ART 382 - Belle Ribicoff Seminar

Semester Offered: Spring
0.5 unit(s)

Topic for 2019/20b: Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe. This course introduces students to the materials, techniques, contexts, and meanings of skilled craft and artistic practices in the early modern period (1350-1750), in order to reflect upon a series of topics, including craft knowledge and artisanal epistemology; the intersections between craft and science; and questions of historical methodology in reconstructing the material world of the past. The course runs as a “Laboratory Seminar,” with discussions of primary and secondary materials, as well as hands-on work in a laboratory. This course is associated with the Making and Knowing Project of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, and is held on the Columbia campus. Travel expenses are funded by the Department. Pamela H. Smith.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Chair of the Art Department.

Second six-week course.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: INT