Art History C226 – Selected Topics in Early Modern Art: Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization
Quarter: Spring 2019Instructor: B. Wilson
Lecture, three hours. Variable topics in early modern art that reflect interests of individual regular and/or visiting faculty members. May be repeated twice for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C126. S/U or letter grading. Explanatory narratives of colonialism, empire building, and religious conversion--of center, periphery, and globalization--have been under revision in recent years, in order to nuance understanding of what were immensely complex and multifaceted phenomena. Study shifts focus, from governing regimes and institutions to ways in which creative forms and practices were intertwined in dynamics of materiality and early modern globalism. Analysis directed toward flow of materials, artifacts, and motifs across borders and bodies of water.
