ART 471 - Art X War

Units: 3
Three hours seminar per week
Prerequisite: One previous upper-division ART course; junior or senior standing
Team-taught art history/art studio seminar examining theoretical and practical aspects of the exchange between two primary human cultural forms, art and war, through history and in the present. Topics include: Art of war - the ideology and aesthetics of aggression. Art for war - arms, armor, fortresses. Art against war - protest and resistance. Art advanced through war - hybridity and new cultural forms. Art in remembrance of war - tombs, monuments, landscapes. Art erased through war - censorship, disputed possession, intentional destruction. Culminates in individual or group research projects in written or visual format.
Graded: Graded