Courses
Spring Term 2001
HACU
126 Introduction to Visual Culture
Sura Levine and Eva Rueschmann
Course
Description
This course forms a multidisciplinary introduction to the study of visual
culture and various critical methods for reading visual representations
across different media, from fine art, photography, cinema to advertising,
illustration, performance, museum display and exhibitions and others.
By focusing on how vision becomes a privileged sensory experience and
cultural expression of meaning making in the modern and postmodern eras
and focusing on the explosion of the visual arts in the 20th century,
students will be introduced to such diverse topics as: spectatorship
and subjectivity, the archive as site of cultural and visual memory,
self-representation and self-fashioning, the influence of mechanical
and digital technologies of reproduction on image making, world views,
and spatial perception, representations of gender and race in visual
media, and the politics of museum display.
Complete
Syllabus will be available in January 2001.
