16457
Graduate Course
SoSe 17: On seeing and not seeing further.
Lavinia Greenlaw
Comments
The comprehension of our understandings, comes exceeding short of the vast extent of things.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke 1690
The seminar will align texts and images from across a number of periods and genres in order to explore questions of vision. The aim is that the components of each group will cast light on one another, rather like the aspects of a poem. We will consider early photography, entering caves, shortsight, bad weather, virtual reality and luminous clocks.
Those we discuss will include Locke on looking into a microscope for the first time, Mendelssohn on railway tunnels, Henry James on shop signs, Eva Hesse’s emoty pages and Mary Shelley on snow.
The tensions and possibilities raised by these texts and images lead to questions of how we describe through language and image, and the affinities between the scientist and artist in terms of imperative and process.
This is a critical, inter-disciplinary seminar. Coursework will be an essay of an unconventional kind. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2017-04-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-04-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-31 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-07 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-21 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-28 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-19 14:00 - 16:00