MFV 802 - Graduate Seminar: Visual Arts II

This second residency seminar will explore concepts and objects of modernity in art, visual culture, and culture. Topics include public/private sphere issues, high and low culture, notions of self and identity, sexual difference and gender. Critical theory discourses and developments in art techniques, work methods and means of production, as well as the impact of cultural events in the 20th-and early 21st-century will be discussed. Topics are explored in writing assignments and class discussions as well as through readings, video and film viewing. Each student will produce short writing assignments that accompany assigned readings. (3 Credits)