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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students will be encouraged to develop an independent direction while being challenged with projects on issues such as: narrative, abstraction, conceptual strategies, collage, computer-aided drawing, and drawing-based installation. Sources will include photography, drawing from life, and utilizing one's own imagination. Study of developments in contemporary drawing will parallel the course projects.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A studio course focused on advanced problems in painting practice, including pictorial structure in abstraction and representation, color in relationship to space and light, working process, and materials. This course, although structured, encourages development of independent work. Group critiques will be conducted. Students gain awareness of historical models as well as contemporary art, as they build and analyze the relationship between student work and contemporary painting culture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Student-initiated problems in photography will be explored in close working relationship with the instructor. Emphasis will be on integrating practice and critical thought.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will give senior Program 2 concentrators in Art and Archaeology and certificate students in the Visual Arts a more structured and collegial environment for developing their thesis exhibitions. Over the course of the semester students will research and develop their art, their influences, and their aesthetic underpinnings to be presented as a formal proposal for their thesis project for group discussion. Material choices, exhibition design, and publicity strategies also will be addressed. Assigned readings will support and challenge received ideas of what art is and what the form and content of an art exhibition might entail.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Through field research and studio work, this course will interrogate the "negative" idea of contemporary sculpture. Where bright lines still exist to delineate paintings and photographs and video from each other, contemporary sculpture is tacitly defined as everything else, as anything that is "not painting", "not photography", or "not film". This course will approach sculpture positively and revel in the persistent allure of all things massive, from freestanding letterforms and roadside attractions to panic rooms and regional cuisine. Of all the visual arts, only sculpture can address our existence in the material world on its own terms.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Cinema has learned a great deal from modern literature, but literature owes even more to cinema. This course will consider a range of narrative films that reflect on the process of storytelling itself, each creating the effect of a labyrinth or mirror regression. The main focus will be the analysis of framing, editing, and dream sequences in avant-garde (Deren, Frampton), feminist (Akerman, Denis), psychological (Hitchcock, Cronenberg) or self-reflexive (Shutter Island) films. Readings will explore the metaphysics of narrative (Borges), fundamental film analysis (Propp), and recent developments in the theory of narrative (Zizek, Bellour).
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary studio course encourages students to expand their definition of painting by investigating methods of painting other than the convention of stretched fabric over a wood support. Historical precedents for the class include fresco painting, polychrome sculpture, painted furniture, murals, and painted installations. Students will experiment with the effects of applied paint and color on paper, three dimensional forms, material fragments, and walls. A variety of application techniques will also be explored. The class will pay particular attention to the idea of paint and color as tangible objects with spatial properties.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
What does it mean when moving images stray from their usual points of reception: the big screen, the small screen, the computer screen? When moving images meet gallery walls or the street, places we don't normally expect to see them? How do moving images change in different contexts, and how should they adapt themselves to these new conditions? This course will explore the physical and social impact of moving images through projection, displacement, and other strategies of recontextualization.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
What exactly is gender? Is it just the contemporary name we give to sex? Or does it mean something different? How are ideas about sexuality and race implicated in our understanding of gender? This course will consider gender both as an object of study and an analytical category through which we read other cultural practices. We will explore some of the important themes and debates centrally concerned with the question of gender over the past hundred years, including feminist history, pornography and sexual freedom, gender and technology, and the politics of the veil.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the various roles and experiences of women in contemporary American politics, media and society. The course explores changing definitions of womanhood and women's identity during the late 20th and early 21st century. We will discuss women who hold positions of leadership and relative privilege and women who find themselves in the most powerless and difficult circumstances in contemporary America. We will explore cross cutting issues of class, race, sexuality, gender identity, and faith to help understand the many experiences of women in America.
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