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Visible Language: Word And/As Image — DRW4401.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Mary Lum
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Credits: 4
The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, letter formation and typography
Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture
Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course
Visual Arts

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson — LIT2199.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
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Credits: 4
In this course we will examine the work and worlds of these two canonical American poets. We will read the poems and letters of Dickinson and the poems and prose of Whitman, paying special attention to his lifelong masterwork, Leaves of Grass. We will also dip into the biographies of these authors and attempt to place them within the context of 19th century literature and
Literature

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
CAPA

Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment — HIS4110.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
Long before the existence of a discipline we would recognize as "science," there were women working with men in the pursuit of "scientia". Scientia embraced a mixture of philosophy, medicine, religion, literature, and knowledge of the natural world – a mixture that would eventually devolve into the separate disciplines we know today. But who were these ancient Greek female
Society Culture and Thought

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches to mark
Visual Arts