Course content

The course addresses how discourses of art are established through text and image, and how different actors influence art-historical and public debate. Central to the discussion of visual arts and / or architecture is the question of reception and historical background. The focus will be on art as rhetorical or identity-creating instrument in the context of societal change processes. The course theme varies depending on the person who has course responsibility, and can for instance address questions related to word and image, history, modernity and identity, epoch-making reviews, etc.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

After completing the course, the student has:

• knowledge of modern and / or historical works that exemplify the meaning and knowledge of how monuments have been used for political purposes or in an identity
• creating context - insight into characteristics of different types and genres in expressions of art, such as historical representation, criticism, and manifestos

Skills

After completing the course, the student is able to:

• analyze concrete examples and explain how art is used ideologically, politically, rhetorically and / or in an identity-creating context
• reflect on interactions and conflicts between different paradigmatic conceptualizations of art
• present the subject matter in writing and orally

Learning methods and activities

Instruction: Lectures and seminars. The students must pass an obligatory oral presentation to access the final examination.

The students are required to keep updated on messages from the department or teacher on Blackboard.

This course is taught in Norwegian only.

Compulsory assignments

• Oral presentation

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Basic Art History courses.

Course materials

Approx. 1200 pages of set texts, incl. illustrations.

Credit reductions