ARTH 8520 - Seminar: American Art and Material Culture. Taught by Jennifer Marshall, Material Culture Studies: Theories and Methodologies, covers interdisciplinary approaches used for reading three-dimensional objects as symbolic material.
ARTH 8520 - Seminar: American Art and Material Culture
Material Culture Studies: Theories and Methodologies. Seminar covers interdisciplinary approaches used for reading three-dimensional objects as symbolic material. Topics include: Marxist materialism; phenomenology and pragmatism; fetishism, primitivism, and anthropology; the semiotics of money; writing a ‚Äúbiography of things‚Ä?; and the artistic models posed by still life and sculpture. Taught by Jennifer Marshall.
