ART 425 Art Theory and Criticism
This course will present different disciplinary perspectives and practices within art history. There will be an introduction to main types of methodologies adopted in scholarly writings in the arts, such as Marxism, Feminism, race and gender, psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory, and deconstruction. The focus will be on the historiography of the last two decades in art history and on selected contemporary debates. There will be regular writing instruction and exercises in the styles and methods presented during the course, geared to the production of a full-length academic paper.
Credits
4
Distribution
(A)Offered
Offered as needed.