What is eco-art's history or eco-critical visual studies inquiry? We start with questions such as: How do we study and interpret the visual/material past and present from an ecological lens? What would that point of view require? What sort of values and methods would Visual Studies need to claim and use to be ecologically-engaged and consistent methodologically, philosophically and politically with, for instance, Deep Ecology, "Vital Materialism" and contemporary Thing Theory? What is Ecology? And how do we conceptualize, create, and actualize ecological humanities knowledge? How might Eco-Art Studies diverge from Eco-criticism? Our seminar group will explore these problems, propose additional questions as well as topics for research and investigation. Students will be asked to identify rich literatures, objects, sites and non-sites. Given the growing literatures on ecology & visual studies/art history, as well as eco-critical literary studies, we will no longer be starting from scratch!

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