery, the art academy, the state, and museums/galleries in the construction of a national identity within Brazilian Art.
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