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| Readings: Theories and Perspective on Art | |||
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| CLASS CODE: | ART 400 | CREDITS: 2 | |
| DIVISION: | PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | ART | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | A reading survey and discussion of principal aesthetic, religious, and artistic theories with an emphasis on reading artists' written sources from antiquity until the twenty-first century. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Fall, Winter, and Summer | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | -- Survey a sample of principal contributors to aesthetic theory. -- Readings from LDS perspectives on the arts. -- Read and discuss artists' statements from antiquity into the twenty-first century. |
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| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | -- Survey a sample of principal contributors to aesthethic theory and practice, especially Plato and Aristotle. -- Read from LDS perspectives on the arts, including sermons by Spencer W. Kimball and Boyd K. Packer. -- Read and discuss artist's statements or manifestos, theories, journals, notebooks, sketchbook entries, and documents, surveying artists from antiquity into the twenty-first century. -- Read from artists, theorists, writers, critics, and intellectuals that form the student's artistic discipline, broadening their awareness of the ideas that form artistic theory and practice. -- Read 700-1000 pages from the above categories. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Junior or senior level Art major | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | Enrolled as an Art major | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2002 | ||