ART 074 | Intro to Art
The course emphasizes the understanding of the creative process as it applies to the visual arts. The process involves analysis of the art of the past and present and explores the relationship and function of art to the individual and society. AOI: Artistic Experience
ART 075 | Themes in Art History
Using a thematic approach, this course introduces students to the discipline of art history. The theme will change, according to semester, but students may expect to be introduced to a range of western and non-western art as a means to explore how visual images provide a way to understand both our past and present world. PREREQ: None. ART 075 and ART 076 may be taken in any order. AOI: Artistic Experience, Historical-Breadth, Historical Consciousness
ART 103 | Art of india, China, and Japan
An illustrated historical study of the architecture, sculpture, and painting of India, China, and Japan, and of the Asian regions strongly influenced by them. PREREQ; Sophomore standing. AOI: Artistic Experience, Historical Consciousness
ART 105 | Italian Renaissance Art History
An illustrated study of painting, sculpture, and architecture made in Italy between 1300 and 1600. PREREQ: ART 075 or ART 076. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 106 | 17th / 18th Century Art
An illustrated study of European painting and sculpture from the Early Baroque to the beginning of the Neo-Classical. Artists covered include Carravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Rubens, Poussin, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Watteau, Hogarth, and Tiepolo. PREREQ: ART 076. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 107 | 19th Century Art History
An illustrated survey of art and architecture created in Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century. PREREQ: ART 076. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 108 | American Art History
An illustrated study of painting, sculpture, architecture, and related arts of the United States from the Colonial Period to the present. PREREQ: Sophomore Standing AOI: Artistic Experience, Historical Consciousness
ART 109 | Modern Art History
An illustrated examination of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the turn of the century to 1945. PREREQ: ART 76. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 110 | Art Since 1945
An examination of major developments in American and European art from the post-war period to the present. PREREQ: ART 074 or ART 076. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 111 | Cultural Intersections c. 1900
This course explores the interrelationships between art of different cultures. This exploration has two major components. First, we will examine how the art of one culture is understood and transforms art in another culture. A major emphasis of our study will be the western reception of non-western art and , reciprocally, the non-western response to western art and culture. And second, we will also examine how the idea one culture has about another informs the way art is perceived and understood. Prior opinions about the people in another nation shape and influence outsiders' ideas about the meaning as well as the quality of that nation's art.
ART 112 | Selected Topics in Art History
This course examines specific topics in art history not otherwise covered in art curriculum. Students may repeat the course as long as a different topic is covered. AOI: Historical Consciousness
ART 113 | Current Chinese Art & Issues
The purpose of this class is to gain a deeper understanding of current Chinese culture. Images manifest cultural values, making abstract thought and values visible. Through developing the skill of visual analysis, especially through the method of comparing several works of art, students will gain the ability to decode significant relationships between an art work and its culture. We shall see that, inevitably, looking at contemporary Chinese art brings us to notice fundamental cross-cultural relationships. Our assumptions of what constitutes an individual culture will be challenged and reshaped as we address what is Chinese about Chinese art. And we will confront the constraint that we understand another culture only through the lens of our own culture. As we define "east" we will become aware of how we define "west." This course will examine the political history of twentieth century China as a background to understanding Chinese art of the 21st century. AOI: Artistic Experience
ART 117 | Chinese Landscape Painting
Elements of Chinese Landscape Painting Tang-Yuan Dynasties: Artworks communicate in various manners: they engage the viewer politically, symbolically, socially, spiritually and intellectually as well as aesthetically. The purpose of this course is to look at how Chinese painting communicates meaning in all of these arenas. We will examine the languages(s) of traditional Chinese landscape painting from the Tang to the Yuan Dynasties, looking at the development of the landscape idiom to see the way Chinese painting communicates in terms of form and at the meanings it has in terms of function. This course will familiarize the students with the formal elements of traditional Chinese painting, examine how the elements together create meaning in an artwork, and explore connections between culture and iconography.
ART 118 | American Landscapes
Focusing on the concept of landscape, this course uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how residents of the United States have described, pictured, and altered their physical environment between the colonial period and the present. In examining historical and theoretical analyses of landscapes, we will discover that the words and images that we use when contemplating our surroundings infulence the way that we relate to the world and the decisions that we make about it. The course considers a variety of visual material (maps, photographs, paintings, films, etc.). It is organized thematically, investigating several familiar categories of landscape including wilderness, public parks, and the private lawn, as well as patterns in the composition and symbolism of landscape imagery. The course includes field trips to area landscapes.
ART 197 | Senior Thesis in Art History
The research and writing of a thesis on some aspect of art history. PREREQ: Art History major and senior standing.
ART 198 | Senior Thesis in Art History
The research and writing of a thesis on some aspect of art history. PREREQ: Art History major and senior standing.
ART 199 | Art & Theory
Visual art is a way of communicating; it participates in a dialogue about a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural concerns. Cultural theorists directly analyze art, while ideas from social critics, such as Karl Marx, impact art indirectly but powerfully. In turn, artwork responds to criticism and expands it. By reading canonical texts written by art and cultural theorists, students will examine the changing relationships between art and society. They will also extend their explorations of the cultural relationships by applying each theory to specific art works, seeking those that best embody the theories explored. PREREQ: Art 75 or Art 76 and junior or senior standing required. Art major or consent of instructor.
