ARTT 395Art Theory and Criticism
An exploration of art theory and criticism as they relate to the current discourse surrounding the interpretation and production of visual art. The course investigates the critical theory, visual culture, and cultural revolutions of the last half-century that shape the art of today. It charts the relationship between art making, art history, art criticism, and the art world (the social and economic systems and means through which an object or action becomes “art”). It focuses on major concepts from late- modernity to the contemporary, exploring various lenses of interpretation from psychoanalysis, Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, identity politics and queer theory.
- Subject
- ARTT
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- www.framingham.edu
- Prerequisite
- ARTH 383 Contemporary Art History, or permission of the instructor.