ARH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mediacorp Central, Manifest Destiny

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARH 209
• Professor: michelle Bogart

Document Summary

2 x quizzes, 1 x midterm, 1 x final, 1 x final project. Note: this course requires visiting the metropolitan museum of art in nyc. Introduction to major artists, nationalism, different artworks, different artistic styles, differences between time periods, basic artistic vocabulary, tools of observation. Time period: dawn of the colonial era to ~1945 (end of wwii) Rise of consciousness and sensibility for painters; rise of artistic enterprise. How art becomes collectible and the rise of public art collection, as well as patronage. Arts central role in impacting the nation- manifest destiny, conquering the nation, native involvement, slavery, the civil war, destruction.