Interrogating arts histories, theories, paradigms and frameworks for critical analysis
- Sense-Making: Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life
- Mimesis: perspectives on the ‘real’ and ‘representation’
- Authenticity and voice
- Continuity and change in arts histories
- Cultural theory in art history
- Naming and classifying art forms
- Defining the aesthetic
- Defining the avant-garde: the creative, the innovative, the new
- Categorizing genres
- The ethics of art and arts practice
- Arts products: aura and artifact
- The work of the critic
- Abstraction in art
- Crossing borders: anthropology, ethnography and art
- Art movements