HNAR-227: Art and Architecture on Film

This course is an examination of films and documentaries that attempt to depict and reveal painting, sculpture and other forms of art and architecture. The collection of films the course will study will be a nonlinear jaunt through art and architecture histories revealing the predicaments that face the contemporary art and architecture institutional models that press forth to consider their fields in a historical 'blur'; recognizing consciously and unconsciously the challenge of historical fragmentation. The course will explore the trials film faces depicting art and architecture; questioning what stereotypes may emerge or what beneficial information can be had. What do we learn about art and architecture from seeing it on film and what do we miss? Or, when and how are film chronicles, documents and features helping us understand the complexity of these fields or when and how do they misguide the viewer? The arrangements of films curated for the course vary from new world architecture to, realizing essential art and architecture movements, museum exhibitions, then to venture to a wide and diverse variety of modern and contemporary artists. The course will also explore films made by artists or architects who want to be in control of their work avoiding art clichés and stereotypes often circulated by a general audience and film world. The zoom remote course will be presented through lectures, screenings by stream, readings, discussions, and research writing assignments. This course provides that students will analyze the distinctive traits of film and the information it is strategizing or not, to communicate about these fields. This course introduces students to the necessities of film analysis and helps students develop the skills to recognize, analyze, and describe film and the art and architecture themes investigated by the course.