Classes

This research seminar uses a comparative method to study the aesthetics of deception. A deep dive into theories of art's proximity to trickery, illusion, and duplicity will be followed by student-led studies of key concepts (e.g., realism, forgery, camoflauge, passing, faux...

This interdisciplinary freshman seminar invites a new kind of plant-consciousness. Our guides will be the contemporary artists and thinkers who have been encouraging new relationships between human and vegetal life--or recalling very old ones--as they create plant...

Graduate seminar exploring the intersection of the field of art history with the globalized art world. What is "contemporary art" - in theory, in practice, and in history? We will read one recent book each week, tracing the developing discourse on contemporary art since the...

Junior tutorial on the concept of the Anthropocene (and criticisms thereof) in relation to nonhuman timescales, post-industrial landscapes, and environmental politics in art since the 1970s.

This is an upper-level undergraduate art history/critical studies course about fact and fiction in visual art since 1960. It won't be a survey course, but you'll become familiar with a range of post-modern and contemporary art (and what the difference is between them) as you...