ART 111 - Art Appreciation: Art of the Americas

The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection.

A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years.

From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system--that is, art--to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world.