Art History 671 - Great Themes in Art
Spring
2015
01
3.00
Gulru Cakmak
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
17936
17935
Changing treatment of central themes, issues and problems in art history. Topics often cut across traditional geographic or chronological boundaries. Although topics change from semester to semester, offerings are usually available every year in Modern, Islamic, and American art and architecture. Prerequisite: upper-level survey course bearing on the particular theme, or consent of instructor.
Course Subtitle: Imitation, Repetition, and Appropriation in 19th-Century Art
This course studies a radical transformation that occurred in the definition of artistic originality in French art from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, producing complex blends of academic models of imitating the classical canon with modernist forms of repetition, such as the notion of a "series." The course will explore the question of artistic originality by looking at instances of repetition and serial work through a close study of works in a variety of media-painting, sculpture, print, drawing. Our study will culminate at contemporary forms of repetition, including parody and appropriation.
This course studies a radical transformation that occurred in the definition of artistic originality in French art from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, producing complex blends of academic models of imitating the classical canon with modernist forms of repetition, such as the notion of a "series." The course will explore the question of artistic originality by looking at instances of repetition and serial work through a close study of works in a variety of media-painting, sculpture, print, drawing. Our study will culminate at contemporary forms of repetition, including parody and appropriation.