Module Identifier | AH10100 | ||
Module Title | INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY+VISUAL CULTURE - CURRENT ISSUES | ||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||
Co-ordinator | Ms Moira M Vincentelli | ||
Semester | Semester 1 (Taught over 2 semesters) | ||
Other staff | Mr Christopher P Webster, Professor John Harvey, Mr Simon J Pierse |
Tutorials
Each student will have 2 half-hour individual tutorials to discuss their assessed work. Students should bring with them to the tutorial their portfolio of work including essays, and exercises. These tutorials will also give some feedback on progress in the seminars in Module AH 10220.
Study Skills
There will 2 study skills workshops associated with university CAL provision of study skills
Module Outline
Lectures
First semester
Introductory lecture on periods, styles and 'isms' - core issue modernism MV
The Artist
1. Why Do People Make Art? MV
2. Giorgio Vasari and the Construction of Genius MV
3. The Romantic Temper: Artists' Self-Perception in 19th C. Europe JH
4. The Woman Artist MV
5. Sharks: Public Perceptions of the Modern Artist - Duchamp to Hirst JH
The Body
1. Official Bodies: The Academy and Anatomy SP
2. Ideal Bodies: Venus and her Daughters JD
3. British Bodies: Lucien Freud to Jenny Saville SP
4. Dead Bodies: Photography CW
5. Alternative bodies: Picasso to Louise Bourgeois MV
Second semester
Introductory lecture on the art exhibition - to relate to critical writing exercise MV
Landscape and environment
1. 18th Century Landscape: Picturesque Views and Sublime Prospects SP
2. Heaven on Earth: Spiritualising the Landscape in the Romantic Period JH
3. Far off lands SP
4. Photography and the land CW
5. Shaping the World: Garden Design to Land art JR
The Art of 'the Other'
1. Primitivism and Modernism MV
2. Orientalism and Representations of the Other MV
3. Carpet Trading: Rugs around the World MV
4. Angels and Aliens: Visualising the Celestial and Extra Terrestrial in Religion and Science Fiction JH
5. Exploring Identity: Other artists MV
This module is at CQFW Level 4