ARTH 370: Arts of the United States

ARTH 370-001: Arts of the United States
(Fall 2015)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW

Art & Design Building 2026

Section Information for Fall 2015

This course will consider a wide range of artistic expression in the United States, beginning with first contact between Native Americans and Europeans, continuing through to 1950. We will explore how visual artists represented shifting notions of American identity and investigate the tangled intersection of art and popular culture. Students will study a broad spectrum of the period’s cultural production, from New World maps and colonial portraiture to social realist photography and comic strips. Museum visits, slide lectures, and class discussions will provide students with the tools to formally analyze artworks and place them within their socio-historical context.  Written assignments, exams, and collaborative work will foster the development of research, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Introduces students to high art (painting and sculpture) and popular material and visual cultural forms (prints, furniture, textiles) through a chronological and thematic survey of U.S. Art, 1600 to 1950. Explores changing roles of arts, artists, craftsmen; issues of gender, race, class; and formation of national identify through the arts. Lectures and discussion are featured. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Arts
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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