WRC 7051 - Unlocking the Voice:Using Fragments and Re-enactments in the Narrative of Personal Discovery

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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How do we get insight into our own lives, into how other people lived, through art How do we (re)construct facts from our lives, from history, and turn those into art From Shakespeare to Romare Bearden, from Sappho to Cindy Sherman, we'll look at poetry (the entire collection of Shakespeare's sonnets and Sappho's fragments) as well as the visual image (collage and photography) to tap into the consciousness behinda work of art. This is an advanced poetics course that includes an investigation into formal composition, uses of fragments, visual imagery, realism and symbolism. From ancient to postmodern, we'll channel it all and stir it into writing exercises produced each class. The course will explore the roots of "vision" and "inspiration" and harness these concepts to discipline and formal practice evidenced by the writers and artiswe study here. Why Cindy Sherman Her own face is clay. Sherman reminds us through constant remaking of her own image that Shakespeare's princes are also clay. Ditto Sappho. Ditto Bearden: material as artifact-collage as history and memory. Whether we approach the work as dreamers or as authority figures, as the humiliated or the indignant, the betrayed or the deceiver, the alienated or the inseparable, we will train our eyes to notice significant details and collisions in the texts and patterns of both written and visual art.

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2.00 - 3.00

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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