ARTH 1165

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ARTH 1165
FWS: Art History's Frame: Writing Across Art, Law, Technology and other Fields

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

Artists since the 1960s have turned their attention from "work" to" frame" by intervening in exhibitions, questioning how art history is written, and making "the context" of art a central concern. This class draws inspiration from that charge to take an expanded view of the authors and texts comprising modern and contemporary art history, and highlights art's relationship to seemingly unrelated areas like law, technology, finance, and government. Readings will focus on the intersection of these fields, and will range from art criticism, activist manifestos, oral histories, biography, as well as legal documents and financial analyses.  Assignments reflect this interdisciplinarity through archival research and artist interviews, writing Wikipedia entries and exhibition labels, inviting us to reconsider – and re-write – the authoritative record through which cultural history is framed.

When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17912 ARTH 1165   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.