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VISST-300-10: The Life of an Artwork

Spring 2019

Subject: Visual Studies
Type: Lecture
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 25, 2019 — May 10, 2019
Meetings: Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 103
Instructor: Marina Pugliese

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 0/15 Closed

Description:

This seminar will consider all the aspects related to an artworks' lifetime, from the moment of its technical creation in the artist's studio, to its public presentation and display in the gallery or in the museum, to the logics behind collecting art and the impact of the market on the artwork's value, and, finally, to the issues related its documentation, conservation and decay. Each theoretical lesson will be followed by a specific field trip to visit the spaces and meet the protagonists of this story: an artist in their studio, an independent and a profit-oriented gallery owner, a collector in their house, and different professionals such the curator, the archivist, and the conservator.

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