U.S. from 1870

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course provides an introduction to American art and visual culture in the years between the Civil War and the Cold War. We will situate the images, visual practices, and artistic styles of this period within their social, historical, and cultural contexts, paying particular attention to the role that artistic production and consumption played in constructing American social identities and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the topics we will consider are art and nationalism, race and representation, urbanization and industrialization, representing war, art and technology, the rise of mass media, and the role of abstraction. For more information about this and other courses in the Department of Art and Art History, please visit https://art.georgetown.edu