Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0246 - Art History: Pop./Visual Cult.

How many times has Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) been referenced in film and/or advertising and what makes it recognizable? How do artists such as Barbara Kruger use the strategies of advertising to create high art? How else have high and low culture merged and reverberated? Why have van Gogh, Klimt, and Mondrian become source material for fashion designers, tattoo artists, and even liquor makers? Why do art historians and archeologists figure so frequently in popular novels and other non-academic media? Why are we fascinated with an object's provenance and artists who "sample" other artists? How does copyright function in a world of endless reproduction and social media? This course will examine the ways that the art historical concerns with iconography, canonicity, style and context, the cult of the artist as genius/fallen hero(ine), arts economics, and other issues underlie the ways that art, artists and art history have entered arenas outside of art history and it will examine how the study of popular and visual culture has shifted the field of art production and art history. This course satisfies the Division I Distribution Requirement.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Field Trip $20. In this course, students should expect to spend 6-8 hours of preparation and work outside of class time.