Hi,
I am a PhD student in art history at Arizona State University. My major area of focus in Renaissance, my minor is Asian. My advisor wants me to take the comprehensive exam first thing in the fall, so I will be studying for it all summer. He basically just rattled off a lot of names of important scholars to read and some of their books. I asked him if there needs to be a more specific idea of what books to read of theirs exactly, and he said that for something like this that I don't want an exact bibliography. The point of the exam, according to him is to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the important works of art history, and the important works of art that are discussed by those authors. He says to take notes, and try to create a kind of map as to where everything is in the texts, and the way in which the different author's methods and the artworks discussed connect historically and theoretically.
My advisor is cool, but he is a very "shoot from the hip" type of young Italian professor, who kind of lets me figure things out on my own. So it was also his suggestion to start a forum here, to get guidance and support from other doctoral students.
Thanks,
Noé Badillo
Hi, I am a PhD student in art history at Arizona State University. My major area of focus in Renaissance, my minor is Asian. My advisor wants me to take the comprehensive exam first thing in the fall, so I will be studying for it all summer. He basically just rattled off a lot of names of important scholars to read and some of their books. I asked him if there needs to be a more specific idea of what books to read of theirs exactly, and he said that for something like this that I don't want an exact bibliography. The point of the exam, according to him is to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the important works of art history, and the important works of art that are discussed by those authors. He says to take notes, and try to create a kind of map as to where everything is in the texts, and the way in which the different author's methods and the artworks discussed connect historically and theoretically. My advisor is cool, but he is a very "shoot from the hip" type of young Italian professor, who kind of lets me figure things out on my own. So it was also his suggestion to start a forum here, to get guidance and support from other doctoral students. Thanks, Noé Badillo