ARTH 540

Spring 2020

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Seminar in Art 1750 to 1900
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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of selected problems in European art.

4 graduate hours. No professional credit.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
41831
Seminar
1
2:00PM -4:40PM
R
312 Art and Design Building
O'Brien, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/20-05/06/20
Section Info:
Topic: Art and Memory. This seminar explores the role of visual culture in the formation of collective memory. Part of the course will be devoted to examining leading theories of collective memory (Halbwachs, the Assmans, Caruth, Nora, LaCapra, Warburg) and their applicability to visual culture past and present. A second emphasis will be on the changes historically in collective memory from the early modern to the modern period. Much current scholarship on collective memory gives a central place to the twentieth century, and particularly to such traumatic, horrific, and deadly events as World War I and the Holocaust. We shall explore the applicability of ideas formed in relation to such twentieth-century events to earlier periods, and particularly to the Napoleonic wars. Case studies in the course will examine both paradigmatic examples of collective memory formation in the twentieth century as well as examples from nineteenth-century France, especially in relation to the Napoleonic wars. Students in the seminar may explore research topics related to any period, place, or medium. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
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