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Subject: Art History (Grad) (ARHS)
CRN: 21583
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 414
Greek artists and viewers faced challenges in visually representing a story that the production teams of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings do not face, including the fact that in most cases a single image had to represent the entire story and cue the viewer to the background and consequences of the action. Unlike most modern visual narratives, Greek stories were shared as part of the oral tradition and there was rarely an authorized canonical version; Greek viewers knew better than archaeologists both the stories and how to decode narrative images. This seminar will explore how visual narrative worked in ancient Greek art by focusing on the Trojan War in a range of media and periods to see how narratives function visually and how the meaning of a narrative shifts over time and place as the greater context changes. Each student will work on an epic narrative apart from the Trojan War, such as the story of the Argonauts or the Amazonomachy, for a seminar project.
3 Credits