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2024 Spring Main Session
AH399/Lecture/01 - Theory/Criticism/Aesthetics | Credits 3.00
Theory, Criticism and Aesthetics traces the development of art history as a discipline, while also providing an overview of the significant philosophical and critical theories that have influenced aesthetic debates in relation to the field. Kant’s ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime, Hegel’s dialectic, Winckelmann’s promotion of the Antique, Marxism, Adorno’s critique of the Culture Industry, Gombrich’s approach to art and illusion, and Lacan’s notion of the Gaze will be explored. Students will also engage actively with various methodologies that influence the interpretation of works of art and past cultural history, including biography, formalism, iconography, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, colonialism/postcolonialism, and feminism/postfeminism, through the work of Benjamin, Bryson, Derrida, Faludi, Foucault, Fry, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Panofsky, Vasari, and Wollflin (among others). Based on the scope of a student's project or level of study there may be additional costs for materials and supplies. Satisfies: Art History Emphasis and Art History Minor requirements as well as Art History/Liberal Arts Elective requirement

Registration Type Traditional
Fees N/A
Instructors Wallis, Jonathan
Duration 1/16/2024 - 5/10/2024
Schedule Thursday  3:30 PM - 6:20 PM;  Moore College Art &, Sarah Peter Hall, Room 210
Prerequisites ( AH215 / Lecture <min credit = 3.00> )
Corequisites N/A
Credit Types Credit
Class 25 Seats | 0 Remaining
Closed

Primary population and other student populations allowed to register for this course:
 Primary Population# Others Allowed# Others Registered
Campus  Moore College of Art & Design250
Program  Bachelor of Fine Art250
College  Moore College of Art00
Department  Creative & Critic St2525
Curriculum  Art History2524