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History of decorative Arts, Industrial Design and Domestic Culture: "Textual sources and material objects of domestic life

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2009-2010

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Description

This research course will deal with aspects of material culture. It will analyze and discuss written sources and texts in relation to material culture and the decorative arts. A specified course schedule will be announced shortly.

Domestic life at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795.

This course focuses on the evolution of domestic life and material culture at the outpost the Dutch East India Company (VOC) created at the southern tip of Africa as a refreshment station for its trading fleets between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth century. During the 18th-century distinctly ‘Cape’ urban and frontier cultures developed, which differed from the dominant European and Asian mother-cultures. How did this cultural hybridization find expression in domestic lifestyles and the domestic interior?

Students will be given an introduction to the social and economic context within which the settlement evolved from temporary outposts with a few mud houses to a thriving metropolis at the end of the eighteenth century. Themes to be investigated are:

Teaching method

Seminar meetings

Admission requirements

See Art History program guide and Exam regulations.

Course objectives

To be announced.

Course load

10 ects

Required reading

Will be announced.

Test method

Oral presentation, active participation and discussion in the meetings, and written paper.

Time table

Check the MA timetable on the Internet.

Information

Study coordinator MA:
stucokg@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Study coordinator Res. MA: b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Registration

U-twist

Blackboard

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Remarks

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