ART 213: Nineteenth-Century Art

Program
Credits 4
Attributes
Alternate Year,
Diversity International,
Appropriate for First-year Students,
Research Component
This global survey of nineteenth-century visual culture will examine canonical European movements (Impressionism, Aestheticism, etc.) and alternative modernisms from the Americas, Asia and Africa. Students will learn how to analyze visual media and situate artworks within a wider social field, considering how industrialization, colonization, science and politics shaped artistic practice.