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3.00 Credits
Open only to senior studio art majors except those registered for Studio Art 498. This course will meet twice a week during the spring semester (or final semester) of the senior year. Devoted to the preparation of a cohesive body of original work for the Senior Thesis Exhibition, a written artist statement, and an oral defense of the work will be required. Prerequisite: Studio Art 480, Studio Art 110, 115 and completion of an advanced-level course in your area of concentration. Fee required matching the fee associated with an advanced course in the area of concentration.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Designed to further independent investigation leading to the preparation of a written thesis and research project in the studio arts. Required of and limited to senior honors candidates in studio art. Prerequisites: admission as honors candidate in studio art plus Art History 229, Studio Art 110, 115, and completion of advanced-level class in the area of concentration. Fee required matches fees associated with advanced class in area of concentration.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Using a variety of works in various media from antiquity to the present-day, this course introduces the historical discipline of art history and the contemporary study of visual culture. Emphasis is placed on historical, social, and interpretive issues relevant to the critical analysis of artistic production and meaning. Topics to be explored include: the problem of the canon and the museum; patronage and power; and the visual construction of race, gender, and sexuality. Designed for first- and second-year students, and required for the art history major and minor. Short papers and/or exams required.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course examines the art and visual culture of North and Latin America from the era of conquest and colonialism to the signing of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA). Each year will focus on one particular theme, such as: the visual culture of conquest, the cultivation of independent and distinctly national identities apart from Spain, France, and England in the late-colonial periods; the role of art in sustaining nationalist historical narratives; the appropriation of pre-conquest history and myth and contemporary indigenous and/or peasant culture; and the uses of art to resist and critique political regimes and powerful elites. Distribution area: fine arts or alternative voices.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the production and reception of visual culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe within the context of the municipality, the court, the church, and the private citizen. This course will call into question traditional approaches to Renaissance art, and focus on recent approaches. Various primary and secondary readings, regular response papers, and a book review are required.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of 19th- and 20th-century photography, emphasizing its relation to aesthetic and cultural practices and values, as well as technical developments that have shaped the nature of the photographic image. We will examine such issues as "pictorialism," "straight" photography, "the documentary mode," and the "snapshot aesthetic" and will consider various strategies of photographic interpretation, especially as these reflect notions of sight and insight, the photograph as window or mirror. By focusing on the history of the medium and some of its most influential practitioners, we will explore how photographers have used images to shape attitudes and values in our culture. Examples may include the work of Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Gertrude Kasebier, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Minor White, Diane Arbus, Judy Dater, and others. Papers, class presentations, and exams. Open to all stu
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 A study of the emergence and development of American visual culture from the colonial era to the end of the 19th century. Emphasis is placed on historical, social, and political interpretations of American art, including the visual construction of race, gender, and nationhood. A research paper, two presentations, exams, and class participation are required.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 A study of the production and reception of American art and visual culture from 1913 to approximately 1970. Emphasis is placed on the development of Modernism in the United States, with a strong consideration of historical, social, and political interpretations of American Art. Issues to be discussed include: the rise and fall of Modernism, the impact of the art market, the dematerialization of the art object, and artistic strategies to engage the visual construction of race, gender, and sexuality. A research paper, two presentations, exams, and class participation are required.
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4.00 Credits
x Vandiver An exploration of the arts of ancient Greece and Rome, from the Bronze Age of Greece to the end of the Roman Empire. Particular emphasis will be placed on sculpture, painting, and architecture. We also will investigate the cultural contexts from which the art forms arise. May be elected as Classics 224. Open to all students. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 A study of the period in which art first became a public issue in cities throughout Europe due to regularly-staged, state-sponsored exhibitions and the opening of state art collections. Emphasis on the political structures of the European art establishment and various artists' attempts to produce vital work regardless of the establishment. Issues to be discussed include: the competing concepts of the public, the role of art criticism; the politics of landscape painting in Germany and England; art and socialism; modernity and the painting of La vie moderne. Three exams, a paper and class participation are required. Recommended: completion of Art History 103.
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