ARTH 535

Spring 2008 All Classes

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Seminar in Baroque Art

Credit: 4 hours.

Research seminar in problems selected from the art of seventeenth-century Europe.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ARTH 535 class schedule data for spring 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39099	Conference	A	9:00AM -11:40AM	W	210A Architecture Building	Rosenthal, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: Topic: Art�s Virtues and Values in Early Modern Europe: Beauty and Knowledge. This seminar will investigate two key discursive fields in which the values of the visual arts were elaborated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. These were art as an instrument and form of knowledge about the natural world; and art as a form of alluring and persuasive eloquence affiliated with the liberal, as opposed to mechanical arts. The seminar will aim to define the overlaps and distinctions betweens these two discursive fields, especially regarding the mobile notion of beauty in relation to each of them. Specific case studies will focus on the art and art theory of Italy, France and the Netherlands of the 16th through 18th centuries. Readings are aimed to elucidate three central issues: How did theories of art in the Early Modern Europe shape the era�s notions of art�s dangerous enticements and its laudable virtues? How did practices of art production, reception, and display work within or against notions of beauty and/or knowledge? How does psychoanalysis and recent gender theory contribute to our historical understanding of painting as serving the pursuit of knowledge and pleasure? Prerequisites: graduate standing. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.