Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to Modern
ARHA 110
Spring 2009
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This course surveys the development of Western art from the Renaissance
through the modern period. We will examine art's changing status within specific social and artistic contexts: from the Church and court of the Renaissance, through the formation of art academies in late 16th century, to the development of an ncreasingly individualized artistic practice that led to the formation of an avant garde. Classes will be organized chronologically and touch upon the following themes and ideas: politics, religion, and patronage; perception and experience; artistic identity and originality; relationships between artistic media; and gender
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation
Lectures, readings, and discussion will give students the opportunity to engage closely with different modes of interpretation and to identify the assumptions and interests motivating specific accounts of painting and artistic practice. Students will learn about various cultural conditions that have shaped Europe's artistic landscape since the early modern period.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA-MN)(ARHA)(ARST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Students will be assigned selected readings, including those drawn in part or whole from the following works:
Michael ¿axandall, PAINTING AND EXPERIENCE IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
Leon Battista Alberti, ON PAINTING
Honore de Balzac, "The Unknown Masterpiece" (1831)
Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863)
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful" (1757)
T. J. Clark, "The Absolute Bourgeois: Politics in France 1848-51: " (1973)
Thomas Crow, "Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris" (1985)
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger, eds. "Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas" (1998)
Anne Higonnet, "Berthe Morisot's Images of Women" (1992)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry" (1766)
Walter Pater! , "Studies in the History of the Renaissance" (1873)
John Ruskin, Selections of his Art Criticism
Katie Scott, "The Rococo Interior" (1995)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, "Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture" (1755)
Selection of articles and primary sources on e-reserves
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two papers, midterm and final exams. |
| Instructor(s): Aksamija,Nadja Kuenzli,Katherine M. Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: CINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 35 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 13 | FR: 12 |
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