History and Methods of Art History

Catalog description

Seminar designed to engage students with the history and methods of art history. Through close readings of key texts and discussions, the course explores issues raised by aesthetics, iconography, formalism, the social history of art, as well as the impact of semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and post-modernism on the discipline of art history. Formerly offered as ARH 420. Not for credit in addition to ARH 420.