H48.1000 / 2000 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Professor Karen Finley
1968 – An All School Seminar
Professor Karen Finley
H48.1000.001 (Undergraduate)
H48.2000.001 (Graduate)
Mondays, 11am-1:45pm
Undergraduate and Graduate
4 points
This class will study artist responses to the political and cultural events of 1968. We will examine the influences of the provocative times of 1968: the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, The Woman’s Movement, Gay Rights and sexual liberation within the genres of music, dance, writing, theater, visual art, television and film. We will compare and strategize art making as a politic response in 2008. The All School Seminar is in conjunction with Day of Community, an annual event that focuses on a particular theme or discourse held at Tisch. This year the seminar is in conjunction with 1968, a photo exhibit that is presented by the department of photography. In addition to reflecting on 1968 and the creative response of its day, the students will reflect on their own witnessing of political events today and translate this into an artist project. Students will be able to either respond to earlier seminal works or movements for a new interpretation, a re-envisioning, or to identify their current concern into a project. This is with the intent and purpose to foster the students own participating into the long tradition of the artist as historical recorder.
