PHIL 074 PZ -Power and Politics in Art

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Art is often said to have the power to transcend the mundane, and yet the production, significance, and reception of art are thoroughly worldly matters. This has always been the case, but over the past century theorists have interrogated the relationship between art, power, and politics with increasing urgency. In our contemporary world saturated with images, how do they instantiate or challenge relationships of power? If the artist is but a product of social forces, how should we then conceive of the artwork? How is it possible to analyze racialized and gendered power dynamics aesthetically? Movements covered will include post-structuralism, French feminism, the Frankfurt School, and Black aesthetics.

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