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03/23/10 - 06/02/10 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tuesdays
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Jason Weems
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Location: | Seminar 317, Floor 3, Room 317
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None Defined
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| Description: |
This course provides an in-depth study of American art from roughly 1848-1900 with special attention to social, political and artistic issues in the context of industrialization. The course is both chronological and thematic. It focuses on important artists such as Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James Whistler, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Augustus Saint Gaudens and Mary Cassatt, as well as contributions to a the broader visual culture by figures such as illustrator Thomas Nast, photographer Alexander Gardner and furniture designer Gustav Stickley. Key themes for the course include: visual culture and construction of an American identity, the role of the fine arts in American society, and the tensions of class, gender, race and ethnicity in American art.
Students are expected to engage actively and creatively with the topics at hand and to consider objects and concepts from overlapping and conflicting points of view. Those who do so, and keep up with readings and assignments should achieve four goals: (1) become familiar with the key figures, movements, and problems in interwar American art and visual culture; (2) gain understanding of the methodologies used by art historians; (3) develop the ability to articulate ideas clearly and thoughtfully in both written and verbal contexts; and (4) increase their skills in thinking critically and historically about the relationship between art, visual experience, and culture.
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