ARTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stamen, Polykleitos, Archaic Smile
12 Aug 2018
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Unit two: the art history survey, canonization and the western tradition. Deep western bias in the objects that are taken into consideration as art. Also western bias in the method used to interpret those objects of art. Art history is a your discipline, only because recognized field of study in the late 18th century. Looked at form, style, the type of art used etc. and ethnography (if there is an object found in the painting that sticks out), some social contact. Critical theory: analyzing the prevailing modes of art how does it function in discourse, was found in contemp. art. Traditional art historians thought they were taking on too much etc, cont. ones felt it was too traditional. Splits in the university between survey class and methods class. Survey class has many issues due to the western bias objects chosen study et. How does decolonization look like in art history when the whole discipline is a modern,
