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| 0810-5071-01 | Send, Cement and Ideology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | FACULTY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
תאור הקורס באנגלית
This course will examine our built environment – architecture, city planning, and art in the public sphere – as representations of ideology and political power. The visual images that are embedded in our built surroundings are imbued with overt and latent symbolic content. These images convey messages that construct and form the ideology of the ruler, political group, or person responsible for their creation. Throughout the course we will examine terms such as "ideology", "government", and "politics"; and learn how to analyze and reveal symbolic messages embedded in public buildings, urban plans, monuments, and public sculpture from antiquity till present day. The survey of structures will be thematic rather than chronological and students will be able to develop a critical approach to analyze these images within their cultural and social timeframe.