ART 106 - Introduction to the History of Art

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

ART 105-106 provide a yearlong introduction to the history of art and architecture. Presented chronologically, with members of the department lecturing in their fields of expertise, the course begins with the monuments of the ancient world and ends with a global survey of today’s video. Students see how the language of form changes over time, how it continually expresses cultural values and addresses individual existential questions. Art history is, by its nature, transdisciplinary—drawing on pure history, literature, music, anthropology, religion, linguistics, science, psychology and philosophy. The course, therefore, furnishes many points of entry into the entire spectrum of human creativity. Weekly discussion sections make extensive use of the Vassar College collection in the Loeb Art Center. The department.

Art 106 may be taken in a later year but must be completed in order to receive credit for ART 105.

NRO available for juniors and seniors.

Open to all classes. Enrollment limited by class.

Yearlong course ART 105 -106.

Three 50-minute periods and one 50-minute conference period.