艺术课程描述
The Carthage offers courses in both studio art and art history. Studio art courses acquaint students with fundamental concepts of design, materials, and the tools of fine arts and crafts. Art history and theory courses provide the intellectual framework for understanding and interpreting visual culture.
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艺术史导论
ARH 1700 (FAR) (CL) (ITL) / 4学分
This introductory art history course provides an intense chronological overview of artistic conventions from prehistoric cave painting to the 20th century. Students investigate not only what elements comprise a particular style, but also why and how artistic expression has been shaped by social, political, cultural, religious, 个体力量.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
History of Photography: Daguerre to Digital
ARH 2100 (FAR) (CL) / 4学分
This course introduces the history of photography from its experimental beginnings in the early 19th century to the digital practices of the present. The course focuses on the various social, cultural, scientific, and artistic uses of photography as a visual medium, as well as the broader themes and questions that have accompanied photography throughout its history.
艺术概览一:旧石器时代至1400年
ARH 2700 (FAR) (CL) / 4学分
An introduction to a global history of art, from the Paleolithic to 1400.
先决条件:没有
Offered in Fall
艺术调查II: 1400 - 21世纪
arh2701 (FAR) (CL) / 4学分
An introduction to a global history of art, from 1400 to the 21st century.
先决条件:没有
春季开学
美洲艺术
ARH 2710 (FAR) (CL) (DIV) / 4 credits
An introduction to the indigenous art traditions of the Americas. This includes the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Amazon, and North American Indian traditions. The course content is primarily visual but will necessarily consider the historical, archaeological, social, 以及作品的宗教背景. The course will be of special interest to students studying history, religion, 或者拉丁美洲文化. It is a dramatic and fabulously rich body of works that is a world apart from the Western European tradition, but as close to home as the dirt under our feet.
先决条件:没有
Offered in Fall
Research Methods in a Global Art History
ARH 2800 (FAR) / 4学分
An introduction to resources and methods of research of non-Western art. The class gives an overview of types of evidence, 奖学金的方法, and historiographies of a selection of non-Western art histories such as Chinese, Japanese, East African, Oceanic, and Indian. 案例研究方法, 专注于非西方艺术, is used for practical exercises in research and writing.
先决条件:没有
Women in the Literary and Visual Arts
ARH 3150 (FAR) / 4学分
While doing library research on “women” for her guest lecture at Newnham and Girton colleges in 1928, the disconcerted Virginia Woolf learned that “it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of Shakespeare … Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.” Women in the Literary and Visual Arts takes up that famous feminist’s concern: WHY have there been no famous women artists? 难道没有吗?? Now Women in the Literary and Visual Arts investigates women’s artistic work alongside those cultural forces that have shaped it. The course begins by establishing the historical context for women’s artistic expression. This includes the major events defining the moment in history and the material conditions that characterize it. Also included with each period will be some of those major voices that have achieved canonical status, 还有那些女艺术家, writers, and performers who have been omitted from history.
先决条件:没有
Women in the Visual and Performing Arts
ARH 3155 (FAR) / 4学分
Have there been any great women artists? 真的有吗? This interdisciplinary Art History/Music/Women’s and Gender Studies course examines artifactual evidence to discover not only those women and their activities that have fallen from historical record, but also to discover just what women have been doing from eight in the morning until eight at night, what historical conditions have shaped their activities, and what roles they have played as art and music makers, patrons, muses, and subjects. Consider Vinnie Ream Hoxie, our own Madison teenager who sculpted the famous Lincoln statue in the U.S. Capitol!
先决条件:没有
20世纪美国艺术
ARH 3710 (FAR) / 4学分
This course is intended to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the artistic, sociopolitical, philosophical, psychological, and spiritual forces that forged a distinctly American art in that century when the United States rose to prominence on the world stage. Students will be introduced to the language and methodologies of art, and they will engage with American art’s quest for identity from its Gilded Age Eurocentric aspirations, through industry-driven modernism and Depression-era regionalism, to Cold War American heroes like Pollock and 60s superstars like Warhol. Our study will examine American art’s role in the age of information, pluralism, and diversity, and conclude with America’s postmodern identity crisis.
