HISTORY OF ART

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Pryor

Pre-requisites

None

Notes

Students intending to follow the History of Art programme at Honours level must take two of the three Level 1 courses offered.

Overview

This course is organised around a pre-selected sequence of times and countries (eg. Italy 1400, France 1900) in which key developments in art history took place. These are presented each week in chronological fashion and extend from pre-history to the present day. Tutorials are closely related to the lectures, providing students with the opportunity to explore specfic works in detail.

Structure

2 lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%); continuous assessment (50%: 1 essay of 1,000 words at 30% and computer assignment at 20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour examination (100%). NB All coursework must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Open door policy of all staff involved in course.

Feedback

Essay marking and return; responses in class; online quizzes; responses in class discussions.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Co-requisites

This course can only be taken together with HA 1004 or HA 1504.

Overview

This course is organised around a series of tutor-led class visits to sites of special art historical significance. The class will visit key locations in and around Aberdeen, and there is also a trip to Edinburgh. A range of important works of art and architecture will be studied in situ, and this study will be supported by staff lectures on related topics. The material on the course will be organised in relation to broad themes that will introduce students to major issues in the discipline of art history.

Structure

4 one-hour trips to take place locally on Wednesday afternoons; one day trip to Edinburgh (Saturday); 1 one-hour lecture every other week; one IT on-line assignment every other week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%), continuous assessment (50%). Continuous assessment consists of 1 essay 1,000 words (30%) and computer assignments (20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%). NB All coursework must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Through engagment with the team of tutors and with peers.

Feedback

Through essay and exam marking; through online quizzes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr A Bryzgel

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Notes

Students intending to follow the History of Art programme at Honours level must take two of the three Level 1 courses offered.

Overview

'Modern Art' will consider the emergence and development of the phenomenon of Modernism in Western Art from 1820 to the present day. The following areas will be discussed: Landscape painting in Britian and France; industrial design; Gothic revival: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism; 20th century art movements .

Structure

2 lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%); continuous assessment (50%); 1 essay of 1,000 words at (30%) and computer assignment at 20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour examination (100%). NB All coursework must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Open door policy of all staff involved in course.

Feedback

Essay marking and return; online quizzes; responses to student work in tutorials.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor J Geddes

Pre-requisites

30 credits at Level 1 History of Art courses.

Co-requisites

None. History of Art students are recommended to take this course together with HA 2005 'Making Masterpieces'.

Notes

This course will run concurrently with HA 2005 'Making Masterpieces' in the first half-session.

Overview

This course focuses on Western European art between 400 and 1500. It traces the repeated revivals of Classical culture and the sometimes subversive reactions against this tradition (from Christian and non-Christian perspectives). Topics covered will include Sutton Hoo, the Lindisfarne Gospels, pilgrimage, the Romanesque and Gothic Cathedral and Rosslyn Chapel. Discussion of Italian and Northern Renaissance art will include works from Van Eyck to Leonardo da Vinci.

Structure

Three 1-hour lectures per fortnight. 1 one-hour tutorial per fortnight.

Assessment

1st attempt: 1 two-hour visual exam (50%); continuous assessment (50%) one 1,500 word essay (40%) and class participation (10%).

Resit: Visual exam (100%). NB: all course work must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Class reflective discussion.

Feedback

Feedback will be provided in oral and written contexts.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Nichols

Pre-requisites

30 credits Level 1 History of Art courses.

Co-requisites

None. History of Art students are recommended to take this course together with HA 2004 Goths to Gothic: Roman to Renaissance.

Notes

The course will run concurrently with HA 2004 Goths to Gothic: Roman to Renaissance.

Overview

This course focuses on ten artistic masterpieces considered in their original and critical contexts. All the works considered have achieved fame or notoriety and have had a major impact on the history of art and culture. Works discussed may include the Bayeux Tapestry, Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Caravaggio's Calling of St Matthew, Courbet's Stonebreakers and Duchamp's Fountain.

Structure

Three 1-hour lectures per fortnight.
1 one-hour tutorial per fortnight.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour visual exam (50%); continuous assessment (50%): 1 virtual exhibition (1,500 words plus illustrations) (40%) and class participation (10%).

