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2023 FIN1009S Course Outline

This document provides information about the course FIN 1009S: Approaches to Art History. It will be convened by Sihle Motsa and include lectures on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. The course will consider the emergence of art history and how art has been conceived in different cultures. It will explore topics like aesthetics, politics and art, alternative modernisms, and African art histories over 13 weeks. Students will complete 4 essay assignments and a final 2000 word exam-equivalent assignment. Tutorials will begin in week 2 and students must attend a minimum of 80% of classes.

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2023 FIN1009S Course Outline

This document provides information about the course FIN 1009S: Approaches to Art History. It will be convened by Sihle Motsa and include lectures on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. The course will consider the emergence of art history and how art has been conceived in different cultures. It will explore topics like aesthetics, politics and art, alternative modernisms, and African art histories over 13 weeks. Students will complete 4 essay assignments and a final 2000 word exam-equivalent assignment. Tutorials will begin in week 2 and students must attend a minimum of 80% of classes.

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FIN 1009S: Approaches to Art History

Convenor – Sihle Motsa, email: [email protected]

Lecturers: Sihle Motsa

Lectures: Monday - SNAPE TS3B, Tuesday – B114, Wednesday – LS3B


5TH Period

Introduction to the course

This course considers Art History and its emergence as an epistemic tradition to do this is, it traces the early theories that developed around art and its increasing
importance in society. It views art as deeply imbricated in the myriad ethical, political, intellectual, governmental and relational systems that create a society and Art
History as a means to reckon with and articulate these multiple points of intersection.
Thus, this course looks at how thinking about art emerged through particular philosophical dialogues. It thinks through how these early ideas informed perceptions
of art but also traces movements than ran counter to these beliefs. It explores how industrialisation, the rise of and the invention of certain technologies influenced
artistic practices and the theories that sought to underpin them.
This course also recognises Art History’s inherent Eurocentrism. Therefore, is thinks through other historical canons, drawing our attention art has been conceived
of within the life worlds of people beyond the West. The movements of Negritude, Pan Africanism, Black Consciousness are explored as global movements that
were both convergent and divergent with the metropole. They are envisioned as modes of aesthetic and cultural self-authorship that allowed for African’s to contend
with the multivariate violences of the colonial era whilst fashioning a new image for the future.

Tutorials: Tutorials will begin in week 2. Please sign up for one of the groups on AMATHUBA.

Attendance/assignment requirements: Punctual submission of essay assignments and attendance at a minimum 80% of tutorials.

Essay requirements, submission dates, and weighting of marks: Four term essays of c.1200 words (15 % each) and a final exam-substitute essay assignment
2000 words (40%).

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Assignment 1: 7th of August
Assignment 2: 21st of August
Assignment 3: 18th of September
Assignment 4: 9th of September

Final Assignment (Exam Equivalent): 01 November 2023

Lecture topics by week


Week 1 (24 -28 July): Aesthetics and Early Philosophies
Week 2 (31 July to 4 August): Aesthetics and Early Philosophies
Week 3 (7 August to 11 August): Formalism
Week 4 (14 August to 18 August): Politics and Aesthetics
Week 5 (21 August to 25 August): Politics and Aesthetics
Week 6 (28 Aug to 1 September): Politics and Aesthetics

Week 7 (11 September to 15 September): Alternative Modernisms


Week 8 (18 September to 22 September): Alternative Modernisms
Week 9 (25 September to 29 September): Alternative Modernisms
Week 10 (2 October to 6 October): The art of Africa?
Week 11 (9 October to 13 October): The art of Africa?
Week 12 (16 October to 20 October): Contemporary Art Histories
Week 13 (23 October to 24 October): Future Art Histories

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