Art & Art History

Art & Art History

650-723-3404

http://art.stanford.edu/

Session dates and times for courses are available in Axess under the Guest Menu. Course day, time, and units are subject to change. Courses are eight weeks long unless otherwise noted in the course description or details.

ARTHIST 149S
Art After the A-bomb: American and European Art, 1945-1989

4 units
Course Dates: June 24 - August 17, 2013
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This course surveys the major movements, figures, and themes in American and European art during the Cold War, from the drop of the A-bomb in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.  It examines the formative relationship between art and politics in this explosive period. We will consider the changed role of the avant-garde after the catastrophes of World War II; the use and abuse of modern art as propaganda; spectacular postwar affluence and the rise of the culture industry; multimedia, intermedia, and the invention of new communications technologies; the burgeoning military-industrial complex and the Vietnam War; the revolutionary efforts of second-wave feminism, sexual liberation, and the counterculture; and the charged debates of the “culture wars” and the crisis of representation in the 1980s. What was art’s social, cultural, and political function in the recent past—and how is this role instructive in the present? Topics include Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Neo-Dada, Pop, Op, Fluxus, Happenings, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance, Institutional Critique, Process Art, Systems Art, Earth Art, Video Art, and theories of modernism and postmodernism. We will visit the Cantor Arts Center to view original works.

ARTSTUDI 147S
Painting and Drawing

4 units
Course Dates: June 24 - August 17, 2013
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Notes: Lab fees required. Limited enrollment. Attendance at first class mandatory. Enrollment will be determined at first class meeting. Priority to undergraduate studio majors/minors. Two sections offered.

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ARTSTUDI 170
Introduction to Photography

4 units
Course Dates: June 24 - August 17, 2013
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Critical, theoretical, and practical aspects of creative photography through camera and lab techniques. Field work. Cantor Art Center and Art Gallery exhibitions. (lower level)

Prerequisite: 35mm film camera is required, one with manual controls or manual override is preferred.

Notes: Lab fee required, subject to change. In addition, students are responsible for purchasing supplies that are not covered by the lab fee - these supplies must be purchased at stores in the local community or online stores. Limited enrollment. Attendance at first class mandatory. Enrollment will be determined at first class meeting. Priority to matriculated undergraduate studio majors/minors.

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FILMSTUD 4S
Language of Film

4 units
Course Dates: June 24 - August 17, 2013
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This course will familiarize students with various elements of film language (cinematography, editing, sound, etc.) and introduce them to a range of approaches to cinematic analysis (authorship, genre, close formal reading, socio-historical considerations). Different types of films (narrative, documentary, and experimental) will be surveyed. Classical narrative cinema will be compared with alternative modes of story-telling.

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