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Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to the Present

Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Jan 19, 2021 - May 07, 2021 Tu, Th 12:30 pm - 01:59 pm Internet/Online Class #:30804 Units: 4

Instruction Mode: Pending Review Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Offered through History of Art

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 118 Enrolled: 77 Waitlisted: 0 Capacity: 195 Waitlist Max: 30 No Reserved Seats Also offered as: LS C20T

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Final Exam

THU, MAY 13TH 03:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Other classes by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

• HISTART H195 004 004IND
• LS C20T 001 001LEC
• UGIS 192A 006 006TUT

Course Catalog Description

An introduction to the historical circumstances and visual character of Western art from the Renaissance to the present. Not a chronological survey, but an exploration of topics and themes central to this period. For example: What tasks did painting and sculpture perform in the past? For whom, at whose expense? How do the rise of landscape painting, the cult of the artist, and the new emphasis on the nude relate to the emergence of modern society? Do stylistic labels like Classicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Modernism help us answer such questions? This course is recommended for potential majors and for students in other disciplines, both humanities and sciences.

Class Description

This course is an introduction to visual art in Europe and the USA since the 14th century with the main emphasis on painting and sculpture. Rather than attempting to offer a sweeping synthetic narrative of the development of art during five centuries (an impossible task!), this course intensively focuses upon a roughly chronological set of case-studies, sometimes of single works, sometimes of one or two artists’ careers. These relatively intensive case-studies will pose fundamental problems about the character and purposes of art in different historical circumstances. Together, however, the lectures will reconstruct the broader historical transformations of art, its production and reception during this period. We will explore the ways visual culture can function as a stabilizing force as well as the ways art can contribute to social and political transformation, even revolution.

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for HISTART C11 after completing HISTART 11. A deficient grade in HISTART C11 may be removed by taking HISTART 11.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills

Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth Meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.