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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: WMS 1001 or ARTH 1500 or ARTH 1700 or ARTH 2100; satisfaction of all Level I General Studies requirements; or Permission of instructor The purpose of this course will be to gain an understanding of women artists and their work from the perspectives of feminist scholarship in art and art history. This course may not be used as the sole art history elective for art studio majors. Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ARTH or WMS. (General Studies-Level II, Arts and Letters) (WMS 3950)
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3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1700 or WMS 1001; satisfaction of all Level I General Studies requirements; or permission of instructor. This course examines the various intersections between art and feminism beginning with the rise of second-wave feminist politics and continuing to the present. Work by artists who self-consciously identified as feminist or work that has been meaningfully read through feminist theories is the focus. The course covers competing and diverse definitions of feminism and analyzes the ways race, class and gender are intertwined and represented by artists globally. Students evaluate art's relationship to changing social, political, and philosophical conditions throughout the period.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1600 or ARTH 1700 or permission of department This course studies art of a specific culture or group of artists working primarily outside of Euro-American traditions in a particular time. The cultural contexts that informed themes, content, techniques, processes, function and display of the artwork will provide fundamental interpretive frameworks. Students will identify historical problems in the field of study and examine variations in scholarly interpretations of the works of art. Specific topics may broadly survey all of a region, such as Andean Art, or Art ofIndia; or focus on particular issues and time periods, such as Art and Politics in Mexico since 1846. (This course may be repeated under different topics for up to 9 credit hours.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1600 or ARTH 1700 or permission of the department This course studies a particular artist, group of artists, region or issue as it relates to Medieval art during the fourth to fourteenth centuries. Stylistic development, patronage, iconography, and cultural context of the Middle Ages are explored in addition to considerations of materials, techniques and aesthetic theories of the period. It focuses on artists such as Gislebertus, Villard de Honnecourt, Jean Pucelle, Giotto, Duccio, and may include the arts of sculpture, metalwork, manuscript illumination, tapestry, stained glass, painting or architecture. Alternatively, the course may be framed under regional, stylistic, or cultural themes such as Byzantine Art or French Manuscripts. (This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to 9 credit hours.) (Variable topics; may be repeated for credit under different topics.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1700; or permission of the department This course is a study of a particular artist, group of artists, region or issue as it relates to art during the period known as the Renaissance, which covers roughly the 15th and 16th centuries. Stylistic development, patronage, iconography, and cultural context are explored in addition to considerations of materials, techniques, and aesthetic theories of the Renaissance. The course focuses on artists such as Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Durer, or may focus on themes such as Art and Science in the Renaissance, Renaissance Patronage, Venetian Art ofthe 15th and 16th Centuries, or Northern Renaissance Art and Culture. (This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to 9 credit hours.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1700 or permission of the department This course is a study of a particular artist, group of artists, region or issue as it relates to Baroque art during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stylistic development, patronage, iconography, and cultural context are explored in addition to considerations of materials, techniques, and aesthetic theories of the period. Major religious and political changes and how these were reflected in the visual arts and debates over the role of art are among the issues covered. The course may focus on specific artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, thematic issues such as Everyday Life in Dutch Art, or regional topics such as Flemish Art of the 17th Century. (This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to 9 credit hours.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1700 or permission of department This course studies art of the 19th century in a specific geographic location, or under certain social conditions, or within a specific movement, or by focusing on a single or small group of artists. The cultural contexts that informed themes, content, techniques, processes, function and display of the artwork provide fundamental interpretive frameworks. Students identify historical problems in the field of study and examine variations in scholarly interpretations of the works of art. Specific topics may broadly survey art of a region, such as French 19th century Art or focus on particular movements, such as Symbolist Art, or artists, such as Courbet and Manet. (This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to nine credit hours.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1700 or permission of instructor Prerequisite/Corequisite: ARTH 3080 This course studies art of the 20th or 21st centuries in a specific geographic location, or under certain social conditions, or within a specific movement, or by focusing on a single or small group of artists. The cultural contexts that informed themes, content, techniques, processes, function and display of the artwork provide fundamental interpretive frameworks. Students identify historical problems in the field of study and examine variations in scholarly interpretations of the works of art. Specific topics may broadly survey art of a region, such as German Art since World War II, focus on particular movements, such as Minimalism, time periods, such as Art of the 1960s, themes, such as Art and Society or on specific artists, such as Picasso and Matisse. (This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to nine credit hours.)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1600 and ARTH 1700; or Permission of instructor This course is a study of the first modern theories of design as they developed out of the concepts of "Art for Art's Sake." These ideas are traced through an in-depth study of furniture, painting, sculpture, pottery, and architecture from the period 1880-1916
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: ARTH 1600 and ARTH 1700; or Permission of instructor This course is an in-depth study of art, architecture, and design in the transitional period between World War I and World War II, considering art in Europe and the United States in its cultural context. Students read theoretical material and artists' writings as well as examine political and historical events and analyze how those informed and were represented by artistic practices. A recurring theme throughout the course is art's social and critical functions.
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