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Seminar: Discipline Art History!

Dienstag, 17.03.2026

What is art history? What is visual, or material culture? How do we “do” it? What are the premises of art history? Where do they come from, and where are they going? How are so-called turns shaping art history? These are the fundamental questions that this methods seminar will address. This seminar aims to build an understanding of how art history has developed as a discipline and the range of analytic strategies it affords to students and scholars. We will read essays that have shaped the discipline and question their applicability and limitations. Through reading influential “classic” texts, we will familiarize ourselves with different ways of thinking through art, architecture, and material culture so that we can begin to identify the kinds of problems that might be of most interest in your studies in the history and criticism of art and visual culture. This seminar will explore the historical foundations, formulations and applications of art historical methods. But we will also look at the problem of art history as a distinct discipline today, as well as its connection to the ‘global turn’ across the humanities and to efforts to challenge and ‘decolonize’ the discipline. The seminar will thus cover multiple periods and types of objects, but focus mostly on medieval art history and early modern period.

Dozierende(r):	Dr. Irina Dudar, Dr. Sasha Rossman
17.03.2026:	12:15 - 13:45
Ort:	EG, Seminarraum 016 Uni Mittelstrasse Mittelstrasse 43

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