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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Topics concerning aspects of the American character and aspirations as shown through images created by craftspersons, artists and architects from Colonial America and the United States will be discussed. Topics integrate not only traditional fields of painting, sculpture, and architecture but often include house-hold art, furniture, folk art, and crafts. Each topic will slice across a span of cultural time often including Colonial, Early Republic, Civil War, Victorian, Early Modernism, the Great Depression, and Contemporary periods.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Theorizing artistic reception has an added urgency in our era when presentation is the product. Artists need to constantly re-think their own practice in relation to new technologies, new ideas and the resurgence of old ideas. This course will look at how artists have addressed modes and technologies of presentation and how theories of the space of art have played a role in defining culture and cultural institutions. A critical appreciation of light, frames, and framing devices and other exhibition technologies will be surveyed in museums and malls, flea markets, and artist?s homes.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
2-4 hours. Project or media based independent study with a faculty in the art history division. This course can only be used for elective credit. It is not intended to replace sophomore, junior or senior studio requirements. Permission of the instructor is required.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. A survey course that acquaints students with major monuments and styles of Pre-Columbian American art, including: architecture, sculpture, ceramics, dress, and body adornment Examined are several millennia of pre-contact art traditions in Meso America and South America from earliest art producing cultures to the Aztecs and Incas. The course looks at archaeological contexts and investigates possible meanings for art and written records dating from early periods that enhance our understanding of later cultures.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course will look at some of the major points of debate within Northern Renaissance scholarship (Northern Europe, ca. 1400-1570), beginning with the fabulous "Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry" and ending with Brueghel's "Children's Games". Each week will focus on one or two works of art and problems relating to historical context, authorship, techniques of production and interpretation.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Beginning with the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and ending with the 1929 International Exhibition of Ceramic Art, this course will survey tidal shifts in American ceramics, exploring the substance of styles. We will examine claywork in relation to patterns of consumption and emulation, artistic invention, and tradition. We will measure change by looking at expositions in galleries, world's fairs, and museum collections. Original archival research is an important component of the workload.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course will examine the inter-war movement of Surrealism, its symbolist roots and its contemporary manifestations. A wide range of surrealist and dissident surrealist ideas from Andre Breton's manifestos to Georges Bataille's essays will be investigated and related to the artistic innovations of this group.
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4.00 Credits
1-4 hours. Courses of Instruction: New York State College of Ceramics 277 ARTH 451 - Object/Objecthood 4 hours. An examination of the changing nature of sculpture in the twentieth century, ranging from formalist object to surrealist fetish and minimalist object to performance "residue." Artists include: Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Donald Judd and Yoko Ono. We will critique the shifting conditions and critical reception of the sculptural object through a series of theoretical texts.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course surveys developments in Western Art from the late modernism of the post-war era to post-modernist interventions at the end of the 20th Century.
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3.00 Credits
This writing-intensive seminar introduces students to research methods in art history and to a range of approaches of historical and current significance. Students identify art historical problems, formulate hypotheses, conduct research, read critically, build arguments, and present reports. Prerequisites: Completion of four upper-division Art History courses and permission of major advisor.
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