ARTH 550

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Seminar in American Art

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Credit: 4 hours.

Investigation of selected problems in the history of American art.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: ARTH 350 and ARTH 351, or consent of instructor.

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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
53657	Lecture-Discussion	AO1	1:00PM -4:00PM	W	ARR Washington DC	Lang, K	Date Range: 01/20/10-04/21/10 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $309.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $277.00 per Bill Hour, and OCE Fees $45.00 per Bill Hour. Section Title: Avant-Garde NewYork: 1910-1920 Section Info: Academic Outreach restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu. Class will not meet during the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spring break. Restriction(s): Restricted to NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.
44275	Conference	JG	2:00PM -4:50PM	M	210A Architecture Building	Greenhill, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: Race and representation in the U.S. and Britain, c. 1890-1925. This course investigates the complex relationship between race and representation in the U.S. between 1890 and 1925 when the country established a reputation around the world as an imperial power. Through the war with Spain and through immense spectacles like the World's Columbian Exposition, the U.S. staked a claim to cultural supremacy and established new ties with Great Britain by stressing the superior virtue of Anglo-Saxon "whiteness." How does the pronounced Anglo-Saxonism of this period find visual form in political cartoons, film, painting, literature, sculpture, photography and architecture? How did artists support or undermine this triumphalism and its Social Darwinist logic? Can we, as interpreters, talk about identity politics even when there are no bodies in sight? In what ways were aesthetic and social attitudes intertwined in this period of emergent modernism? Abstraction, fetishization, estrangement, dialogism, and other theoretical concepts will help us to think through these questions as we investigate the work of Aubrey Beardsley, Kate Chopin, George du Maurier, Frank Furness, Charles Dana Gibson, D. W. Griffith, Frances B. Johnston, Frank Norris, Oscar Wilde and many others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
53328	Conference	PCG	1:00PM -4:00PM	W	Location Pending	Lang, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: Avant-Garde New York 1910-1920. This seminar examines the burgeoning of avant-garde groups in New York during second decade of the twentieth century. Artists in the nation's largest, most diverse city banded together to construct shared identities and aesthetic agendas. They wrote manifestos, founded art journals, mounted international art exhibitions, and created networks that reached across national lines. In this course we will explore these creative missions by looking closely at a range of primary materials, including artworks at the Phillips Collection and other area museums, experimental journals, and popular newspaper criticism. This course situates the 1910s New York art world in its eventful historical era, considering important events, such as the groundbreaking 1913 Armory Show, alongside national debates of the late progressive era, and the international impact of war in Europe. Theoretical analysis of avant-gardism, including texts by Peter B�rger and Renato Poggioli, also informs our critical study. Investigating specific circles?those around Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery, and Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray?s Society of Independent Artists, among others?we will consider why artists in New York during this tumultuous period formed such groups, how their aesthetic associations informed their artwork, and what this history can tell us about defining "avant-garde." Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Graduate section.