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Practices and debates in Art History

Vak
2009-2010

Description

Current debates in the field of art history centre around such topics as art history versus visual culture, and material culture studies; the Euro-American focus of the discipline and the globalizing world; the relationship between history, architectural history, and cultural heritage; the relationship between art and science. Through these debates runs the issue of two basic ways of studying art, i.e. historical (that is primarily informed by the historical study of primary sources) versus systematic (that is primarily informed by theory) approaches to the study of art. These topics of debate will be introduced, discussed, and debated in a series of seminar meetings.
For each meeting, the students will have a reading assignment & discuss their findings in the meetings.

Teaching method

Seminar meetings

Admission requirements

See Art History program guide and Exam regulations

Course objectives

To acquire insight into current debates and practices in Art History; to be able to analyse and understand the various positions and their consequences and to position oneself in view of them; to develop skills in discussion and in oral and written presentation.

Course load

10 ects

Required reading

To be announced.

Test method

Written paper.
Assignment: each student chooses one of the fields of debate, and writes a well-reasoned, annotated positioning paper in which the problematic of the issue in question is enunciated (length of paper: max. 5.000 words, incl. notes and references).

Time table

Check the MA timetable on the Internet.

Information

Academic content, Prof. Dr. R. Zwijnenberg:
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Study coordinator MA:
stucokg@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Study coordinator Res. MA:
b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Registration

U-twist

Blackboard

na

Remarks

This course will start the 14th of September in room Lipsius 227 at 9.15 am