Cosmic Art

Harvard FAS

How can art be cosmic, and how to turn the cosmos into art? Long before the modern space age, human beings were launching themselves into the stars through art. The seminar explores how human creative expression has historically integrated with the vast, transcendental, and often invisible forces of the universe. You will traverse the boundary between the material and the spiritual, exploring how art serves as a vessel for navigating the cosmos, and how the universe acts as an endless source…