Course Info: HACU-0187
| Course | HACU-0187 Expressionism in Context |
| Long Title | Expressionism in Context |
| Term | 2016S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on T from 12:30-3:20 |
| Faculty | Karen Koehler |
| Capacity | 18 |
| Available | 8 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend 6 hours weekly in preparation and work outside of class time. Field Trips Fee: $50 |
| Description | Students in this course studied original works of Expressionist art in the Five College museums. We visited a number of exhibitions as well as permanent collections, covering the art of a variety of times and places, and studied the historical context, critical reception, textual analysis, and curatorial issues of the art on display. Central to our deliberations in 2016 was the exhibition of the expressionist printmaker Kathe Kollwitz at the Smith College Museum of Art. Our investigations ranged from early twentieth-century prints of E. L. Kirchner, to the Dadaist works of Otto Dix and George Grosz, to Neo-Expressionist artists like Anselm Kiefer. We also examined works labeled "New Objectivist," including photographs by August Sander and works by the painter Max Beckmann. This was a speaking- and writing-intensive art history course; students were responsible for a number of progressively more complicated exhibition reviews and scholarly papers, as well as presentations in the classroom and the museums. We traveled regularly to Five College Museums during class time and studied original works of art on display and in museum study rooms. |