Hilary Toothe

Classes

• ARTH 172: Renaissance through Rococo

  A survey of visual culture with the emphasis on the history of architecture, painting, and sculpture from the Renaissance through the Rococo Period. Looking at the early modern period and the start of modernity the course explores how colonial expansion informed art production on the European, Asian and North and South American continents. The course includes an introduction to the process of art historical analysis.

• ARTH 173: Neoclassicism to Contemp Art

  A survey of visual culture with the emphasis on the history of architecture, painting, and sculpture from Neo-Classism to Contemporary Period worldwide. The course looks how the ideas of Enlightenment informed the production and exchange of visual culture. The course includes the Western tradition, Asian and European artistic, African and Latin American art production of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will talk about Global modernisms and further pluralist arts of the 20th and 21st century.