#visual-culture

#visual-culture

McGee's work always finds a way to speak for those on the margins, or those who've opted out of society's rat race altogether.

The tendency toward passive visual consumption is tied to 'commodity fetishism,' where society is dominated by both tangible and intangible things, culminating in a spectacle of images.

The present collection builds upon this recent body of scholarship. It embraces the expanded framework of visual and material culture studies to explore a spectrum of objects executed in a broad range of media.

The desire to understand humanity's first parents led to reinterpretations of Genesis, resulting in the popularity of apocryphal texts that filled narrative gaps.

A stripe is brisker, while a spot is giving whimsy. There’s some old-fashioned gender stereotyping mixed up in that, because stripes are worn by everyone, whereas spots are almost exclusively found in women's fashion.

The Art of the Middle Ages in Europe course offers a deep dive into medieval visual culture, covering illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and cathedral architecture.