“Visual culture” is a term that includes what has
traditionally been thought of as the “fine” arts as well as more “popular”
forms of visible media such as comics, advertising, television, film,
decorative arts, video, installations, performance art, and digital and new
media art. We will focus specifically on 20th and early 21st
century visual culture, and on modernism and postmodernism. We will draw on approaches from Art History,
Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, Performance Studies,
Digital Humanities, and more.
One of the goals of this course is for you to be able
to think and talk about visual culture, and so we will listen to and watch
examples, and using your laptops and other resources, you will record your own
conversations with each other and edit them with digital images.
We will make frequent
trips to the Museum of Fine Arts. We
will also enhance our in-class activities with online resources and assignments.
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