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department Art History (X) |
This survey introduces the visual arts of the western world, moving chronologically from the prehistoric era to the present day. Our primary goal is to develop critical tools for analyzing the historical significance of monuments, images and artifacts. Expressly designed for non-majors, the class has no prerequisites. Spring.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course is taught at Villa Le Balze, Georgetown's program in Florence, Italy. Fall.
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This course is offered at Villa Le Balze, Georgetown's program in Florence.
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This course surveys painting, sculpture and the graphic arts from the Netherlands, Germany and France, ca. 1400-1570. It considers the careers of major artists such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer and Pieter Bruegel the Elder with particular attention focused on their works in the context of the religious, cultural and social upheavals of the period.
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The life of Rembrandt van Rijn spanned the great age of Dutch culture and political power that followed the nation's independence from Spain in the seventeenth century. This course will focus on the art of Rembrandt and his contemporaries, many of whom established new categories of subject matter, including genre painting, landscape, and still life.
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Credits: 3
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The course covers the formation and development of American artistic traditions from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Museum study and class presentations will emphasize original works of art.
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This course explores the major currents in nineteenth-century painting both in Europe and America. Starting from the end of the eighteenth century, we will trace the debate between classic and romantic art. We will then investigate the genesis of modernism as it developed in France at mid-century with Gustave Courbet and study the impact of the avant-garde as it took shape in Europe. The course will examine topics such as socially-engaged art, visionary painting, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. It will culminate with a discussion of the late nineteenth-century movement of Symbolism. There will be trips to the National Gallery and other museums to study works of art in the original.
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Credits: 3
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This course traces the development of modern architecture in the United States by concentrating on the work of major figures such as H. H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi. The major issues to be explored are: the relationship of new technologies to new building types; city planning; tradition vs. innovation; regional vs. international influences; Post-Modernism and revival of historical concerns. (Offered 2005-06)
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Major Italian artists and works c. 1300-1550, emphasizing developments in Florence, Rome, and Venice. Considers changing functions, meanings, and styles of art being produced to serve princely, papal, civic, and private patrons. The focus is chiefly on painting and sculpture, with selective looks toward architecture and prints. Includes visits to the National Gallery of Art.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Visions of the sublime have stimulated art and literature in the Americas and other countries, especially in the 18th - 20th centuries. The course examines ways in which Edmund Burke's treatise on the sublime provided a model for aesthetic expression that emphasized the excitement of extreme reactions to nature and idea.
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Difficult art includes works that transgress conventions or generally accepted values and arouse complex reactions because of cultural, ethical, and personal contexts. Among the topics to be discussed are: anti-Semitism in traditional European art; the conceit of "orientalism" in western academic art; the role of so-called "primitivism" in modern art; the use of female nudes as personifications of nations or qualities; posters and other kinds of propaganda inciting hostility toward specific racial, ethnic, and social groups; imagery in anti-abolition, anti-suffrage, and anti-gay rights propaganda; and popular and critical reactions to art outside the mainstream.
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A capstone course recommended for senior majors (open to minors with permission), the colloquium is designed to draw together a variety of academic experiences and emphasize methodology, theory, and issues in the field of art history. Some class sessions will focus on problems and discoveries connected with seminars, thesis writing, and internships that students are taking concurrently. The focus varies from year to year, as we take advantage of exhibitions or events in the area. We also discuss current issues in the arts and information about advanced study and professional practice of art history. And we look at art. Spring.
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Credits: 3
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This seminar investigates the role of mythology in modern art, as subject matter and as a way of approaching concepts of creation, choice, revelation, and the subconscious. We identify major themes or archetypes particularly relevant to art and artists--for example, those dealing with craft,invention, struggles between human and divine beings. Student reports focus modern interpretations of a theme from mythology (e.g., the Minotaur, Orpheus, Narcissus, the Muses), or examine individual artists'distinctive uses of myth (e.g., Picasso, Beckmann, Newman, Rothko).
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