ARTH 2255 - [Ecocriticism & Visual Culture]

(GB) (HA-AS)

Fall. Next Offered: 2021-2022. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

J. Rickard.

This course attempts to reconcile the split between art and science through a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes. What is the role of visual culture in sustainable development? Cataclysmic change in the world has forced a turn in environmental art from isolated practices to having a fundamental role in shaping the transformation of our relationships to nature. Informed by Western and Indigenous philosophies, trace how artists enact ecological micro-utopias from earth art to ecological art as a catalyst for social change.