| Course Type | Elective Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | - |
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| Semester | - |
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| ECTS | 4 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
- |
| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Identify and characterize the major styles, artists, and trends in North American colonial and U.S. art and architecture.
- Understand the history of the North American colonies and the United States and the pertinent cultural,social, economic, political, and religious influences on the visual arts.
- Understand the dynamic relationships between American art and architecture and European art and architecture.
- Analyze works of art, employing the terminology of the discipline.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | |
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| Course Description | This course provides a comprehensive analysis of American art from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century in painting, sculpture, plastic arts, and architecture. Drawing on the evolving nature of the American experience through the lens of artistic production, this course will focus on major artistic styles, artworks, artists, and their relation to the audience, within their social, cultural, and political contexts. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Course Introduction - What is art? Why should we care about art? - Suggested reading: Asa Simon Mittman, An Introduction to Art Appreciation (Ch1) |
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2nd Week |
Basics of visual analysis: The elements of art and the principles of composition - In-class reading/discussion: Selected chapters from John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books 1972. |
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3rd Week |
Introduction to ?American? Art - Timeline of the US history/art history - Native American nations (North America) and the indigenous art |
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4th Week |
Art and Architecture in the Colonies - Folk art, decorative arts & colonial architecture |
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5th Week |
American Art and Architecture in the New Republic - Background: American Revolution, the Republican sentiment, enslavement - Early American architecture - Short online reading: Art and Society of the New Republic - Reading/discussion: Art of Enslavement & selections from Brown U., Resources (Slavery) - Reading/discussion: The problem of picturing slavery, Images in a divided world |
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6th Week |
Nineteenth Century American Art II - History through artworks: US in the early nineteenth century, Civil War Era, Western expansion - An overview of nineteenth century European art (major movements and themes) - Reading: 19th Century European Painting/Mayfair Gallery |
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7th Week |
Nineteenth Century American Art II - American Romanticism, Hudson River School (Naturalism), Representations of American West - Reading: "Nature?s Nation": The Hudson River School and American Landscape Painting. |
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8th Week |
Midterm Exam |
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9th Week |
Nineteenth Century American Art III - Background: Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the US/Gilded Age Aestheticism - Modernist art in Europe - Short reading: 10 Modernist movements |
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10th Week |
Twentieth Century American Art I - Historical background: Turn of the century in Europe and the US, WWI, the Great Depression - Aschan School, Fourteenth Street School |
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11th Week |
Twentieth Century American Art II - Regionalism, Social Realism |
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12th Week |
American Architecture/Decorative Arts (Late Nineteenth-Mid-Twentieth Century) - Art Deco, the rise of skyscrapers, and modernist architecture (F. Lloyd Wright)- Short reading: The First Skyscrapers |
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13th Week |
Twentieth Century American Art III (post-1950) - Historical Background: American society after WWII - Abstraction, Pop Art, and Postmodernism |
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14th Week |
Presentations |
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15th Week |
Presentations |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Craven, Wayne. American Art: History and Culture. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003
Angela Miller, et al., American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity. Pearson, 2008.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Questions/Answers
- Practice
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
30 |
| Assignment |
3 |
15 |
| Presentation of Article |
1 |
15 |
| Total(%) |
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60 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
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60 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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40 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
3 |
2 |
6 |
| Individual or group work |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
5 |
5 |
| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Final exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Homework |
2 |
3 |
6 |
| Project |
1 |
6 |
6 |
| Total Work Load | 117 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 3.9 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 4 |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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