Section Info: ARTH-103-01

Course Title: Western Art: 1400-2000

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: Art has the power to drive as well as reflect history. This course explores artists, images, objects, and buildings that have defined identity, sparked revolution, and changed how people think and act over the last seven centuries. Case studies include works that define the western tradition and others that interrogate its complicated legacy. We will see the rise of the very concept of Art along with the heightened status of the artist in society, the origins of the art museum and of the commercial art market. Students gain art-historical skills and learn to analyze the mechanisms by which creative expression shapes history, politics, and beliefs.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Jessica Maier		jmaier@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Monday and Wednesday	10:00AM - 11:15AM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 38	Enrollment: 35	Available: 0	Waitlist: 3

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.