OLLI0119 - Art in Context: Looking Beyond the Brushstrokes

Course Description

Using a “case study” approach, this class will examine how both transitional and static political organization and socioeconomic conditions; theology, ritual, and practice; cross-cultural connections; and periods of exceptional upheaval have informed the visual (and in some cases, more broadly cultural) production of an era or area. Among the topics to be discussed are the Protestant and Catholic/Counter Reformations of the 16th and 17th centuries; Buddhist art in Japan; the interplay of European and Japanese artistic traditions in the late 19th century; works of the Mughal Empire; and the varied responses to the rapidity of change in the late 19th and early 20th century Europe and America. This course will be recorded. Watch video