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Nov 23, 2024
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AHT 2002 - German Art History3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course examines the history of Western visual art (with an emphasis upon German art) from the Renaissance through the late twentieth century. The major periods and styles of Western and German art will be examined, including Renaissance art, Baroque and Rococo art, Neo-Classical and Romantic art, Biedermeier art, Realism and Impressionism, Expressionism, Nazi-era art, and post-World War II German art. Emphasis is placed upon the definition of concepts inherent in Western art; the various social, political, and economic forces that have shaped Western art; and the specific social, political, and economic forces that have shaped German art since the Renaissance. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic vocabulary of technical terms used to describe art including formal elements (e.g., line, value, color, and texture), compositional elements (e.g., balance, proportion, rhythm, and scale), space (e.g., perspective and foreshortening), and content (e.g., representational art, abstract art, nonrepresentational art, context, and iconography)
- Demonstrate an understand the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that have shaped Western art, and particularly German art, since the Renaissance
- Examine and describe, in writing, works of art, particularly the subject matter, media, and aesthetic principles that are inherent in those artworks
- Examine and describe, in writing, the various contexts that have shaped works of German art, as well as the purpose or purposes of the artists who produced those works of art
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Basic art terms
- Formal elements in art
- Compositional elements in art
- Iconography
- Color theory
- European art of the Middle Ages
- German art of the Early Middle Ages
- German art of High and Late Middles
- European Renaissance art
- German art of the Renaissance
- European Baroque and Rococo art
- German Baroque
- European Neoclassical art
- German Neoclassical art
- European Romanticism in art
- German Romanticism in art
- European Realism and Impressionism
- German Realism and Impressionism
- European Post-Impressionism
- European Avant Garde art
- German Avant Garde art
- German Expressionism
- German New Objectivity
- German art of the Nazi Era
- Western art after World War II
- German Abstract Expressionism
- German art from the 1960s to the present
Coordinator
Dr. Patrick Jung
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