ARTH 550

Fall 2013 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 4 hours.

Investigation of selected problems in the history of American art.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: ARTH 350 and ARTH 351, or consent of instructor.

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ARTH 550 class schedule data for fall 2013
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
40571
Lecture-Discussion
A
9:30AM -12:10PM
T
114 Art and Design Building
Greenhill, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/26/13-12/11/13
Section Title:
Gordon Parks
Section Info:
Topic: Gordon Parks and the Politics of Black Visuality in Twentieth-Century Popular Media. This course uses the powerful and wide-ranging work of Gordon Parks (1912-2006) as a way into the politics of black visuality in popular media during the second half of the twentieth century. We will consider Parks's Farm Security Administration work of the 1940s, his Civil Rights era photojournalism, the fashion images he produced for Vogue, as well as his work as a writer, as a composer, and as a director of legendary blaxploitation films like Shaft (1971). Critical race theory and period literature -- by Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, for example -- will help to contextualize and problematize Parks's varied art, as we work toward an understanding of its enduring relevance today, in relation to contemporary photography, film, and commercial imagery.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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