Art and Science of the Moon

Harvard FAS

Centering on the response of photographers and conceptual artists to the Apollo program, but ranging throughout the world history of artistic engagement with the moon, this experimental course will explore what it might mean to adopt a cosmological (or at least off-world) purview for art history. We are at an urgent crossroads in our relationship to the spaces beyond Earth: the moon is about to be mined and colonized, Mars is not far behind, and it is quite possible that microbial life will…