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COURSES FALL 2008

Histart 100

THEORIES OF METHODS OF ART HISTORY (4 units) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 101 Moffit, CCN: 05487 Anthony Grudin

How art has been studied in the past and how it is currently studied, its historiography and methodology,  Consideration of the earliest writers (Pliny, Vasari) but also modern approaches, from traditional style analysis and connoissieurship through the "founders" of modern art history (Panofsky, Reigl) to more recent approaches, i.e. psychoanalysis, feminism, social history, anthropology, semiotics, etc. (Mo)

Letters in bold following individual upper division course descriptions cite the History of Art major breadth requirement fulfilled by the course.  (As=Asian, An=Ancient, Me=Medieval, R=Renaissance, B=Baroque, Mo=Modern.)

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