32115
Graduate Course
SoSe 20: How to Look at American Art in the Era of Climate Change
Joshua Shannon
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ONLINE COURSE ----- Does the history of American art look different from the era of climate change? This course offers an MA-level overview of visual art in the United States since the Civil War, while specifically asking what relationships this art has represented (or imagined) between human beings and the non-human world. We will seek to identify and critique such evolving concepts in American art as nature, wilderness, civilization, and the human being. Looking especially at paintings, photographs, sculptures, films, and songs that represent the landscape, we will consider the history of these key concepts as they pertain to the sustainability of life on earth. How has art enabled environmental degradation and hastened climate change? How has it modeled a more sustainable set of relationships between the human and the non-human? Readings will cover climate change and ecocriticism as well as art history, while meetings will be devoted primarily to close interpretations of works of art. Please register on Campus Management as well as at: culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de with your name, matriculation number, study program, home university (if applicable), zedat email address or email address of home university, and type of exchange program (if applicable).
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10 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2020-04-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-04-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-05-06 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-05-13 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-05-20 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-05-27 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-06-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-06-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-06-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-06-24 14:00 - 16:00