HUMAN 20 - A Colloquium in the Visual Arts

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2022

Yukio Lippit, David Roxburgh, Joseph Koerner, Jennifer Roberts, and Jinah Kim, with special lectures by Robin Kelsey and Sarah Lewis.

An introduction to major works of art and architecture from around the world, co-taught by a team of professors. Subjects examined in 2022 include Hokusai, the Parthenon and Persepolis, Albrecht Dürer, the Vietnam War Memorial, the illustrated Bhavata Purana, Chinese landscape painting, Frederick Douglass and photography, Max Beckmann, and Robert Hooke. Consists of one 75-minute lecture plus a 60-minute discussion seminar led by the professors every week. Students will also participate in weekly looking labs and special lectures, workshops, and screenings outside the class.