ART 352 - Nature’s Nation: Art, Environment, and Sustainability

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course examines art and visual culture through eco-critical perspectives. Students will reflect on the interrelationship between art and environment through various themes, including resources/elements, production, distribution, consumption, and pollution, among others. From the pre-Columbian native landscape art to landscape paintings from the Hudson River School and the Westward Expansion, we will interrogate the notion behind the visualization of nature, including the relationship between human and land, as well as concepts and practices of environmental art. Students will further explore the eco-friendly design in daily life and sustainable architecture in living space. (U) Occasionally