Taking Spaces/Making Places: American Artists and the Landscape
ARHA 174
Fall 2012 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 266 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
This course will explore the evolving significance of landscape representation within American culture from 1750 to 1900. This is a looking as well as reading- and writing-intensive course. During class we will examine various types of landscapes and discuss how the natural world has been comprehended--as frontier, settlement, environment and view--as inexhaustible resource or fragile ecosystem--by such artists and designers as Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Carleton Watkins, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Law Olmsted, George Inness, and Winslow Homer. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST) |
Major Readings:
McKibben, AMERICAN EARTH: ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING SINCE THOREAU (ISBN 978-1-59853-020-9)
Electronic reserves
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers; research paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will include a mandatory weekend field trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford |
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