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This course introduces students to the visual and tactile properties of pastel and explores the expressive potential of the medium through a variety of techniques, from non-directional mark making to edge building. Attention is paid to the history of pastel and to basic rules of conservation and framing. Prerequisites: ART 105 or by permission. 3 credits.
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Focusing on the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, this course offers a comprehensive survey of the major monuments, themes and developments of Renaissance art in Europe. Works by Giotto, Van Eyck, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, among others, are examined. Particular attention is paid to the antique tradition in the arts, development of the professional artist, church patronage, and the development of modern political and economic systems. Prerequisites: ART 100 or ART 112 or ART 212. Writing process. 3 credits.
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This course uncovers the roots of modernism by tracing patterns of change in the art of France, Spain, England, and the German states from the 1780s to the 1860s. Painting and sculpture are examined in the context of political unrest, urban and industrial expansion, colonialism, the lure of the Orient, new criticism and the burgeoning art market. Artists include David, Goya, Friedrich, Constable and Courbet. Prerequisites: ART 112 or ART 212. Writing process. 3 credits.
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This course offers an intensive exploration of the making of sculpture, extending beyond fundamental processes to more advanced areas of thematic study. Historical and contemporary viewpoints are examined. Prerequisite: ART 209 or permission. 3 credits.
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This course introduces students to major viewpoints and principal areas of art-historical research, including sociological and biographical methods, connoisseurship, iconography, semiology, psychoanalytic perspectives, gender studies, and deconstruction. The history of the discipline and some of the challenges that confront it will be described and analyzed. Prerequisite: ART 212. 3 credits.
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A survey of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture, highlighting major stylistic phases, monuments and objects of art from the Greek Archaic period to the fall of Rome. The cultural, philosophical, political and economic contexts from which Greek and Roman art emerged, and classical revivals in post-medieval Europe and in America, are also explored. Prerequisite: ART 100 or ART 112. 3 credits.
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This course takes a thematic approach to painting, focusing on such areas of study as figuration and abstraction. Emphasis is on process, technique and individual conceptual investigations within historical and contemporary models. Prerequisite: ART 219 or permission. 3 credits.
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This course surveys painting, sculpture and architecture in a social, political and cultural context in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy. The work of the Carracci, Caravaggio, Bernini and Borromini will be examined. Students explore such issues as patronage by private citizens, nobles, and popes; the interconnection of art and religion; the classical tradition; and art and architectural theory. Prerequisites: ART 112 or ART 213. 3 credits.
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An introduction to the art of the Low Countries and France, including the work of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer; the French Caravaggisti, Poussin, Claude, Watteau and Boucher. Particular attention is paid to questions of stylistic, geographical and political difference and to the social circumstances in which works were produced, viewed and sold. Prerequisite: ART 112 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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An examination of the origins, making and meaning of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the context of momentous social and economic change in nineteenth-century France. Artists include Manet, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Particular attention is paid to artist training; the exhibition, sale and collection of art; and new choices of subject matter. A variety of reading assignments takes particular account of different critical approaches to this field of study. Prerequisite: ART 100 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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