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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
The roots of modernity in European art: classicism, romanticism, and early realism. Impact of the enlightenment and French Revolution on European visual culture. Emergence of new publics for art and beginnings of a modern art market. Role of tradition: the impact of antiquity, northern legends and the middle ages. Religiosity and personal mythologies. Changing conceptions of nature, the body and artistic creativity. Artists include Blake, Fusseli, Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Runge, Friedrich, the Nazarenes, Goya. Instructor: McWilliam
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Major artistic movements and theoretical aims of early modernism: fauvism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, constructivism, suprematism, dada, surrealism, deStijl, Bauhaus, and Neue Sachlichkeit in France, Italy, Germany, America. Instructor: Antliff, Leighten, or Stiles
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Study of selected works of Chinese art and visual culture (painting, sculpture, architecture, video, performance, and installation art; fashion design and cinema) from 1900 to the present. Emphasis on the visual analysis of objects as well as their social and historical context. Instructor: Abe
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Major art forms, monuments, vernacular structures, and masking traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa. From ancient times to the present. Instructor: Staff
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The African diapora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from the "shotgun" houses of New Orleans to the urban graffiti of NYC. The course surveys several major cultural groups in West and Central Africa and their aesthetic impact on the arts, religions, and philosophies of peoples of African descent in South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Instructor: Powell
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Course introduces the major art forms and aesthetic theories developed in the US from colonial period to present. Emphasis on architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic, and decorative arts. Structured chronologically, this course defines the characteristics of the different historical periods and the ways American artists both adopted and diverged from other models to create their own, distinctive national identity. Instructor: Powell
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1.00 Credits
Emphasis on works derived from an Afro-United States cultural perspective. Major figures include Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, and others. Instructor: Powell
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1.00 Credits
Focus on a major aspect of nineteenth century European art. Subject varies from year to year. Instructor: Staff
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Focus on a major aspect of Twentieth century European art. Subject varies from year to year. Instructor: Staff
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Focus on a major aspect of contemporary European art. Subject varies from year to year. Instructor: Staff
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