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ARTH 380. American Art to 1870

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 010645

American painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts from the Colonial period through 1870. Topics will include Colonial portraiture, African-American aesthetics, the definition of folk art, nationalism and landscape painting, and the question of American exceptionalism. The course will also introduce students to problems of interpretation in current scholarship.  Prerequisite: ARTH 206 .