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VISD 2B22
History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
0.50 Credit(s)
Academic Course
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal arts & sciences (including the Writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%).
This course surveys human-made things across time. It is concerned both with historical change and the social, economic, ideological and aesthetic contexts of materiality, invention, fabrication and use. Acknowledging the problematic category of the decorative arts, this course considers the development of ceramics, glass, textiles and metal work across time – from the ancients worlds to the contemporary one – in an effort to understand why things are made and how, and how they are used and why. Operating as a study of “material culture,” the course interrogates what is called craft but does so within the larger frame of social existence.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ACAD 2B22, MAAD 2B22 or VISC 2B22 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Priority registration for Material Art & Design majors.

Course code change 2011-12
Description change 2012-13
Course was last updated June 12, 2013 - 5:06 PM