Art History 291 - COLQ:TOPICS IN ART HISTORY

Topics course. How do we make sense of works of art and conceptualize what we see? What analytical tools and methodological assumptions guide and shape our acts of interpretation? These questions lies at the heart of our in-depth study of a select group of major Northern Renaissance paintings. Artists range from Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Durer and Bosch; readings draw on different, sometimes conflicting approaches with the goal to introduce the full spectrum of art historical interventions, from formal and social analysis to more recent perspectives on race, sexuality and the global turn. Prerequisite: one 200-level course in art history or permission of the instructor. Group A

Topic: Northern Renaissance.