ARH 4680 - American Landscape Painting

3 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
Prerequisites ARH 2850, ENGL 1101, ENGL 1102.
This course consists of an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of American landscape painting. It traces the development of this discipline in the United States, where it took a rather different direction from contemporary European practitioners of the genre, for most of the nineteenth century. The course explores the artistic, social, political and historical implications of the images within the context of American Romanticism, Impressionism and Realism from its beginnings in the early 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century.