LTEN 155Interactions between American Literature and the Visual Arts

4 units · LTEN · UC San Diego

An exploration of the connections between the work of individual writers, or movements, and the work of artists in various visual media. The writers studied are always American; the artists or art movements may represent non-American influences on these American writers. Topics could include portraiture and self-portraiture in visual arts and literature, or nature writing and landscape painting. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.