Classes

Contesting Impressionism

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019

While impressionism once inspired some of the most innovative thinking in art history, overexposure has blunted its edge. Posters of Monet’s water lilies decorate doctors’ waiting rooms and Donald Trump uses a (fake) Renoir to decorate his apartment. A movement...

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Methods and Theories of Art History

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2017
This course has a two-part structure. The first part is mostly historiographical (the history of art history). It aims to introduce students to a canon of art-theoretical texts, to build a common lexicon, and to facilitate discussion. The second part examines how the issues already discussed underlie contentious debates in art history through a series of case studies