ARTH 372: Studies in 18th- and 19th-Century Art of the United States

ARTH 372-001: Stud 18/19th C Art of the U.S.
(Fall 2010)

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).

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Developments in visual culture and the changing status of art practitioners throughout these periods. Focus is either chronological (Colonial Period, Gilded Age) or thematic (19th-century genre scenes, the American landscape and national identity). Notes: May be repeated when topic is different. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Mason Core: Arts
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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