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HART0080: Early Modern Technologies of Vision: Indicative weekly topics

AUTUMN TERM

  1. Introduction
  2. Observing Nature
  3. Putting things in (Linear) Perspective
  4. Devotional Prints
  5. Printing the ‘Counterfeit’ Image
  6. Anatomical Illustrations I
  7. Anatomical Illustrations II
  8. Mapping Local Landscapes
  9. Travel Imagery I
  10. Travel Imagery II

SPRING TERM

  1. Costume Books 
  2. Study trip to Wellcome Library/BM Prints & Drawings Study Room
  3. Theatres of Life & Death
  4. Mirrors I 
  5. Mirrors II
  6. A ‘Curious’ Perspective (Anamorphosis)
  7. Lenses & the Veracity of Vision
  8. Interactive Prints
  9. The Cabinet of Curiosity
  10. Study trip//Making and Knowing consolidation class