Art History
Graduate Seminar
M 10:10AM-12PM
What should art history look like in the anthropocene? What is necessary to bring questions about how to define and analyze the ecological that have been developed in other disciplinary contexts—literature, anthropology, science studies—to art history? How might we attend to the non-human forces contributing to the conceptualization, commissioning, creation, display, evolution and reception of works of art? Do all kinds of objects invite this kind of critical investigation or only a select few? What are the potential pitfalls of undertaking this approach?
This seminar will investigate these questions through the exploration of works that engage the history of extraction in the Americas in their subject matter, use and/or materiality. Students will discuss different models and motivations for this work and put these methods into use by producing object labels for works to be included in the Fall 2024 Wallach Art Gallery exhibition “The Hudson: Art, Industry and Ecology.”
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