VISST 4857

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VISST 4857
Producing Cloth Cultures

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

It is a fundamental part of human activity to dress or cover one's body and environment. While the symbolic significance of such clothing has long been recognized, the activity of producing fabric itself deserves more attention. By this we do not only mean the various techniques and technological devices involved in spinning, weaving, stitching, or sewing, but also the analogical activities and metaphors they entailed. What stories did they tell? How did their connection to writing, remembering, lovemaking, or ruling one's kingdom, to name but a few examples, play out metaphorically in cloth? And how did fabrics depend on or transform the transmission of techniques, fashions and motives, but also gender, concepts of the body or the built environment?


Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (GHB)

Comments Co-meets with ARTH 6856.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4856, ARTH 6856

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16444 VISST 4857   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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