ART 430 Undoing Erasure in Art History

5 credits

This important class serves two key roles in preparing students to join the global art world. Students will tabulate significant advancements in art history, especially as it applies to commercial art and illustration. During this tabulation of art history, artists who have been historically unrepresented or underrepresented will be distinguished and their impact on contemporary art audited.

Prerequisites: ART 313

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Highlight significant art movements and schools across the globe
Discern the obvious and public participants and beneficiaries associated with historical art movements
Contrast artists and communities underrepresented or not represented in historic art movements
Judge how to add historical context to specific art movements and increase representation
Balance narrowly represented art styles with broader cultural art styles from a contemporary time period

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50