先决条件:没有
Arts of Africa
ARH 3720 (FAR) / 4学分
An introduction to the art traditions of Africa through the study of selected works. Ten thousand years of African art will be explored, up to and including the African diaspora.
先决条件:没有
Masterpieces of Asian Art and Architecture
ARH 3730 (FAR) (AI) (CL) / 4学分
Introduction to the art traditions and cultures of China, Japan, Korea, 南亚及东南亚, and the Near East through the study of selected works and their context. Special emphasis on art and architecture related to major religious and philosophic traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Aesthetic systems will be explored in relation to key monuments.
先决条件:没有
Offered in Fall
Modern Art
ARH 3740 (FAR) (CL) / 4学分
Modern Art focuses on the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, allowing students to engage with the artistic experimentation of their own era. 对艺术的研究, 从我们的焦虑时代开始, traces the competing and often rebellious styles of the Post Impressionists up through the Post Modernists. The course stimulates students to grapple with the question: What is art? 先决条件:没有
Ancient Art
ARH 3750 (FAR) / 4学分
Ancient art concentrates on the arts of prehistoric, preliterate, 还有古人, ending with the arts of the Romans to close the classical tradition. The course will be of interest to any student intrigued by the dynamic relationship between art, magic, ritual, myth, science, religion, and philosophy.
先决条件:没有
艺术中的性别
ARH 3760 (FAR) (CL) (IDP) / 4 credits
WHY have there been no great women artists?? 难道没有吗?? 准备好惊讶吧! This course takes up Nochlin’s famous question by examining artifacts from prehistory and surveying evidence of women’s roles and creativity in the arts up through the present.
先决条件:没有
艺术史高级研讨会
4700 / 4学分
Senior Seminar provides the art history major with an opportunity to design and pursue a substantial research project in the field. Intensive independent work is required, culminating in a major paper and formal presentation.
Prerequisites: ARH 2700, ARH 2701, and ARH 3700
探索工作室艺术
艺术1030 (FAR) / 4学分
A study of design as the structural and unifying basis of the visual arts. Analysis of the elements of design and their use in solving two-dimensional and three-dimensional problems. Introduction to various media and techniques used in making art. A studio course containing theory and practice. Fulfills the fine art requirement for non-art majors only.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
Crafts
艺术1050 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
Introductory analysis of the history and practice of various crafts. The course will focus on such areas as art metal, glass fusion, paper, fiber, and batik, 取决于给定条件下的内容.
秋季/春季开课
FOUNDATIONS, SURFACE: Images + Design
艺术1070 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
A studio-based course designed to cultivate a student’s ability to understand and create images. Students will work fluidly across two-dimensional and three-dimensional processes and across material-based and digital-based projects. Projects will involve fundamental principles of design, color, and visual organization through drawing, printmaking, painting, fiber art, book arts, 3D media, technology, 以及基于镜头的媒体. Course content will explore the context of images in the larger culture and the potential of art and design to make inquiries into social, cultural, philosophical, scientific, political, 或者技术话题. Students will take projects through the creative design process, 从构思到施工, presentation, and critique.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
FOUNDATIONS, MATERIAL: Objects + Spaces
艺术1071 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
An investigation of three-dimensional objects and spaces in art and design. Students will work fluidly across three-dimensional and four-dimensional processes and across material-based and digital-based projects. This studio course will cultivate a student’s ability to perceive, think, visualize, design, build, and reflect. Students will acquire a broad skill set of fabrication techniques, working with traditional and 21st-century materials, including paper, wood, wire, clay, plaster, mixed media, video, sound, 数字3D设计, and others. Through organizing visual and other sensory elements, students will learn formal and conceptual principles of three-dimensional design. Projects will emphasize which convey meaningful messages.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
FOUNDATIONS, TIME: Movement + Digital
艺术1072 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This course is a study of design fundamentals in time-based media, with emphasis on content. Students will explore the interactions of time through the lens and the tactile world, using video, sound, animation, performance, installation, 和/或新媒体. Projects will be interdisciplinary in nature, with the combining of time-based media, for example performance art and video, 装置艺术与声音. 通过个体生产, group projects, 批判性讨论, students will examine the relationships between image, sound, 线性和非线性叙事, time, and space.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
