Time Schedule:
Deborah Caplow
ART H 309
Seattle Campus
Topics vary.
Class description
Winter 2007 Art History 309--Impressionism and Post-Impressionism This art history course will explore the origins and development of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. We will examine the paintings of such artists as Manet, Degas, Monet, Morisot, Cassatt, Sargent, Whistler, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Cezanne, Suzanne Valadon and Toulouse-Lautrec. The material will be presented through lectures, discussions and readings, concentrating on relevant themes and issues with emphasis on the sociopolitical and intellectual contexts in which the artists worked. Course Objectives Students will gain an understanding of the nineteenth-century avant garde in France, and learn to recognize the major artists and issues while acquiring skills in art historical research, writing and critical thinking.
Summer 2006 Art History 309--Impressionism This art history course will explore the origins and development of Impressionism in the second half of the nineteenth century. We will examine the paintings of such artists as Manet, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Morisot, Cassatt, Sargent, Whistler, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne. The material will be presented through lectures, discussions and readings, concentrating on relevant themes and issues with emphasis on the sociopolitical and intellectual contexts in which the artists worked. Course Objectives Students will gain an understanding of the nineteenth-century avant garde in France, and learn to recognize the major artists and issues while acquiring skills in art historical research, writing and critical thinking.
Winter 2006 Twentieth-Century Mexican Art This course will focus on the art of Mexico from 1900 to the present, including mural painting, easel painting, photography, and printmaking, presented in their social and political contexts against the background of Mexican history from the pre-conquest era, through colonialism and modernism. Course Objectives Students will learn to identify major issues, movements and styles in Mexican art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while acquiring skills in art historical research, writing and critical thinking.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Classes will be a combination of lecture and discussion.
Recommended preparation
Survey of art history or the equivalent. Strong interest in history, art and culture essential.
Class assignments and grading
Required readings, short writing assignments, term paper, quizzes and two tests .
Grading will be based on writing assignments, tests and class participation.
