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Master
Course Outline
ART 129
History of Western Art III
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| Credits: 5 |
Clock Hours per Quarter: 50
AA Discipline: [Humanities]
Lecture Hours:50
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Description
Study of art in Europe and the U.S. made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Architecture, sculpture, painting, printmaking and the photo arts, are studied. Influences of the past, combined with the rapid technological and cultural changes of the Modern Age, are explored to develop an understanding of the art of our own times. This course is the third in a three-quarter sequence but may be taken out of sequence. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
Interpret the aspirations and aims of numerous art styles and movements
Identify artists associated with these movements and distinguish a number of personal artistic styles
Display appreciation of the close relationship between art and the political and social context in which it occurs
Consider the importance of the advent of photography and its consequences for art, particularly painting
Follow the development of architecture from its pre-modern roots through innovations in style, building material, technology, function, and attitude
Discuss the rise of “avant-garde” art in opposition to artistic traditions supported by established authorities, especially the national academies of art;
Identify the meaning of the terms “abstraction” and “nonrepresentational” and recognize their value to modern artists
Describe the challenges presented by new art forms, such as the “readymade,” collage, and assemblage, and methods like “appropriation,” to accepted assumptions regarding aesthetics and the art object
Identify the ever-widening arena in which the visual arts take place, involving interrelationships between traditional categories of art, music, theater, and dance
Recognize that contemporary artists use art to engage social, political, cultural, and religious issues
Demonstrate ability to speak and write articulately and knowledgeably about modern Western art
Nurture a long-lived interest in the arts and places studied in this course
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Course Topics
Foundations of Modern Art
The Eighteenth Century, otherwise called the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason
Neoclassical and Romantic Painting
Realism and other tastes
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Early Modernism in Europe and the United States
European and American Art between WWI & WWII
Art Since 1945/Postmodernism
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Syllabi
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| ART 129 |
Spring 2013 |
5733 |
Janice James |
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| ART 129 |
Spring 2012 |
5733 |
Janice James |
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| ART 129 |
Winter 2011 |
5733 |
Janice James |
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| ART 129 |
Winter 2011 |
8005 |
Janice James |
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Two Year Projected Schedule
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*If fall quarter starts on an odd year (2003, 2005, etc.), it's Year One.
**If fall quarter starts on an even year (2002, 2004, etc.), it's Year Two.
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