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- Instructor: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
- Instructor: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
- Instructor: Elizabeth Klarich
- Instructor: Colin Hoag
- Instructor: Colin Hoag
This course is designed to introduce you to the field of art history, that is, to what art historians of any specialty do when we study works of art. It broaches several topics within the history of art such as site-specific installation, the readymade, the history of commemorative sculpture, and the convergence of photography and performance art. It is not a survey but instead features a series of seminar-like explorations into particular works of art. Divided into four units, it will facilitate consideration of the ways in which artists reference and converse with-- sometimes intentionally, sometimes not-- previous art historical periods and genres, as well as cultural and visual traditions more broadly. Each unit in the course begins with and hinges on a close examination of a contemporary art piece. Subsequent weeks in each unit dive into the various topics integral to the study of those particular works. When we focus on Mickalene Thomas’s A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007), for instance, we will address the reclining female nude, the concept of the gaze, the collage aesthetic, the legacy of Orientalism and “othering,” and finally the visual rhetorics of Blackness and post-Blackness in the history of art. By the end of the course, you should have an intimate sense of some critical art historical tropes, as well as the deep investigative work of art history that incorporates related fields of social, political, and cultural history, as well as material and popular culture.
- Instructor: Clara Barnhart
- Instructor: Rebecca Worsham
- Instructor: Rebecca Worsham
ART 225, Arts of Asia
Fall 2023
Framework
The
multicultural course introduces students to the visual arts of Asia.
In an active learning environment, we will study architecture,
sculpture, painting and other arts from
the earliest times to the present in various Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Illustrated class lectures, group
discussions, and regular writing exercises will allow us to develop
skills in visual analysis and art historical interpretation. We
will explore how the visual arts express the religious beliefs and political
formations in Asian countries and show the interaction of cultures across the world. The arts of Asia challenges us to rethink our definition of Art.
Hmm! How is this art?
- Instructor: Ajay Sinha
This course (which
is, I think, unique in a liberal arts college curriculum) is a survey of the
genre of artist’s books from its beginnings in the political and artistic
avant-garde movements of Europe at the turn of the 20th century through
contemporary American conceptual bookworks. In particular, the course will
examine the varieties of form and expression used by book artists and the
relationships between these artists and the socio-cultural, literary, and
graphic environments from which they emerged. Along the way we will also
explore the relationship of the artists book to other genres of artistic
expression, including sculpture, architecture, conceptual art, and performance
art. In so doing I hope to help you to develop critical skills – that is, how
to look at, describe, and talk about complex works of art – and to interact
with them on several levels.
- Instructor: Martin Antonetti
- Instructor: Anna Helgeson
- Instructor: John Moore
- Instructor: John Moore
- Instructor: Elisa Kim
This
course will introduce students to several SSC collections of individual papers
and organization records that shed light on the fight for economic justice,
especially for American women, both white and of color. In addition to some short secondary source
readings, students will then choose pre-selected documents from 14 designated
collections and in conversation with each other, both in class and in five
written responses on Moodle, discuss the ways in which a particular individual
or organization has addressed issues of economic injustice, what worked, what
did not, what needs to happen next. (1
credit)
- Instructor: Kathleen Nutter