Art 1A: Visual Literacy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Spring 2018
Instructor: Helen Taschian, Ph.D.
I look forward to meeting all of you in class when the quarter begins! Please be sure to go to Associated Students to pick up your course reader, and to the campus bookstore (or online HERE) to pick up John Berger's Ways of Seeing.
See the class syllabus HERE and the weekly reading assignments HERE (both can be found in the course reader. There is a copy of the course reader and copies of John Berger's Ways of Seeing on reserve at the Circulation Desk at Davidson Library.
Weekly Reading Summaries: Richardson, Foucault and McCloud (Due: Thursday, April 5)
Be sure to read the first assigned articles by the second lecture:
• Carl Matheson: The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony and the Meaning of Life
• Kelly L. Richardson. “Simpsons Did It!”: South Park and the Intertextuality of Contemporary Animation
• Joanna Woods-Marsden. “Cindy Sherman’s Reworking of Raphael’s ‘Fornarina’ and Caravaggio’s ‘Bacchus’”
• Michel Foucault. This is Not a Pipe (Excerpt)
• Scott McCloud: The Vocabulary of Comics (Excerpt)
