ARTHIST 104
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Introduction to Visual Culture
The course explores the relation between the two terms ‘visual’ and ‘culture’ as constructions,
examining visual forms of expressions, such as painting, photography, advertisement, comics and digital imagery.
The course revolves around some of the following questions: What is the difference between the terms art and
visual? What are the diverse forms of the visual? How has the visual impacted us today? How does culture determine
visual form? With an emphasis on the determining role of visual culture in the wider culture to which it belongs,
it draws on images from both western and non-western worlds to be analyzed and placed in their cultural context.
