HAA 53p

Looking Back: The Western Tradition
Jeffrey Hamburger, Joseph Koerner
Tuesday/Thursday, 10-11:30am
The history of western art, like any story, has a plot (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, etc.), protagonists (Michelangelo, Picasso, Pollock), and a climax (Modern Art). By looking backward instead of forward, beginning with contemporary works and ending in the Middle Ages, this introduction to western art considers how the past continuously informs an ever-changing present. Combining the canonical with the critical, this course introduces both the western tradition and the practice of art history itself.