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Year 4 Fine Arts.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Dr Jeanette Hoorn.
Prerequisite: Two art history subjects at second or third-year level.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar each week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
In addition to the above, students completing this subject should:
- have a sound knowledge and understanding of theories of visuality from enlightenment philosophies to the present;
- have an understanding of the impact of the theoretical discourses of post-structuralism, feminism, postmodernism and postcolonialism on writing about art.
Content:
An examination of the theory and historiography of art from the eighteenth century to the present.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.Prescribed Texts, Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes, the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994; Rosalind Krauss, The Opltical unconscious, October Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1994; Norma Broude and Mary D Garrard, The Expanding Discourse, Feminism and Art History, Collins, New York, 1992.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 75)
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