Drawing I
艺术2000 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This foundational studio course introduces students to basic drawing techniques and media. 注重观察画法, students learn to create naturalistic images and the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional page. In addition, students are exposed to great artists and drawings through history, critique, and art theory.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
暗房摄影
艺术2110 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This course focuses on the camera as a tool of expression and photography as a basic art form. 暗室技术将被教授, and each student will acquire the compositional and technical skills necessary to create original photographs. Students are required to have their own cameras.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
彩色摄影
艺术2130 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
学生将探索概念, aesthetic, historical, and technical aspects of color photography as an art medium. Students will use DSLR cameras and the contemporary process of digital photography to produce work that is both visually engaging and conceptually challenging. The course will culminate in a portfolio of works that thoroughly explores an area of interest with technical proficiency. Students are required to have their own cameras.
先决条件:没有
Oil Painting
艺术2210 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
A beginning course in oil painting with emphasis on developing skills and techniques particular to the oil paint medium. Color theory and inventive compositional strategies based on the study of traditional and contemporary painters will be investigated. Individual attention will be given to discovery of personal artistic voice in the medium. Paintings will be based on both direct observation and the imagination. Oil painting is a studio course containing lecture, demonstrations, discussions, and theory.
Acrylic Painting
艺术2220 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
A beginning course in acrylic painting with emphasis on developing skills and techniques particular to the acrylic paint medium. Color theory and inventive compositional strategies based on study of modern and contemporary painters will be investigated. Individual attention will be given to discovery of personal artistic voice in the medium. Paintings will be based on both direct observation and the imagination. Acrylic painting is a beginning studio course containing lecture, demonstrations, discussions, and theory.
先决条件:没有
水彩画
艺术2230 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
A beginning course in watercolor painting with emphasis on developing skills and techniques particular to the watercolor medium. Color theory, particularly as it relates to watercolor, will be introduced. Transparency, granularity, and permanence will be discussed as well as various watercolor mediums. Individual attention will be given to discovery of personal artistic voice in the medium. Paintings will be based on both direct observation and the imagination. 水彩画 is a studio course containing lecture, demonstrations, discussions, and theory.
先决条件:没有
版画:丝网印刷
艺术2300 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This studio course introduces the theory, practice, and history of silkscreen printmaking. Direct stencil production, resist methods, and photographic methods will be studied. Students will be encouraged to engage the printmaking process as a means of discovery as they learn to master traditional practices.
先决条件:没有
版画:光刻
艺术2310 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This studio course introduces the theory, practice, and history of lithography as a fine art printmaking medium. Traditional stone lithography and more recent paper plate processes will be studied. Students will be encouraged to engage the printmaking process as a means of discovery as they learn to master traditional practices.
先决条件:没有
版画:凹版
艺术2320 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This studio course introduces the theory, practice, and history of intaglio printmaking. Etching, engraving, drypoint, and mezzotint will be covered. Students will be encouraged to engage the printmaking process as a means of discovery as they learn to master traditional practices.
版画:救援
艺术2330 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This studio course introduces the theory, practice, and history of relief printmaking. Traditional woodcut and wood engraving as well as linoleum, collagraph, 新的材料将被探索. Students will be encouraged to engage the printmaking process as a means of discovery as they learn to master traditional practices.
