Art and Visual Culture

Undergraduate

How have people from different cultures and time periods perceived the world and how have they represented their perceptions of it? In this course, we will explore histories of vision, and depictions of space including the development of perspectival rendering. We also consider perspective in its more commonplace usage: point of view as well as shifting theories about how we perceive the world through visual means. We will explore the differences between representation and self-representation as they relate to questions of appropriation.