ART 295-02 - Speicial Topic: The Baroque Imaginary

4 credits (Spring)

The Baroque has fascinated - and incensed - artists, historians, cultural critics, and philosophers from Henrich Wolfflin, Walter Benjamin, and Erwin Panofsky to Gilles Deleuze, Hubert Damisch, and Peter Greenway. Often aligned with an artistic “Golden Age” exemplified by the works of Bernini, Rubens, Velazquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque is also associated with decadence, irrationality, and effeminacy. We will explore the stakes of these connotations for seventeenth-century Baroque icons as well as for later, (Neo)Baroque artists.

Prerequisite: ART 103.
Instructor: Lyon