Course Description: A critical study of the experiences, languages, and contexts of the arts

Course Topics:

• Art in the midst of mediascapes
• Perspectives and cultural specificity
• Notion of national identity
• Art: the object, the concept, and the institutions
• The concept of difference
• Philippine living traditions
• The myth of the lone genius
• Modes and means of artistic production
• Spaces of circulation
• The death of the author
• Context, patronage, and resistance