Texts that have Influenced Art History

The course addresses how discourses of art are established through text and image, and how different actors influence art-historical and public debate. Central to the discussion of visual arts and / or architecture is the question of reception and historical background. The focus will be on art as rhetorical or identity-creating instrument in the context of societal change processes. The course theme varies according to who has subject responsibility, and can, for example, address questions related to word and image, history, modernity and identity, epoch-making reviews, etc.

Knowledge

After completing the course, the candidate will have:

• knowledge of modern and / or historical works that exemplify the meaning and knowledge of how monuments have been used for political purposes or in an identity
• creating context - Insight into characteristics of different types and genres in expressions of art, such as historical representation, criticism, and manifestos

Skills

After completing the course, the candidate should be able to:

• analyze concrete examples and explain how art is used ideologically, politically, rhetorically and / or in an identity-creating context
• reflect on interactions and conflicts between different paradigmatic conceptualizations of art
• present the subject matter in writing and orally

Instruction: Lectures and seminars. The students must pass an obligatory oral presentation to access the final examination.

The students are required to keep updated on messages from the department or teacher on Blackboard. This course is taught in Norwegian only.