| Description |
Seminar examines how American visual culture has intersected with the information, concepts, and methods of natural history. Course considers works of art as well as imagery from the scientific realm and treats each as a form or strategy of knowing, with a shared investment in the observational and the taxonomic. Topics include early modern images of the New World; natural history museums and the diorama; visualizations of the unseeable pre-historic past; the impact of evolutionary theory on art-making in the 19th century; and contemporary art, natural history, and the post-natural. |