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This course explores the evolution of advertising throughout the 20th century. From the creative revolution in the 60’s to the proliferation of alternative media and the World Wide Web, students study the trends, technology, agencies and people in this creative industry.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102
Students explore the roots of Western civilization in the classical Greco-Roman tradition. Since architecture and sculpture are the hallmarks of this period, major Greek and Roman monuments will be highlighted. The course will also discuss this classical tradition as the source of early Christian art, Byzantine art and early medieval art, including Romanesque.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)
This course is a survey of Western Art and visual culture from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth-century. Other than to present an outline history of Western art, this course seeks to introduce students cumulatively to the critical concepts and vocabulary in the study of art history, visual culture, art appreciation and historiography of art, that is, the study of the writing about art and its history. The course will seek to introduce students to historically relevant accounts of the philosophical, religious, poetic and technological contexts of art as well as to introduce new forms of historical thinking on the relevance of the recognition of social, political and economic, (race, class and gender)in the understanding of both the making of art and its audience.
Credits: 3
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This course focuses on artists’ response to the sweeping social, philosophical and political changes that began in the late nineteenth century, including Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism. Students explore the work of modernists who affronted their audiences in order to bring about changes in perception, including the artists of the Dada movement, who mocked art and society, and the Surrealists, who explored the unconscious as a resource for art. Artists studied include Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)
This course is an introduction to the visual cultures of Africa and its Diasporas, through a series of case studies in visual narration in a wide variety of media and formats from Africa, the Caribbean, the US, Brazil, and indeed throughout the Black Atlantic. The case studies range from altar-making to filmmaking, and from sculpture to pageantries of carnival. The course seeks to locate these individual images-texts-objects in the larger narrative and performance traditions, as well as the socio-political and historical contexts, from which they emerge. But the course also asks where these forms are going, and how historical memory works now, always in motion. What, then, are the theoretical and practical implications for establishing origins, authenticity, and the future?
Credits: 3
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In the sixteenth century, as ancient manuscripts began to be rediscovered, translated and made available to European humanists such as Petrarch, society turned in a more worldly direction. Artists began adding classical themes to their devotional repertories and more frequently directed their attention to the problems of life on earth. This class covers painters, architects and sculptors, including Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in Italy, and Jan Van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein in northern Europe. Mannerism as an outgrowth of the Renaissance is also discussed.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)
This course is an introduction to Asian visual culture through a series of case studies in visual narration in a wide variety of media and formats from India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. At the same time, the course seeks to locate individual narratives in the larger narrative traditions and the socio-political contexts from which they emerge. The focal narratives range from painted and sculpted cycles in the architectural space of public monuments, to individual hand scrolls and manuscripts that have more limited and private audiences and viewing protocols. This course examines each work of art in its particular cultural contexts, including its patron, maker, and original consumers. Students study the use of visual narratives in the construction of ideals by emperors, religious devotees and scholars construct. In this light we will study visual narratives that have accompanying verbal texts as well as those that stand alone.
Credits: 3
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This course explores the various roles of women in the art world, both as artists and subjects, from 1550 to the present. Figures studied include Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Nevelson and Judy Chicago. Topics include feminist imagery, politics and contemporary feminist criticism.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)
This course focuses on printed art in America from pre-1890 through the 1950’s. The influence of illustrators on the attitudes and customs of their times is the focus. Using a format of study by decade, the course explores the making of pictures to tell a story regardless of medium. A more theoretical approach is used in discussions of the great teachers and of women in illustration. This course satisfies the General Education requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN-102
In this course, students explore world mythology and the works of art they have inspired. Western artists historically have drawn inspiration from Christian beliefs and symbols as well as from the myths of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Contemporary artists have also been influenced by the beliefs and symbols of Asia, India, Native America, Africa and other cultures. These are the basis for most animated stories, video games, films and many other forms of literature and works of art. The course will explore the beliefs, meanings and symbols of many cultures as they are used in art both historically and today.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)