Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of the art of western civilization from prehistoric caves to the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Works of painting, sculpture, and architecture are presented in their historical context. Course covers Egyptian, Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, early Islamic, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A survey of the art of Europe and America from the fs sculpture, and architecture are presented in their historical context. Course covers the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Post-Modernism.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An examination of the civic, religious, and domestic art and architecture of the Ancient Mediterranean cultures of Greece and Rome. Temples, forums, basilicas, city planning, sculpture, pottery, wall painting, mosaics, and engineering achievements will be examined in their cultural contexts.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Religious and secular painting, sculpture and architecture and the minor arts in the context of medieval civilization. Examples of mosaic, ivory carvings, manuscript illumination, enamel work, stained glass, altarpieces, fresco painting, basilica churches, monasteries, and cathedrals from early Christian, Byzantine, Barbarian, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic periods included.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Italy viewed in their cultural context. Issues covered include the search for ideal form, the tools of realism, changes in patronage, and the development of portraiture. Artists include Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A study of 17th and 18th century painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, Spain and Northern Europe. Artists include Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velasquez, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, and Hogarth.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A study of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Landscape painting and Impressionism in European painting. Artists include David, Ingres, Friedrich , Constable, Delacroix, Goya, Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A study of European painting and sculpture from around 1880 to 1940, including Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijl, The Bauhaus, Dada and Surrealism. Artists include Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Malevich, Mondrian, Duchamp, Masson, Magritte, Dali and Ernst. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A study of American painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the colonial period through WWII. Artists include the Freake limner, Smibert, Copley, West, Stuart, Jefferson, Whistler, Sargent, Eakins, Homer, Ryder, Bierstadt, Cole Church, Bingham, Lane, Hosmer, Inness, Sloan, Sullivan, Wright, Hopper, Sheeler, Davis, Shahn, O' Keefe, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Bellows, Riis, Hine, Stieglitz, Strand, Westen, Steichen and Lange.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Painting, sculpture, and architecture of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Northern Europe, viewed in their historical context. Issues included the invention of oil painting, the development of woodcut and engraving, the effect of the Reformation on art, and the relationship to the Renaissance in Italy. Artists include van Eyck, Durer and Brueghel.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the Spanish contributions to Modern art with a specific concentration on the Spanish masters Goya, Picasso, Dali and Miro. Through these artists, the course will explore one of the most controversial periods of Spanish and European history, from the 19th through the dawn of the 20th century. The course is offered only at Suffolk's Madrid campus. Students will take advantage of the rich cultural offerings of the city by making frequent visits to the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia museums. (Taught in Madrid)

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

A study of European and American art since WWII, including Abstract Expressionism, Colorfield Painting, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Happenings and Performance Art, Earth Art, Feminism, Neo-Expressionism and Post-Modernism. Artists include Bacon, Giacometti, Hofmann, Pollock, De Kooning, Frankenthaler, Rothko, Newman, Stella, Judd, Andre, Hesse, Calder, David Smith, Serra, Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Smithson, Holt, Christo, Nevelson, Kaprow, Kosuth, Kruger, Sherman, Baldessari, Salle, Polke, Basquait, Kiefer, and Haring.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BFA Humanities Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the artworld of the past 20 or so years with special attention to the roles and exhibition practices of contemporary art museums and galleries. Questions addressed will include: Who are the major artists and what are the major trends in today's artworld? What civic and educational roles have museums played historically, and what are their roles today? How do different approaches to exhibit display and interpretation fulfill those roles? Class visits and assignments at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and other local venues will examine these issues in practical application. This course fulfills the ECR requirement.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Expanded Classroom Requirement,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course explores the rich cultural heritage of New England from the late seventeenth century to the early decades of the twentieth. Particular attention will be paid to the role that New England and the city of Boston played within a national cultural context and in shaping our ideas of a distinctly New England aesthetic. One of the goals of this course is to explore the idea of the imagined and idealized New England, which has come to serve as a nostalgic symbol of America's past. Through an examination of paintings, sculpture, photography, architecture, and material culture, the class offers an in-depth look at the ways New England developed its distinctive character and personality, and how its visual culture has shaped the region.

Term Offered

Alternates Fall & Spring

Course Types

Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course covers women artists from the sixteenth century to the present as well as the new direction of art-historical scholarship developed by feminist art historians during recent decades.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Cultural Diversity Opt B,BFA Humanities Requirement,Cultural Diversity BFA,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An introduction to the study of photographs. The history of the medium in Europe and America from its invention to the present. Lectures address photographic theory and methodology, and photographs are studied both as art objects and as historical artifacts. Topics include portraiture, documentary photography and photojournalism, Pictorialism and art photography, landscape photography, and issues of gender, race,identity, and the body.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

Permission of instructor needed

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Topic will vary from year to year.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Humanities Literature Requirement,Humanities & History

Prerequisites

An indpendent study form must be submitted to the CAS Dean's Office.

Course Credits

1.00- 4.00

Description

Students meet with a departmental faculty member to pursue advanced studies in areas of particular interest to them.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement