Learn to identify, classify, describe, and interpret works of art from a wide range of periods and world cultures.
In this class, we will analyze selected contemporary artworks around the city of Boston by testing out the claims about those pieces found in recent art-historical writing. Throughout the semester, students determine where these essays are most and least useful for thinking about their firsthand experience of contemporary art. Close … Read more
Start Date
01/25
Meeting Day
End Date
05/10
Faculty
Adrian Kohn
Time
–
Credits
3
This course is a condensed and comprehensive introduction to the history of Western art from prehistorical times to the twenty-first century. The basic purpose of the course is three-fold: to examine a selection of the most significant monuments of creative endeavor which constitute the canon of Western art; to contextualize … Read more
Start Date
01/27
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
05/05
Faculty
David Nolta
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
3
What is Sound Art? Imagine mind-bending sound pieces created with a piano filled with nails/bolts/nuts/screws, a floor tiled with LPs, a secret tone playing underneath a grate in New York City for 30 years, or nothing but the echo of a space. The course will provide a solid knowledge of … Read more
Start Date
03/22
Meeting Day
None
End Date
05/10
Faculty
Judy Dunaway
Time
–
Credits
3
