01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR
Innovation Hall 134
Section Information for Fall 2010
This course takes an interdisciplinary and thematic approach to art in the U.S. produced from the Civil War to the early years of the 20th-century, a period popularly christened “The Gilded Age.” Our primary goal is to understand and interpret these works as cultural “texts” whose subjects and pictorial strategies embody critical debates and shifting ideologies in decades of rapid economic, social and political change. Our assumption throughout is that images are part of the historical process–not simply passive reflections of ideas and events. Our concerns will be both historiographical (how has thinking about this period changed over time) and methodological (what are the various ways in which images as cultural products can be interpreted).Tags:
Credits: 3
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