ART 147 - American Art

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    Description
    This course provides a survey of periods, artwork, and architecture of the United States with an emphasis on content, context, and style. This course covers subject matter, function, iconography, patronage, artistic methods and influences, and social and cultural contexts of artworks and monuments. This course includes art from the following topics: Colonial art before and after the American Revolution; painting, sculpture, and architecture as emblems for national identity and class; themes of race, freedom, and war in art; images of the working class and domestic culture; industrialization and its influence on modernism in art. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-3, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A, Cal-GETC-3A)