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ANALYZING WORKS OF ART: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES- 5818 Last update 05-01-2014 HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Art History

Academic year: 0

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni

Coordinator Email: sarit.shalev-eyni@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Tue 14:15-15:00

Teaching Staff: Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni

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Course/Module description: This Workshop aims to challenge the principles of the discipline of art history andthe diverse literature related with it.

Course/Module aims: Sharpening the skills of the visual language and practicing different theoreticalapproaches.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should beable to: to challenge and criticize the literature to sharpen and deepen their oral and written analysis to use/cope with different methodological and theoretical approaches

Attendance requirements(%): 100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: presentation and discussion

Course/Module Content: 1. Old Art History 2. fine art and popular art 3. reception 4. Between Iconography and Semiotic. Semiotics: Different Paths and theirvariations 5. Text and Image: Different approaches 6. Post colonialism 7. The Death of Style and its rebirth in the theoretical frame 8. Gender, voyeurism 7. Psychoanalytical approaches 8. Out of context

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Required Reading: Iconography and Iconoclasm" -Filipczak, "Vermeer, Elusiveness, and Visual Theory - Hertel, Vermeer:Reception and Interpretation - Hamann, "The Mirrors of Las Meninas - Herring, "Picturing Colonial Encounters - Mignolo, A Decolonial Response - Pereda, "The Invisible? New World - Bavuso, "Reflections on Reflections" - Hall, "Cultural Identity" - Elsner, "From the Culture of Spolia" - Kinney, "The Concept" - Caviness, "The Male Gaze" - Bynum, "The Body of Christ" - Steinberg, "Ad Bynum" -

Additional Reading Material: Adams, Laurie Schneider, The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction (New York,1996). Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline, ed. Elizabeth Mansfield(London, 2002). Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology, ed. Eric Fernie (London, 1995). Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, ed. Charles Harrison andPaul Wood, rev. ed. (Malden, MA, 2003). The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, ed. Donald Preziosi (Oxford, 1998). A Companion to Art Theory, ed. Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde (Oxford, 2002). Critical Terms for Art History, ed. Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff, 2nd edition(Chicago, 2003). The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective, ed.Mark A. Cheetham, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey (Cambridge, 1998). Williams, Robert, Art Theory. ‎An Historical Introduction (Malden, MA., 2004

Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 30 % Project work 50 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 %

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Other 20 %

Additional information: none

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