Art History 101

  • September 12 - December 12, 2024
  • Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    1934 Poplar Avenue
    Memphis, Tennessee 38104
Ticket Price $0.00-$20.00 Register Now
Description

Come travel through time with our lecture series surveying western art. Beginning with prehistoric art and focusing on a new period each week, this class will give you a broad look at western art. Great for all knowledge levels of art history, either start completely new or brush up on a beloved discipline.

 

September 19:  Introduction: the Forms and Materials of Visual Art; Prehistoric and Ancient Art | Arts of Antiquity: Ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art

September 26: Medieval and Early Renaissance Art: from the Middle Ages to the 15th Century

October 3: The High Renaissance and Mannerist Periods: 16th-Century Art

October 10: The Baroque Era: 17th-Century Art

October 17: The Rococo Period and the Neo-Classical Movement: 18th-Century Art

October 24: romanticism. and Realism: early to Mid-19th-Century Art

October 31: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Late 19th-Century Art

November 14: Modernism in Europe and America: Early to Mid-20th-Century Art

November 21: Art Since 1950

 

Want to buy a pass to all of the classes? Purchase a season pass!

Season pass for teachers

Season pass for general admission

 

About the professor

William C. McKeown

Dr. William C. McKeown is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis, Tennessee. He received his Master of Arts in Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his PhD in the History and Criticism of Art from Florida State University. He has published articles on topics in nineteenth-century art and culture for The Burlington Magazine, The Ruskin Review and Bulletin, and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. His book, The Role of Venetian Renaissance Painting in John Ruskin’s Utopian Theories, was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2011. He is the editor of a new edition of John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice (forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press) and is currently working on a study of the visual culture of utopianism at the Ruskin Cooperative Association commune in late 19th-century Tennessee.

 

Refunds and Exchanges

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Date & Time

Sep 12 - Dec 12, 2024

Venue Details

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1934 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38104 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art