ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2023
ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2020 | ARTH 8320 Section 001: Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture -- Premodern Art-Science (66468)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
EMS 8250 Section 001
HIST 8960 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Enrollment Status:
Open (3 of 6 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.
- Class Description:
- The course examines premodern ways of knowing through entangled histories of art, craft, science, and medicine in Europe before 1800. Whether through the visual representations of naturalists, or the manipulation of matter by artists/artisans to render nature meaningful, useful, or both, premoderns made knowledge in ways that defy modern disciplinary divisions. We will study premodern knowledge work through their disciplinary understandings, not ours, and we will enter their world directly by exploring the research methodology of reconstruction, i.e. the argument that we must reconnect material objects with texts, and both with laboratory research practices, to fully understand premodern knowledge work.
This course is being taught in partnership with faculty at Brown University and will include funded travel to Providence, RI over spring break and a symposium at the University of Minnesota from May 6 through
8. Students enrolled in the course must be able to participate in both of these activities. Because of these required components involving funded travel, interested students are required to attend an informational meeting that will be held on Tuesday, December 3 at 4 PM
in Heller 1024. Admission to this course is at the discretion of the instructors and priority will be given to EMS minors.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66468/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 November 2019
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2020 Art History Classes