Introduction To Art For Honors Students

This course will introduce the students to World Art through a study of painting, sculpture and architecture made in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. We will analyze a number of key works from prehistoric times to the present day, as we view them in relation to their social and historical context. Additionally to the chronological approach, we will also discuss a number of questions and issues pertaining to art throughout the ages, including issues of cultural property, gender and cultural identity, orientalism, colonialism, primitivism, and postcolonialism.