ARTH 500
Clark Visiting Professor Seminar: Global Histories of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Spring 2016
Division I
Cross-listed
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
In recent years there has been much debate about a global history of art, yet there is little consensus about what this would be. This course explores that conundrum through a focus on nineteenth-century visual culture. We will study diverse art forms, cultural agents and key terms by which this global visual history is to be conceptualized. Terms such as cosmopolitanism, transculturation and cultural exchange will be prioritized as a way to disrupt entrenched national frameworks by which visual culture of particular regions has often been circumscribed. The diverse roles the visual arts played in imperial and colonial networks will also be a focus for our inquiry. Despite renewed interest in nineteenth-century globalism the art historical conversation still tends to remain siloed within discrete geographic domains. In an effort to think across these divides our inquiry will range from the South Pacific, Australasia, the Americas, Europe, Africa to the near and far East.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 3932
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 3932
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
each student will write one short midterm paper and a longer concluding essay, as well as present a couple of readings to the class
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Enrollment Preferences:
Graduate Program students and then to senior Art History majors; places for 8 undergraduate [ARTH 400] and 8 graduate students [ARTH 500] assured; preference given to senior Art History majors and Graduate Program students
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 500 Division I ARTH 400 Division I
ARTH 500 Division I ARTH 400 Division I
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ARTH 500 - 01 (S) SEM 19th-Century Visual Culture
ARTH 500 - 01 (S) SEM 19th-Century Visual CultureDivision IMary RobertsR 1:10 pm - 3:50 pm
Clark Art Conforti Pavilion3932
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