Learn to identify, classify, describe, and interpret works of art from a wide range of periods and world cultures.
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
06/06
Meeting Day
Mon-Thu
End Date
06/23
Faculty
David Nolta
Time
10am–1:30pm
Credits
3
Students explore the cultural and artistic responses to the major modern, social, and political revolutions between the end of the 18th and 20th centuries. The focus is on rarely covered artistic responses to political, social, and religious revolutions of the 20th century. Historical, political, philosophical currents and their impact on … Read more
Start Date
06/06
Meeting Day
End Date
07/22
Faculty
Anahit Ter-Stepanian
Time
–
Credits
3
In this course, we analyze several individual practices and group movements from 1945 to the present. Instead of adhering to the distilled summaries of a textbook, we engage art of this period at less of a remove. Students come to comprehend the difficulty and subjectivity involved in formulating a history … Read more
Start Date
06/06
Meeting Day
End Date
07/22
Faculty
Adrian Kohn
Time
Students follow a syllabus using the Moodle platform–
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
06/13
Meeting Day
End Date
07/29
Faculty
Judy Dunaway
Time
Online–
Credits
3
In this course we trace the physical, physiological, and psychological investigations of experimental filmmakers over the last seventy years. Studying these three trajectories-matter, body, and mind-reveals “film” to be a complex interplay between what Paul Sharits described in 1969 as “celluloid, two-dimensional strips; individual rectangular frames; the nature of sprockets … Read more
Start Date
06/20
Meeting Day
End Date
08/05
Faculty
Adrian Kohn
Time
Students follow a syllabus using the Moodle platform–
Credits
3
This course will explore the transition from modernist thought as exemplified by the Abstract Expressionist movement to such postmodern notions of appropriation, parody, and fragmentation as they manifest themselves in the art of the 1970s and beyond. We will focus on such concepts and genres as minimalism, performance, video, installation … Read more
Start Date
07/05
Meeting Day
End Date
08/15
Faculty
Adrian Kohn
Time
Students follow a syllabus using the Moodle platform–
Credits
3
