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ARTS 417 - The Art Museum as Institution and Object


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU

New Course Added 11.02.2008.

A seminar exploring the art museum as an historical phenomenon, social institution, and architectural type emerging in the late eighteenth-century and ever since functioning to produce definitive narratives and authoritative knowledge about artistic value and aesthetic experience. The seminar will also examine the work of artists who since the 1970s have employed various strategies and media in their work to reflect upon the premises, limitations, and effects of the art museum as an ideological apparatus. Enrollment Limit: 15. Consent of the instructor required.
Instructor: J. van Dyke


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