先决条件:没有
雕塑概论
艺术2400 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
This studio course explores traditional and contemporary sculpture materials and processes. Emphasis is on both additive and subtractive methods of working. Goals include acquiring technical skills, understanding the physical and expressive possibilities of diverse materials, 学习安全, 适当使用工具. Students can anticipate working with wood, clay, stone, metal, and other materials.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
Wood Sculpture
艺术2410 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
Students investigate techniques and concepts in wood sculpture leading to individual exploration and development. Students will work in a variety of types of wood, using hand and power tools and learning the related health/safety of the tools and woodshop. The projects will address a series of problems based on both traditional themes and contemporary developments in sculpture. Discussions and critiques will support students’ learning process.
先决条件:没有
陶瓷手工打造
艺术2500 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
Introduction to ceramic hand-building techniques, 陶瓷雕塑, and basic ceramic processes including clay and glaze formulation and kiln firing.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
陶瓷Wheel-Throwing
艺术2510 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
Introduction to ceramic wheel-throwing techniques, 功能陶瓷, sculpture, and basic ceramic processes including clay and glaze formulation and kiln firing.
秋季/春季开课
Ceramic Tile
艺术2520 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
The objective of this course is to develop technical and conceptual skills for ceramic tile and brick making using fundamental hand-building and mold-making techniques. All projects have historical and/or conceptual components and require research, planning, 思想的发展, 还有精湛的工艺. Formal, historical, and conceptual components of architectural ceramics will be explored. Working in both two and three dimensions, flat tiles, 高低浮雕瓷砖, 砖就会被造出来. In addition, projects will investigate how abstract and representational images and patterns can be designed across multiple pieces. Composition, rhythm, and repetition will be a major focus.
先决条件:没有
秋季/春季开课
二年级工作室艺术研讨会
艺术2600 / 4学分
A combination writing-intensive seminar and studio art course introducing basic and intermediate art concepts and skills, including the writing and speaking skills necessary for discussion and critique of visual art. 通过阅读和讨论, students will be introduced to contemporary artists, movements, criticism, and theory. Students will also be introduced to studio and professional art practices necessary for careers and further study in the arts.
先决条件:没有
春季开学
4D
艺术2750 (FAR) (AI) / 4学分
Time, space, and technology are fundamental in contemporary art practice. This course will be an introduction to the process of making art by utilizing technology and transaction among people, objects, locations, and situations. 通过工作室作业, screenings, readings, lectures, discussion, and/or workshops, students will be introduced to contemporary time-based art practices. Depending on the specific topic offered, 这将包括视频, sound art, performance art, installation, light, 实验电影, social practice, web-based, 和/或新媒体.
先决条件:没有
先进的绘图
艺术3000 (FAR) / 4学分
Advanced drawing with emphasis on the human figure. A studio art course containing theory and practice. Emphasis is on projects that focus on self-portraits, 从模型着手, and narrative/figure assignments as part of the development of individual style. A studio art course containing lectures, demonstrations, theory, and practice.
前提条件:Art 2000
秋季/春季开课
Illustration
ART 3010 (FAR) (AI) /学分
Illustration is an applied art that communicates specific content through image making. Drawing is emphasized as both a practice and a discipline in illustration. A variety of narrative approaches will be introduced with an emphasis on individuality of expression. Introduction to various media is based on class projects. The goal of the course projects will be to communicate ideas for commercial reproduction resulting in a varied portfolio of finished works. A studio art course containing lectures, demonstrations, theory, and practice. Previous drawing experience is highly suggested.
先决条件:没有
摄影工作室
艺术3100 (FAR) / 4学分
An introduction to the use of large format view cameras. Technical instruction includes the use of the camera, 照明设备, film handling, 接触过程, 电影的发展, and printing.
前提条件:arh2100
高级暗房摄影
艺术3110 (FAR) / 4学分
高级摄影工作室工作. Emphasis is placed upon darkroom photography as a creative and expressive medium and is taught from a fine arts perspective. In addition to the technical issues of image-making, the content, aesthetics, and formal qualities of the photographic image are explored. A 35mm camera with manual exposure capabilities is required. This course may be repeated up to three times. This class may be used as an elective in majors and minors in art.
