Semester Hours:3Periodically
An interdisciplinary introduction to vital issues-especially for any
artist-in aesthetics, art theory, history and criticism. Centered in
the visual arts, inquiry extends to other arts and beyond. Typical
themes include medium; form; style; representation; semeiotics;
expressive value; pragmatics of the “art world”; historical
contextualism versus an “eternal present”; criticism in theory and
practice.