ART 273 Made in America: The American Revolution to Present Day
This lecture course surveys American art from the American Revolution through present day. Our primary focus will be on painting, but we will also touch upon sculpture, photography, architecture, and printmaking. As we move from the revolutionary eighteenth-century all the way to our contemporary moment, we will explore the dynamic interplay between works of art and their specific historical, social, and political contexts as well as those objects' situation within the broader material and visual culture of the United States. Special attention will be paid to the relationships between art and artmaking and notions of religion, nationalism, crisis, the environment, identity (e.g. race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality), and more.