Survey of Decorative Arts

PGDE 5100 | Fall 2011 | Faculty: Lorraine Karafel

This course presents a broad introduction to European decorative arts from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, focusing on Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands. Issues of style, function, and meaning of objects in both public and private life will be explored. In class lectures and through readings that reflect a variety of scholarly approaches, the decorative arts will be considered within the larger cultural, political, and social contexts of their times.