ARTH 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3-4 When Offered: Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and The Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
Prerequisite: First-year standing.Offered Spring, 2010:
ARTH 180: FS: Identity, Memory, and the History of Photography (4). Prerequisite: First-year standing. First-year Seminar. An exploration of the issues of identity and memory as generated through the genre of photographic portraiture and self-portraiture, relevant topical issues, and individual artists’ oeuvres. Photographs and their makers are analyzed beginning with the mid-19th century inception of photography through the 21st century’s contemporary practices. We examine artists’ intentions, their relationships to their subjects, and the resulting expression, and address the following questions, among others: How is a photographic portrait different from a painted one? With what expectations do we come to photographs? How do different photographs navigate and traverse the genre and medium? (HA) Ramirez.
Offered Fall, 2009:
ARTH 180: FS: Portraits, Politics, and Propaganda (3). Everyone wants to be remembered. In the modern age, photographs can do the trick (as can blogs, twitters, and MySpace pages); but for centuries, technological realities limited the means by which individuals could promote themselves and their causes to their contemporaries and to future generations. This seminar focuses on the most common form of self-commemoration and self-promotion – the portrait – from a variety of intellectual perspectives. Motives for commissions, specific themes and symbolic messages, and even stylistic choices are addressed as we trace the evolution of this highly charged art form from its origins in antiquity through the modern period and the development of the camera. (HA) Bent
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