Professor Diana Strazdes
Email: dstrazdes@ucdavis.edu

Office Hours: Thurs. 2:00-4:00 p.m.,
Room 230A

Class meeting time: Tue/Thur.
4:40-6:00, Room 204 Art

This course considers the major movements in the painting and sculpture of the United States at a time when American artists frequently went abroad both for training and to pursue their careers, while patrons increasingly judged American artists by international standards. The course investigates how Americans reacted to such movements as Realism, Impressionism, and Modernism. It ends by examining the Regionalist and Social Realist movements that emerged just prior to the Great Depression. Like other upper-division offerings in the Art History program, this course presents the stylistic and thematic development of painting and sculpture in the context of social, political, and cultural change. emphasis is given to tracing European artistic, cultural, and philosophical currents and their effect on American artists. Students in the course will learn the fundamentals of visual and contectual analysis, and critical writing.

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