ARTH 534
Renaissance Time Spring 2018
Division I
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“Once upon a time,” noted the historian Randolph Starn, “the Renaissance set its clocks and calendars to keep modern time.” We think of the changing perception of time during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-a mounting awareness of the place of the present moment in the larger arc of history-as a defining feature of the Renaissance. Yet, while this new temporal self-consciousness underpins our own understanding of the Renaissance as the emergence of modernity, this is only a thread of the larger and more complex fabric of Renaissance time. In this course we will explore the multifaceted dynamism of the Renaissance relationship to time. We will study the broad shifts in beliefs about time during the Renaissance, then, but we will also move beyond this in order to examine the ways in which concepts of temporality were theorized and functioned in Renaissance visual representation. We will pay close attention to the temporal as a site of innovation in Renaissance art, while focusing a historiographic lens onto the varied art historical interpretations of temporality and the imagery of time. Finally, we will consider our own temporal position as it relates to our experience of images from the past. Authors studied will include Leonard Barkan, Simona Cohen, Georges Didi-Huberman, Anthony Grafton, Michael Ann Holly, George Kubler, Keith Moxey, Alexander Nagel, Erwin Panofsky, Marvin Trachtenberg, Aby Warburg, and Chris Wood.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: collaborative class discussion and focused peer critique, short ungraded response essays, oral seminar report, 15- to 20-page research paper
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Art History graduate students, undergraduate Art majors
Unit Notes: Western Art 1400-1780 (for graduate students); ARTH pre-1600 Courses (for undergraduate students)
Distributions: Division I
Attributes: ARTH pre-1600 Courses

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