Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 06/27/95
ARH109 19956-99999	LEC	3 Credit(s)	3 Period(s)
History of American Art
Development and variety of American Art. Presentation of architecture, sculpture, painting and decorative objects. Prerequisites: None.

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
ARH109   19956-99999	History of American Art

1.	Identify and describe common methods of historical research in art. (I)
2.	Identify, define, and use critical and historical terms to identify, compare, and contrast significant qualities of the visual arts. (I)
3.	Identify major artists associated with each historical period and identify their significant works. (II-XIII)
4.	Identify and describe the stylistic characteristics of the visual arts within each of the periods studied. (II-XIII)
5.	Compare and contrast the visual arts found within a specific historical period. (II-XIII)
6.	Compare and contrast the visual arts of different stylistic/historical periods. (II-XIII)
7.	Compare and contrast the visual arts within specific historical periods to concurrent movements in Europe. (II-XIII)
8.	Compare and contrast the visual arts of different stylistic periods to concurrent movements in Europe. (II-XIII)

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MCCCD Official Course Outline:
ARH109   19956-99999	History of American Art

I. Art History A. Methods of Historical Research 1. Formal 2. Iconographic 3. Contextual B. Visual Arts 1. Elements of Art 2. Concepts in Architecture 3. Concepts in Sculpture 4. Concepts in Painting II. Seventeenth Century Painting A. Limners: English Tradition B. Limners: Dutch Tradition III. Eighteenth Century A. The Immigrants B. Native Painters C. Printmakers D. Sculpture IV. The London School A. Historical Painting 1. B. West 2. R. Peale 3. G. Stuart B. Portraiture 1. C. W. Peale 2. J. Peale V. Nineteenth Century A. Mid-Century Realism B. Historical Painting C. Allegory D. Landscape 1. Hudson River School 2. Other E. Frontier F. Folk Art G. Sculpture VI. Between the Wars A. The Expatriates 1. J.A.M. Whistler 2. J. S. Sargent 3. M. Cassatt B. The Munich School 1. W. M. Chase 2. F. Duveneck C. Still Life D. Primitives E. Landscapes 1. Luminists 2. Mystics VII. Late Nineteenth Century A. Impressionists: "Ten American Painters" 1. J. Twatchman 2. J. A. Weir B. Independents 1. G. Inness 2. W. Homer 3. T. Eakins C. The Eight: "The Ash Can School" 1. R. Henri 2. J. Sloan 3. G. Luks 4. W. Glackens D. Sculpture VIII. Modern Painting: The Formative Years A. Synchronism B. The Stieglitz Group 1. J. Marin 2. M. Weber 3. G. O'Keefe 4. J. Stella C. The Immaculates: Precisionists 1. C. Demuth 2. L. Feininger D. American Scene 1. C. Sheeler 2. E. Hopper 3. C. Burchfield E. The New York Scene F. Social Commentators 1. T.H. Benton 2. G. Wood 3. B. Shahn IX. Modern Painting: The Fulfillment A. Contemporary Realism B. California Figurative School C. School of the Pacific D. Contemporary Expressionism X. Abstract Painting and Surrealism A. Geometric Abstraction B. Surrealism C. Pre-Abstract Expressionism 1. A. Gottlieb 2. A. Gorky 3. H. Hofmann D. Abstract Expressionism 1. J. Pollock 2. F. Kline E. Symbolic Abstract Expressionism 1. W. de Kooning 2. R. Motherwell 3. W. Baziotes F. Color-Field Abstraction 1. M. Rothco 2. B. Newman XI. New Realism A. Assemblage 1. J. Johns 2. R. Rauschenberg B. Pop Art 1. R. Lichtenstein 2. A. Warhol XII. The New Abstraction A. Op Art B. Minimal Painting C. Post Minimal Painting D. Post Painterly Abstraction E. Super Realism XIII. Modern Sculpture A. The Realists B. The Monumental Tradition C. Cubist Sculpture D. Constructivism E. Geometric Abstraction F. Biomorphic Abstraction

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