Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: TRUTH TO NATURE: AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 'The Pre-Raphaelites' were 19th century English painters who strived for 'Truth to Nature,' i.e., mimetic renderings of nature and Man, a concept prescribed by aesthete John Ruskin. The latter's writings have reached the United States; American artists have created their own version of Pre-Raphaelitism, adapting it to mythical concepts of American as the new 'Promised Land.' Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 561.