VISST 4200

VISST 4200

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute the historiography of their discipline. If art history was once understood as the study of the development of style in "European art," over the past century its practitioners have attempted to embrace a "global" perspective and to address issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Readings will focus on historically situating methods and the implications of their cross-cultural application. Papers will encourage students to put methods into practice, realizing in the process that subject matter is not an isolated choice to which methods are applied, but something that profoundly affects the approach that the researcher brings to the writing of art history.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: History of Art majors.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4100

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8687 VISST 4200   SEM 101