VPHB39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Donald Judd
25 Mar 2017
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Ten key words in art history: unpacking methodology. It"s for us to learn effective ways of analyzing artworks and relating them to social, political and intellectual contexts of their own or of our time. To learn historical sources of the art discipline. To learn how to express results of visual analysis in art writing: two components: research and argumentation. The process of formulating research questions that helps us frame our inquiries, and helps us set an agenda for work on topics, objects or archives. The process of trying to answer those questions. The set of procedures or ways of working that characterizes an academic discipline. Standard methodologies include formal analysis of works of art: we can determine the age of the work, identify materials/media of the work, or reconstruct the artist"s working progress over time. We can research into related historical documents such as contracts, letters or journals.
