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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Since the beginning of the 20th century, art, architecture, and urbanism together have investigated the production of images that shape the symbolic dimension of our experience of large cities. This seminar critically embraces this tradition and brings together different methodologies for the visual analysis and representation of contemporary urban phenomena, using St. Louis as a focal point. The goal is to design and produce individual books as a result of research, visual documentation, readings, and discussions in seminar and workshop structure. Each student selects and develops a theme related to the urbanization of St. Louis that are organized into books that present how this metropolitan area has been conceived through images. The course is divided into three parts combining readings, research, and design activities, each of which culminates in the presentation of an individual project; a total of two study books; and a final book. Same as ARCH 455A
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3.00 Credits
This class serves as an introduction to printing with the Vandercook handpress. Through a series of assignments students learn a systematic approach to planning, arranging, and printing type on a page. The students receive a basic introduction to typography, history of letterforms, and history of the book. The mechanics of relief printing with the cylinder proof press, ink composition, and resolution of the typographic image also are explored. As an exploration of the publishing process, students produce a chapbook of a short literary work. The class primarily focuses on typographic composition, but one assignment employs a combination of word and image.
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3.00 Credits
This class serves as an introduction to the book as artifact of material culture. A variety of traditional and nontraditional book structures are explored. Students learn from historical approaches to constructing the codex form, including the single signature pamphlet, the multisignature case binding, the coptic, and the medieval long stitch. Students learn Japanese binding and its many variations. Several contemporary variations are introduced, including the tunnel, the flag book, the accordion, and the carousel. Students explore the visual book using found imagery and photocopy transfers and produce a variety of decorated papers to be used in their bindings.
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3.00 Credits
This class serves as an introduction to the book as artifact of material culture. A variety of traditional and nontraditional book structures are explored. Students learn from historical approaches to constructing the codex form, including the single signature pamphlet, the multisignature case binding, the coptic, and the medieval long stitch. Students learn Japanese binding and its many variations. Several contemporary variations are introduced, including the tunnel, the flag book, the accordion, and the carousel. Students explore the visual book using found imagery and photocopy transfers and produce a variety of decorated papers to be used in their bindings.
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3.00 Credits
This freshman seminar focuses on the art and career of Vincent Van Gogh, and his relationship to artists of the 1880s in France. We explore his art in connection to the movements of Impressionism, Japonism, and Symbolism. We examine the avant-garde world of Paris, and Van Gogh's relationship to such figures as Gauguin, Bernard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. The larger current of fin-de-siècle nostalgia for the countryside informs our study of his work in the south of France. Van Gogh's life and the critical reception of his art offer an excellent opportunity to study how the legends of modern art are formed. Visits to the St. Louis Art Museum complement our study. Readings include the artist's letters, critical studies, and biographies of Van Gogh and key figures in his circle. No prerequisite, but either Art-Arch 112 or co-enrollment with Art-Arch 211 is recommended.
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3.00 Credits
The course considers the history and functions of public art, with special attention to public art in St. Louis. Part of our investigation is to inquire into the conditions that seem to be necessary for visual art to be considered public. So we consider not only the obvious forms of public art in urban sculpture and murals, but also less traditional intersections of art and public in such sites as video and the internet. We also examine the operations of institutions-national and local arts agencies, international exhibitions, nonprofit centers and the like-that foster a public engagement with contemporary art. After studying aspects of the history of public art, we proceed to selected case studies today, many of them in St. Louis, including projects for Arts in Transit (the MetroLink), the Regional Arts Commission, Grand Center, and Missouri SOS (Save Outdoor Sculpture). This leads us, finally, to theorize the function of public art in a variety of contemporary forms. Local field trips to study important public art; visiting speakers from arts agencies; student projects proposing a work of public art in St. Louis, which acquaints students with procedures in arts administration.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Focus 108
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1.00 Credits
Same as Focus 1081
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3.00 Credits
Same as Comp Lit 115
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