ART 239 - Art of the Global Dutch Republic

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

This course is an examination of the visual and material cultures of the Dutch Republic in the context of early modern transcultural exchange. In the long seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic, a new Protestant nation, grew into a colonial empire with vast overseas territories—in, for example, modern-day Indonesia, Brazil, and South Africa—that were acquired through trade and military expedition. This course attends to the visual evidence—paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and decorative arts—of the Dutch colonial history and investigates how an increasingly interconnected early modern world was created and documented. In particular, we ask what roles art played in the establishment of colonial ideology. The objective of this course is to reassess the Dutch ”Golden Age” and map the visual contour of the republic’s transformation into a centripetal global power. Haohao Lu.

Prerequisite(s): ART 105 or ART 106 or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS