HISTORY OF ART

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

A broad introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts from antiquity to the early 19th century, and to the methodology of the subject.
3 one-hour lectures per week; 1 one-hour tutorial per week. One trip to Edinburgh galleries.
1 two-hour examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

‘The Modern Tradition’ will consider the emergence and development of the phenomenon of ‘Modernism’ in Western art from about 1820 to the present day. The following areas will be discussed: Landscape painting in Britain and France; industrial design; Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism; the fin de siècle; and movements in twentieth-century art.
3 one-hour lectures per week; 1 one-hour tutorial per week. One trip to Edinburgh galleries.
1 two-hour examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

Pre-requisites

HA 1002 or HA 1502

Overview

Architecture, painting and sculpture in Europe from about 1100 to about 1600, with special emphasis on Italy.
3 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour seminar and approximately 1 hour’s preparation per week (using prescribed slides and printed material).
Field work, comprising one trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow and preparatory work specific to it, average of one-hour per week.
1 three-hour examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

HA 1002 or HA 1502

Overview

Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe from about 1600 to about 1770.
3 one-hour lectures, 1 one-hour seminar and approximately 1 hour’s preparation per week (using prescribed slides and printed material).
Field work, comprising one trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow and preparatory work specific to it, average of one-hour per week.
1 three-hour examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%).

Credit Points

5

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to Junior Honours students in History of Art. Designated students may accompany trips.

Overview

Field work comprises study of works of art and architecture in situ. It consists of a taught week in London in the spring term, a residential reading party and a supervised visit to Glasgow. The visits are recorded in a portfolio.
Continuous assessment: (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings and Dr T R Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to Junior Honours students in History of Art.

Notes

This course is compulsory for Single Honours students in History of Art. It is not available for Joint, Combined or Designated degree students, or for Historical Studies students, without special permission from the Head of Department.

Overview

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.

3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 three-hour examination (50%) and continuous assessment (50%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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 (e.g. 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.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course or one level 1 Celtic Civilisation course (preferably CE 1513).

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course looks at the flowering of art in northern Britain and Ireland after the Romans departed. The period (c.500-900) 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.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art or History course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will focus on the Franciscan and the Dominican Orders, two of the most popular religious movements of the middle ages, and will examine the impact of both their members and their benefactors on the visual arts, primarily in the Italian peninsula. Mechanisms of patronage and developments in iconography will be studied through analysis of text and image and primary sources (legends of saints, contracts, etc). The chronological scope will be kept fairly large in order to trace changes in iconography and patronage.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Turner, Constable and the flowering of Romantic landscape painting; historical subjects and the Victorian vision of the past; the Pre-Raphaelites; domestic themes; the representation of women; art and literature.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will focus primarily on works of Albrecht Dürer, and his German contemporaries, examining their works in relation to the spread of Renaissance cultural values into Northern Europe.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Focusing primarily on Rome and Florence, this course will consider developments in painting and sculpture from 1480-1520. In this key period the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael dramatically expanded the expressive range of the visual arts, inaugurating a ‘classical’ tradition which was to prove influential for centuries to come. This course will analyse the formation of this tradition in the light of developments in contemporary Italian culture.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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 natural cultural identity is considered. Students on this course will make extensive use of digital technology in the preparation and presentation of assignments.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will examine the individual nature of Scottish painting in the period and the sources of frequently recurring themes in relation to a perceived national identity. Issues such as social concern, ambivalent attitudes to urbanisation, labour, women, community life and nationalism are considered against the background of the rise of Modernism in Scotland and England.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Covers painting and drawing 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.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight. Optional field work.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Nichols

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Mr J Gash

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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; Albani; Lanfranco). Particular attention will be paid to the nature and significance of the Carracci Academy; the issue of the Carracci’s supposed ‘eclecticism’; and their influence on the development of ‘Baroque’ and ‘Baroque Classical’ aesthetics.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2002/03 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Selected aspects of painting and sculpture including some of the following: the Late Baroque in England; conversation pieces, from Mercier to Zoffany; Hogarth; society portraiture, landscape and marine painting; the rise of the Picturesque; historical and literary subjects; caricature; the growth of art theory and criticism, from Shaftesbury to Burke and Reynolds.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course concentrates on 20th-Century American painting from the Armoury 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 and on to works of Pop Art and Super-Realism in the 1970s. The factors governing the triumph of American painting are examined.
3 two-hour seminars per fortnight.
1 two-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have credit points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Overview

This course investigates one of the most intriguing and popular art movements of the Victorian period. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in 1848 centering around the work and youthful ideals of three students: John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With subjects inspired by the Bible and by the Romantic poetry of Keats and Tennyson, and with the support of the most important art critic of the age, John Ruskin, they broke with traditional techniques and forged a revolutionary style which remained influential down to the First World War.
3-4 hours per week, divided into seminars, small-group tutorials and the occasional lecture.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (40%), continuous assessment (40%), slide test (20%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Its design, carpentry, iconography, function and development in Italy from Cimabue to Fra Angelico.
1 three-hour seminar.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above who have Credit Points from at least one level 1 or level 2 History of Art course.

Notes

This course will be available in 2003/04 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Giotto’s Arena chapel in Padua may well have been considered too modern for its time. However, it marked the beginning of a stimulating period of artistic development in the city and its vicinity, which lasted nearly a century, and set the stage for the Italian Renaissance. The course considers Giotto’s legacy during the fourteenth century through the works of Guariento, Paolo Veneziano, Giusto de’Menabuoi and Altichiero.
1 three-hour seminar per week.
1 one-and-a-half-hour examination (30%) and continuous assessment (70%). The continuous assessment includes a slide test.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Professor D Mannings

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students (candidates for Honours) in History of Art.

Overview

A dissertation of 8-10,000 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the Course Co-ordinator, to be submitted on the first day of the Summer Term in the final year of study.
Each student will be assigned a supervisor, who will make available regular consultation times.
Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students (candidates for Honours) in History of Art.

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 a portfolio.
Continuous assessment: (100%).