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ART: Early Modern Things

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 10:25 AM until 11:45 AMPacific Daylight Time UTC -07:00

Things expose relations in and between societies that inform the past. As Arjun Appadurai argues, “even though from a theoretical point of view human actors encode things with significance, from a methodological point of view it is the things-in-motion that illuminate their human and social context.” In this course, we will mobilize early modern things to explore what inanimate objects reveal about the animate world. We will study the social significance and cultural value of such things to look at and beyond their materiality. In particular, we will examine objects such as clothing from England, earthenware from the Italian peninsula, featherwork from the New World, and carpets from the Ottoman Empire to rethink how such things construct biography, impact memory, produce ambiguity, and dictate taste.

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