Critical Studies: Epic Adventure: Art as Uncommon Storytelling

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This course examines the history of art and narrative across more than a century, beginning with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and extending to contemporary figures such as Nicole Eisenman, Ayoung Kim, and Salman Toor. Class discussions explore works that disrupt established ideas of wordless plot construction, temporal coherence, nonlinear storytelling, and other strategies of narration. Weekly topics address the influence of ancient mythology, ghost stories, knightly quests, science fiction, romance novels, investigative journalism, and popular film on our visual imagination.