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The historical, visual, literary, and scientific encounter of Europeans and European-Americans with the North American frontier. Examines how the West as myth and reality was assimilated into, and imaginatively colonized by, both Europe and America from the pre-discovery period through the end of the 19th-century. Images of the first encounter, cultural dynamics of the colonization process, cultural resistance of native Americans. Field trips, guest lectures. Prerequisite: 100-, 200- or 300-level courses in Art History; or 300-level courses in European or American 19th-century comparative literature, history; or permission of instructors.
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Using visual media-painting; prints and illustration; film and animation-along with studies of vaudeville, and other forms of popular and mass entertainment, this seminar analyzes the presence of the city as a theme that registers a range of cultural attitudes toward the modern. Through close readings of visual and verbal texts, we consider such issues as the relationship between work and leisure, and between high culture and popular arts. We look at critiques and celebrations as well as at how the popular arts help the ordinary man and women to negotiate the challenges of the new mechanized and overscaled urban environment. Prerequisites: 300-level course in American 20th century cultural history, or American art or literature; or permission of instructor.
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An examination of the representation of gender, i.e. the construction of male and female identities through images, and the role of gender in artistic practice. Readings and class discussion focus on American, French, and English art. Prerequisite: survey of modern art; any 300-level course in 19th-century American/European art or culture; or permission of instructor.
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An interdisciplinary look at the production of culture in the United States during the Depression years between the stock market crash and the nation's entry into World War II. Focus on the evolving dialogue between aesthetic concerns and political commitment. We consider the role of the state as an agent of culture, the relationship between leftist politics and modernism, regionalism and internationalism, debates over the nature of documentary photography, and attitudes toward the past in New Deal art, among other topics. Prerequisite: 300-level course in European or American 20th century art or cultural history; concurrent enrollment in Art-Arch 372,; or permission of the instructor.
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This interdisciplinary seminar examines the relationship between art and 1920s culture in the United States: how artists and critics thought about the nature of our cultural heritage-its rich possibilities and its limitations; the potential of technology and urbanization as well as the threats they pose to older cultural values; the nature of a multicultural society and the contributions of minority traditions to the evolution of American culture; the lure of the Southwest; early criticism of popular media; and the conversation between popular culture and high art. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 112 or permission of instructor.
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The sources, styles, influences, and content of the art of such artists as Gauguin and Cézanne examined in the context of contemporary movements in art and literature. Prerequisite: Art History major or permission of instructor.
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An examination of painting, photography, and the decorative arts in France during the period between the two World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900. Artistic movements include Symbolism (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Redon), later Impressionism (Monet and Morisot), Neo-Impressionism (Seurat and Signac) and Art Nouveau. Thematics include urban leisure and cafe culture; the agrarian ideal; the promises and threats of science and technology; the lure of the primitive; and the impact of nationalism and feminism on the arts. Prerequisite: Art-Arch 211; any 300-level course in 19th-century art, literature or history; or permission of instructor.
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An intensive study of work in all media by this influential modern artist. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is best known for his painting and sculpture, the traditional media of the French beaux arts, often overshadowing significant work in book design, tapestry, ceramic murals, stained glass, and even architecture and fashion design. To reconsider Matisse's place in the history of art in the 20th century, we place special emphasis on the artist's contribution to modern trends in domestic and institutional decoration. His long career spanned the political schisms of the Dreyfus era in the 1890s to the efforts by France in the 1950s to recover its position in culture and politics after World War II, and we also consider his relationship to the momentous political and economic changes in his time. Related topics addressed include the role of his writings within contemporary artistic discourse; the critical reception of Matisse's art in his lifetime; the historiography of modern art and his changing place in it; the market for avant-garde art in 20th century; Matisse's relationship to other artists, such as the Fauves, Picasso and other Cubists, and the conservative artists of the "return to order" in the 1920s. Prerequisites: Art-Arch 112 (Introduction to Western Art) or Art-Arch 211(Introduction to Modern Art); one 300-level course in Art History preferred; or permission of instructor.
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