This course will examine the methods and assumptions of Western art
history in the period from the Italian Renaissance to the current
day.  The range of approaches to the discipline is not unified or
monolithic but quite varied, complicated, and even highly
contradictory.  It rests on the foundations of the discipline in the
writings of Vasari, Winckelmann, and Hegel, and extends to the
connoisseurship of Morelli and Berenson, the cultural history of
Burckhardt, the formalism of Wölfflin, the Vienna School of Riegl
and Max Dvorák, iconography and iconology; Freud and psychoanalysis:
Jungian psychology, Marxist art history, the social history of art,
semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and
feminism.  The members of this course will read primary texts or
actual examples of these points of view rather than commentaries
about them.

	By action of the art history faculty in 1998, this course
counts no longer as a seminar but as a graduate lecture course.
With the approval of the instructor and the student’s major field
advisor this course may be applied to major field.