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SAIC faculty member Mikolaj Czerwinski.

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Mikolaj Czerwiński

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Mikołaj “Mik” Czerwiński received a PhD in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research and teaching focuses on similarities in design practice between those countries of the Eastern Bloc, especially including Poland, the West and postcolonial states during the Cold War. In reviewing the entangled histories of design practice in these areas, he focuses on the way designers conceived of modernity together with peers across the capitalist, socialist, and non-aligned worlds during the Cold War. His dissertation titled, “‘An Intelligent, Complex, and Human Design Project’: Design as Social and Political Practice in Poland 1956-1976” examines the establishment of industrial design in Poland during the long sixties in relation to connections between designers working in the country and a larger European design culture. The research for this dissertation project was made possible by a Fulbright Research Award (2015-2017). Theoretically, his explores the histories of globalization, modernity, and use. He depends on the work of the following scholars: Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi Bhaba, Pierre Bourdiou, Maria Janion, Ronald Barthes.

Courses

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Description

Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.

The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.

There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.

Class Number

1027

Credits

3

Description

Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.

The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.

There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.

Class Number

1041

Credits

3

Description

Art has been many things to many people. This class introduces students to the history of art and art-like things on Earth from prehistory to ca. 1800 CE. It covers canonical examples from older scholarship alongside works and contexts emerging in recent art histories. Students will learn to perform basic art historical analysis and research, and the course will prepare them to form personal art histories, applying such art histories to their own work.

The course surveys historical art in a global scope, from the beginnings of known culture to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It introduces students to a range of interdisciplinary frameworks for parsing the production, reception, and conceptualization of art. And it challenges students to think about the relationships between past and present, highlighting how later artists and cultures have engaged earlier art and history.

There is a small amount of required reading each week-on average about 20 pages. Written work includes weekly reading responses, two in-class quizzes, an annotated bibliography project, and a take-home final exam.

Class Number

1042

Credits

3