Students also study the biographies of Native American artists, both past and present. An introduction to major art styles of India, China, and Japan. The architecture, sculpture, and painting of East Asia are considered from historical, cultural, and religious perspectives. An intensive study of the ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala, creators of magnificent sculpture, architecture, painting, and ceramics. A survey of the artistic traditions of Japan from an historical, cultural, and decorative perspective.
Emphasis is placed upon traditions native to Japan.
The history of industrial design, architecture, graphic design, and illustration, from the Industrial Revolution to the present, with selected references to pre-industrial developments. The course investigates technological phenomena such as mass production and movements including Postmodernism and Deconstructivism. An introduction to the art of the early Italian Renaissance, the 14th and 15th centuries. Although it functions as an autonomous fall semester offering, this course like its companion, High Italian Renaissance Art, constitutes half of a year-long sequence of study in the Italian Renaissance. The course introduces the major monuments of Italian Renaissance Art through the personalities of the people who created them.