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Department of Art - BA Art History
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AREA AND FACILITIES
Our goal is to develop students’ critical skills and ability to comprehend global visual arts within a social, historical and aesthetic framework. Class format involves lecture and discussion with courses ranging from 90 student lecture survey classes to advanced seminar or group study classes of 10-20. Because of the comparative nature of Art History, majors are required to complete courses in a second field, a foreign language and aesthetic philosophy. A capstone seminar challenges students’ ability to integrate the social, historical and aesthetic significance of visual art in a comprehensive research paper.
Wireless lecture and seminar classes are supplied with podium access to video, DVD, slide, and document projection, including LUNA Insight digital formats. Visual and library resources are available in the department’s Stanley G. Wold Resource Center and through the Morgan Library.
Art History majors have two active student organizations within the Department of Art, the Student Organization of Visual Arts (SOVA) and the Collegiate Organization for Critics and Art Historians (COCAH).
LINKS TO:
ART HISTORY FACULTY
Please feel free to e-mail, leave us a phone message or drop in during office hours.
Dr. Patricia Coronel, Area Coordinator, Honors Advisor
African, Tribal and Non-Western Art, Summer Study in Italy,
MesaVerde Summer Class
Room F-106 Visual Arts Building
patricia.coronel@colostate.edu
(970) 491-5495
Dr. Christine Nelson
American Art, History of Graphic Design, Modern Art
Room F-107 Visual Arts Building
christine.nelson@colostate.edu
(970) 491-5451
Dr. Catherine DiCesare
Pre-Columbian Art, Italian Renaissance Art
Room F-110B Visual Arts Building
catherine.diCesare@colostate.edu
(970) 491-1746
Dr. Eleanor Moseman, Art History Foundation Coordinator
Early 20th-century Expressionism and Cubism
Room F-110A Visual Arts Building
eleanor.moseman@colostate.edu
Linny Frickman
Hatton Gallery Director, 19th and 20th Century Art, Contemporary Art Theory
Room G-105 Visual Arts Building
linda.frickman@colostate.edu
(970) 491-7634
Ruth Pettigrew, Director, Wold Resource Center
Room F-109 Visual Arts Building
ruth.pettigrew@colostate.edu
(970) 491-6908
Curriculum
Lower division course work for majors requires a 3-semester art history survey, which provides a chronological, global overview of key monuments within a visual cultural context. Upon completely the survey classes, a comprehensive multiple choice monument test is given as a refresher and in preparation for later upper division art history course studies. Lower division foundational studio courses introduce majors to the principles and techniques of two and three-dimensional arts.
Upper division course work for majors allows a student to choose from a broad selection of art history classes, including seminars, group studies or education abroad courses. Additionally, majors choose a second field of study and a foreign language (preferably French or German) to complete at an introductory level.
Seminars and Group Study Topics - THESIS TOPICS
Spring 2008 – ART492 Seminar: Pre-Columbian Art: Landscape, Nature and Place in the Ancient Americas
Fall 2008 ART 492A - From Analog to Digital: Technology and Aesthetics in the Modern World
This course is a study of the affects of new technologies on the artist and the viewer from the 19th century until the present. It will draw from a variety of approaches to art history, including traditional sociological and structuralist approaches, but it will emphasize technological rather than economic, political, or other social factors. In particular, there will be a focus on the influences of the camera, the television, and the computer, as well as many other significant inventions and ideas that were generated throughout the period.
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Capstone
ART419 (offered fall term only). This is the required capstone experience for senior art history majors and as preparation for potential graduate studies in the field.
Description: The discipline of art history has been both defined and challenged by different methods and theories. The ways in which we research, interpret and describe works of art, artists and artistic movements are determined, to a large extent, by a centuries old historical framework. Students will address and begin to analyze, through lectures, presentations, discussions and readings, these different critical methods, beginning with a brief overview of early theoretical issues and then concentrating on art historical methodology and theories to the present. Students will prepare and present a major research paper on a topic of their choice.
