ARTH 2313 — Global Networks in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ICNUpath WI
Presents case studies exploring histories, interpretations, and reception of diverse global art, design, architecture, and visual culture and their embeddedness in circuits of global trade, migrations, pilgrimage, exile, colonialism, and the movements of diasporas before 1900. Considers the role of the artist and artisan and types of creative agency in the construction and maintenance of empires, in ritual practice, and in Indigenous resistance. Emphasizes intermixed image cultures produced by intercultural contact and tracks the movement of materials and visual culture around the globe. Describes and critiques the agency of global visual cultures to reflect and produce identities. Examines and compares the cultural and social functions of art and its ties to global goods and resources and art materials.