Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2019-2020
HART 406 - ICONOCLASMS
Long Title: ICONOCLASMS: THE DESTRUCTION OF IMAGES
Department: Art History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: With a focus on the modern period, this seminar will examine iconoclastic theory and practice from antiquity to the present. Why, we will ask, have people so incessantly felt compelled to ban or destroy images, and what can this compulsion tell us about the nature of visual representation itself? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 606. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 406 if student has credit for HART 606.