Day: 2 Saturdays, (October 20 and October 27)
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Arts 2622
Field Trip to Getty Museum 10/27/07, transportation provided
Enrollment Code: 55434
Description:
Direct examination of works of art within a museum setting afford an unsurpassed opportunity to consider how a work was
created, what has happened to its appearance over the course of time, and how installation within the museum setting may altar or contribute to the artist and/or patron's original
conception. This course will take place over two days: on the first day we begin in a classroom for a discussion with slides that provides background information necessary to close looking. We will then move on to the University Art Museum where students will be divided into small groups and given a series of looking assignments designed to teach close looking of both art and installation. Members of each group will wrap-up the day with reports on what they have
discovered. The second day will be devoted to a visit to the
J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, where we will examine art in all media-paintings, prints, sculpture, and decorative art!
Professor Ann Jensen Adams, Art History, is a specialist in 17th century Netherlandish painting, gender and the history of science and the visual arts of the early modern period. Her extensive museum experience included work in the curatorial offices of the Yale University Art Museum, a research fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and curated an exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Painting from New York Private Collections at the National Academy of Design, New York.
Email: ajadams@arthistory.ucsb.edu
