This course introduces graduate students to a range of interpretive methods within art history and visual culture studies. In addition to scrutinizing multiple schools of thought and critical debates within the field, the seminar pays particular attention to the style and strategies of writing taken up by individual critics and scholars. How and to whom does the art historian's voice speak in different moments, visual contexts, and interpretive communities?
5 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
This course introduces graduate students to a range of interpretive methods within art history and visual culture studies. In addition to scrutinizing multiple schools of thought and critical debates within the field, the seminar pays particular attention to the style and strategies of writing taken up by individual critics and scholars. How and to whom does the art historian's voice speak in different moments, visual contexts, and interpretive communities?
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.