ARTH 3510 - Trauma, Image, Text: History and Representation After WW2

5 credit hours
An interdisciplinary course examining how writers and artists examined the role of images in culture in response to traumatic events such as the Holocaust, the threat of the Atom bomb and terrorism. Can art and literature adequately portray the traumatic reality of history and how have artists and writers struggled with this question in forms as diverse as the novel, photography, painting, film and video? Working back and forth between literature, images, and theory, discussion focuses around responses to the Holocaust and the controversies of the Cold War and 1960s America. Registration restrictions may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.

Registration Restriction(s): Junior or Senior standing
Terms Typically Offered: Fall