Seminar: Visual Ecologies of Europe & North America

Franklin Murphy Seminar: Visual Ecologies of Europe & North America

This seminar will explore the representation of the natural world from the nineteenth century to the present in Europe and North America through the lenses of ecocriticism and materiality. Readings and discussion will focus on the expansive, affective, temporal, social, cultural, and material dimensions of depictions of the environment broadly conceived. Considering the ways in which artists construe such issues as the human/nature nexus and anthropocentrism, we will also think about how visual representation may engage with and shape an emerging ecological consciousness.