ART 251 - Modern America: Visual Culture from the Civil War to WWII

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as AMST 251) This course examines American visual culture as it developed in the years between the Civil War and World War II. Attention is paid to the intersections among diverse media and to such issues as consumerism, abstraction, primitivism, femininity, and mechanized reproduction. Artists studied include Thomas Eakins, Timothy O’Sullivan, James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Edward Weston, and Aaron Douglas. Ms. Elder.

Prerequisite: ART 105-ART 106 or a 100-level American Studies course or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.