ARTH 550

Spring 2012 All Classes

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Seminar in American Art

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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ARTH 550 class schedule data for spring 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	44275	Conference	JG	3:00PM -5:50PM	M	114 Art and Design Building	Greenhill, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Topic: American Art and the Commercial Imagination. Examines the fraught relation between art and commerce, and seeks to put a finer point on the limit conditions and possibilities of art produced within a commercial matrix in the U.S. between the late 19- and mid 20th century. Focuses, in particular, on mass-market illustration -- a field of cultural production marked by exceptional innovation in this period -- and asks how illustrators complicated the clarity and conventionality that art directors, audiences, and the makers of products often expected of them. Considers the work of Maxfield Parrish, Coles Phillips, Elizabeth Shippen Green, E. Simms Campbell, J. C. Leyendecker, and Norman Rockwell, among many others, and explores concepts of kitsch and the avant-garde, of the cute and the quaint, and of abstraction as it registered, in myriad senses, in early-twentieth-century American culture. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.