ART-4900A: The City in Art

The city as both context and experience became a recurrent artistic subject around the late eighteenth century. Most paintings, sculptures, musical compositions, and literary works of those days not only made reference to the pulse of the incipient metropolis and its contradictions, but also gave way to city-inspired genres, and witnessed later on the birth of photography and film. Today, whereas the city remains an important subject of art, our urban experiences occur within a new globalized/localized high-tech spatial order. The city itself can often be the very medium some artists use to produce, disseminate and engage with their audiences as co-creators, either face to face or virtually. By examining some of the key artistic responses to the urban realm in the last two hundred years, this workshop will teach students a range of analytic strategies drawn from cultural geography and the sociology of art. Together we will investigate how and why artists and cities have been historically connected, how to look for resonances of the urban experience within works of art and artistic practices, who gets included and excluded from the discourse, and how can we track the shifting role of artists and art audiences in urban settings.
Min. Credits: 1.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles,Antioch Univ Seattle
Method(s): Classroom,Workshop
Course Type Liberal & Disciplinary Studies

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ART-4900A: The City in Art