Class Id | 8021 |
Days | Th |
Start time | 10:00 AM |
End time | 12:50 PM |
Building | MCCKH |
Room | 104 |
Course Id | 3555 |
Dept and Number | ART 567 |
Area | |
Title | Seminar in 20th-Century Photography: American Modernist Photography during World War I |
Description | This seminar will examine the impact of WWI on photography: the death of pictorialism; the dramatic stylistic changes in the careers of Stieglitz, Coburn, Steichen, and Clarence White; and the rise of young talent such as Strand, Sheeler, and Man Ray.Topics will include the influence of cinema; psychoanalysis and the "New Woman"; and the role of spiritualism, modernist music, and Einsteinian physics in the development of abstract photography. |
Prerequisites | |
Professor | Anne McCauley |