ARTH 305- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Art History & Communications
• Course: ARTH 305
• Professor: Julia Skelly

Document Summary

Readings: intro, conclusion, and hatt/klonk, birth of art history hagel. Art historians rarely use only one method, not all explicitly say which they are using ex: feminist perspective. Methods/methodology: an approach to the study of art. Hagel: believed art was progressive, there is a clear development to it, he only brought one perspective to this development scholars have a certain belief system. Theory and methodology can be used by some scholars interchangeably but hatt and. Klonk do not: theor(cid:455): (cid:862)a (cid:272)o(cid:373)prehe(cid:374)si(cid:448)e e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h deals (cid:449)ith a set of phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)a(cid:863, method: (cid:862)the parti(cid:272)ular (cid:449)a(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h theor(cid:455) is applied(cid:863) Theory is the map and method is the way used to find the way, one uses the other. Affect theory: drawing on feeling etc as a theory. Hagel: his art was connected to religion, tradition. We do not have to spot at an artist"s/s(cid:272)holar"s i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374), (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) go (cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d that i(cid:374) our o(cid:449)(cid:374) i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374)