Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture - Art and Atrocity: Contemporary Contexts, Gendered Perspectives CTMP 3330   Art and Atrocity: Contemporary Contexts, Gendered Perspectives
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The course focuses on representations of mass atrocities in visual art. Starting from debates about the “limits of representation” and the tensions between historical documents and creative representations of traumatic events, we ask questions about art’s ability to convey the experiences of suffering, to bear witness to traumatic events, and to engage in practices of commemoration, healing, and repair. We pay special attention to art created by groups that have been excluded from dominant memorial narratives. We also consider art museums’ complicity in colonialism and other forms of social and historical injustice, as well as the violence inherent in Western conceptions of art.
FORMAT: Lecture