Crucial Issues in Landscape Creation and Perception
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VISU S-160
Crucial Issues in Landscape Creation and Perception (30352)
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John R. Stilgoe
(4 credits: UN, GR, NC) T,Th 3:30-6 pm, Carpenter Center, Room B04. Eight-week session. Tuition $2,275.
This is a lecture/slide/video course emphasizing the chief forces now shaping American understanding of everyday form, such as the manipulation of aesthetic standards by advertising and Hollywood imagery; the perfection of powered flight and the aerial view; the importance of snapshot photography in relation to home video; the post-1960s fascination with outdoor privacy; contemporary and potential spatial disorientation resulting from computer-aided electronic media; the post-1920 retreat of well-educated people into wilderness; the shaping of gender roles and self-image through clothing design and fashion shifts; and the long-term impact of national advertising campaigns on American notions of quality, uniqueness, proportion, and pleasure as reflected in ordinary visual realms.