Art and Visual Culture in Early Modern Times 1400-1800 (Kunstgeschichte 2)
Edith Futscher
Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, Art History
2025S, Vorlesungen (VO), 2.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S05199
Description
This semester, the lecture will focus on the possibilities of visual media in European art and visual culture of the early modern period. We will discuss pictorial strategies, questions of genre, the unfolding of representation, and image politics. Starting point of every single lecture will be an individual work of art that raises a specific question to be discussed in a larger historical and theoretical context. Topics of the individual lectures are likely to be: rivalry between relief, painting, sculpture and an aspired status of art and artists; the significance of perspective constructions thereby; political dimensions of art at the courts in Quattrocento; visual polemics and image controversy of the Reformation period, and the representability of so-called lower classes; a turn towards painting as action around 1600; the relationship between vision and visual media during the Counter-Reformation, and effects of colonization; silence in painting; image politics of the Jesuits; early visual reports vs. History Painting at the time of the French Revolution.
Examination Modalities
Written examinations in English or German on 23rd of June and 6th of October 2025. A third exam opportunity will take place at the end of October.
Comments
This lecture is given in English. It will be accompanied by a tutorial led by Pia Sophie Michalko.
There won’t be any recordings.
Illustrations as well as essays and book chapters are uploaded weekly and are located in the respective Nextcloud folder. Once you register for the lecture in base Angewandte, you will automatically have access to this folder.
In addition, you will find a reserve collection in our library.
Key Words
art history, visual culture, art theory, early modern period, historiography
Dates
10 March 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
17 March 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
24 March 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
31 March 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
07 April 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
28 April 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
05 May 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
19 May 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
26 May 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
02 June 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
16 June 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1
23 June 2025, 15:30–17:00 Lecture Room 1 (examination)
Course Enrolment
From 03 February 2025, 00:00
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: GO: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 067/003.11
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 067/003.19
Art Education: subject kkp (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: GO: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 067/003.11
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: GO: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 074/003.11
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 074/003.19
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: GO: Kunstgeschichte (1-4), VO 074/003.11
Transformation Studies. Art x Science (Bachelor): Focus! Transformation Areas: Cultural Transformation 162/040.40
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Art History 537/080.10
Stage Design (1. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunstgeschichte 542/107.01
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunstgeschichte 542/207.01
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (1. Section): Wissenschaftlich theoretische und historische Grundlagen: Kunstgeschichte 566/108.12
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kunstgeschichte 566/208.12
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (1. Section): Wissenschaftlich theoretische und historische Grundlagen: Kunstgeschichte 567/108.12
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kunstgeschichte 567/208.12
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 1: Art History 568/005.03
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 2: Art History 568/006.03
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Study Areas 1-3: Study Area 1: Artistic Strategies and Approaches to Art 569/020.01
Design: Specialisation in Design and Narrative Media (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Fundamentals: Art History 576/103.02
Design: Specialisation in Design and Narrative Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Fundamentals: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Communication Design (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Art History - Cycle 577/103.02
Industrial Design (1. Section): Art and Cultural Studies - Basics: Art History 580/104.08
Design: Specialisation in Fashion Design (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Art History - Cycle 584/103.02
Design: Specialisation in Fashion Design (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Free Elective Pool Methodological and Theoretical Basics 584/103.80
Conservation and Restoration (1. Section): Geisteswissenschaften: Kunstgeschichte (Zyklus) I-II 588/104.31
Fine Arts (1. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Art History 1-4 (VO) 605/102.10
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Art History 1-4 605/202.03
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (1. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Art and Design History 626/103.02
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Artistic Strategies and Approaches to Art: Foundation 700/001.10
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Artistic Strategies and Approaches to Art: Deepening and Application 700/001.20
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible