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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 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 - Nov 21, 2024
Venue Details
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1934 Poplar AvenueMemphis, Tennessee 38104
