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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 133.) Interdisciplinary. Art, literature, patronage, and cultural institutions of the late 19th century. Aestheticism, conspicuous consumption, the grand tour, and the expatriate experience. The period's great collectors, taste makers, and artists: Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Albert Pinkham Ryder, William Harnett, and John Peto. 4 units, Aut (Marshall, J)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 141.) The creation and development of new architectural forms and theories, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe but also in America. Emphasis is on the responses to new materials, technologies, and social conditions, and how they shaped the architecture of the present. Recommended as preparation for 142. 4 units, not given this year
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 142.) The development of competing versions of modern and postmodern architecture and design in Europe and America, from the early 20th century to the present. Recommended: 141. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 143A.) A historically based understanding of what defines American architecture. What makes American architecture American, beginning with indigenous structures of pre- Columbian America. Materials, structure, and form in the changing American context. How these ideas are being transformed in today's globalized world. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 149.) Historical avant garde movements and anti-modernist tendencies such as socialist realism and Nazi art. Issues: artistic responses to wartime trauma; attempts to develop the progressive potential of technology and the political utility of art; and attempts to reorder relations between body and machine, art object and commodity, and private and public life. Artists: Richter, Heartfield, Tzara, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Bellmer, Man Ray, and Ernst. Readings: the modern subject, mass culture, the modernism/antimodernism debates of the 30s, and the uses of art in totalitarian regimes. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 151.) Modernism in the American arts at home and abroad, emphasizing transatlantic expatriation, cultural politics, and creative alliances. Painters and sculptors are the focus. Literary figures who interacted with artists such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes. Topics and artists: the Armory Show, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Futurism, Fernand Léger, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keefe,Gerald Murphy, the Harlem Renaissance, John Storrs, and Florine Stettheimer. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 153A.) Painting, sculpture, photography, and design. Focus is on the emergence of diverse cultural forms in the search for a modern, American form of artistic expression. Topics include: Robert Henri and the Ash Can school; the Armory Show and the influence of European modernism; Marcel Duchamp and plumbing; futurism, cubism, and the machine aesthetic; Stuart Davis and jazz; Dorothea Lange and documentary photography; Alfred Stieglitz and his Seven Americans; Thomas Hart Benton and regionalism; the arts of the WPA; and the role of artists in wartime propaganda. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 155.) Major figures, movements, and concepts of American art with examples from Europe from WW II to the present. Topics: the ideology and aesthetics of high modernism, the relationship between art and popular culture, the death of painting, the question of postmodernism. Artists: Pollock, Newman, Stella, Johns, Warhol, Andre, Rainer, Smithson, Hesse, Serra, Kruger, Sherman. 4 units, Aut (Lee, P)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 158A.) From its invention in 1839 to the present. Emphasis is on the evolution of photography as a fine art. Photographs as a universal democratic art form to record familial events and express personal creativity. Development of photography as it relates to other art forms, journalism, architecture, portraiture, landscape, documentation, time, and personal expression. The technology of photography; photographic techniques. 4 units, Win (Dawson, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 159APphotography as fine art and social tool. Photography as a legitimate art form; role of portraits and photo albums in social self-fashioning; technological and market aspects of photography; politics of straight or documentary aesthetics; role of women; and how the idea of America has been shaped by photographs. Artists include Matthew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, and Mary Ellen Mark. 4 units, not given this year
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