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Art 106 Gallery Guide Writing Assignment, Julie Applebaum Jun 2026

Art 106 Gallery Guide Writing Assignment, Julie Applebaum

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This 3-page essay (400-500 words) assignment builds upon the visual analysis skills students will develop in their Art 106 Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art class. Students visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art together and choose a work to study carefully using a close looking protocol guide which is submitted as a key component of their assignment requirements. Completed essays will be added to the Art 106 at the Met Open Lab project, a gallery guide for the 19th century French art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Art History Zine, Estelle Artus Jun 2026

Art History Zine, Estelle Artus

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Art Brut, Grotesque, Nouveau Realisme, Elvis Fuentes Apr 2021

Art Brut, Grotesque, Nouveau Realisme, Elvis Fuentes

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An overview of the most salient artistic movements in Postwar Europe: Art Brut, L'Informel, Grotesque, Nouveau Realisme


Enhancing The Study Of Art History Utilizing Computational Thinking: Focus, Abstraction In Art (Modern), Douglas L. Moody, Sandra Cheng Jun 2019

Enhancing The Study Of Art History Utilizing Computational Thinking: Focus, Abstraction In Art (Modern), Douglas L. Moody, Sandra Cheng

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Research Paper Assignment For Modern Art In Latin America, Anna Indych-Lopez Aug 2018

Research Paper Assignment For Modern Art In Latin America, Anna Indych-Lopez

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Art Of The Harlem Renaissance, Joshua I. Cohen Aug 2018

Art Of The Harlem Renaissance, Joshua I. Cohen

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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, known during that time as the Negro Renaissance, affected a sea change in literary and artistic production. Whereas the early-20th-century avant-gardes in Europe had looked to black culture only as “primitive” inspiration, Harlem Renaissance practitioners asserted their status as agents of modern history and creators of black modernism. This important and tumultuous transformation can be tracked in the artistic expressions of the period, and in relation to key texts that shaped the movement. Planned visits to Harlem sites and collections, as well as to timely exhibitions elsewhere in New York, …


Evidence: Photographic Image, Fact, Document Syllabus, Ellen Handy Apr 2018

Evidence: Photographic Image, Fact, Document Syllabus, Ellen Handy

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Syllabus for an interdiscilpinary undergraduate course on Photography and Evidence.


Arh 141 Introduction To The History Of Modern Art, Sharon L. Jordan Apr 2018

Arh 141 Introduction To The History Of Modern Art, Sharon L. Jordan

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A study of the principles of art applied to visual forms, with emphasis on modern art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States.

The full course site is available at https://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.


Photography And Modernisms, Ellen Handy Jan 2018

Photography And Modernisms, Ellen Handy

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Today we live in a post-modern era, but for most of the 20th century, modernism was the dominant perspective in the arts and culture at large. And photography was the perfect modern medium. It literally provided artists and audiences with a new vision, using the technology of the camera to frame modern experience. As a recently invented medium with ties to mass media, photography departed from many fine art traditions. The drastic multiplicity of avant garde movements within which photography operated produced a constellation of loosely linked modernisms, rather than single avant garde program.

Almost all of the many avant …


Art 55 History Of Modern Art, Deborah Lewittes Jan 2018

Art 55 History Of Modern Art, Deborah Lewittes

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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.