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109.Art from Pre-history to Post-medieval:
A Critical History Through a critical approach, visual arts are
explored as they arise historically, culturally and stylistically
in Pre-history, Antiquity and the Medieval period. This course is
designed to increase the skills of visual perception, analysis,
understanding of and sensitivity to the fundamental ideas and cultural
values embodied in art. Museum field trips are required. Required
for all studio art and art history majors. No prerequisites.
Four Hours Hanson Both Semesters
110. Art from Proto-Renaissance to the Present
Day: A Critical History Through a critical approach, visual arts
are explored as they arise historically, culturally and stylistically
in Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Post-modern periods. This course
is designed to increase the skills of visual perception, analysis,
understanding and sensitivity to the fundamental ideas and cultural
values embodied in art. Museum field trips are required. Required
for all studio art and art history majors. No prerequisites.
Four Hours Mahsun Both Semesters
295. Special Studies Studies and research in areas
of art history or studio not covered in regular course listings.
Course topics to be announced. Prerequisite: permission of professor.
Two Hours Staff Both Semesters
322. Early Antiquity: Nature and Art An examination
of man’s earliest art and architecture in the pre-historic
age, the Near East, Egypt and the Aegean with a focus on their geographic
and social contexts. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
323. Late Antiquity: Empires and Individuals
The art and architecture of the Greek, Etruscans and Romans with
emphasis on social forces interwoven with their cultures. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
326. Women: From Ancient to Medieval,From Body
to Spirit An investigation of the achievements of women artists
in light of the fundamental role of women, their liberties and restrictions,
within the various cultures from pre-history and antiquity through
the middle ages.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
327. Medieval Art in the First Millennium Pre-
and Post- Constantinian, Byzantine, Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian and
Ottonian art and architecture will be explored in their religious
and political contexts as they bear on the making of modern Europe.
Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
328. Pilgrim,Crusader,Monastic: Images of Faith
and Reason in Medieval Art A study of major social phenomena in
the West which lead to the maturing of medieval art in the Romanesque
and Gothic styles. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of
instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
332. Women: Renaissance to Today,From Artist to
Feminist Revising the history of art from the Renaissance to the
present through an examination of the contributions of women artists,
together with an assessment of the role of woman as subject matter.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
334. Northern Renaissance: Van Eyck to Bosch A
study of the transformations from the late Gothic to the early Renaissance
in northern European art of the fifteenth century. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
345. Humanists and Reformers of the Northern Renaissance:
Durer-Breugel A study of Early 16th century northern artists seen
against religious and scientific tendencies of the times. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
346. Tradition and Innovation in Early Renaissance
Italy A study of the birth of a new figurative style, together with
the variations found in artistic expressions in response to the
social, economic and political context of late 13th, 14th and 15th
century Italy. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
347. Naturalism and Artifice in the art of 16th
century Italy An investigation of painting and sculpture from the
invention of the High Renaissance style to the Mannerist reaction
against it in Late Renaissance Italy. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110
or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
348. The Dutch World of Rembrandt Rembrandt the
painter, printmaker and draughtsman, is examined in the context
of the Dutch baroque “Golden Age.” Prerequisite: Art
109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
349. Piety and Pleasure: The Dutch Masters
A survey of Dutch painters from Hals through Vermeer in light of
their times. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Hanson Every Two Years
352. Early Baroque Painting: Caravaggio and the
Carracci—Real and Ideal A study of the diversity of styles
in early Baroque painting as manifest in the realism of Caravaggio
and the Caravaggisti and the eclectic idealism of the Carracci and
their followers. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
353. Bernini and Roman Baroque Splendor
A survey of the work of Bernini and the patronage of the papal court
in Counter-reformation Rome. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
355. Watteau to Fragonard: Rococo to Reform
A consideration of the decline in France of the Baroque in the face
of romanticism and revolution. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Stet Every Two Years
356. 18th Century Reason and Refinement A survey
of the development of the rococo, realism and neo-classicism in
the 18th century art of England, Italy, and Germany. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Stet Every Two Years
372. 19th Century Painting and Sculpture: The Modern
Mentality The beginnings of the modern art are examined in the styles
of Neoclassicism and Romanticism found in Italy, France, Germany,
and England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
373. Romanticism to Realism A study of French art
from Delacroix through Courbet, with special emphasis given to developments
in landscape painting. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
376. From Impressionism to Abstraction A study
of the rise of the avant-garde, tracing the development of art from
Manet and the Impressionists through the Symbolists and Expressionists
to Abstraction in European Art. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or
permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
377. Order and the Irrational in 20th Century Art
Cubism and other abstract movements are examined, together with
their irrational counterparts, Dada and Surrealism. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
380. Architecture of the Real and Ideal: 19th Century
Pre-modern architecture will be addressed from the dissolution of
the Baroque in the late eighteenth century through Revivalism, Rationalism
and Art Nouveau. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Staff Every Two Years
381. Architecture of the Real and Ideal: 20th Century
A presentation of the varied origins of modern architecture from
1900 to the development between the world wars, post World War II
responses and recent architecture leading up to the present. Prerequisite:
Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Staff Every Two Years
383. Pollock to Pop A study of the social upheaval
and artistic dissent that gave rise to such movements as Abstract
Expressionism, Happenings, Pop, Mimimalism, etc. during the 40s,
50s and 60s in Europe and America. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110
or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
384. Pluralism: Art from the 70s-90s A study of
post-modernist styles such as conceptionalism, process, historicism,
etc., together with the resurgence of Realism and Expressionism
in contemporary art. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun Every Two Years
386. Nativist Art of the Americas The indigenous
art and architecture of South, Central, and North America will be
surveyed with study of such phenomenon as mound building, pueblos,
ceramics, totems and masks. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Staff When Feasible
387. American Art:Revolution to Realism Painting
and sculpture in America, including Mexico, from the Colonial period
to the Civil War. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of
instructor.
Two Hours Staff When Feasible
388. American Art: Regionalism and Internationalism
An investigation of Mexican art from the Colonial period to the
present, with emphasis on such forces as pre-Columbian heritage
and European modernism. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission
of instructor.
Two Hours Staff When Feasible
390. African Art and Artifacts East, Central and
West African are considered, from symbolic, stylistic and anthropological
perspectives. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110 or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Staff When Feasible
391. Topics in Asian Art A selective treatment
of the art of India, China and Japan. Prerequisite: Art 109 or 110
or permission of instructor.
Two Hours Staff When Feasible
491. Independent Study in Art History Independent
study for advanced students with considerable background in art
history, and who wish to study a particular aspect of the discipline.
Independent research is emphasized. Under special circumstances,
the course may be repeated for credit, subject to the approval of
the department chairperson. Prerequisite: advanced standing and
written permission of the instructor.
Two Hours Mahsun, Hanson Both Semesters
493. Methodologies of Art An examination of various
approaches to art, such as Formalism and Style, Iconography, Contextual,
Biography, Psychoanalysis and Semiotics.
Two Hours Mahsun, Staff Every Two Years
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