ARTHIST 501 - The Vision of Art History

Institution:

Stanford University

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Description:

How the project of art history connects to general issues of historical writing and evidence. Focus is on modes of vision, such as the perceptual, conceptual, and historical, and the clusters of related limitations they bring to the problem of art history. The overlapping areas of blindness inherent in art-historical scholarship. How options within the field are conditioned and shaped by the central, founding activity of the discipline. 5 units, not given this year

Credits:

5.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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