Shapes and Methods of the History of Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Annotation

Since the 1960s the discipline of art history has undergone many changes and under many impulses it has shaped in new forms of methods and research approaches. The traditional (mostly humanistic) character of the discipline has been often challanged esp. in terms of (post)-structuralist and postmodern approaches (feminism, post-colonialism, semiology), and esp. recently, since 1990s within the project of the new art history.

The aim of the course is to map and present the main of these various methodological impulses that radically transformed the discipline of art history.