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Global and Transcultural Encounters in Art History
Course aim
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- To speak and write intelligently about global, transcultural, and postcolonial issues in art history, from the early modern period to the present.
- Familiarity with key artworks, media, materials, and written sources related to the theme. Insight into how contemporary globalization theories may be relevant for understanding globalizing trends from the early modern period onwards.
- Familiarity with the historical and contemporary terms and concepts, relevant to understand the development of European (especially Netherlandish) art in a global context.
- To critically evaluate current historiographical trends and imagine new possibilities for the field.
Course content
The course explores processes of artistic encounter and exchange from the early modern period to the present day, integrating global, transcultural, and postcolonial approaches. It will take its cue from the Netherlands and their relation to the world, both in a historical and a contemporary perspective.
Participants will first be confronted with the ways in which Netherlandish art testifies to the increased interconnectivity of the Early Modern world. The Low Countries were an essential node during “First Globalization”: Antwerp and Amsterdam became global capitals while the ‘world’s first multinational’, the Dutch East India Company, heralded the age of classical capitalism. Fortuitous factors, including successful mercantile logistics, the geographical reach of the Jesuit mission, and the thriving publishing and translation industry made the area a crucible of cultural exchange. Everyday lives changed as foreign luxuries, and local copies, became widely available. Eventually, Dutch imitations of Chinese porcelain found their way to colonists in Surinam. These new luxuries tend to disguise that they were only made possible through slavery and forced labor in the East and West Indies.
In the second half of the course the time line will be extended to the global art world of the 20th-21st centuries and contemporary approaches of global, transcultural, and postcolonial art history. Themes that will play a role are, amongst others, global versus local; the agency of material culture; Orientalism and the exotic; cultural appropriation and hybridity; and cross-mediality.
The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by the International Office and the Programme coordinator. Acceptance is not self-evident.
Participants will first be confronted with the ways in which Netherlandish art testifies to the increased interconnectivity of the Early Modern world. The Low Countries were an essential node during “First Globalization”: Antwerp and Amsterdam became global capitals while the ‘world’s first multinational’, the Dutch East India Company, heralded the age of classical capitalism. Fortuitous factors, including successful mercantile logistics, the geographical reach of the Jesuit mission, and the thriving publishing and translation industry made the area a crucible of cultural exchange. Everyday lives changed as foreign luxuries, and local copies, became widely available. Eventually, Dutch imitations of Chinese porcelain found their way to colonists in Surinam. These new luxuries tend to disguise that they were only made possible through slavery and forced labor in the East and West Indies.
In the second half of the course the time line will be extended to the global art world of the 20th-21st centuries and contemporary approaches of global, transcultural, and postcolonial art history. Themes that will play a role are, amongst others, global versus local; the agency of material culture; Orientalism and the exotic; cultural appropriation and hybridity; and cross-mediality.
The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by the International Office and the Programme coordinator. Acceptance is not self-evident.
Additional information
Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final and may still be modified until the 3rd Wednesday in September.
Instructional formats
Field trip
Seminar
Seminar
Examination
Active participation
Required | Weight 30% | ECTS 3
Active participation: presentation, chairing discussion (together 30 % of your grade)
Paper
Required | Weight 70% | ECTS 7
Research paper based on an oral presentation (together 70% of your grade)
Entry requirements and preknowledge
Entry Requirements
You have to be registered for one of the following degree programmes:
- Modern and Contemporary History
- Media, Art and Performance studies
- Dutch Literature and Culture
- Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Art History
- Musicology
Preknowledge
No data about preknowledge is available.
Languages
- English
Course Iterations
Related studies
Exams
There is no timetable available of the exams
Required Materials
| Materials | Description |
|---|---|
| WNB | Literature will be made available on Blackboard. One or more excursion(s) (possibly to Belgium) will incur costs of c. 170 euros. |
Recommended Materials
No information available on the recommended literature
Coördinator
| prof. dr. M.A. Weststeijn | M.A.Weststeijn@uu.nl |
Lecturers
| dr. L. Sariaslan | l.sariaslan@uu.nl |
| prof. dr. M.A. Weststeijn | M.A.Weststeijn@uu.nl |
Enrolment
This course is open for subsidiary students. Do check additional entry requirements apply.
Enrollment
From Monday 4 November 2024 up to and including Friday 22 November 2024
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