ART ACROSS TIME: 18TH CENTURY TO CONTEMPORARY.

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Pre-requisites: ENGL 101 , ART 213 (may be taken concurrently); or permission of the instructor. This survey traces the development of modern and contemporary art, from Watteau to Ai Weiwei. Key artworks are studied in-depth and situated in their context to highlight the effects of modern selfhood, industrialization, globalization, revolutions, and wars on art. Emphasizes how artists have engaged with questions of tradition and cultivated the shock of the new. Includes many women, African-American, and Native American artists. Provides the principles of visual analysis and library research.