ARTH 591

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Directed readings in special fields or aspects of history of art not provided in depth by the current course offerings.

Registration allowed for each section is 2 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ARTH 591 class schedule data for spring 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	10384	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
	49421	Lecture-Discussion	PC6	10:00AM -1:00PM	M	Location Pending	Bandy, L Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: History and Theory of Documentary Photography. The central question addressed in this course is: Do photographic "documents" communicate information about our social, political, and cultural worlds that no other type of document can? In order to answer this question, the course will focus on a variety of historical moments when the documentary form held particular cultural sway. We will begin in the late nineteenth century with the work of Jacob Riis, and work our way through the twentieth century, focusing on moments such as 1930s America and movements such as Neue Sachlichkeit in Germany. As the documentary tradition has reemerged in contemporary practice, this class will also investigate contemporary artists such as Emily Jacir, Walid Raad and David Goldblatt, all of whom work in the documentary mode, but with a heightened awareness that photography is not, in the words of Roland Barthes, a "message without a code." Enrollment is restricted to students accepted into the Illinois at the Phillips Collection program in Washington D.C. Course meets in Carriage House Conference Room, The Phillips Collection. Class will not meet on March 17. Graduate Section.