课程强调
Featured recent course additions and special topics courses
Featured 艺术+艺术史 Courses
In addition to the regularly-offered courses described in the 大学目录, the 艺术 + 美术史系 offers a vibrant selection of new and special topics 每学期课程. Some of our most recent additions include:
艺术与语言
(Studio 艺术, offered Fall 2018)
Our society and traditions separate what words mean from the way words look. 然而, contemporary artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger and Bruce Nauman have explored words as aesthetic and conceptual 材料. 本课程强调 written, printed and spoken language as a medium for making 2D, 3D, installation and 以时间为基础的艺术. This course is taught from a studio art perspective but welcomes students of poetry, creative writing and all other disciplines.
艺术 in the Anthropocene: Greener 艺术 through Greener Chemistry
(cross-listed Studio 艺术 and Chemistry, offered Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018)
This studio and laboratory based course enables artists and scientists to use their imagination, creativity and innovation to respond to environmental issues and concerns 通过艺术. Curriculum includes identifying environmental hazards, understanding risks and developing sustainable scientific solutions, using chemical processes to create art 材料 in an environmentally-friendly way. 学生 practice green chemistry principles in the making of artworks crafted with reclaimed and naturally-available 材料.
1960年以来的艺术
(艺术 History, offered Spring 2020)
This course examines practice and theory in art and visual culture from 1960 to the 现在. Topics include the critique of modernism and re现在ation, the emergence of new media and multimedia art forms, and the questioning of agency, identity, and audience in the contemporary art world. Readings include artists' writings, contemporary criticism, and historical analysis from a variety of perspectives (e.g.形式主义, feminist, multicultural, and postcolonial).
Body, Nature and Nation in American 艺术
(艺术 History, offered Fall 2019)
Although the course sketches in the art of the early colonies, its main body begins at the period of the American Revolution. Lectures and discussion explore the changing significance of the visual arts in American life and culture through the 1930s. 场 trips to museums in Washington, DC. This course is cross-listed under American Studies.
Depicting Difference in Medieval 艺术 (艺术 History, offered Fall 2020)
Contrary to what many people expect, Medieval and Early Modern Europe was a place of considerable diversity, and its art was shaped by contacts among many different 文化. This course will examine how artworks both reflected and constructed the ways people thought about differences in gender, religion, ethnicity, physical ability, 和种族. The continuing role of the medieval past in 现在-day constructions of identity will also be discussed.
材料 & 意义
(Studio 艺术, offered Fall 2020)
While historical art forms most often used a familiar set of 材料— oil paint, marble, clay— contemporary art has dramatically expanded this range. 发现和丢弃 items, natural objects, manufacturing byproducts, building supplies and 材料 of every other variety are put to new uses by artists today. 通过这门课程 will experiment with a broad range of 材料, paying particular attention to the metaphoric, associative, poetic and expressive qualities already embedded in every 材料. A series of creative assignments will emphasize scale, composition, context and environment, and contemporary practitioners will be introduced through frequent screenings, lectures and independent research.
表演艺术 (Studio 艺术, offered Spring 2018)
Performance art as a discipline draws upon and blurs distinctions between visual art, theatre, dance, video and film, activism, spoken word and other expressive forms. As performance by its very nature incorporates the body, conditions and questions surrounding gender, race or ethnicity, size or shape and other visual and social aspects of the physical body will be examined at length. Context, site or location, and the relationship between artist and audience will also play a prominent role. 学生 will have the option of performing works themselves or directing others in their performances.