WL ARTS 24
World Arts, Local Lives
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Use of Fowler Museum's long-term exhibition entitled "Intersections: World Arts/Local Lives" as object of study to examine many insights that arts can offer into social, political, and religious experience. Drawing heavily on cultures of Africa, Asia, Pacific, and indigenous Americas, both ancient and contemporary, consideration of degree to which notions of aesthetics and efficacy are intertwined and interdependent in art forms made to intervene in people's lives in active, instrumental ways. Use of specific case studies to illustrate and interrogate theoretical paradigms. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2024 - Ugh I love Davida so much--she's such an engaging, rigorous but approachable professor that really cares about her class and her students. Overall, this was a good class; it basically functions as an intro to museology/museum studies, but there's a lot of reading. I wish we did learn how to analyze specific museum artifacts and curatorial practices, but the museum visits were fun and the final project (curating your own museum exhibit) was super cool.
Spring 2024 - Ugh I love Davida so much--she's such an engaging, rigorous but approachable professor that really cares about her class and her students. Overall, this was a good class; it basically functions as an intro to museology/museum studies, but there's a lot of reading. I wish we did learn how to analyze specific museum artifacts and curatorial practices, but the museum visits were fun and the final project (curating your own museum exhibit) was super cool.
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