Overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture, produced in Europe and North America, focusing on, work created between the 14th and 21st centuries., Exploration of key theoretical problems and ways, of looking especially important to the history of, art. Multiple perspectives and methods of analysis, provided through lectures, scheduled discussions,, and museum fieldwork. Key works situated in a, variety of contexts: the role of art in religious, and memorial practices; the rise of the social, status of the artist; drawing as a form of, thinking; art as a tool of power and politics; art, as constructor of gender and identity; visual, narrative; the potentials and limitations of, various technical media; definitions of, "modernism"; the uses of "classicism."
- Teacher: Dawn Odell