ARTH 472
Timelines Spring 2018
Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative
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Art is really time-consuming to make, to view, to use, to understand. We enshrine it, exhibit it, excavate it and, particularly since the 19th century, we have concocted increasingly elaborate narratives around revered artifacts. We even think we control these many fabled things, but then they have the temerity to outlive us and outsmart us, meddling in the spaces between self and other, human and divine, now and then. The experience can be traumatizing. This course is an opportunity to explore how images are tangled up with time. We will begin in the 19th century, when commonplace notions of past and present wobbled seriously with the invention of photography and the avid pursuit of archaeology. From that pivot point, we will operate transnationally and anachronistically, with particular reference to the Middle East, the birth-place of monotheism and idol anxiety. There will be no single timeline, but rather a series of case studies, ranging from iconic paintings and sacred spaces to calendar art and photojournalism. Ultimately, we must ask, can art ever be fixed in time or will it always be an unruly presence in our lives?
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3659
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: regular presentations and term projec
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: 100-level art history course
Enrollment Preferences: majors, seniors
Distributions: Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative

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