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 warthe ideology and aesthetics of aggression. Art for wararms, armor, fortresses. Art against warprotest and resistance. Art advanced through warhybridity and new cultural forms. Art in remembrance of wartombs, monuments, landscapes. Art erased through war censorship, disputed possession, intentinal destruction. Culminates in individual or group research projects in written or visual format.
Graded: Letter Grade