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ARCH6770-1 / Fall 2018

The Arts of Empire: Culture and Colonization in Early Modern England

Location & Time

300 Avery Hall

TU 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Session & Points

Full Semester

3 Points
Call Number

71596

This course investigates relations between the arts and empire in early modern England. As a working hypothesis, it assumes that the arts could only have been capable of supporting England’s imperial ambitions if those ambitions were themselves aesthetic. The course, therefore, asks: In what ways did empire presuppose and project aesthetic categories (beauty, order, hierarchy, etc.) onto what they perceived to be an inchoate colonial scene? Moreover, given that these aesthetic categories were themselves introduced into England during this period, what influence did the context of empire and colonization exert upon them? What role did the arts play in fashioning the identities, interpretive strategies, and modes of perception thought proper to this context? Was art an alternative to the raw expression of power associated with empire? Or was it one of the many ways in which imperial power was practiced?