The American Landscape

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

For over two-hundred years, American artists have used painting, prints, photography, and conceptual art to explore the relationship between humans and the environment. This course will examine aesthetic and cultural themes in American landscape from 1800 to the present, including the sublime, the picturesque, industrialism, nostalgia, Westward expansion, colonialism, the ‘end’ of landscape, environmentalism, abstraction, and conceptualism. The course will meet in the Barbara Ellis Jones Classroom in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections where we will look at landscapes in Georgetown’s art and rare book collections. For more information about this and other courses in the Department of Art and Art History, please visit https://art.georgetown.edu This course is not available to audit.