19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Open to graduate students and qualified undergraduates (those who have completed a minimum of 96 undergraduate credits with an overall GPA of at least 3.2). Qualified undergraduates must contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the required permission form. This course will focus on nineteenth-century art of the United States in its historical and cultural context. In addition to learning about the major artists and styles of the era, we will look at the social, cultural, and political conditions that influenced the art. We will consider a variety of artistic media, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, and architecture in contexts such as the Romantic era, Westward expansion, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age.