Taking Spaces/Making Places: American Artists and the Landscape
ARHA 174
Spring 2013
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01
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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: None |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI, FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Braddock and Irmscher, eds, A KEENER PERCEPTION: ECOCRITICAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART HISTORY (ISBN: 978-0817355517)
Bedell, THE ANATOMY OF NATURE: GEOLOGY AND AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING, 1825-1875 (ISBN: 978-0691102917)
Electronic reserves
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
THIS SECTION IS A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (FYS) CLASS.
The class will visit the Wadsworth Atheneum on Saturday, February 23, 2013. |
| Instructor(s): Robertson,Breanne Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: WYL113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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