ARTH-240 Visualizing World War II: Art and Mass Media in the 1940s

From the iconic poster of Rosie the Riveter to Schindler’s List, our understanding of World War II is inseparable from its visual representations. This seminar examines how a range of visual material – including film, photographs, paintings, illustrations, and comics – were used to propagandize, document, and commemorate this unprecedented global conflict. Topics include fascist and antifascist aesthetics; combat painting and photography; rubble films; atomic blast imagery; visual representations of the Holocaust; and Nazi art theft.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Cross Listed Courses

CNMS-240