Art History as Practice

Catalog description

This course approaches art history as practice rather than method. Students will receive instruction and opportunities to practice close looking, description, archival research, and oral histories, among other processes. The aim of this course is to approach art history as a practice that is to be nurtured rather than performed. How does the way we practice scholarship shape what we write? How might practice orchestrate relationships among artist, scholar, work, and world? What does it mean to write with rather than about art and artists? This course is limited to 10 students; priority will be given to graduate students in the Department of Art & Art History. The course includes a mandatory oral history training with VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art) on January 25-26.