This course is to present an overview of the visual arts, literature, music, theatre, dance, film and architecture by focusing on selected developments in the context of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory and political events surrounding them. I will try to assist the students to view the arts as reflections of the human condition. A work of art is a view of the universe, a search for reality, revealed in a particular medium and shared with others. The art of the past can stimulate meaningful contemporary responses to life and to the ideas of other humans who tried to deal with life and death and the cosmos.

Teacher: Deb Shelton