FAA 341
Art Criticism
2
Course Description
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. understand the locus of art appreciation and criticism;
2. master the methodological tools;
3. acquire descriptive capability;
4. effectively employ iconography and iconology/semiotics or contextual reading;
5. engage critical writing in the artwork; and
6. engage exhibition and display reviews.
Course Outline
The course sets out to provide the methods of evaluating art as a configuration of form. These
include descriptive and analytical procedures that aid the definition of style/stylistics and
meaning making in the art object. The course accommodates foundational knowledge in such
theoretical and methodological conventions as formalism, iconography and iconology, semiotics,
critical theory, and deconstruction.
400 LEVEL COURSES NEW MEDIA ART