May be repeated for credit as topics change. Two topics are offered Fall 2023. Section A1: Art in 1940s America. This seminar explores the ways that American painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists negotiated the socio-political crises, cultural dilemmas, and aesthetic debates engendered by World War II and the inception of the Atomic Age. Section B1: The Mount Auburn Cemetery. Centers on the exploration of remembrance, and the invention, appropriation, and development of imagery and landscape for memorials. Much of this seminar takes place on site in the Mount Auburn Cemetery and in regional early Burying Grounds.

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