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ARTH-482 Ideas of Realism
Fall only
This seminar explores shifting means and ends of naturalistic representation. Our emphasis will be on work produced in Europe and the United States from c. 1300 to the present, but art produced earlier and elsewhere will also occupy us selectively. Rises, falls, detours, and reimaginings of "realism" have been regarded in surprisingly few and often conventional ways. Through case studies of specific works and discussion of primary and secondary texts, we will attempt to recover some of the strange energies of an impulse whose ambitions and strategies (in art, literature, theater, film, etc.) are too often taken for granted.
Student research topics, culminating in term papers and reports on work-in-progress, may be defined in any number of relevant directions, with help from the instructor. We will make at least two visits to local collections as a group.
Credits: 03
Prerequisites: Art History majors, minors U4, U3, AMUS; others by permission only
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ARTH-482-01 Ideas of Realism
Fall only
This seminar explores shifting means and ends of naturalistic representation. Our emphasis will be on work produced in Europe and the United States from c. 1300 to the present, but art produced earlier and elsewhere will also occupy us selectively. Rises, falls, detours, and reimaginings of "realism" have been regarded in surprisingly few and often conventional ways. Through case studies of specific works and discussion of primary and secondary texts, we will attempt to recover some of the strange energies of an impulse whose ambitions and strategies (in art, literature, theater, film, etc.) are too often taken for granted.
Student research topics, culminating in term papers and reports on work-in-progress, may be defined in any number of relevant directions, with help from the instructor. We will make at least two visits to local collections as a group.
Credits: 03
Prerequisites: Art History majors, minors U4, U3, AMUS; others by permission only
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