Seminar in Contemporary Art and Theory: Frames, Fields, Intervals, and Gaps

How do spatial configurations determine epistemological frameworks and vice versa? This class considers how notions of frames, fields, intervals, and gaps have shaped humanistic enquiry and art historical scholarship in particular. While highlighting case studies and implications for the study and historiography of modern and contemporary art, readings engage other subfields and disciplines, including philosophy, media studies, literary theory, and anti-colonial studies. Topics treated include field formation; reflexivity; interpretive models of surface and depth, the geopolitics of geometry; and issues of autonomy, liminality, and bordering.