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COURSES FALL 2007

Histart 172

DUTCH GOLDEN AGE (4 UNITS) Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:00 101 Moffit, CCN 05490 Elizabeth Honig

From the moving narratives of Rembrandt to the eerie calm of Vermeer to the domestic comedies of Jan Steen, Dutch painters invented a myriad of ways to represent the ideals of their remarkable culture.  This course is an examination of that culture--the first modern bourgeois society--the stories it told about itself, and its manner of representing them.  Topics include the motivations of pictorial genres (landscape, architectural painting, still life, domestic interiors, portraiture); the status painters and the art market; national identity and the arts; notion of foreignness and colonialism; concepts of history and representation; the ideal of "domesticity" and the place of women. This course satisfies the 17th-18th c. major requirement. (B)

Letters in bold following individual upper division course descriptions cite the History of Art major breadth requirement fulfilled by the course.  (As=Asian, An=Ancient, Me=Medieval, R=Renaissance, B=Baroque, Mo=Modern.)

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