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 artefact.
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 jus?fied 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 characterisa?on of modernity must be challenged’ (Appiah (1992)
In My Father’s House pp144-5). 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 culture?