Resit: Visual exam (100%). NB: All course work must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Class reflective discussion.

Feedback

Feedback will be provided in oral and written contexts.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

30 credits at Level 1 History of Art courses
15 credits at Level 2 History of Art courses (if intending to progress to History of Art honours).

Co-requisites

None.

Notes

This course will run in the second half-session.

Overview

This course focuses on Renaissance and Baroque art both in Italy and Northern Europe. Issues addressed will include the dialogue between realism and classicism; the range of style and genres; the analysis of period styles. The impact of Humanism, democracy, the Counter Reformation and political absolutism will also be covered. Artists will include Michelangelo, Durer, Titian, Caravaggio, Velazquez, Rubens, Bernini and Vermeer.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures per week
1 one-hour tutorial per week
1 eight-hour compulsory fieldtrip.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written exam (30%); 1 one-hour visual exam (20%). Continuous assessment (50%): two 2,000 word essays.

Resit: Written exam (100%). N.B. All course work must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Reflective class discussion.

Feedback

Feedback will be provided in oral and written contexts.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course looks at the flowering of art in northern Britain and Ireland after the Romans departed. The period (c500-900) saw a fusion of cultures (Pictish, Saxon, Irish and eventually, Viking) welded by the advance of Christianity. Manuscripts like the Lindisfarne Gospels and Book of Kells are studied, as well as metalwork and stone carvings. The course provides opportunities to visit many local Pictish monuments.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: all coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA3053.

Overview

This course will focus on painting and sculpture in Venice in the period 1450-1600. Artists covered will include the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, the Lombardi, Sansovino, Veronese, Tintoretto. The work of these individuals will be analysed in relation not only to their art historical context, but also the social and economic background.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: all coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

0

Course Coordinator

Dr M Pryor

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course is compulsory for Single and Joint Honours students in History of Art. HA 3048 is an essential precursor to HA 4048, Fieldwork 2.

Overview

Field work comprises the study of works of art and architecture in situ. Compulsory elements are a residential reading party, a taught week in London and a visit to Glasgow. Students are also expected to explore art galleries, museums and architecture on their own.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: attendance on compulsory visits and production of draft ePortfolio (90%) and class participation (10%).

Resit: In-course assessment: attendance on compulsory visits and production of draft portfolio (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

Covers painting, drawing and engraving in both the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands during the so-called ‘golden age’ of Dutch painting. The course is concerned with examining the relationship of art to culture and society; with stylistic analysis; and, in the case of Rembrandt and his workshop, with issues of attribution. Artists studied include: Rubens; Hals; Rembrandt; Vermeer; Ruisdael; Cuyp and Steen.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA 3553.

Overview

Approximately one third of the course is devoted to the paintings of Caravaggio (1571-1610). This is followed by an examination of his influence on Italian, Netherlandish, French, and Spanish artists during the first half of the seventeenth century (eg from Italy - Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi; from the Netherlands - Honthorst and Terbrugghen; from France - Valentin and La Tour). Issues addressed include the nature of "realism" in Caravaggesque art; the rationale of certain recurrent motifs and conventions; and the peculiarities of Caravaggesque iconography.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course analyses in detail developments in north European art (especially paintings, sculptures and prints from Germany, the Netherlands and Britain) from c. 1480 to c. 1580. Stylistic, iconographic, technical and ideological connections and differences within the visual material examined will be highlighted, as will its vital (though changing) relation with contemporary artistic work in Italy (see HA 3045/HA 3532).

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The in-course assessment inlcudes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The course covers the development of Scottish painting from the Act of Union to the accession of Queen Victoria. Throughout this period Scottish painting will be set in the context of Scotland's changing position as a cultural centre within the United Kingdom. Using the major art works of the period and the University's wide ranging eighteenth and nineteenth century visual collections, the developing national cultural identity is considered. Students on this course will make extensive use of digital technology in the preparation and presentation of assignments.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: all coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The course examines French painting from the Barbizon School and Realism through to Impressionism set in the context of social, political and cultural developments in France in the nineteenth century. Students on this course will make extensive use of digital technology in the preparation and presentation of assignments.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (30%), continuous assessment (70%) which includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Pryor

