MG10120 - COLLECTING AND COLLECTIONS SINCE 1450

Module Identifier	MG10120
Module Title	COLLECTING AND COLLECTIONS SINCE 1450
Academic Year	2003/2004
Co-ordinator	Mr Robert K Meyrick
Semester	Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)
Co-Requisite	AH10120 , AH10220

The Course:

The Urge to Collect
Ways of Looking at Museums and Collections
Shaping the World: from Archaic to Early Modern Collecting
From Classic to Contemporary Collecting
Princes as Patrons: Patronage at Court in Renaissance Italy
18th Century British and European Collectors & Collections
The National Museum from the Nation State to Post-Colonialism
University Museums
19th Century Collectors and Collecting
20th Century Collectors and Collecting
The Impressionist Phenomenon: Burrell, Lane, Courtauld and the Davies Sisters
The Gender of Collecting: William Burrell and the Davies sisters (Impressionist paintings), Lady Charlotte Schreiber and Eric Milner White (Ceramics), Peggy Guggenheim and John Paul Getty (Contemporary Art)
The Contemporary Setting: current curatorial practice, challenges for the future
The Heritage Industry: the tourist and leisure provision
Collecting Culture, Collecting Cultures

This module is at CQFW Level 4