The Amateur: Cultural Formations of Leisure, Labor, and Critique

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Amateurism is a cultural ideal that has risen across various time periods and geographical contexts to create an extraordinary range of insurgent, unofficial,non-renumerated,andself-organized activities and cultural practices.This class will take a thematic approach to the concept of amateurism in the arts.To better understand the figure of the amateur in historical and comparative perspective, each week we will explore a new case study in amateur art practice.