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This survey of art and architecture during the turbulent 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America includes the neo-classical style favored by Napoleon and Jefferson, the dramatic emotionalism of the Romantic era, the clarity of realist style, and the revolutionary invention of photography.This course is recommended as the basis for studying 20th-century painting.Three credits.
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This course examines the shifting styles and currents of modern art from the realists Courbet and Manet, and their contemporaries, to the rebellious years of the Impressionists.The course explores the 20th century from the Fauvists' explosion of color to the new spatial-physics of cubism under Picasso, and documents the triumphs and failures of modern civilization in the experimental efforts of the constructivists, Dadaists, surrealists, and abstract expressionists.A principal concern in the course is the question: What is the artist of the 20th century telling us about our world Three credits.
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This course studies the 19th-century French art movement that revolutionized painting, covering Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Pissaro along with their contemporaries in Paris, their students, and their followers.It also studies the post-impressionists and their innovations and includes museum trips to study original works.Three credits.
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This course examines the art of building in America from pre-Columbian times to the present, including tradition, economics, engineering, and environmental factors influencing its development.Students examine the home, the church, the school, the business center, and the sports complex as reflections of the American way of life, emphasizing the architecture of today.The course develops an understanding of the man-made environment and its special relations to individuals and to society.Three credits.
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The first two centuries of American art reflect the dramatic individualism of the early settlers; English, Dutch and Spanish immigrants created varied and vigorous styles of art and architecture.The course examines these styles, from Colonial towns and plantations to Federal architecture commissioned by Washington and Jefferson, as well as vividly realistic images of the Civil War by Winslow Homer and photographer Matthew Brady.American history and American studies students find this course, which includes field trips focused on original architecture, painting, and furniture in public and private collections, useful.Three credits.
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This course examines the arts and architecture of the early republic introduced in AH 163, expanding into the major movements and masters of American art from the Civil War to the present.In tracing the themes and artistic statements of American artists the course takes special notice of unifying national myths such as the Founding Fathers, Manifest Destiny, America as the new Eden, the frontier from the Rockies to the lunar surface, heroes from Davy Crockett to Superman, and America as utopia.Through the masterpieces of Church, Cole, Homer, Eakins, Sloan, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko, Wyeth, Warhol, and the Downtown art scene, the course answers the question: What is uniquely American about American art Three credits.
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This course explores Black art and culture in the 20th century, focusing on the art works themselves and how these works use Black culture as subject and context.It traces the development of African-American art from the social upheavals and rapid identity transformations of the Civil War Era through World War I, to the emergence of the "New Negro" of the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, to the return of Black folk imagery in Depression and post-Depression art, to the social and political awareness of the Civil Rights era, to the reconsideration of "blackness" explored during the feminist and postmodern decades.The course gives equal consideration throughout to the artistic dialogue including text, criticism, and vi deo.This course meets the U.S. diversity requireme nt. Three credit
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Photography, one of the youngest artistic media, is the medium most evident in and crucial to 20th-century culture.This course traces the history of photography in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the interplay between the growth of photography as an art form and technological developments of the medium, and the multiple functions photography fills in modern and postmodern culture.The course stresses photographic movements and the work of individual photographers and analyzes the relationship of photography to other art forms.Three credits.
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This interdisciplinary approach to the visual Zeitgeist of these major political/national crises in Europe between 1917 and 1945 surveys the visual rhetoric of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Bolshevik Russia through the widest possible definition of the visual arts.The course includes the traditional fine arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the mass cultural outlets of film, radio, propaganda posters, and the staging of public events.The class eliminates the distinctions between high and utilitarian mediums of expression; all means of persuasion are fair game.This course allows students to better understand the complexities of these political/nationalist issues; the "window" is the lens provided by the visual arts and mass media.In doing so, students recognize how the symbolic languages of mythology were married to political ideologies and shaped public opinion from the national consciousness.Three credits.
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Students will study the history of plaster cast collections in Europe and the U.S.including Fairfield's growing collection.Emphasis will be given to the Fairfield collection by conducting research on the new gifts of plaster casts.Students will write individual entries for museum labels and the website.Students will clean and apply light restoration to plaster casts in preparation for their eventual display in different areas on campus.Class visits to the Slater Museum, the Institute for Classical Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be scheduled.Consultation with curators and sculptors will provide additional guidance to students.Three credits.
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