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Frederic Church, America’s preeminent landscape artist of the 19th century, spent 40 years creating Olana in Hudson, New York, a 250-acre designed landscape in which his family residence and farm were sited and whose panoramic views of the Hudson River Valley and Catskills are integral elements. Carolyn Keogh, director of education and public programs at the Olana Partnership, leads a detailed exploration of the life, career, and inspirations that motivated Church to create this masterwork. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
For Ages 3 to 6. This musical play with a great big heart brings the whole audience into the family with singing, finger play, and call-and response as we all give thanks for being together.
When Europeans and Americans became aware of the exquisite workmanship of Japanese porcelains, bronzes, silks, embroideries, and lacquerware in the 1850s, a cult of emulation and the “Japan craze” began. Former curator Nancy Green discusses the influence of Japanese aesthetics on avant-garde painting and printmaking, in fashionable ceramics and metalwork, and on graphic design, advertising, bookbinding, and illustration. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
While the “New Hollywood” filmmakers of the early 1970s shook up the studio system with pessimistic counterculture films, the nostalgic director Peter Bogdanovich emulated studio productions and legendary Hollywood directors of a bygone era. When his smash hits The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc?, and Paper Moon were followed by a string of critical and commercial failures, journalists and industry rivals went into destructive overdrive to cut the boy wonder down to size. Film historian Max Alvarez argues against Bogdanovich’s so-called decline after Paper Moon and presents bountiful evidence of the stylistic and narrative skill reflected throughout the career of this outstanding filmmaker.
We think we know the Vikings well. These pagan conquerors from Scandinavia are everywhere in our popular culture: movies, TV shows, video games, and even Super Bowl commercials. But which parts of the Vikings that we know and love (or love to hate) are real, and which are based in fantasy? Medievalist Paul B. Sturtevant unpacks the differences between the fantasies and the medieval realities of the Viking world, investigating where the myths come from and why they persist.
Less famous than their Tudor cousins, the Stuart monarchs survived a plot to blow up the government and the only governmental execution of an anointed king in English history to restructure the nature of the monarchy and eventually join England and Scotland into a new nation. Historian Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger examines how four generations of Stuart monarchs—from James I to Queen Anne—led the country from the personal monarchy of the Tudors into the constitutional monarchy and the establishment of Great Britain.
Jackson Pollock revolutionized modern art with his pioneering style of Action Painting, creating expansive, nonfigurative webs of color that earned him the nickname "Jack the Dripper” and left an indelible mark on the art world. Art historian Janetta Rebold Benton delves into Pollock's life and enduring influence, exploring how he and his contemporaries challenged artistic conventions to open new avenues for abstraction and creative expression that continue to resonate in contemporary art. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
