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ARTH305

19th Century European Art: Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism

Art History College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ARTH

Course Number

305

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BART: GenEd-Breadth/Arts, BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, EMAH: Major-Art History Elective, MARH: Major-Art History, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive, ENEU: Minor-European Study Elective, NEUS: Minor-European Studies

Course Short Title

19th C. EuroArt: Neoclass-Pos

Course Long Title

19th Century European Art: Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism

Course Description

Surveys European art from the late eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth, with a focus on the social and political contexts in which works were produced, exhibited, sold and interpreted. The changing definitions of modernity and modernism in the visual arts; ideal images of masculinity and femininity; the hierarchy of artistic genres and the rise of landscape painting are among the many themes discussed.

Min

4

Repeatable

-

Equivalent Course(s)

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