Sections offered SPRING 2023:
#37082 |
EYAL PERETZ |
TuTh 3:00 PM–5:30 PM
|
SE 010 |
CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
It is becoming increasingly common in our days to understand art and relate to it from two main perspectives. Either art is a leisure activity that is supposed to entertain us in our free moments, when we have no more strength for serious work, or art is something that is supposed to be guided by specific social and political causes, or whose task is to promote this or that social and political agenda. In both these understandings artistic creation, as an essential activity of human life that cannot be reduced to any other, is basically forgotten. The task of this class is to develop a vocabulary and a way of relating to art that illuminates its singularity and it’s crucial significance for human life. In order to do that we will examine some major works of film, literature, painting, theater, TV, dance etc. from the US, Europe, and Asia, so that by the end of the semester we will have a better grasp of what is at stake in this most mysterious of human activities, artistic creation.