ART-256 Art & Politics

This course will examine the intersections of art and politics across time and national boundaries. Globally, the production of visual culture is always embedded within dominant cultural narratives, and is used to create, reinforce, and respond to systems of power. From this perspective, this course will define politics broadly to include a traditional understanding, but also to expand to cover the art object’s role in crafting identities and building positionalities. Through this course, students will learn about the power of images in a social context, how political themes are visually represented, and how artistic perspectives have shifted and changed over time. 4 credits