Metodologias de Investigação em Estudos Artísticos (not translated)
Code
73217150
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Understand and identify the main social and human science methodologies and their applicability to Artistic Studies;
b) Be able to recognise the vocabulary, the methodological resources and the criteria for their applicability to art-based research;
c) Critically discern the assumptions, techniques and objectives of the different methodologies;
d) Be able to analyse and ponder the utility and limitations of certain methods and their interrelationship with the Artistic Studies research profile;
e) Be able to organise a research project and to select and apply the most appropriate methods.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
Seminars approach social science methodologies through analysis and discussion of a set of
methodologically relevant texts. In each approach, we examine the type of questions each method enables us to raise and the limitations and strategies underlying each method.
Following their advanced adaptation to thematic problems in Artistic Studies, the following methodologies are subject to consideration:
Semiotics (Peirce, Barthes, Ginzburg, Eco, Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson),
Visual Culture (W.J.T. Mitchell, Mirzoeff, James Elkins),
Formal analysis and iconology (Wolfflin, Greenberg, Roger Fry, Panofsky),
Anthropology/Ethnography (Clifford, Geertz, Stuart Hall)
Socio-historic analysis and archival practices (Benjamin, Foucault, Susan Buck-Mors),
Ideological analysis (Lauren Berlant, Sturken, David Harvey), Deconstructionism (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze),
Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva)
Postmodernism (Jameson, Richard Dyer),
Reception studies (Crary, Staiger, David Morley).
Bibliography
Fernie, Eric. Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology. Londres: Phaidon, 1995.
Presiosi, Donald. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Rose, Gillian. Visual Methodologies. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. LA: Sage, 2007.
Smith, Paul e Carolyn Wilde (eds.). A Companion to Art Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Spencer, Stephen. Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Florence: Routledge, 2011.
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Teaching method
Students are expected to undertake preparation for each seminar session and have read the respective proposed texts in order to be able to engage in collective discussions in accordance with the doctoral level seminar framework.
Students are also to produce short texts (of no more than 2/3 pages) that apply a particular method for the analysis of an object/specific theme.
At the end of the seminar, students deliver a 5-8 page research proposal summarising the methodologies they consider most appropriate to their own research project.
Evaluation method
Evaluation is based upon the short weekly texts - 50%, the research proposal - 20%, classroom presentations - 15 % and classroom participation - 15%.