Reconceptualizing Art History

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With a global perspective, we explore the historic and mythic lineages of vision, meaning, and craft through a critical and personal experience. From the first artworks to later work that has social and political impact, this course will explore all world arts. This course will focus on developing a critical perspective on key themes in global ancient art and art history, recognizing the bias that frames both of these terms. Students will come to understand that the objects and ideas we call “art” are the result of a negotiation among different social factors including: artist, viewer, patron, context, etc.