Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Department of Art History

Spring Semester 2022



            Image, Object, Text: Theories and Methods in Art History and Visual Studies


                                      Code: DU1905 Credits: 8


                                           Seminar Tasks



3^rd March

Canon wars: the objects and values of art history

Task 1: CHARLOT MARTINA

Reading: Christopher Steiner, ‘Can the Canon Burst?’ in Camille et al, ‘Rethinking the Canon,’ Art
Bulletin 78.2 (1996) pp. 213-17.


24^th March

The meanings of ‘style’: formalism and the social history of art

Task 1: IANA GUREVICH

Reading: Robert Bagley, ‘Style’ in Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and
Classification in the History of Art (Ithaca, 2008) pp. 121-29.

Task 2: LIAM MAZZANTI

Reading: Evelyn Welch, ‘Art on the Edge: Hair and Hands in Renaissance Italy,’ Renaissance Studies
23.3 (2009) pp. 241-68.


7^th April

Concepts of iconology: from visual lexicon to social memory

Task 1: BARIS GOZAY

Reading: Aby Warburg, ‘The Absorption of the Expressive Values of the Past,’ in Art in Translation
1.2 (2009) pp. 273-83.


21^st April


Horizontal art history and the centre / periphery problem

Task 1: JON ANDER LAPUENTE

Reading: Jess Castellote and Tobenna Okwuosa, ‘Lagos Art World: The Emergence of an Artistic Hub on
the Global Art Periphery,’ African Studies Review 63.1 (2020) pp. 170-96.


Task 2: IREM ERCAN

Reading: Partha Mitter, ‘Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garde Art from the
Periphery,’ Art Bulletin 90.4 (2008) pp. 531-48.


5^th May


Gendering art history


Task 1: ANASTASIOS TRIANTAPYHILLIDIS

Reading: Stephen Eisenman, ‘Three criteria for inclusion in, or exclusion from a World History of
Art,’ in World Art 1.2 (2011) pp. 281-98.


Task 2: ARINA MURAVJOVA

Reading: Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,’ in Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen,
eds, Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (New York, 1999) pp. 833-44.


19^th May

decolonizing the discipline


Task 1: MATHILDE NICOLAS

Reading: Dirk Michel-Schertges, ‘Contemporary Asian Art and Western Societies: Cultural
“Univeralism” or “Uniqueness” in Asian Modern Art,’ Asian Journal of German and European Studies 4
(2019) n.p.


Task 2: KAROLINA KRÁLIKOVÁ

Reading: Dominika Czarnecka, ‘Black Female Bodies and the “White” View,’ East Central Europe 47
(2020) pp. 285-312.