CSUN Course Syllabus Art 431 Baroque Art and Architecture Fall ...

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CSUN Course Syllabus

Art 431

Baroque Art and Architecture

Fall 2009

Course Ticket:

18613

Class Time:

Thursday 6:00-8:45 pm

Location:

Sagebrush 109

Instructor:

Ernestina Osorio, Ph.D.

Email:

[e-mail]

Office:

Sagebrush 241, [phone] (note: this phone does not have voice mail)

Office Hours:

Thursday 4:45-5:45 pm

Course Description:

This course will treat Baroque aesthetics and expressive structures, and trace their

evolution in Latin American visual forms. We will begin the semester in 17

th

and 18

th

century Europe,

tracing the exuberant forms of the Baroque from their beginnings in Rome and their expansion through

Counter Reformation and Protestant Europe. We will then consider the implantation of these forms in the

Spanish and Portuguese New World, as Spain and Portugal colonized vast territories in the Caribbean

and South America. The art and architecture of New Spain and New Castille (current day Mexico and

Peru) as well as that of colonial Brazil, will be our focus. We will be concerned with recurring Baroque

themes as they are depicted visually: life as dream, the labyrinthine world, the layered, self-reflexive

nature of consciousness, science and the rise of modern skepticism. I will occasionally bring these

themes and modes of expression into contemporary Latin American art—for example, muralism in

Mexico, etc.

Learning Objectives

:

This course aims to familiarize students with the visual languages and historical context of Baroque art in

Europe and Latin America. Through active engagement, students will understand and be able to apply

diverse theoretical approaches to the politics of representation. In particular, through discussion and

assignments, students will sharpen their critical verbal and writing skills in relation to creating meaning

through both form and content in a work of art. The course also intends to prepare students to apply

information technologies to problem solving.

Required Text Books and Readings:

John Berger,

Ways of Seeing

(London: Penguin Books, 1972)

John Martin,

Baroque

(New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977)

Gauvin Alexander Bailey,

Art of Colonial Latin America

(London: Phaidon, 2005)

WebCT: http://webteach.csun.edu for additional readings and assignment guidelines.

WebCT and Email:

Please log on to WebCT and check your CSUN email account regularly during the semester for course

updates and for additional assignment and exam information. You are responsible for all course related

materials and information distributed through them.

Electronic Reserves:

You will also find course hard copy and electronic reserves in Reserves, Periodicals, & Microform (RPM)

in the Oviatt Library on the fourth floor, east wing and at the following web site. To access electronic

copies, follow the steps listed at http://library.csun.edu/Library_Services/Reserves/ereserves.html or

below. Electronic copies are password protected. Check WebCT for course password.

Go to: http://library.csun.edu/Library_Services/Reserves/ereserves.html. Where prompted, enter my

name or the course number (Art 431). This will take you to the list of course materials. Click on the title

that you would like to access electronically from the list; then click on the individual document title listing.

Enter your CSUN user id and password OR your name and library card barcode, as well as the course

password, and agree to terms of use.