Art History 291ia - Colloquium: Topics in Art History- "Ingenuity" and Artists' Ways of Knowing

Colq: T- "Ingenuity"

Fall
2021
02
4.00
Claire Farago

TU TH 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Smith College
ARH-291ia-02-202201
Hillyer 103
cfarago@smith.edu
Taking a critical approach to history as an open-ended creative process in itself, this course focuses on the formative era for the emergence of modern European ideas about art, c. 1450-1750, when the value of artisanal labor changed greatly. The connection between hand and mind, mano e ingegno, is at the core of the Renaissance art theoretical legacy. Can this core provide a basis for rethinking the history of art in a planetary framework without imposing European ideas about art on everything else? And why is this past important to revisit now? (E)
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