VISST 4607

The Museum and the Object

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2016-2017 Catalog.

Gives advanced students the opportunity to work directly with original objects from the collection in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. Focuses on art and connoisseurship by questioning the ways quality is determined in works of art. Topics include methods of attribution, fakes and forgeries, techniques and media, restoration and conservation, art education and theories of perception. Session leaders include the curatorial staff of the art museum.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: History of Art Majors.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Comments Course enrollment is required to participate in the History of Art Majors Society Museum Exhibition.

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