ARTH 504
Methods of Art History and Criticism Fall 2014
Division I
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This is a seminar in the intellectual history of the history of art, with some concentration on the ways in which this tradition has been challenged by recent critical trends in the discipline. It will begin its study with the “founders” of the field and end with issues and problems that generated the “new art history” twenty-five years ago and “visual studies” today. Topics to be covered include: style, iconography/iconology, semiotics and deconstruction, identity politics, formalism, deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, gender studies, global studies and postcolonialism, and the new materiality. Resident Clark Fellows will occasionally speak to us on perspectives of their choice.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: each student will write one short midterm paper and a longer concluding essay, as well as present a couple of the readings to the class
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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