This course provides an overview of the most significant theories of art and its history. It examines the critical practices used to write about art in the context of a broader visual culture. The course gives a foundation in methods of art historical analysis and focuses on interpretative models and multidisciplinary approaches of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as semiotics, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory as well as socio-political theories such as feminism, critical race studies and queer theory.
This course provides an overview of the most significant theories of art and its history. It examines the critical practices used to write about art in the context of a broader visual culture. The course gives a foundation in methods of art historical analysis and focuses on interpretative models and multidisciplinary approaches of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as semiotics, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory as well as socio-political theories such as feminism, critical race studies and queer theory.
