From the microscope to the mezzotint to perspective boxes that fool the eye, many of the ways that people see the world today were invented during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century.
Scholars from a variety of disciplines will examine the creation and continuing influence of these new ways of depicting the world during a symposium titled "Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe: The Dutch Experience," being held Friday-Sunday, Feb. 1-3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
"From Descartes to Foucault, the power to see has been allied with the power to know and possess," write the symposium organizers. "Optical theory brought in its wake new rhetorics of objectivity, new ways of mastering the world, and new claims to universal knowledge and truth."
Among the topics to be discussed will be the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer, the development of commercial art markets to feed the new visual literacy, the role of the visual in the construction of class and nation, the ties between seeing and gender, new directions in Dutch history and art history, and how "representing" itself is represented.
The symposium will open at 1:45 p.m. on Friday with introductory remarks by Bryan Wolf, professor of American studies and English. This will be followed by a panel on "The Poetry of Seeing" 2-4 p.m. and "'Visuality' as a Concept and Practice," 4:30-6 p.m. A reception will conclude the day's events.
There will be three panels on Saturday: "Representing Representing," 10 a.m.-noon; "Women, Domesticity and the Everyday," 2-4 p.m.; and "Vision and Knowledge," 4:30-6:30 p.m.
All panels will be held in the center's auditorium, and are free and open to the public. For further information, call the Whitney Humanities Center at (203) 432-0670.
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