Course Info: HACU-0255
| Course | HACU-0255 Angels and Ghosts |
| Long Title | Angels and Ghosts: Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, and Wim Wenders |
| Term | 2016F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on T from 6:00-9:00 |
| Faculty | Karen Koehler |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Arts, Design, and Media Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend 6-10 hours per week on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This seminar was based on a close, comparative reading of the critical theorist Walter Benjamin, the artist Paul Klee and the filmmaker Wim Wenders. Linking history, tragedy, desire and hope to the figures of the angel, the ghost, the puppet, the trapeze artist, and the automaton, these three authors open up an examination of materiality, abstraction, representation, the seen and the unseen, the purposeful, the ephemeral, the accidental, the heartbreaking and the playful. Their comparative treatments of cities, arcades, towers and streets were used to explore both the sensations of place and the operations of memory in images, texts, artifacts, and in architecture. Students created a series of artworks, creative texts, critical reviews and analytical essays. |