Taking Spaces/Making Places: American Artists and the Landscape
ARHA 174
Fall 2010
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 266 |
This course will explore the evolving significance of landscape representation within American culture from the 1820s to the present. 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, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederick Law Olmsted, William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams, Robert Smithson, and Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation, Writing
In this course students will be expected to engage in the critical analysis of works of art and literature as cultural texts, studying in particular the modes and circumstances of production and reception.
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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) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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 |
| Instructor(s): Milroy,Elizabeth Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: DAC300; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 19 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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