Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Hunter College/ArtH602 Research Methods (Fall 2016)

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A recent critical response to the conventional East/West, North/South or Self /Other divide has been the idea of connectedness, which simultaneously highlights the theoretical significance of history writing and addresses global interactions between people and objects. Such an approach enables art historians to become aware of the methods used to construct artistic knowledge about different cultures both in the past and today. In this course we will go beyond the traditional or canonical ways in which colonial and post-colonial discourses as well as practices have been framed so as to fix the ‘Other’ and the ‘Self’ into set categories. Focusing on various modes of interactions between cultures, the course is specifically designed to analyse the forms, epistemologies and politics of representations of the East and South in (and by) the West through practices of collecting and display in galleries, museums and archives. Through this deconstruction our aim will be to think critically about dominant modes of art historical narratives based on collections and display.