Introduction to Visual and Material Studies (VMS-0001)

Fall 2024 · VMS 0001 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Familiarize art students with some of the questions, historical movements, and texts that enrich both the making and interpreting art today. Provides a rigorous study of some historical thinkers and concepts that have shaped the roles that visual culture and aesthetics play in society and the relationship between image and realities in ways that continue to resonate today. Above all, this course asks students to engage their own creative skills as writers, readers, thinkers, curators, and makers in response to visual, literary, historical, and theoretical concepts. Introductory course open to first year students.

Course codes: VMS-0001, VMS 0001, VMS0001, VMS-1, VMS 1, VMS1

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