Through lectures accompanied by slides and videos, students examine the role of illustration, cartooning and caricature in the graphic arts and popular culture. This course examines the origins of photography and chronicles its development as an artistic genre. Photography is examined as an art form, and slide lectures, video presentations, and readings cover photographic artwork from 1839 to the present. This course includes selected drawings, paintings, sculptures, and works of architecture produced between 1900 and 1945. Students study concepts of Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Purism, Orphism, Futurism, Vorticism, Dada, Surrealism, DeStijl, Bauhaus, Constructivism and early Abstract Expressionism.
Emphasis is on critical theory.
This course examines the development of American sculpture and architecture. Includes selected regional, ethnic, modern and postmodern works and explores the relationship between sculpture and architecture. This course traces the development of American painting from the colonial period to the present. Includes selected regional, ethnic, and avant-garde works. Explores the relationship between painting and U.S. economic, political, historical and literary developments.