前提条件:ART 2110
高级彩色摄影
ART 3130 / 4学分
In this course, students will create an in-depth portfolio of photographic works that demonstrates technical proficiency, 全面的历史知识, and advanced understanding of the aesthetic and formal concerns in photography. This course will emphasize content development and maximizing the creative and expressive potential of digital color photography. Students are required to have their own digital SLR camera with manual controls.
前提条件:ART 2130或CDM 2500
先进的绘画
艺术3200 / 4学分
Advanced studio work in painting with an emphasis on individual work and the formulation of individual language. Independent exploration in areas of interest is highly encouraged within the parameters of class assignments. This course may be repeated up to three times to encompass all media: oil, acrylic, mixed media, and watercolor.
Prerequisite: ART 2210, ART 2220, or ART 2230
秋季/春季开课
先进的版画
ART 3300 / 4学分
Advanced studio work in printmaking with an emphasis on individual work and the formulation of a personal visual language. This course may be repeated up to three times.
前提条件:教师同意
秋季/春季开课
图形制作技术
艺术3310 / 4学分
Camera-ready layout will be reproduced through serigraphic printing techniques. A studio art course containing theory and practice.
前提条件:教师同意
Offered in Fall
先进的雕塑
ART 3400 / 4学分
高级工作室雕塑工作. Emphasis is on mastery of sculpture’s materials and techniques and the interaction of concept and form. Individual and collaborative projects may include working with time, motion, and site-specific installation as well as more traditional freestanding works. This course may be repeated up to three times.
先决条件:没有
先进陶瓷
艺术3500 / 4学分
Advanced studio work in ceramics with an emphasis on individual work and the formulation of a personal visual language. Students may meet with other ceramics sections. This course may be repeated up to three times.
前提条件:ART 2500或2510
秋季/春季开课
Advanced 4D
ART 3700 / 4学分
Advanced studio work in time-based media, emphasizing individual production in one or more of these areas: video, sound art, performance art, installation, light, 实验电影, social practice, web-based, 和/或新媒体. 学生将提高他们的审美, conceptual and technical skills through individual projects and continued study of the expanding critical role time-based media has in contemporary art and society. This course may be repeated up to three times.
先决条件:ART 2750
工作室艺术高级研讨会
艺术4000 / 4学分
工作室艺术高级研讨会 provides the Studio Art major with an opportunity to create and install a capstone senior exhibition. The course focuses on development of personal artistic voice and critical ability with an awareness of contemporary artists and theory. 还有他们的艺术品, students will exit the course with an artist statement, portfolio, resume, and website.
Prerequisites: Completion of four studio courses, junior review, and consent of instructor
Offered in Fall
Art Curriculum and Methods: Early Childhood Through Early Adolescent (K-5)
艺术4210 (FAR) / 4学分
Candidates will learn techniques that they can use with elementary students to help them create elementary works of art as well as form an elementary appreciation for art. Emphasis will be placed on applying the National Visual Arts Standards K through 8 (developed by the National Art Education Association) to lesson plans. Candidates will explore methods for motivating, creating, and evaluating elementary students’ artwork, as well as methods for integrating art across all disciplines. Candidates will plan and implement art lesson plans in local elementary schools for their field experience requirement.
Prerequisites: Acceptance into the TEP and EDU 2150
Art Curriculum and Methods: Early Adolescent Through Adolescent (6-12)
艺术4220 (FAR) / 4学分
Candidates will learn techniques that they can use with middle and secondary school students to guide their artistic development and enable them to create works of art, as well as form an appreciation for art and art history. Emphasis will be placed on applying the National Visual Arts Standards 6-12 (developed by the National Art Education Association) to lesson plans. Candidates will explore methods for motivating, creating, and evaluating middle and secondary students’ artwork. Candidates will plan and implement art lesson plans in local middle and/or secondary schools for their field experience requirement.
Prerequisites: Admission into the TEP and EDU 2150