LA CULTURA Y LA HISTORIA ESTADOUNIDENSES A TRAVÉS DEL ARTE

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CONTENIDOS DE LA ASIGNATURA

5. Contenidos de la asignatura

   1.  American Revolution and Independence: Protagonists and Events

       1.1. American Revolution through Images
            1.1.1.  Main Representations of the Revolution
            1.1.2. Milestones of the Revolution
            1.1.3. Protagonists of the Revolution

        1.2. Artistic Representations of Key Revolutionaries
            1.2.1. George Washington (1732-1799)
            1.2.2. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
            1.2.3. John Jay (1745-1829)

  2.  The First Great African American Migration

        2.1. African American Experiences before WWI: Representative Images
            2.1.1. Pre-bellum South
            2.1.2. Emancipation and Reconstruction (1865-1877)
             2.1.3. From Reconstruction to WWI

         2.2. The Artistic Vision of Jacob Lawrence: the First Great Migration towards the North
   

3. USA during the Great Depression

        3.1. Reflecting on the Great Depression through Social Realism
            3.1.1. Robert Gwathmey’s Engravings
       3.2. Photographic Visions
            3.2.1. American Urban and Agrarian Worlds
             3.2.2. Dorothea Lange: A Woman's Eye
             3.2.3. Walker Evans: Lyrical Vision of Rural Life
              3.2.4. Lewis Hine: Child Labor

   4. From the Civil Rights Movement to a “More Perfect Union”

        4.1. Critical Analysis of Artistic Images related to Desegregation
            4.1.1. Historical Context of the Civil Rights Movement
            4.1.2. Significant Artistic Works of Art
        4.2 Emblematic Graphic Representations of the Civil Rights Movement

          4.2.1. A Case Study: Segregation in the American Educational System: Ruby Bridges and the                                               Analysis of Norman's Rockwell “The Problem We Live With”
             4.2.2. Collaborative Task: Art Gallery “Art as a Reflection of History”