English 182A - The Shaping Spirit R.Masteller

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Whitman College

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This course considers the process by which creative artists attempt to shape life into significant art. Focusing on artists from different creative spheres (visual art, poetry, photography, fiction), we will explore the evolving personal, social, and aesthetic matters reflected in their work: What does it mean to be an artist Has an artist any social responsibility With what acts of imagination might an artist respond to the facts of reality How might the artist shape an aesthetic form in such a way as to celebrate, or compensate, for the incessant flux of the world What's the good of art Our central artists will include James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Edward Weston, Adrienne Rich, and Judy Chicago, all of whom exercised their shaping spirit in 20th-century Europe and America, with consequences continuing today.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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