Art History
The courses on this page reflect 2008 offerings.
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CAS AH 112 Art History II: Renaissance to Today
Major monuments and artists. Sequential development from the late
Renaissance to the modern period of major styles in architecture,
sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and photography. Relationship
of visual art to social and cultural trends. 4 cr.
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CAS AH 225 Arts of Asia
Surveys of the major artistic traditions of Asia. Important
monuments are examined analytically in order to explain why certain
forms and styles are characteristic of specific times and places,
and how these monuments functioned in their cultural contexts. 4
cr.
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CAS AH 284 Arts in America
Survey of American painting, architecture, sculpture, prints, and
photography from the early settlement in 1630 to the present. 4
cr.
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CAS AH 295 History of Photography
An introduction to the study of photographs. The history of the
medium in Europe and America from its invention in 1839 to the present.
After lectures on photographic theory and methodology, photographs
are studied both as art objects and as historical artifacts. 4 cr.
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CAS AH 333 The Art of Classical Greece
An in-depth examination of the sculpture, painting and architecture
of the Classical Period, approximately 480-323 BCE. Emphasis placed
on the developing ideologies that shaped artistic production following
the Persian wars, the use of myth as "history" in social
and political contexts, and the emergence of the individual. 4 cr.
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