ART 133 - Monuments, Movements, and Manifestos

A course exploring Monuments, Movements, and Manifestos throughout time where students will discover, design, and develop their own. Readings will focus on histories in which these contexts are noteworthy and contemporary instances in which artists work with these ideas. Each project will explore one of these three methods of human expression as well as how they overlap and/or are in conflict with one another. Students will delve deeply into their own thoughts and ideas about the world, how they live, and how they see themselves in community. We will study basic methods of construction including drawings on paper, printmaking, hand lettering, as well as wood rod and cardboard supported paper mache. Students are required to do studio work outside of class times.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Studio
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 2 times for credit
Notes: Enrollment limited to 18.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).