To study fundamental and recurring themes in art and the historiography of art from the middle ages to the modern period.
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This year, the theme will be the global dimension of the art of the Netherlands. Participants will set out to explore the ways in which Netherlandish art testifies to the increased interconnectivity of the Early Modern world. The Low Countries were an essential node during “First Globalization”: Antwerp and Amsterdam became global capitals while the ‘world’s first multinational’, the Dutch East India Company, heralded the age of classical capitalism. Fortuitous factors, including successful mercantile logistics, the geographical reach of the Jesuit mission, and the thriving publishing and translation industry made the area a crucible of cultural exchange. Everyday lives changed as foreign luxuries, and local copies, became widely available. Eventually, Dutch imitations of Chinese porcelain found their way to colonists in Surinam.
Themes that will play a role are, amongst others, global versus local; the agency of material culture; Orientalism and the exotic; cultural appropriation and hybridity; and cross-mediality.
In the final lectures of the course cycle, the insights regarding the historical situation will be checked against the global art world of the 20th-21st centuries and contemporary approaches of global art history.
Please note that the examination of this course will be:
Active participation (presentation, chairing discussion) (30 %)
Oral presentation; research paper based on the oral presentation (together 70%)
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