PAINTING/PRINTMAKING Art 524, Materiality, Gesture & Meaning
This 12-week seminar will focus on materiality in art and the complex interrelationships between material, gesture, and meaning. We will trace the history of art alongside the history of material, beginning with prehistory by looking at the influence of the natural world and continuing by examining the influence of industrial and post industrial materials. The course will consider how social, political, and poetic meaning is bound up in materiality, and how material experimentation can drive innovation and generate new systems of meaning. We will alternate between class discussions of readings and films, critique of work based on class experiments and assignments, and visits to museums and sites such as the New Haven landfill, a glass factory, and an industrial materials archive.Editor details
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