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Introduction to Art History
Instructor: Greeley
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Telephone: (617) 258-8438
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Units: 3-2-7
Level: U (HASS-D)
Prerequisites:
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The visual arts have a distinct history that is approached through
concepts like style, medium, and tradition. They also participate
in other histories—histories of religion, of the state
and its institutions, of public and private life. As the essential
introduction to the history of art from the Renaissance to the
present, this course has the following objectives: first, to
explore the wide range of works constituting the canonical core
of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture (from Giotto
to Pollock); second, to engage diverse methodological positions
for interpreting the meaning and function of those works for
those who encountered them as practitioners, patrons, worshippers,
collectors, critics, and modern viewers; and finally to consider
what the production and reception of art tells us about culture’s
place in the social world.
Requirements: 50 pages of reading per week, 3 papers (7-8 pages),
1 mid-term, 1 final, attendance at weekly discussion sections
(some of which will take place in Boston area museums).
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