Are museums for objects or for people? Discuss the changing roles of museums and art galleries.
1. Explore one object or a small group of objects that can be interpreted either as art or artifact.
2. How useful is the concept of EITHER ‘style’ OR ‘iconography’ for the study of art and material culture? Answer using specific examples from Asia or Africa.
3. How justified is it to call connoisseurship a ‘science’?
4. Discuss the ‘Marxism’ of one art theorist or art historian.
5. Evaluate the importance of ‘Orientalism’ to the study of the visual arts of Africa and/or Asia.
6. The Modernist characterize?on of modernity must be challenged’ (Appiah (1992)
Discuss, using examples from an Asian or African context.
7. Are museums for objects or for people? Discuss the changing roles of museums and art galleries.
8. How has feminist art theory impacted the study of material and visual cu
