ARTH 430 - Artists’ Cinema

Credits: 4

Maeve Connolly’s phrase “artists’ cinema” describes a recent wave of work by visual artists that makes use of the means of cinema (such as elaborate sets and narrative structures) while maintaining the character and concerns of visual art. Artists including Sharon Lockhart, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, and others have explored cinematic possibilities in their innovative work over the past two decades. In this course we will examine this work and begin to theorize its relationship to both art and cinema. Topics will include multi-screen projection, the essay film, issues of site and spectacle, theories of the moving image, and more. Prerequisite: any 100- or 200- level Art History course.