ARTH 27400 /37400 - Photography/Modernism/Esthetics

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

PQ: Consent of instructor. This course presents the history of photographic practices in the United States, beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending into the 1980s, that were aimed at gaining an audience for photographs within museums of art. Issues include the contention over claims about medium specificity, notions of photographic objectivity, peculiar photographic esthetics, and the role of tradition and canon formation in the attempted definition of the photographic medium. Photographers include Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude K sebier, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. Texts include essays by Stieglitz, Strand, T. S. Eliot, Edward Weston, Elizabeth McCausland, Walter Benjamin, Beaumont Newhall, John Szarkowski, and Douglas Crimp. J. Snyder. Spring.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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