The history of Western art and architecture, starting with the Rococo and ending with Abstract Expressionism. Special Topics in Music. Special Topics in Art. History of art and architecture in the U.S.A. with emphasis not only on sources and development but also on social and political significance. An introduction to the art of building, concentrating on the skyscraper in New York City, and dealing only with such earlier work as relates to its background and development.
Attention is given to planning, style, and engineering.
Course will feature lectures, tours, visits to studios. Art of Native Cultures. A study of the role of indigenous art and the function of art in cultures such as North and South American Indian, Eskimo, African, etc. A course to introduce the student to the current New York Art Scene. There will be visits to galleries, studios, museums and performance places.