ARTH 504
Methods of Art History Fall 2013
Division I
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This course on art-historical method is designed to offer students a historiographic overview of the discipline of art history, with emphasis on developments over the past half-century. We will survey the most influential concepts of the discipline, the evolving tasks it has set itself, and the methods it has adopted for executing them. Works of art and other types of images will inevitably enter into our discussions, but the main objects of study will be texts about art, particularly texts explicitly addressing or exemplifying various methods for a historical study of art. Topics include: art history and its objects; looking and describing; “forms in the realm of time”; sign, meaning, affect, interpretation; art history and difference; image and function; art history as representation.
The Class: Format: seminar
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on several oral presentations on specific texts, a mid-term paper, and a longer final paper
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the Gaudino option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: limited to and required of first-year students in the Graduate Program in the History of Art
Distributions: Division I

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