ARTH 495

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Senior Seminar in Art History

Credit: 3 hours.

Required seminar for undergraduate majors that offers students practical experience in research techniques. Focuses on a specialized theme of the professor's choice, and will incorporate extensive reading in a specific field of Art History and the completion of a substantial research paper.

No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours. Prerequisite: ARTH 395.

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ARTH 495 class schedule data for fall 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	44272	Lecture	M1	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	319 Art and Design Building	Small, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Section Info: Topic: When is Art? Taking its cue from the philosopher Nelson Goodman's suggestion that we ask not "what is art?", but "when is art?", this course explores questions related to the temporal boundaries of the work of art. Does "art" inhere primarily in preparatory sketches, a discrete physical object, the event of making, the residue of production, posterior documentation? Does a work's meaning stabilize at the moment of its conception or its reception? Can works subside from the category of art into that of mere document or vice versa? What kinds of ethical and philosophical problems are posed by the conservation of ephemeral works? Although we will focus primarily on case studies of contemporary art in which such questions are explicitly problematized, we will also consider historical examples such as Renaissance prints and 19th century bronze sculpture.