Collins Living-Learning Center

Perspective: A word used to denote a historically conditioned mode of representation which develops simultaneously in Western Europe and East Asia in the 12^th to 14^th centuries. Now, it has become ostensibly the only mode of representation in the Western world. But is that all we mean by the word? And are there other ways of representing the world? Why must all representations masquerade as “windows” into another world? Perspective is primarily a method of orienting ourselves in the world and understanding the relation between the objects therein. It is a claim on reality—but, perhaps, only one among many. Through an examination of works of visual art, photography, film, philosophy, literature, and theoretical texts, we will address such questions. Reflections and mirrors, reality, epistemology, paranoia, identity, and even, surprisingly, geology, will all serve as vantage points from which to view these questions.

Instructor: Iain Cunningham

 Collins Seminars: Selected by Board of Educational Programming (BOEP)

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