AH10120 - ART HISTORY+VISUAL CULTURE-CURRENT ISSUES

Module Identifier	AH10120
Module Title	ART HISTORY+VISUAL CULTURE-CURRENT ISSUES
Academic Year	2003/2004
Co-ordinator	Ms Moira M Vincentelli
Semester	Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)
Other staff	Mr Christopher P Webster, Professor John Harvey, Mr Julian Ruddock, Mr Simon J Pierse

Brief description

The course is delivered through one lecture a week in four 5-week sections based on themes that span World Art and make links between the past and very recent work.
The module is initiated by a lecture introducing the problem of periods and style categorisation in art history. These issues will be followed up in the four main themes: the Artist, the Body, Landscape and Environment and the Art of the `Other'. Each lecture will focus on a specific issue and each of the four sections will cover a range of historical periods coming up to contemporary art. Each block will be tested at the end of the 5-lecture section by a Computer test.

Aims

Provide the foundation for all art history modules in the degree scheme and offer a framework of theoretical and historical context for course in studio studies.
Introduce the basic principles of art hsitroy and visual culture through a syllabus that deals with the general issues through case study and specific subjects.
Consider how the notion of art and artist has been constructed through specific practices, throguh institutions such as academies of art, and through writing about art.
Develop an awareness of other models of visual culture outside that of western art traditions.
Develop a critical understanding of the way periodisation and classificaiton are used in the study of art
Develop an awareness of different styles of writing on art including popular art history, academic writing and art criticism in newspapers and journals of contemporary art.

Reading Lists

Books
Schneider Adams, L (1996) Methodologies of Art, and Introduction Oxford: Boulder and Westview
Buck, L & Dodd, P (1991) Relative Values London: BBC Books
Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing London: BBC Books
Vasari, Georgio (ed Bull) (1965) Lives of Artists London: Penguin Books
Chadwick, W (1990) Women, Art and Society London: Thames and Hudson
Godfrey, T (1998) Conceptual Art London: Phaidon
Martin, PW & Jarvis, R (1992) Reviewing Romanticism Basingstoke: Macmillan
Licht, F (1980) The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art London: J Murray
Thompson, K (1991) Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination New York: Fawcett Columbine
Brennan, M (1987) Wordsworth, Turner and the Romantic Landscape: A Study of the Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime SC, Camden House
Andrews, M (1999) Landscape and Western Art Oxford University Press
Hill, Susan (ed) (1991) The Myth of Primitivism, Perspectives on Art London: Routledge
Blazwick, I & Wilson, S (2000) Tate Modern: the Handbook London: Tate Publishing
Meecham, P & Sheldon, J (2000) Modern Art: A Critical Introduction London: Routledge
Honour, H & Fleming (1982) A World History of Art London: Mcamillan
Fernie, E (1995) Art History and its Methods, a critical anthology London: Phaidon

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4