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3.00 Credits
An overview of modern and postmodern art from the 1890s to the present, including important stylistic movements such as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and a number of postmodern approaches since 1960. The focus will be on the ideas, works and critical reception of specific artists, widened to include issues of race and gender and related developments in politics and literature. Prerequisite: ART 212. 3 credits.
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An introduction to American art from 1650 to the present day. The course offers a critical grounding in selected themes, with an emphasis on cultural history and stylistic change. Includes painting, architecture, film, photography and sculpture. [Cross-listed with AMS 331]. 3 credits.
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This survey of British art from 1700 to the present unfolds by way of major themes and art movements, including portraiture and patronage in the eighteenth century, classicism and the Grand Tour, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, late Victorian art and design and "shocking! art in Britain now." Students encounter the work of artists for whom issues of class, empire, school and country have rarely gone unheeded. The role of the British Academy and the heritage of the English country house will also be examined. Prerequisite: ART 100 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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A survey of the art and architecture of China and Japan from the Neolithic age to the twentieth century, examined in a social, cultural and political context. Among the topics covered: Jomon pottery in Japan; Buddhist caves in China; imperial palaces in Chang'an and Beijing; Japanese castles; landscape, figure, scroll and screen printing; and Eastern gardens. Foreign studies. 3 credits.
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An examination of the impact of Eastern culture, aesthetics, and formal design on Western art and architecture, from the Hellenistic Greek embrace of Persian and Indian motifs to the intersection of Iberian art and the oeuvre of Picasso. The presence of Western motifs in Japanese art in the nineteenth century is also explored. Attention is given to Western historical conceptions of "otherness" and to the limitations of Western critical approaches to art history. Prerequisite: ART 100 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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This course investigates the art, culture and architecture of Rome from the pre-Republican era to the twentieth century. Organized thematically and chronologically, the course considers such topics as: images of authority (Republican & Empire); subterranean Rome: the catacombs; the path of the medieval pilgrim; antiquity and its reinterpretations in the Renaissance; the papacy and urban planning in Counter-Reformation Rome; the Grand Tour; and Mussolini and fascist architecture. Prerequisite: ART 112 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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This course examines the history, principles and practices of art museums. Students investigate issues related to the development, care and use of museum collections; the function, management and operation of museums of art; museum education; curatorial methods and exhibition development; and catalog research and writing. Participants plan, organize and mount a temporary exhibition at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery. Prerequisite: ART 112 or ART 212. 3 credits.
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This course introduces students to the basic principles and practices of digital video creation and production. This course allows the student to build their digital video making skills by having them conceive, storyboard, film, edit, and author projects in DVD format. To complement their practical knowledge, the course gives the students theoretical understanding of how moving and time-based imagery function both conceptually and expressively. [Cross-listed with DCOM 345]. 3 credits.
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An exploration of the art, architecture, culture and urban planning of Paris from Roman settlement to modern capital city. Students assess the ways in which the demands of patrons, the vision of urban administrators and the increasing power of the middle class tempered the aims of artists in the city over the centuries. "Visits" include Notre Dame, the Louvre palace, Montmartre, and even the Paris sewers, with excursions to Versailles and other royal chateaux. Writing Process, Disciplinary Perspective. 3 credits.
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This course immerses students in a thematic investigation of color as a dynamic force in human perception, the natural world and popular contemporary culture. Perceptual exeriments, readings and film screenings help to uncover the vital role color plays in our understanding of the world around us. Disciplinary perspective. 3 credits.
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