ARTH 553
Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Curating American Vernacular Art at WCMA Fall 2014
Division I
Cross-listed
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Working directly with a collection temporarily on loan to the Williams College Museum of Art, this course examines problems posed by paintings and decorative arts created by artists, artisans, and amateurs in the rural American Northeast from 1700 to 1840 -works labeled “folk” or “vernacular” art. It interrogates the ways in which this material fits (or doesn’t) into existing art historical and institutional narratives of American art, and experiments with modes of display and interpretation using methods from material culture studies, thing theory, connoisseurship, social and physical sciences, philosophy, and economics. Students will apply their research to the development and implementation of exhibition strategies that integrate objects into installations at WCMA.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 1070
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: oral presentations, collaborative exhibition proposal project, object-based research paper
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the Gaudino option
Prerequisites: one ARTH course
Enrollment Preferences: 6 graduate students (in addition to limit of 6 undergrads); graduate students will only be admitted with the instructor's permission
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 311 Division I ARTH 553 Division I

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