Western Tradition

Roberto Vargas 

rvargas1@swarthmore.edu

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) [section] (1912). The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

The Assignment

Two general books


Four scholarly articles from traditional art historical sources from each of the following periods: 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s


Critically evaluate the scholarly literature

 

Analysis of the general methodological trends used, and the kinds of interpretations produced, by this scholarship
 

Today

2~ The Resources

1~ The Approach

Approach

Specific Issue

Issue in the field

Outside

Parallel

Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)

Cubism, futurism, motion

Duchamp, Marcel

 

 

Section d’Or(ii)

Methods

How to be part of the conversation

1 - Database

Resources

2 - Oxford Bibliography

Assignment

3 - Oxford Art Online

4 - Tripod

"Scholarly Articles"

"Two books"

"Evaluate the scholarly literature"

"Evaluate the scholarly literature"

Oxford Bibliography

Oxford Art Online

TRIPOD

Proquest /

Taylor and Francis

"The search terms I have chosen encode a tacit hypothesis..."

- Ted Underwood, "Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize 20 Years Ago"

Review

cubism

Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)

section d'or

futurism

Nude Descending a Staircase

golden section

Marchel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)

OR

OR

OR

AND

AND

(cubism or futurism) AND ("section d'or" OR "golden section" OR "groupe de puteaux" OR "salon de la section d'or")

Roberto Vargas
rvargas1@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6107

Office #120

Exhibit (Evidence)

Background

Materials used to establish facts. When used as background, you take them as fact and do not question them. If you do, they will become part of your argument. Implies membership in a community based on shared references

The materials to be analyzed, examined or interpreted

Argument (Authority, Antagonist)

Sources you engage with or respond to directly by countering, extending or refining the claims made. You engage in conversation. They-Say....

Method (Model)

Sources from which you borrow an approach, key concept, idea, or method, or sources after which you model your own approach to inquiry, writing, or argument.

Beware of the PDF/TAB graveyard

(where papers go to die)

Organize

BACKGROUND

EXHIBIT

ARGUMENT

METHOD

Boolean Logic

AND

OR

NOT

Synonym OR Synonym

Synonym OR Synonym

Synonym OR Synonym

AND

AND

Example