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Academic Year 2000/2001

Topics in European Art: 1600-1900
ARHA 330 SP

This seminar will examine developments in the history and theory of the visual arts (painting, sculpture and the graphic arts) in France, Germany, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, focusing in particular on how artists contributed to the invention and imaging of national history and identity in the modern European nation-state. Topics to be addressed will include changing modes of production and promotion; patterns of patronage; the status of the artist and concepts of genius and masterpiece; the invention of the artistic canon and the evolution of modernism as an aesthetic category.

MAJOR READINGS

To be announced

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

One short paper, one seminar presentation/research paper

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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