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My first art history class was a survey class for art from 1250 to present. If you are taking an intro-level survey course, expect a lot of memorization of art terms and of the art itself. We had to memorize the piece of art, artist, year, medium, location, and art movement for everything we covered. Typically, for tests, my professors also had ...
Jul 28, 2020 · Art history was established as a discipline in Europe in the middle of the 19th century, and it maintained an overwhelmingly European focus when it migrated to America.But the earliest survey ...
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“Art history is relevant” is not how the discipline of art history is typically framed in popular discourse. Most people picture art historians as wealthy, white, intellectually conservative, and disconnected from the rest of the world. If the humanities are viewed by many critics as outdated fields with little to contribute to “productive,” STEM-d...
Many—perhaps even most—people working in the field today would probably say something similar about their own work. And yet, when we walk into the classroom to teach an introductory art history survey course, even the most radical among us may feel that we have little choice but to fall back on what has been handed down to us through textbooks, dep...
D’Souza and Casid’s words call attention to the continuing presence of the “center-periphery” model within our discipline: that is, Western art, with its more or less accepted trajectory through classical Greece and Rome, the European Renaissance, and modern Europe and Anglo North America, has historically been accorded a central place within the d...
Most of the globe remains at the periphery of undergraduate art history education, as recent studies have shown. This overwhelmingly Western bias does not end solely with departmental requirements; it also exists at the basic level of the introductory art history survey curriculum. The most widely-used textbooks still organize the history of art in...
A key issue we all face when teaching global surveys is the question of what to leave out. Even a stripped-down version of the well-established Western canon may be too much to fit into one or two semesters if we want to make enough room to cover even the bare minimum of “non-western” and/or global contemporary art. What do we cut? Do we have to st...
In 1987, the artist Alfredo Jaar provoked furor with his public artwork A Logo for America,an animation he designed for Times Square’s Spectacolor board wherein he proclaimed that the United States is not “America.” Rather, the animation posited, the term applies to places all across the Americas—both North and South. Jaar’s snappy, 15-second jab a...
This critique of methods is at the root of key current discussions about the use of the word “global” itself. John Onians has proposed the term “world art studies” (as opposed to “global art history”) to differentiate between research that looks at the “global”—i.e. globalized, networked—contemporary world through a traditional art historical lens,...
As Benjamin Harris, a specialist on the global contemporary art world, remindsus: “A truly ‘global field of art history’ would comprise an intellectual intervention premised on a critique of Western power in the world as it exists and is reproduced (and challenged) in cultural and artistic terms.” I believe many of us would agree with this statemen...
What these approaches have in common, besides their willingness to expand the lens of art history to include concerns such as institutional, political, and cultural power relations, is a focus on objects as interconnected. Scholars in Global Renaissancestudies, for instance, have been pioneering ways of reframing the art production of the trans-Atl...
Art History survey courses are a chronological analysis of architecture, painting, sculpture, and other art forms from diverse cultures throughout the world.Art History I (ARTS 1303) covers art production from prehistoric times to the beginning of the Early Modern period (about 1400 CE).
ART-114: Art History Survey I. This course covers the development of art forms from ancient times to the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on content, terminology, design, and style. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an historical understanding of art as a product reflective of human social development.
Oct 14, 2020 · What this allowed was a total rethinking of an art history survey—i.e., not tinkering with it or trying to fit non-Western objects into a Western framework, but an uprooting of what a survey can be. As a Renaissance art historian I am keenly aware of the passion that can be generated through “classic” works of art from the traditional ...
Jul 31, 2020 · Readings roundup: Dushko Petrovich on debates in art history, Oliver Basciano on queer correspondent art, Rhizome launches The Thing archive. ... The introductory survey is designed to include ...
