This unit looks at the ways in which varying cultural and social conditions determine the production and consumption of visual culture, How do we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn?It focuses on the concept that images and objects are continuously seen and instantaneously interpreted, forming new knowledge and new images of identity and environment. In this context, art is a form of social reproduction in which the creation of a work of art is only part of the product, it is the viewer who completes the work. What is produced forms a social relationship between the individual and the art form. -- Course Website
Instructor: E Hirsh
