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HAD-320 Art & Design of the United States, 1770-1960

3 Credits

This course examines United States American art and its major themes from the prerevolutionary period to World War II. Students study painting, sculpture, photography, and the built world. The course will focus on five major themes that have cut across the entire period: the relationship between artistic and political representation: The intertwined concepts of self, personhood, and the other in U.S American cultural life: the representability of capitalism and slavery; the visualization of nature and the city; and the problematic relationship Americans had to modern art.