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course analyses in detail developments in art in France from c1880 to c1939. Stylistic, iconographic technical and ideological connections and differences within the visual material examined will be highlighted, as will changing relations with contemporary artistic work elsewhere in Europe.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week alternating, on a weekly basis, with 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB All course work must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The course deals with the two waves of revolutionary stylistic change which occurred in French art after the Rococo, and which coincided with the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the Bourbon Restoration, and the July Monarchy. The impact of the political environment on the visual arts will be addressed, as will that of the Romantic Movement in literature. Major painters featured include David, Ingres, Girodet, Gros, Géricault, and Delacroix.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week, 6 hours fortnightly.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%), continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB All course work must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course will examine architecture in Britain from the Arts and Crafts movement around 1900 to the achievements of the Millennium. Domestic architecture will be examined from the Garden Suburb to high-rises and eco houses. Technological change, from the arrival of the motor car, to the aeroplane and cinema, is marked by new strategies for urban design and new building types. Architecture as a tool for economic regeneration has produced key-note cultural buildings like galleries and museums, some with innovative new design and some recycling older structures. There will be opportunities to visit sites on field trips.

Structure

3 hours per week, divided into lectures and seminars. Field trip.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%), in-course assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB All course work must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course focuses on visual art of the late fifteenth and sixteenth century in Central Italy (particularly Milan, Florence, Rome and Parma), one of the key periods in the history of European art. Artistic practices will be analysed with reference not only to the objects, but also to the history of scholarly responses to them. The approach will be chronological and artist-based, with discussion focussed on key works and commissions.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (30%), in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes class participation (10%), two 2000 word essays (40%) and a slide test (20%).

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Pryor

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA 3568.

Overview

This course concentrates on twentieth-century American painting from the Armory Show in 1913 onwards. It considers the rise of American painting in relation to contemporary developments in Europe, from America’s indigenous tradition and its initial responses to European Modernism, the Realism of Hopper, the Regionalism of Wood and Benton to the Abstract Expressionism of Pollock. The factors governing the triumph of American painting are examined. It then considers the works of Pop Art and Super-Realism and culminates in the post-modern climate of the 1990s.

Structure

3-4 hours per week, divided into whole class and group-led seminars.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Bryzgel

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for the course after the end of week 2 of teaching. Available only to students in Year 3 or above

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA 3571.

Overview

This course will introduce students to the major artists and key artistic movements in the Postmodern era, focusing on artists working in the United States and Europe, both East and West. From the explosion of conceptual art and the use of alternative media in the 1970s, to the return to painting in the 1980s and the eclecticism of the 1990s and after, this course will examine the vast array of artistic expression that developed in the latter half of the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to what it means to be Postmodern during this period of rapid and dynamic change with regard to the notion of art and artistic production. We will examine focused case studies of prominent artists from this period, as well as more general trends and movements that can be identified. This course will familiarise students with the most recent developments in the history of art, right up to the present day.

Structure

3 hours per week, divided into lectures, tutorials and seminars.

Assessment

1st attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (30%), in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes class participation (10%), 2 x 2000 word essays (40%) and visual examination consisting of a slide test (10%) and the conception and presentation of a work of art (10%).

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr H Pierce

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. Available only to Single and Joint Honours candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course aims to provide students with a survey of the visual arts of early modern Britain, and their relationship to political opinion and upheaval during this period; it surveys a range of media and genres, including courtly portraiture, graphic satire, masque performances and book illustration.

Structure

3 seminars of 2 hours every two hours.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (30%), continuous assessment (60%): 2 essays of 2,000 words, 20% each, and 1 visual test of one hour, 20%); class participation (10%).

Resit: Examination (100%): NB: All coursework must have been submitted.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr A Bryzgel

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 or teaching. Available only to students in Programme year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA 3574.

Overview

This course will introduce students to the major artists and artistic movements in Russia from the late nineteenth century until today. The main focus will be on the interrelation between art and politics in Russia during one of the most turbulent centuries in the country's history. From the social realism of the Wanderers to the propaganda art of Klucis and Rodchenko, through the Soviet years of repression and into the post-independent era, when artists continued to express their concerns about topical issues, art and politics in Russia have been virtually inextricable. We will pay particular attention to the function of the avant-garde and its efficacy throughout the twentieth century in Russia. We will also examine a second current throughout this course, that of the relation of Russian artists to their counterparts in the West, which are times they purposefully rejected, and at others aimed to emulate or at least appropriate.

