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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1 FS This course is an independent study of special problems and is offered for 1.0-3.0 units.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors; faculty permission. In-depth investigation of certain special areas of interest in art history based upon particular faculty competencies and student interest.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors. The course content aims at preparing the artist to conceptualize and interpret his/her work. Students compare visual traditions from Western and Non-Western cultures. Writings from Plato to Wittgenstein, Greenberg, Lippard, and Krauss will be examined, with the aim of creating a working understanding of artistic traditions.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS Using innovative and often startling methods, nineteenth and twentieth century artists have extended the traditional boundaries of their disciplines. This team-taught, interdisciplinary course explores the nature of the ever-changing avant-garde in art and music, with an emphasis on how artists such as Cage, Cezanne, Duchamp, Glass, Stravinsky, and Warhol have dealt with time/space, time/place, and social commentary. "Happenings," events that seem to negate the very foundations of traditional art's disciplines, are explored. This course is not applicable to course patterns for the art major or minor.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for Art majors. This course investigates the development of American art from the Colonial period to World War II. It concentrates on painting, but also considers sculpture, architecture, photography, as well as decorative and folk arts. Artists to be explored at some depth include Benton, Cole, Henri, Homer, Krasner, Lawrence, O'Keefe, Pollack, Rivers, and West. Art will be presented in its social and historical contexts. The roles played by museums, galleries, and art schools, and the influence of collectors and dealers will be examined. Mutual influences between American and European, Non-Western, and Ethnic cultures will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for Art majors. This course investigates the manifold and rapid changes in the art world from World War II to the present. Beginning with the late Modernists, Pollack and Gorky, the course concludes with an examination of today's pluralistic Post-Formalist styles as practiced by artists such as Beuys, Graves, Holzer, Keiffer, Kosuth, Kruger, Saar, and Stella. Issues to be raised during the analysis of cross-cultural stylistic modes involve gender, ethnicity, the environment, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
3 INQ ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors. A survey of Pre-Columbian arts and cultures of formative, classical, and post-classical MesoAmerica up to the Conquest, including the Olmec "Mother Culture," Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Mixtec, Classic Gulf Coast, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, their belief systems, and early post-Cortesian codices fusing with European art forms. A survey of sites: La Venta, Palenque, Monte Alben, Mitla, Chichen Itza, Tula, and the recently excavated Aztec temples of Hummingbird-on-the-Left and Tlaloc, the Rain God.
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3.00 Credits
3 INQ ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors. A survey of Mexican art and culture from the Cortesian Conquest, the Colonial Period of monastery- and church-building, the Revolution of 1810, the Revolution of 1910, and the painters of the great revolutionary mural movement that followed, Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueriros, to contemporary artists who have tended toward international pluralism. Attention is given to the process of acculturation that produced the modern Mexican peoples, their national character, and their contemporary art.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors. In-depth study of the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on the Romanesque and Gothic periods in France and England. The course will cover great cathedrals, such as Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Amiens, etc., and their sculpture and stained glass decorations. The course will also provide an understanding of the nature of style change and development from the Classical to the Medieval periods.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS ARTS 101 and ARTS 102 for art majors. In-depth study of Chinese and Japanese visual arts (architecture, painting, sculpture, and other fine arts such as ceramics and woodblock prints) from the pre-historic to the nineteenth-century period.
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