Kim Collins
Melissa Hackman
Aims
- Consider a variety of approaches to historical and art historical inquiry
- Offer opportunities for emerging professionals to familiarize themselves with technologies for finding information and to locate relevant materials on their own
- Encourage methods for taking care of our whole selves
- Experience and reflect upon a range of formats for presenting information and analyses to disparate audiences.
Required Texts for ARTHIST 590
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Visual Time by Call Number: N7480 .M69 2013ISBN: 0822353547Keith Moxey argues that the discipline of art history has been too attached to interpreting works of art based on a teleological categorization--demonstrating how each work influences the next as part of a linear sequence--which he sees as tied to Western notions of modernity. -
Painting by Numbers by ISBN: 9780691214948A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canon P -
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America by Call Number: NA738.N5 R43 2021ISBN: 1633451143How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studies Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than continue giving shape to buildings, infrastructure and urban plans that have, for generations, embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States.
