Professor Angela Rosenthal will teach two courses this summer:

"SCULPTURE"

ARTH 16, 2A hour, no prerequisite

This course offers a thematic approach to three dimensional art by
focusing on select works from the Renaissance to contemporary media
and installation art, with special emphasis on the development of
"modern" sculpture. Throughout the term discussion of the cultural
contexts and major theoretical concerns will be linked with close
visual analysis and critical concerns about materiality, display,
reception and meaning of the plastic arts. We will study a broad range
of techniques (for example, carving, moulding, pouring, assembling)
and materials (from traditional materials to found objects and
ephemeral materials, including sound and light sculpture), and how
artists tried to manipulate them through illusionism, abstraction,
fragmentation, or repetition. We will also consider the history of
display and thus the relationship of sculpture to its diverse and
shifting audiences. The course includes guest lectures and visits to
the Hood Museums, and to Saint Gaudens National Park. We will also
examine Dartmouth's public sculptures and the initiatives in
conjunction with this year's Summer Arts Festival on "eMotion."

"REALISM, IMPRESSIONISM, POSTIMPRESSIONISM"

ARTH 51, 10A hour, no prerequisite

In the second half of the nineteenth century Paris was regarded as the
quintessentially modern city and the capital of the art world. Artists
around the world turned to Paris in search of new modes of
representation. This course will explore the radical and influential
developments in painting, sculpture, print media and exhibition
culture by examining some of the major artists (including Cassatt,
Courbet, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Rodin, van
Gogh, Valadon), as well as artistic movements, ideas and techniques of
the period. In this discussion-based class, students will be
introduced to a critical art historical vocabulary, basic skills of
visual analysis, and guided in writing creatively and critically on
visual culture. Dist: ART; WCult: W