ARTH-UA 433 - Toward a Critical Vocabulary of Photography

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New York University

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Emphasizes the analysis and synthesis of visual and written information. The readings include essays by critics Roland Barthes, Donna Haraway, Susan Sontag, Boris Groys, and bell hooks, as well as articles or excerpts by Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade, John Berger, and George Kubler. Critical essays are interspersed with other kinds of texts, such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Persepolis, Black Elk Speaks, and the novel Perfume. This mixture of topics, texts, and issues is designed to broaden students' understanding of important concerns in philosophy, art history, science, literature, and cultural studies that are relevant to photography. Class time is spent in analysis of these texts in relation to historical and contemporary pictures.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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