ARTH 539
Academies of Art

Credit: 4 hours.


Academies, schools of art, and training workshops, have been educational, administrative, political and economic centers for the debate, control, dissemination, and legitimization of the theories, teaching and practice of the "Fine Arts." This seminar analyzes the aims, parameters and meanings ascribed to these heavily invested and historically empowered sites through an examination of historiography, as well as models traditionally used in their defense or denigration.