Course convenor
Gabriella Szigethy
Course content
This course focuses on the notion of visuality in Modernism. During the semester we shall read and explicate major contributions and debates in the field.
Indicative reading
Krauss, Rosalind. 1979. Sculpture in the Expanded Field. October 8 (Spring) 30-44.
Bal, Mieke. 2003. Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture. Journal of Visual Culture 2 (1) 5-32.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2005. The Ground of the Image. New York: Fordham University Press
Atkinson, David and Peter Jackson, David Sibley, Neil Washbourne, eds. 2005. Cultural Geography. A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts. London: New York: I.B. Tauris
McDonald, Sharon ed. 2006. A Companion to Museum Studies. Blackwell Publishing