ARTH 1157

FWS: Visions of Revolution: 1789-Present

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Remember the mask of the hero from the V for Vendetta franchise, and how this popular-commercial emblem of social and political resistance jumped out of the screen and multiplied on the faces of thousands, from Occupy Wall Street to women's movement in Bahrain, from parks of Istanbul to the streets of Sao Paulo. Think about the heightened experience of living through the exceptional, consciously historical time that characterizes revolutionary moments. How is this sense of extraordinariness communicated by visual accounts of a historical event, or embedded in the articulations of its fantasies? How do the works of visual and material culture imagine and shape, or re-imagine and commemorate the revolution? Following these questions, "Visions of Revolution" covers case studies to investigate the relationship between 'revolutionary action' and art; and between art and 'revolutionary imagination'.  

When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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