University of California, Santa Barbara
Department:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Position:Post-Doc
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Teaching Documents
Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to Modern
This course will give you an overview of European art and its context over a period of roughly four hundred years 1300-1700. Why do we study European art? Why do we focus on these particular works of art from this particular part of the world? Because this course is intended to address the history of Western Art, we will reconsider the concept of “the West,” its origins in this period of European history, and its impact on contemporary international relations. We will investigate works of art as inseparable from the social, political, religious, and intellectual contexts in which they were created.
In the Early Modern Period (1450-1650), Europeans experienced extreme challenges to their existing worldviews as a result of: the Protestant Reformation, the invention of the printing press, the encounter with other world cultures including African and American, the Copernican revolution, and the re-discovery of ancient texts and languages. In this course, we will come to understand how, in this period of dramatic change in Europe, images functioned not simply by reflecting the circumstances of society, but by playing an active role in constituting new ways of being in the world.
Visual Culture in the Andes, 2000BCE to 1530CE
In this course, we will explore the art, architecture, and culture of the South American Andes from the first cultural evidence to the Spanish conquest of the region. When they arrived on the continent in the 1530s, Europeans made the first written records of Andean visual culture. As a result, today we have the most accessible information about the last major culture to fluoresce in South America before becoming part of the global early modern world, the Inka. Therefore, the course will begin with the Inka and their imperial cultural production in the highland capital of Cusco and regional centers throughout the Andes. From the Inka, we will trace the art and history of the Andes backward in time to the first vestiges of organized visual culture at Cerro Sechín around 1200BCE.
We will investigate architectural complexes, ceramics, textiles, metallurgy, and earth art in relation to the political, religious, and economic circumstances that influenced their creation. Through weekly readings and assignments, we will critically analyze scholarship in the field of Andean culture studies developing an informed, critical awareness of the current state of the field and directions for future research. In addition, lectures and section discussions will consider the contemporary relevance of studying ancient Andean visual culture.