This course examines the role images play in religious, political, aesthetic and art historical frameworks and how they powerfully reveal themselves in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts. Images are ubiquitous: they shape our perceptions, communicate messages, and evoke emotions. This course investigates the semantic power of images, and evaluates how they embody gender, ethnicity, sexuality, "race", Indigeneity, colonisation, and power and considers in what ways they are created, recycled, and consumed.
This course examines the role images play in religious, political, aesthetic and art historical frameworks and how they powerfully reveal themselves in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts. Images are ubiquitous: they shape our perceptions, communicate messages, and evoke emotions. This course investigates the semantic power of images, and evaluates how they embody gender, ethnicity, sexuality, "race", Indigeneity, colonisation, and power and considers in what ways they are created, recycled, and consumed.
