Courses of Study 2012-2013 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 4602 - [Buildings and Bodies: Constructing Spaces in Early Modern Art]

(crosslisted)
(also VISST 4602 ) (CA-AS)
4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ARTH 6602 /VISST 6602 .

L. Pincus.

What visual roots inform our modes of habitation? Our occupation of space and production of place are always constructed, never natural or given. This course investigates early modern depictions of built environments, from urban scale to domestic interior, from landscape, medieval pilgrimage routes, and the public arena to spaces of domesticity, creation, collection, and scientific inquiry. Issues explored will include the dialectic relation of inside/outside and the poetics of the box, boundary and containment, religious and profane space, the housing of gender, theaters of memory and anatomy, representations of light and visuality. As we study the social production of space Readings will include those by theorists Bachelard, de Certeau, Foucault, Lefebvre, Soja, and Tuan as well as those by art historians.



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