Art History 391A - S- Drawing in Contemporary Art

This course addresses how drawing, once a preparatory medium for painting, is now a major medium in its own right. However, drawing is resistant to modernist medium specificity and thus can be seen as an "anti-medium" whose contemporary definition is not based on internal properties, such as line or the use of paper, but rather its ability to connect disparate practices, such as hand-making and digital expression; genres, such as art and design; and communities, such as art and science audiences. The course will develop around the hands-on study and research of objects in Five College collections, and will culminate in a series of web projects based around the objects researched by individual students and/or virtual exhibitions designed by student teams.

The location of AH 391A class is South College East 245 (SCE 245)