कोर्स जानकारी

Theories of visuality are central to debates in the humanities, including—but not limited to—art history.  Interdisciplinary approaches to art and history developed in recent decades have prompted reconsiderations of representation and reality, changing the parameters of our field of study.  This has resulted in new relationships of words to images and objects, as well as innovative tools of interpretation.  In this course we will examine the phenomena of cultural production and consumption in a range of media, asking how art images and objects function, how they mediate what we see and experience, and how varied scholars have theorized and interpreted these interactions, from the beginnings of the discipline of art history to the present.  Through shared readings, student presentations, and written projects, we will consider issues of form, representation, power, and knowledge, and the politics of ascribing meaning and value.  The subject of this course is art history itself rather than monuments or eras in the history of art.