ARTH 535

Fall 2014 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 fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55603	Conference	LR	5:00PM -7:50PM	W	114 Art and Design Building	Rosenthal, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Info: Topic: The Early Modern Self-Aware Image: Materiality and Netherlandish Visual Culture. What kind of object is a panel painting or print; what kinds of agency can it mobilize; what forms of value does it possess or profess? Religious iconoclasm, the rise of global capital mercantilism, a developing culture of art collecting, and emergent medical and scientific inquiry transformed the conditions for images in the 17th century Netherlands, prompting new claims for what a picture is and what it does. This seminar will focus on recent scholarship exploring the "self-aware image" -- one that registers the condition of its materiality, mobility, fungibility -- as a particular early modern invention. While our focus will mainly be on the "self-aware image" as a phenomenon of early modern Netherlandish culture, we will also consider work by contemporary artists who engage this history in their own reflection upon what and how pictures perform. Our work will entail encounters with a range of art historical methods and theories. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.