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Western Art and Culture After 1400
Steven M. Vroom: Instructor
Course Description: Survey of the visual arts of the European, American and African civilizations from the late Gothic period to the present. Emphasis is on the formal, stylistic, technical and contextual developments in painting, sculpture, architectural, functional, and performing arts with reference to the cultural, social, religious, political and historical factors for which these works were produced.
SYLLABUS [SUBJECT TO REVISION]
Week 1 Introduction, Art Terms and Concepts
Week 2 The Concept of the Renaissance
Week 3 Fifteenth Century Italian Art
Week 4 Sixteenth Century Italian Art
Week 5 Fifteenth Century Art of Northern Europe and Spain
[first essay due]
Week 6 Sixteenth Century Art of Northern Europe and Spain
Week 7 Baroque Art
Week 8 Review, [Mid Term Exam]
Week 9 Eighteenth Century: Late Baroque and the Rococo
Week 10 The Rise of Romanticism,
[second essay due]
Week 11 Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism
Week 12 The Rise of Modernism
Week 13 The Early Twentieth Century
Week 14 The Middle and Late Twentieth Century
Week 15 Review Session,
[third essay is due],
[Final Exam]
Course Requirements: Class attendance, reading of assigned chapters, Mid-Term Exam [30%], Final Exam [40%], and three one to three page essays [30%].
Required Text: Gardner's Art Through the Ages {10th edition}
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