Spring 2024 Art History GR8441 section 001

Iterations of Landscape

Call Number 18942
Day & Time
Location
R 12:10pm-2:00pm
934 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Kellie Jones
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Inspired by the current rise in scholarship on art in Indigenous and African Diaspora traditions, this course will consider myriad ways of imagining land and life. It will chart pre-twentieth century landscape painting that exercises the picturesque in the time of slavery and imperialism and moves towards ecocritical considerations in our current moment, touching Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. We will then look at how understandings of our world are cultivated in Modern and Contemporary art in multi-media and growing digital practices from the 20th century forward. How do artists see and imagine our emplacement and encode the social world through place? How can we use such ideas to chart our way through a changing climate and world? How does landscape, even in its apparent challenges, function as home/friend/support? In what ways can land symbolize grounds for empathy rather than serve as a site of polarization with distinct interests forever at odds and incommensurable?

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 8 students (12 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Subject Art History
Number GR8441
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note APPLY BY 5PM JAN. 4TH: https://forms.gle/LcGMGoEQkuPJwp5c7
Section key 20241AHIS8441G001