AMST 385 - Darkness and Disorder: Gothic American Art

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as ART 385) What is the gothic? What did it mean to American art? While the United States was founded on Enlightenment principles of order and reason, American art has long exploited the disorder and unreason, darkness and mystery, of the gothic. The seminar explores the gothic through the work of such artists as Thomas Cole, John Quidor, Raphaelle Peale, Elihu Vedder, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper, as well as popular culture and film. Ms. Ikemoto.

Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.