Critical Appproaches to Art History
ARHA 343
Spring 2009 not offered
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This course offers a survey of different interpretative strategies that have defined art history from the late 18th century until the present. The goals of the course are twofold: first, to provide students with a greater historical understanding of where art history has come from and where it is going; second, and most important, to make us more attuned to different modes of interpretations, their stakes, and consequences. We will gain a greater appreciation for the kinds of questions art historians posit and the sources they privilege in answering them. Topics we will discuss include the social history of art; formalism; authorship; gender and art history; the collecting and displaying of art; connoisseurship, colonialism, postcolonialism, and art history; and visual studies. Classes will be organized thematically around different interpretational frameworks. Emphasis will be on art historical writings that have shaped the discipline, through we will also read texts by art critics, artists, and literary historians. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Michael Baxandall, PAINTING AND EXPERIENCE IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
T.J. Clark, THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE
Michael Fried, ABSORPTION AND THEATRICALITY
William Ivins, HOW PRINTS LOOK
Heinrich Wölffin, PRINCIPLES OF ART HISTORY
A course packet
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly 2-page response papers, short oral presentation, 5 page paper, 8-10 page paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Instructor uses the enrollment request system and does not respond to emails prior to the beginning of class. Students who do not attend the first class meeting will be dropped from the enrollment list. |
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