To acquire familiarity with the field of cultural history, a critical competence on its intellectual vocabulary and a first introduction to its worldwide literature; to develop strategies for the interpretation of sources via this mode of enquiry.
History of material and visual culture.
Bibliography:
- Petrizzo-Sorba [on e-learning platform];
- Jordanova (in book list)+
2 other titles of one's choice (from the list - or otherwise as agreed).
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Paula Findlen (a cura di) | Early Modern Things. Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800 | Routledge | 2013 | ||
| Karen Harvey | History and material culture: a student’s guide to approaching alternative sources | Routledge | 2009 | ||
| David Freedberg | Il potere delle immagini. Il mondo delle figure: reazioni e emozioni del pubblico (Edizione 2) | Einaudi | 2009 | ||
| Horst Bredekamp | Immagini che ci guardano. Teoria dell'atto iconico | R. Cortina | 2015 | ||
| Jérôme Baschet, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar (a cura di) | Les images dans l’Occident médiéval | Brepols | 2015 | ||
| Jérôme Baschet | L'iconografia medievale | Jaca Book | 2014 | ||
| Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello (a cura di) | The global lives of things: the material culture of connections in the early modern world | Routledge | 2016 | ||
| Ludmilla Jordanova | The Look of the Past. Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice | Cambridge University Press | 2012 | (obbligatorio) | |
| Arjun Appadurai (a cura di) | The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective | Cambridge University Press | 1986 | ||
| Lorraine Daston (a cura di) | Things that talk: object lessons from art and science | Zone Books | 2004 | ||
| Stuart Clark | Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture | Oxford University Press | 2007 | ||
| Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello (a cura di) | Writing Material Culture History | Bloomsbury | 2015 |
15-page essay on a previously agreed topic. Oral interview on both the essay and the course bibliography, aimed at assessing the degree of familiarity with the issues and methods of cultural history, in the specific example of material and visual cuture. In particular, the following abilities will be taken into account: understanding the reference texts, reflecting on the issues therein involved and argumentation.
