%0 Journal Article
%T Meyer Schapiro on style in art and science: Notes from a Theory and Methods of Art History graduate seminar lecture course, Columbia University, New York, 1973
%A Terry Smith
%J Journal of Art Historiography
%D 2012
%I 
%X These notes were taken from the lectures and comments by Meyer Schapiro that constituted his course ¡°Art History Theory and Methods,¡± offered at Columbia University, New York, during the Spring semester 1973. The introduction describes the immediate context of the course, briefly characterizes my own situation as a student and a member of the Art & Language group of artists, as well as the relation of these notes to materials in the Columbia University Archives. The only one of its kind then being offered in New York (and rare anywhere else), the course introduced graduate students to key texts in the history of art history, placing these in dialogue with relevant thinking from science, philosophy, linguistics (especially semiotics), and psychology. This dialogue was arranged around consideration of key topics shared by both art and science: objectivity vis-¨¤-vis subjectivity, research methodology, definition and distinction, classification, taxonomy, form, hypotheses, interpretations, and value judgements. The course also addressed topics, such as style and expressiveness, which do not seem, on the face of it, to be shared between science and art. Offering an intimate glimpse of a major scholar teaching from inside the heart of the discipline, and thinking it forward as able to grapple with the most important questions of the times, these notes are intended to supplement the published writings of arguably the greatest American art historian.
%K Art
%K science
%K style
%K art historical method
%K classification
%K style terms
%K form
%K interpretation
%K hermeneutics
%K knowledge
%K value judgement
%K imagination
%K universality
%K objectivity vis-¨¤-vis subjectivity
%K time-space
%K diagnostics
%K schema
%K physiognomy
%K communication
%K information theory
%K cybernetics
%K signs
%K semiotics
%K pictorial meaning
%K abstraction
%K psychology
%K expression
%U http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/smith.pdf