HUM 3.01 Humanity by Design: City, Cinema, Self

In the Republic, Plato sees the city and the self as intertwined, and theater and art as providing special access to the human mind that can bypass reason to shape the soul. Two millennia later, artists of the ‘modernist’ movement in architecture and the revolutionary art form of motion pictures had similar visions: in shaping our spaces and images we shape ourselves; humanity is designed. What ideas of art and architecture, of humanity and human nature are at stake? We’ll study this theme as it arises in key episodes in the history of cinema and architecture, and in today’s transmedia environment.

Instructor

Williams Levey

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Dist:ART

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