8 AIA LUs and 8 Credits Towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture
Public art—statuary, murals, installations, and civic embellishments of all kinds—is a sine qua non of any city with ambitions of grandeur or even the most basic visual amenity. The classical tradition, especially, has endowed the cities of the West with monuments and ornaments without which Paris or Vienna or Rome—or New York or Washington—is simply unthinkable. Right now, the tradition of commemorative public art has become a lightning rod for criticism and controversy as cities and towns contemplate the removal or destruction of works honoring or depicting persons or events that run afoul of widely shared contemporary values. This series of vividly illustrated lectures will survey the public art of American cities, with an emphasis on New York and frequent references to Europe, in an attempt to help us to understand the motives, meanings, and aesthetics of a broad range of works including: the sculpture of such masters as Saint-Gaudens, French, Ward, MacMonnies, and countless lesser-known figures; 20th-century figures such as Manship, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Malvina Hoffman, and Anna Hyatt; Modernists such as Richard Serra and Maya Lin; contemporary artists working in traditional forms, such as Frederick Hart, Sandy Stoddart, and Raymond Kaskey; muralists such as Blashfield, Winter, and Parrish; mosaicists, environmental artists, countless anonymous craftsmen, and more. There will be plenty of discussion of controversies ranging from “Civic Virtue” to “Tilted Arc” and from Confederate generals to Christopher Columbus.
Architectural Historian Francis Morrone has been researching, writing about, lecturing on, and teaching public art for 25 years.
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You can find a list of the ICAA's core curriculum subject areas along with more details about the ICAA Certificate in Classical Architecture program here. For questions about specific courses that aren’t on this list, please contact [email protected].
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