6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1024302AEW for working students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
This course surveys the historiography and methodology of the art history from Pliny to Postcolonialism. The student acquires knowledge into the ways people have investigated and written about art from Antiquity to the present. The definition of art and the interpretation of art has not always been the same. Ideas and method developed in a cultural, economic and social context. Therefore we map the various ideas and methods that were developed in the course of history.
People have written about art since at least the ancient period, as part of natural history, in artistic biographies and travelogues. In the 19th century a more historical thinking about art arose, while art history developed as an academic discipline. More systematic methods were articulated, such as connoisseurship, formalism, iconography, social art history, gender, postcolonialism, global art history,... Today art historians mostly use a combination of methods and approaches.
The students take notes. Digitized course material (PP’s) are available on Canvas.
In this course, obligatory literature is used: a handbook and other texts.
Handbook: Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History. A critical introduction to its methods (Manchester University Press, 2006) (or a newer edition). Handbook is available in the VUB library or for sale for c. 20 eu.
Other texts: as pdfs on Canvas.
The student is capable of demonstrating basic knowledge of the historiography and methodology of art history, and of influential thinkers and texts about art from antiquity to the present, from Pliny to postcolonialism
The student is capable of situating art historical texts and methods in historical context, compare with one another, and take an individual, critical stance
The student is capable of understanding the texts and methods of art history, among them visual analysis, research of historical sources, technical research.
The student is capable of situating these texts and methods in a wider interdisciplinary framework
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
“100% WRITTEN EXAMINATION. The exam may include open questions and questions that refer to images or citations seen during class as well as to indivually prepared readings (self-study); terms and concepts seen during class are expected to be known and understood.”
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Profile Profile Art Studies and Archaeology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Profile Profile Archaeological Science (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Frans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Duits-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)