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### Spring, 2021

  [### Deception

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/15145) 

 

 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... 

 

   [### FRSEM 63w: Vegetal Humanities

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/78727) 

 

 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... 

 

  



### Spring, 2020

  [### HAA 277k: The Contemporary

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/71965/files/9288258/download?wrap=1) 

 

 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... 

 

   [### Art and the Anthropocene

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

 

 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. 

 

  



### Fall, 2020

  [### VES 108 / HAA 173 Stranger Than Fiction

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/73940) 

 

 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...