ART
An Exploration of Early American Art
- ARTFUNDAMENTALS 20%
- Introduction to ArtHistory
- Methods and Inquiries of ArtHistory
- The Nature of Art HistoricalInquiry
- Sources, Documents, and the Work of ArtHistorians
- The Development of ArtHistory
- Brief Overview of Art in the WesternWorld
- AncientCivilizations
- Greek and RomanArt
- Early Christian and MedievalArt
- The Renaissance andBaroque
- Rococo, Neoclassicism, andRomanticism
- Realism andImpressionism
- Post-Impressionism and Other Late Nineteenth-CenturyDevelopments
- The Emergence ofModernism
- Abstraction
- Pop Art, Minimalism, and PhotoRealism
- Earthworks, Installations, andPerformance
- Brief Overview of Non-WesternArt
- AsianArt
- African and OceanicArt
- Islamic Art
- TheAmericas
- Elements ofArt
- Formal Qualities ofArt
- Line
- Shape andForm
- Perspective
- Color
- Texture
- Composition
- Processes andTechniques
- Drawing
- Printmaking
- Painting
- Photography
- Sculpture
- MixedMedia
- Performance
- Craft and FolkArt
- Architecture
- Formal Qualities ofArt
- Methods and Inquiries of ArtHistory
- Introduction to ArtHistory
II: COLONIAL PORTRAITURE 22%
- History of Early American Portraiture
- SELECTED WORK: JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY,PAULREVERE,1768
- Paul Revere: Patriot, Printer, and Craftsman
- John Singleton Copley:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- SELECTED WORK: AFTER (?) SCIPIO MOORHEAD,PUBLISHED BY ARCHIBALD BELL,
PORTRAIT OFPHILLISWHEATLEY, 1773
- Phillis Wheatley:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- Scipio Moorhead and the Question of the Image’sAuthorship
- SELECTED WORK: PRUDENCE PUNDERSON,THEFIRST,SECOND ANDLASTSCENE OF
MORTALITY, C. 1776-83
- Embroidery and Needlework as CreativeExpression
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTEDWORK: ROBERT EDGE PINE,PATIENCELOVELLWRIGHT, C. 1782
- Patience Wright:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- Wright’s Intelligence Work during the RevolutionaryWar
- SELECTEDWORK: GILBERT STUART,GEORGEWASHINGTON(LANSDOWNEPORTRAIT), 1796
- Gilbert Stuart:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- PresidentialPortraiture
- EARLYHISTORY PAINTING 22%
- The Academy and the Development of HistoryPainting
- SELECTEDWORK: UNKNOWN,SEGESSERII, C. 1720
- History of the Segesserhides
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTED WORK: BENJAMIN WEST,PENN’STREATY WITH THEINDIANS,1771-72
- Benjamin West:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- Representing Native Americans in Eighteenth-CenturyPainting
- SELECTEDWORK: AFTER HENRY PELHAM, ENGRAVED, PRINTED AND SOLD BY PAUL REVERE,THEBOSTONMASSACRE, 1770
- Prints and the American Revolution
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- The Controversy overAttribution
- SELECTED WORK: EMANUEL LEUTZE,WASHINGTONCROSSING THEDELAWARE,1851
- Emanuel Leutze:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- An American Icon and ItsInfluence
- SELECTED WORK: HARRIET POWERS,PICTORIALQUILT,1895-98
- The History of African-American QuiltingTraditions
- Harriet Powers:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- NEOCLASSICAL ARTAND ARCHITECTURE 18%
- The Rise of Neoclassicism in the UnitedStates
- SELECTEDWORK: THOMAS JEFFERSON, MONTICELLO, 1769-1809, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
- Jefferson asArchitect
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTEDWORK: WILLIAM THORNTON, CHARLES BULFINCH, AND BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE, UNITED STATES CAPITOL, BEGUN IN 1793, WASHINGTON, C.
- DesignCompetition
- ConstructionHistory
- IconographicAnalysis
- SELECTED WORK: HORATIO GREENOUGH,GEORGEWASHINGTON,1840
- Horatio Greenough:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTED WORK: EDMONIA LEWIS,FOREVERFREE,1867
- American Women Sculptors inRome
- Edmonia Lewis:Biography
- Visual and ContextualAnalysis
- NATUREAND NATION 18%
- Engaging with Nature in EarlyAmerica
- SELECTEDWORK: PUEBLO BONITO, CHACO CANYON, NEW MEXICO, 850-1150 CE
- Ancestral Pueblo Art andArchitecture
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTEDWORK: CHARLES WILLSON PEALE,EXHUMATIONOFTHEMASTODON, C. 1807
- Charles Willson Peale: Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- ContextualAnalysis
- SELECTEDWORK: ROBERT DUNCANSON,VIEWOFCINCINNATI,OHIOFROMCOVINGTON, KENTUCKY, C.1850
- Robert S. Duncanson:Biography
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis
- Duncanson and the American LandscapeTradition
- SELECTED WORK: GAANAX.ÁDI/RAVEN CREST POLE,REPRODUCTION CARVED IN 1983,
BASED ON A LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINAL, SITKA NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK
- Totem Poles of Alaska and the PacificNorthwest
- HistoricalContext
- Subject Matter and VisualAnalysis