ARTH 249
Visual Cultures of Contact Fall 2017
Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative
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This lecture course will survey the visual and material products of European contact with Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas between 1550 and 1900. This period witnessed the establishment and loss of Spanish, English, Dutch, and French colonies, a proliferation of exploratory voyages, and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Some of our objects of study will be European in origin from well-known artists including Rubens, Velasquez, Reynolds, and Gauguin. In many cases, we will be asking questions about art’s circulation–whether we are looking at Tupi featherwork from Brazil brought to Europe, Flemish prints adapted by artists in Central and South America, or tattooed bodies traveling to and from Tahiti. Against the backdrop of these context-specific case studies, students will be asked to consider contact, colonialism, exchange, and appropriation more conceptually. This course fulfills the EDI requirement in its focus on how different cultures have interacted and responded to one another and in its discussion of critical readings that will help students analyze the histories of difference and power.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 30
Expected: 15
Class#: 1673
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: midterm exam, final exam, short ungraded 1-page assignments, research paper (7- to 9-pages)
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Art majors
Distributions: Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative

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