American Art to 1945
Tuesday/Thursday,
2:30-3:50
EB 217
Course
description: This course covers the history of American art and
culture from the colonial era to the years immediately following World War II.
Historical issues that will be discussed include: how different forms of
European colonization of North American lands and its indigenous peoples
affected the evolution of American Art; post-Revolutionary American artists'
involvement in international art movements; and the growing dominance of
American culture and theory in the Western world during the early-to-mid
twentieth century.
American art in the news:
NEW!
One of Edward Hicks' final versions of Peaceable Kingdom to be sold from
his family's collection
NEW!
Listen to NPR's report on the upcoming sale of Thomas Eakins' Gross Clinic
Exhibition
reveals the opulence of Louis Comfort Tiffany's country estate
Whitney
Museum examines the connections between Picasso and American Art
London
gallery opens Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-43
Jefferson Medical College may sell Eakins' Gross Clinic to National
Gallery for $68 million
Dorothea
Lange's impounded photos of Japanese internment camps unearthed and published
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Americans in Paris: 1860-1900
New edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin incorporates even-handed analyses of the
novel's problematic hero
(Read
excerpts of scholar Henry Louis Gates' comments from The Annotated Uncle
Tom's Cabin)
Washington Post critiques the "very Disney" refurbishing of George
Washington's home, Mount Vernon
NPR
pays homage to Emma Lazarus, the poet whose words were placed on Bartholdi's
Statue of Liberty
Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros
explores the international art of the Spanish
colonies
(Go
to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's website for Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros)
Controversy surrounds efforts to build a 1950 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home
in New York state
Photographer Richard Avedon's world-class collection of photography goes to the
auction block
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