VAM4020

Theory of Art History and Criticism ( 12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL)

Leader: Annette Van den Bosch

Offered:
Not offered in 2005.

Synopsis: Discourses in art history: social history of art, style, feminist discourses, modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism, speaking positions in cultural studies. Aesthetics and commodities: meaning and symbolic value, interpretation, consumption, distribution and exchange. Visual analysis: realism and materialism, subjectivity and sexuality, psychoanalytic theories, signs and signifying systems, semiotics and intertextual analysis. Current critical perspectives, from primitivism to postcolonial mimicry.

Assessment: Seminar paper (3000 words): 35% + Essay (4500 words): 45% + Critical text analysis (1500 words): 20%

Contact Hours: 3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week