Challenging Art
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Mar 25, 2021
This quarter focuses on art that challenges audiences’ expectations and values. We consider what is at stake in the encounter with difficult art. How does difficult art contest cultural, political, and social assumptions and values or challenge expectations about the form and content of art? How can art challenge existing power structures in society? How does art challenge its viewers, whether by troubling disciplinary boundaries or upsetting the rules of genre? What are the ethical responsibilities of artists?
This website will gather a series of essays about challenging art, as well as a set of assignments that address how art can be used in response to the challenges of the world.
