ARTH 295OC - Ingenious Making in the Early Modern World

FC ARHU

4 credits
This course will explore what it meant to make things and work with materials, including featherwork, imitation gems, color making, and metal casting, in Europe and colonial Latin America between around 1350 and 1650. We will follow historical descriptions and recipes to reconstruct methods of making, and learn from expert practitioners, including indigenous makers. We will consider how a wide range of practitioners developed hands-on knowledge in workshops, laboratories, marketplaces, gardens, etc. and we will explore how making was and is a form of knowledge, how there are different systems of knowledge, and the intersections between art making and science. Field trips required. This is a StudiOC course. Students should register for the partner course (TECH 345OC - Mixed Media Circuits: Design, Fabrication, Inquiry) as well as this one.
Prerequisites & Notes: 100-level course in art history recommended but not required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes

This course is appropriate for new students.