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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Karen Shelby Aug 2017

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Karen Shelby

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and concurrent historical periods in Asia (India, China, Japan), Africa, Mesoamerica, South America, Native North America, and the United States.


Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Janine Defeo Aug 2017

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Janine Defeo

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and concurrent historical periods in Asia (India, China, Japan), Africa, Mesoamerica, South America, Native North America, and the United States.


Nature And Nostalgia In The Art Of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), Shannon Vittoria Feb 2016

Nature And Nostalgia In The Art Of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), Shannon Vittoria

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This dissertation is the first comprehensive study dedicated to the work of American painter-etcher Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), an innovative printmaker and influential interpreter of the American landscape. She began her career in 1863, studying drawing and painting with her husband, artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Throughout the 1870s, she exhibited works at both the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design, and published wood engraved illustrations in books and popular monthly magazines. Yet it was in the medium of etching that she achieved her greatest recognition: between 1879 and her untimely death in 1899, she …