IMA 320 - Visual Culture

3 credit(s)
This studio/seminar course uses theories and practices of the 20th and 21st century to examine the visual world around us. Since the “visual” has become our contemporary language, (magazines, TV, snapshots, Instagram, Photoshop, Facebook, YouTube, internet, advertising, design,…), the course tracks various trends in art and the social sciences, that have been used to describe or explain how we see, look, construct and understand images (from Renaissance perspective, to Freudian Psychology, to Phenomenology, to Semiotics, to Modernism/Postmodernism and beyond). The class focuses on looking at images and media through the lens of these trends in order to gain perspective on viewing and making significant art works and the ability to engage in critical dialogue about them. Readings, viewing, screenings and discussion result in research projects, writing and presentations.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor; open to non-majors.

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