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 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	44272	Lecture	M1	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	240 Art and Design Building	Nielsen, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Section Info: Topic: Iconoclasm and the Monstrous. This seminar explores the destruction and production of art via the main theoretical issues at stake in the iconoclastic gesture, considering also why these issues might matter for us today. Using case studies from the ancient east, Byzantium, the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, modern and contemporary art, and more, we will examine the historical and theoretical ideas surrounding fetishism, censorship, aura, the icon and idol, the insistent fear of materiality as well as the monstrosity of images. Key questions framing the course material include: What is idolatry and what are the psychological and social aspects at stake when breaking an image? What is a fetish and what are its relations to the image, materiality and the body? How do politics, ethics and justice play a part in attacks on art? When do critique, deconstruction and judgment become iconoclastic, and why is violence seemingly the preferred way to neutralize the monstrous idol? Students will write a substantial research paper based on individually developed research questions. Restriction(s): Restricted to History of Art major(s).