VISST-3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the VISST-2000 requirement.COURSE DESCRIPTIONThis 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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