Course Name: Learning to Look: An Approach to Examining Material Culture
Instructor:
Guest Lecturer: Wilson O’Donnell
SLN: 17331
Meeting Time: WF 2:30 – 4:20
Term: Spring 2018
This course explores a methodology for identifying, describing and ascribing value to American material culture over three centuries utilizing the lens of one category of American decorative arts, furniture. American furniture is regularly an important component of collections within American art and history museums, as well as general museums, cultural centers, historic house museums and living history restorations and complexes. Participants in this course will develop a familiarity with the history, evolution, and significance of American furniture from 1620 to 1920. The methodology employed will consider the physical, historical, aesthetic and cultural importance of furniture. To a lesser degree, it will place furniture within the broader context of American decorative and folk arts, and the study of American material culture in general.
Contact Dylan High at highd@uw.edu for an add code.