Splash Biography

This course will begin by outlining some of the arguments made by Friedrich Nietzsche in On The Genealogy of Morality, primarily his discussion of the shift from the old, “noble” morality to the modern “slave” morality and his discussion of asceticism. This will be used to examine the devolution of the human form in art, from the Classical ideals of ancient Greece and the Renaissance, and continuing through to the fractured and abstract depictions in Cubism and Modern art. It will be divided between two portions, a lecture to introduce the concept, and a discussion afterwards for further examination.