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 at 14th of September in Lipsius 227 at 9.15 am