ARTS 340
Transparency and Opacity Spring 2017
Division I
Cross-listed ENGL 340
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“Transparency” and “opacity” are metaphors–evoking openness and corruption, for example–and they are also material properties. In this course, students will consider transparency and opacity as formal devices alongside related tools, such as symmetry, reflectivity, reflexivity, and perspective. An intensive program of reading and looking will situate our investigation within discourses of political theory, literary criticism, psychology, architecture, and more; authors include philosopher Edouard Glissant, architectural theorist Anthony Vidler, and novelist Tom McCarthy, among others. We will investigate visual artists whose work uses transparent, translucent, and opaque materials, including Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Josiah McElheny, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, David Hammons, Joseph Kosuth, Paul Chan, and Demetrius Oliver. Our research will inform a sequence of demanding independent studio exercises; creative work and group critique are important components of this course. Assessable tasks include response papers, studio exercises, and a studio project.
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3924
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on full and active participation and quality of studio work
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: at least one 100-level ARTS course OR one 100-level ENG course OR permission of the instructor
Enrollment Preferences: Art Studio majors, English majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTS 340 Division I ENGL 340 Division I

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