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KUH2012

Texts that have Influenced Art History

Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Home examination

About

About the course

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.

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

Compulsory assignments

  • Compulsory oral presentation

Further on evaluation

Final assessment consists of a 6-days home exam. Letter grade.

Course materials

Approx. 600 pages of set texts, incl. illustrations.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
KUH2010 7.5 sp Autumn 2024
KUH2011 7.5 sp Autumn 2024
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • The History of Art

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Art and Media Studies

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

Home examination
Weighting 100/100 Date Release 2025-11-21
Submission 2025-11-28
Time Release 10:00
Submission 10:00
Duration 6 days Exam system Inspera Assessment

Re-sit examination - Spring 2026

Home examination
Weighting 100/100 Duration 6 days Exam system Inspera Assessment