Art History 352gt - Seminar: Topics in Art History-Gothic in the Modern Imagination

From College Hall to Hogwarts and Romantic ruins to videogames, visual culture has provided a vast reservoir of materials for post-medieval cultural productions, both historicizing and deliberately anachronistic. Salient moments in the reception of medieval art and architecture will be examined to understand how they have served differing cultural and political agendas from the 18th century onward. Topics include Gothic Revival architecture; Troubadour and Pre-Raphaelite paintings; American Gothic; the Anarchist cathedral; the Middle Ages in film and fashion. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own interests in a substantial research project. Pre-requisites: one 200-level art history course or permission by the instructor. Counts for ARU. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required.

[CE] JR/SR only