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significant ideas, art forms, philosophies, and scientific developments in Western culture since the renaissance. Discussions focus on the way human view their relationship with the past, with the future, with God, with nature, with other humans, and with themselves: appendices, course download

courses: Creativity & Design, Moving Image Technology, Computing, Audio & Music

major art works & monuments of ancient Near East (primarily Mesopotamia), Egypt & Classical Greece, sculpture, pottery, seals, architectural remains & wall painting of these cultures, understanding of those civilizations, political & religious ideologies that shaped them, evolution of their art styles

prehistory to the late middle ages: resources (ancient European and Mediterranean studies, museums, maps)

interpretation, definitions of art, value of art, postmodernism, taste, beauty, imagination, expression & emotion, art & ethics, fakes & forgeries, film, photography, music

critical examination of major developments in European and American art during past century, surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind & human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism & other significant aspects of recent history: readings, related resources

to become familiar with representative examples of the Arts of the Western European tradition, understand the necessity for the Arts, master, to some degree style of thinking most often applied to studying the Arts, understand the Arts as a cultural practice

visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list

course materials: description, lecture & reading schedule, section topics & assignments, study images, printable thumbnails, essay questions download, lecture images list