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1.00 Credits
This course prepares students participating in the College of Art's Spring Semester Abroad Program in Florence, Italy. The seminar meets eight times over the course of the semester. Attendance is required.
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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
Investigation of duration as a mode of artistic production. Explores time-based objects and events. Open to digital, 3-D and 4-D solutions. Students harness the power of new media to interpret concepts such as time, distance, collaboration, and interactivity through traditional, digital, and web-based platforms.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of duration as a mode of artistic production. Explores time-based objects and events. Open to digital, 3-D and 4-D solutions. Students harness the power of new media to interpret concepts such as time, distance, collaboration, and interactivity through traditional, digital, and web-based platforms.
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3.00 Credits
A lecture course addressing basic issues in modern and postmodern criticism presented in historical context. Lectures alternate with discussion.
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3.00 Credits
A lecture course addressing basic issues in modern and postmodern criticism presented in historical context. Lectures alternate with discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Artists, for centuries, have come to Florence to study its art, architecture, and cultural artifacts. This course is designed to help students locate themselves within the history of art and ideas that still resonate in the museums, churches, and streets of Florence. Students draw, in a number of ways and mediums, as a way of paying homage to a social, cultural, and art historical lineage. The sketchbook serves as a visual document of the experience of studying abroad and as a resource for future work. College of Art's Semester Abroad Program in Florence, Italy.
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3.00 Credits
The students participate in three month-long workshops with visiting faculty from the College of Art. This course provides the students with the opportunity to examine different artistic disciplines. The course is modified to accommodate the student's experience abroad. College of Art's Semester Program in Florence, Italy.
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