Constellations: HAA 2401 Special Topics Contemporary - Contemporary Visual Cultures: Modernity & Contemporaneity
A number of issues concerning the visual arts in modernity and in the conditions of contemporaneity will be addressed. These include the changing theorizations of modernity and postmodernity, the multiplicity of temporalities, the persistence of the past, the resilience of the institutions, the impact of new technologies, the nature of contemporaneity, cultural difference and différance, communicated between cultures, the theory of iconomy, and questions of cultural value formation including cultural economics Outcomes from the 2004 Symposium on Modernity & Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art & Culture after the 20th Century. The scope includes all visual arts and related cultural forms and theoretical practice, such as contemporary art, architecture, new media, design, print media, film and television. Terry Smith will present work in progress. Seminar participants are invited to develop papers that approach the above issues in relation to their own research interests. The course should be of interest to students in history of art and architecture, cultural studies, film studies, philosophy, communication, anthropology and sociology.
