ARH 0284 - #selfie: THE ART OF SELF REFERENCE

Institution:

Rosemont College

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Description:

This course will examine a selected historical body of some of the first self portraits from the Italian and Northern Renaissance, to the development of the painted and photographed death portraits of the nineteenth century, to the assembly line produced Pop Art celebrity portraits of artists like Andy Warhol, to the explosion of self portraits with the camera and cell phone in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Some themes to be investigated are: self reference in art; social media and art; the artist and the camera; the emergence of the individual in art; narcissism and art.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.rosemont.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 527-0200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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