ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2023
ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2019 | ARTH 8320 Section 001: Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture - The Early Modern Archive (66901)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
EMS 8250 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 1024
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Issues in visual culture of Europe and the Americas, 1500-1750. Topics vary, may include representation of body, collectors/collecting, impact of Reformation, image/book, art/discovery, early modern vision/visuality. The Early Modern Archive: This course examines the construction of the early modern archive, asking how collections were created and curated by individuals and institutions. It pays particular attention to the role of the emerging professional disciplines, such as medicine, botany, and natural history, as well as missionary/religious networks, in shaping our understanding of the early modern world. We will explore the connections between empire and scientific collecting, religion and ethnography, and gender and medicine. During the course of the semester, we will also take field trips to local archives, such as the Bell Library and the Wangensteen, to learn how their collections were developed. Specific topics of inquiry will include "cabinets of curiosities," the impact of global missionary networks, the development of cartography and mapping, and the codification of race.
- Class Description:
- The Early Modern Archive: This course examines the construction of the early modern archive, asking how collections were created and curated by individuals and institutions. It pays particular attention to the role of the emerging professional disciplines, such as medicine, botany, and natural history, as well as missionary/religious networks, in shaping our understanding of the early modern world. We will explore the connections between empire and scientific collecting, religion and ethnography, and gender and medicine. During the course of the semester, we will also take field trips to local archives, such as the Bell Library and the Wangensteen, to learn how their collections were developed. Specific topics of inquiry will include "cabinets of curiosities," the impact of global missionary networks, the development of cartography and mapping, and the codification of race.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66901/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 June 2018
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 Art History Classes