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AVC371

Landscape and Power

Subject code

AVC

Course Number

371

Instructor(s)

E. Nolan

Course Long Title

Landscape and Power

Description

Now more than ever, nineteenth-century survey campaigns, relics of colonial enterprise, resonate as global practices that share a pictorial language or "style" used to characterize topographical space in ways that combine discourses of science and art, cultural nostalgia and modernity, as well as amateur and official practices. They turn place into property and land into landscape, shaping territorial expansion and legitimizing imperial politics in the name of (proto)national identity. This course considers the transnational and temporal dynamics of survey histories from the "majority world," addressing the often-neglected narratives of landscape (particularly through photography) beyond the borders of Europe and North America. Prerequisite(s): two courses in the history of art and visual culture.

Writing Credit

No writing credit

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years

Offering Frequency

One-time offering