Search

• ARH 341: BEAUTIFUL & USEFUL: FUNC ARTS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Often, artists produced artwork that was meant to be used in a practical or decorative way. This art, often known as the decorative arts, is not traditionally considered to be as important as fine art within an art historical context. This course will look at the decorative arts from a variety of perspectives and in a global context, and will question traditional art historical narratives. Further, this course will discuss important art related concepts such as craftsmanship and materiality.
  ShareARH 341 - BEAUTIFUL & USEFUL: FUNC ARTS

• ARH 343: EARLY MOD ITA: PAINT SCULP ARC

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  Early Modern Italians were surrounded by images, some brightly painted in oil or tempera, others carved into marble or wood. They walked through noisy and dirty streets that were lined with palaces, civic halls, and churches reflecting the latest architectural trends. But what of the materials and imagery that they encountered beyond the strict categories of painting, sculpture, and architecture? This course will flesh out the image of Renaissance and Baroque life on the peninsula by looking at the devotional, domestic, and ritual objects that filled villas, houses, bookcases, studies, and more. From the burgeoning majolica production in the peninsula, to the tapestry collections of cardinals and popes, this class will look at a wide array of meaningful objects that accompanied the paintings and sculpture for which this era is famous.
  ShareARH 343 - EARLY MOD ITA: PAINT SCULP ARC

• ARH 344: LA DOLCE VITA: ITA ART & CULT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will investigate the paintings, sculpture, art objects, and architecture from antiquity to the present-day in the Italian peninsula. Expanding on Federico Fellini's assessment and critique of Italy as the 'sweet life' (la dolce vita), and combining that with the eighteenth-century notion of the Grand Tour, in which Europe's elite visited a range of sites across the Italian peninsula as a coming-of-age experience, this class will take a holistic look at the historical influences that have led to a wide range of artistic production.
  ShareARH 344 - LA DOLCE VITA: ITA ART & CULT

• ARH 345: CROSSCURRENT ITAL/REN ART

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will deal with the interchange of ideas and techniques between countries south and north of the Alps during the Renaissance. It is designed to show how, in painting and printmaking, the development of visual cultures in Italy, the Low Countries and Germany was intimately connected. The material discussed will range from technical to contextual.
  ShareARH 345 - CROSSCURRENT ITAL/REN ART

• ARH 350: BAROQUE ITALY FRANCE SPAIN

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will take a critical look and the dynamic and dramatic interplay between social, political, as well as economic institutions that contributed to the innovations in the painting, sculpture and architecture of Italy, France and Spain between 1590 and 1700. In addition to discussing the influence exerted on the period's artistic production by the sixteenth century Counter Reformation, the course will consider the various types of patronage (royal, ecclesiastic, civil) that existed during the period, as well as the role of art theory and collecting. Lectures, implemented through slide lectures, classroom discussion, and readings, will introduce references to allegorical language used by artists of the period, both within the workshop model of artistic production and overarching themes that link their works to larger cultural movements.
  ShareARH 350 - BAROQUE ITALY FRANCE SPAIN

• ARH 351: BAROQUE DUTCH FLANDERS ENGLAND

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will take a critical look and the dynamic and dramatic interplay between social, political, as well as economic institutions that contributed to the innovations in the painting, sculpture and architecture outside Italy, with emphasis on the Dutch Republic, Flanders, and England between 1590 and 1700. In addition to discussing the influence exerted on the period's artistic production by the sixteenth century Counter Reformation, the course will cover such issues as patronage, the development of new subjects and allegorical language, as well as the growing numbers of women artists. Lectures, implemented through slide lectures, classroom discussion, and readings, will introduce references to allegorical language used by many seventeenth-century artists.
  ShareARH 351 - BAROQUE DUTCH FLANDERS ENGLAND

• ARH 364: ART AND SPORT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This class reconsiders the relationship between art and sport, investigating the various ways athletic competition has been represented throughout the history of art. By examining how artists portray and contest the position of sport in society, students will acquire knowledge of artworks and viewpoints frequently overlooked by art historians. A range of media will be studied to match the various meanings attached to sport across diverse cultures, with athletics providing the conceptual link for critical explorations of art, visual culture, and society.
  ShareARH 364 - ART AND SPORT

• ARH 365: CUT/PASTE HIST OF COLLAGE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course investigates the development of collage and its many variations throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including assemblage, photomontage, decollage, and digital cut and paste.
  ShareARH 365 - CUT/PASTE HIST OF COLLAGE

• ARH 367: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course investigates contemporary art in England. Major artistic movements following World War II through the present day will be explored, ranging from Pop Art and Conceptualism to Punk and Neo-Expressionism. Emphasis will be placed on, but not limited to, the media of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, video, and installation as practiced by British artists. Formal developments in these media will be situated within cultural, social, economic, political, and philosophic contexts, affording a multifaceted study of contemporary art in the United Kingdom.
  ShareARH 367 - CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART

• ARH 370: ART TODAY:THE NEXT DECADE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The avant-garde is a French term referring to those artists who are, at any time, thought to be the most advanced or at the cutting edge. This course will provide an investigation of the work, theories, attitudes and processes of avant-garde artists working today. It will consider the possible future direction of art through presentations of and dialogue with artists, critics, curators, etc. Through slide presentations, students will see a chronicle of selected artists who have made significant contributions to the contemporary art world. This pool of artists will change with the evolving art scene. Students will also study contemporary art by visiting galleries, museums and, in some cases, artists' studios, and by reading articles in major art periodicals. The students will attend presentations and meet with artists through the New Arts Program and the Visiting Artist Series. They will experience art firsthand by visits to galleries and artists' studios in New York City and/or Baltimore, Philadelphia, Allentown, Reading and Washington, D.C. The proximity of Kutztown to these centers of contemporary art offers opportunities to our students that are unique and unavailable to most university communities.
  ShareARH 370 - ART TODAY:THE NEXT DECADE