Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Art & Design Dept
- mboone@ualberta.ca
- Address
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3-83 Fine Arts Building
8807 - 112 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2C9
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Art and visual culture in the long nineteenth century Spain and the Americas international exhibitions art and animals
About
MA University of California, Berkeley, 1985; PhD City University of New York, 1996
Betsy Boone is a professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture who studies nineteenth and early twentieth-century art in the United States, Spain, and Latin America. She is the author of Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860-1914 (Yale University Press, 2007) and "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality": Spain, America, and the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), in addition to numerous articles on art, photography, and print culture in western Europe and the Americas. She loves animals, especially cats and horses, and is an avid equestrian.
Courses
HADVC 100 - Introduction to the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
Introduction to the history of art, design and visual culture.
HADVC 205 - History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in 19th Century Europe
History of art, design, and visual culture in Europe during the 19th century, focusing on work produced during this socially and politically turbulent time. Includes discussion of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism.
HADVC 311 - Issues in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary. Prerequisite: Any 6 units in HADVC 2XX with a minimum grade of B- in each course, or consent of the Department.
HADVC 411 - Special Topics in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary. Prerequisite: Any HADVC 3XX with a minimum grade of B, or consent of the Department.
HADVC 511 - Advanced Special Topics in Art, Design and Visual Culture
Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.