ARTH332

This course explores a variety of representations from throughout North America starting with the late-18th and continuing through the early-20th centuries. Painting, sculpture, photography, architecture (both civic and domestic), as well as other potent forms of representation will be considered. Students will encounter a range of critical methods deployed by art historians to explain these objects. A close reading of primary sources--letters, contracts, critical accounts and other documents--that surrounded the manufacture and circulation of works of art will reveal the "culture wars" of this long nineteenth century.