ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2023
ARTH 8320 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2023 | ARTH 8320 Section 001: Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture -- Art History after the Global Turn (67991)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
Open (3 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.
- Class Notes:
- Globality has remarkably dominated art historical discourse and practice in the past two decades. Within early modern studies, the global turn has highlighted the possibility of and the need for broader, more connected histories. This push has provided us with a range of multivalent conceptual tools, such as mobility, connectivity, entanglement and interconnectedness. Departing from these debates and conceptual tools, this course will pose questions about the promising potential and the limitations of globalizing perspectives, and suggest how this line of research may move forward. How global is early modern art? How global are our histories of early modern art? What are the ethical and methodological issues ingrained in our stories of connections and encounters? As art historians how do we grapple with tensions between universalism and cultural relativism? How can we strike a balance between local and global expressions of materials, space and lived experience? In this moment of walls, global pandemics and new wars, we will also consider what lessons art historians can draw from the forms of domination, oppression and conflict inherent in early globalization.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67991/1233
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