Research Methods inResearch Methods in Artistic Studies

Objectives

The Research Methodologies in Artistic Studies unit program aims to:
a) Increase students` skills and abilities, such as comprehension and application of advanced methodologies of analysis, in order to achieve the goals of their own future research-based artistic projects; b) Critically discern the assumptions, and processes, of the different methodologies and recognize their relevance according to the social, cultural and political environments, as well as their potential contribution to a dynamic connection between art and knowledge; c) To orientate PhD candidates toward the recognition and the critical approaches to the strengths and weaknesses of their own research methods, in order to achieve the objective of academic excellence with their performative artistic projects and doctoral thesis.

General characterization

Code

73217150

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Irene Ângelo Aparício Veríssimo

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Didi-Huberman, Georges. Atlas, How to Carry the World in One´s Back, Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, 2010.
Farge, Arlette. Le goût de l’archive. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1989.
Fernie, Eric. Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology. Londres: Phaidon, 1995.
Preziosi, Donald. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Rose, Gilian. Visual Methodologies. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. LA: Sage, 2007.
Smith, Paul Smith and Wilde, Carolyn (eds.). A Companion to Art Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Spencer, Stephen. Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Florence: Routledge, 2011.
Sturken, Marita Sturken and Cartwright, Lisa. Practices of Looking. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

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Subject matter

1. Artistic Research
2. Artistic Devices and the Contemporary
3. Atistic Regimes
4. Visual Issues
5. The Point of View
6. The Author
7. Art and Emotions
8 Seeing the History
9. The Archive
10. Cultural Memory
11. Hybridization
12. Feminism
13. Crisis
14. Aart and Postmedia

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