Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

ARTS 212   Destroying Images
Credits1
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Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

What is deliberately destroyed and what is saved around the world raise important questions about how we define cultural heritage and identity. The interpretation of visual works is thus often contentious. Who has the right to define such material which is often but not always also define as art. Students examines selected cases to consider the power of underlying assumptions about the past in the construction of the present.