Art History and Archaeology

This course is an introduction to art history as a field of cultural production. The readings and conference discussions will be directed towards exploring not only the paradigmatic works of art and architecture from antiquity to post-modernity but also the interpretive texts produced about them. Emphasis will be placed on the shift of practices of artifact production with skilled crafting in pre-industrial societies towards modern definitions of art and visual culture with their distinctive socio-cultural status in the contemporary world. Case studies are thus drawn from ancient Near Eastern and classical antiquity as well as the Western post-industrial art. While the development of the discipline form 18th century onwards will be problematized, core discursive issues in art history such as representation, iconography, narrative, technology, style, museum studies will be addressed.

The Art Bulletin, 2002

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The world around attempts to peer into the world of Van Gogh. The Royal Academy in 2010, in all its usual dramatic expertise, attempted to put together, the life history, of this very brave, and experimental artist of the 19th century. A lover of life, art and God, but, some called this man’s work foolish in his day. And yet again the same frustrations exist for anyone and everyone who has ever had the charge to go forth and discover something new. The 2010, exhibition at the Royal Academy, had many virtues.