Structure

1 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

Examination (30%); continuous assessment (70%) made up of two essays of 2,000 words each (20% each), class participation (10%), exhibition (10%), and poster creation (10%).

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been submitted.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The country house is studied in its architectural and social context from 1500 to the present day. Architects, patrons, building materials, technology, problems of preservation. Emphasis is placed on first-hand knowledge of individual buildings, with many opportunities to visit houses in the locality.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Resit: Examination (100%). NB: All coursework must have been submitted.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to Single and Joint Honours candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12 as HA 4302.

Overview

Covers the paintings, drawings and prints of Ludovico (1555-1619), Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609) Carracci, as well as those of their more important pupils (Reni, Domenichino). Particular attention will be paid to the nature and significance of the Carracci Academy; the historiography of the Carracci's supposed 'Eclecticism'; and their influence on the development of 'Baroque' and 'Baroque Classical' aesthetics.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr M Pryor

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to Single and Joint Honours candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Co-requisites

HA 3048, Fieldwork 1.

Notes

Credits for Fieldwork 2 can only be obtained together with the successful completion of Fieldwork 1. This course is compulsory for Single and Joint Honours.

Overview

Field work comprises study of works of art and architecture in situ. It consists of a taught week in Paris during the Autumn semester and a supervised visit to Edinburgh. The visits are recorded in an ePortfolio.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: attendance on compulsory visits and production of an ePortfolio (90%) and class participation (10%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T Nichols

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to Honours students in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course is compulsory for Single Honours students in History of Art. It is available for Joint and Combined degree students, or for Historical Studies students, with special permission from the Undergraduate Programme Coordinator.

Overview

This course considers topics and controversies in the literature of art of all periods. Each seminar will address a particular problem by focusing on a single "key text". The ideological bases of the discourse of art history in different historical contexts will be examined. Typical themes include progress and decline, description and interpretation, stylistic analysis, iconography and iconology, "genius" and the feminist critique, connoisseurship, censorship.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching. Available only to Single and Joint Honours programme candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course introduces British Romanesque architecture in four stages: origins of the style; its peak expression in the construction of Durham cathedral; the influence of Durham cathedral on later buildings; and the symbolic meaning of medieval architecture. There will be a two-day bus trip to visit Durham and related buildings.

Structure

4 hours per week, seminars and talks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor P Davidson

Pre-requisites

Available only to Single and Joint Candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 4. Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The course begins with an introduction and overview of relevant international garden history taught by lectures and seminars. After the garden visits there will be seminars closely focused on those gardens in relation to international tradition. The third part of the course will introduce students to the rich materials for garden history in Aberdeen University Library special collections.

Structure

3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One 1½-hour written examination (30%), essay (40%), slide test (20%), class participation (10%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr A Bryzgel

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for the course after the end of week 2 of teaching. Available only to students in Level 4 or above.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course will examine the phenomenon of performance art as it developed both in the capitalist West and the communist East. By considering the artistic production of Western artists in light of what their contemporaries were doing behind the Iron Curtain, we will arrive at a more nuanced understanding of performance art in general, and in the West. Furthermore, by examining these performances from the East in the context of theories expounded on the avant-garde, we will reconsider the idea of the end of the avant-garde and develop an expanded understanding of postmodern art practice.

Structure

3 hours per week, divided into lectures and seminars.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 1½-hour written examination (30%), in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes class participation (10%), 1 x 2000 word essay (40%) and a slide test (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to Single and Joint Honours programme candidates in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

This course examines Scottish painting's reflection of and contribution to the debate on Scottish national identity in the period 1840-1920. Through the work of key landscape, genre, history and figure painters the evolution of national visual signifiers is analysed and discussed.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%). The in-course assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.
Available only to Honours students in History of Art in Programme Year 4.

Overview

A dissertation of 8-10,000 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the Course Co-ordinator, to be submitted during the Summer Term in the final year of study.

Each student will be assigned a supervisor, who will make available regular consultation times.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).