Professor Linda Steer is an art historian who teaches both in the Department of Visual Arts and in the Liberal Arts Program at Brock University. She has taught Banned Books, Introduction to Western Art, Baroque Art, The Modern City as a Cultural Object, Imitation in Western Art and Culture, Authorship and Appropriation in Art and Visual Culture, Great Books Seminar IV: Modernity, Poet, Painters and Philosopher and History of Photography.
Professor Steer is a specialist in surrealism & photography. Her other research looks at photography and the Beat movement, and photography and the 20th century French avant-garde. She also writes about contemporary art. Additionally, she is a collaborator on a three-year research project entitled “Photography and the Transnational Politics of Affect” that is funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
A covered passage in Paris, 2007.
Tympanum, Notre Dame de Chartres, Chartres, France, 2007.
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February 5, 2008 at 9:07 pm
frank0462
this looks like a great class! wish i could take it. i studied graphic design in college and my personal emphasis was detournement. in fact my senior thesis was based on appropriation and propaganda techniques. awesome topic and blogs!
August 26, 2010 at 11:46 am
Sandra Slade
I too wish I could take this course. I encountered John Berger and Walter Benjamin doing my M.A. in Art History back in the 1980s. I later taught costume history which is all about appropriation and adaptation.
I’m currently really interested in any Canadian legislation that applies to The Scream by E. Munch. Is Bridgeman ruling applicable in Canada?