Art History 211 - Sightseeing:Vision and the Image in the Early Modern Period

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

STS This course examines the complex relationship between theories of vision and the production and reception of images in European art and culture of the early modern period (circa 1500-1750). Areas of study include visual technologies (optical devices such as the camera obscura, telescope, and "peepbox"); perspective systems andtheir distortion; the curious and the connoisseurial eye; visions of the divine; the ways in which vision and imagery were associated with desire; evidentiary theory; and the representation of sight.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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