Tag: painting
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Ways of Seeing
In April 2026, students in Professor Stephen Pasqualina’s Writing About Literature and Literary Theory courses visited the Detroit Institute of Arts. Their task: spend 10 minutes with a single work of art. What follows are their selections and reflections.
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Seeing Black Modernisms at the Detroit Institute of Arts
On March 29, 2025, Professor Stephen Pasqualina and the students in his Winter 2025 Black Modernisms course visited the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). The class came to the DIA with the intention of touring two adjacent sections of the museum: one labeled “African American,” the other labeled “Modern.” Students were to peruse these two…
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What I Saw
Inspired by John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, students in Writing About Literature visited the DIA and wrote about one work of art they had never seen before–or taken the time to look at closely.
Between the Pages 