HISTORY OF ART

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

Lectures on this course are organised around a pre-selected sequence of times and contries (eg Italy 1400, France 1900) in which key developments took place in the field of art history. 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 specific works of art in detail.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week. One trip to Edinburgh galleries.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).

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

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr J Morrison

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

‘Modern Art’ 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.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures per week; 1 one-hour tutorial per week. One trip to Edinburgh galleries.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).

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

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J Geddes

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 2 or above.

Overview

Architecture, painting and sculpture in Europe from about 1100 to about 1600, with special emphasis on Italy.

Structure

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.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).

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 level 2 or above.

Overview

Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe from about 1600 to about 1770.

Structure

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.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).

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

Credit Points

30

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 students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07 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 (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 L Bourdua

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

This course will be available in 2005/06.

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.

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

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

This course will be available in 2006/07 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, Titan, 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

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 level 3 students in History of Art. Designated and non-graduating students may accompany trips.

Notes

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 supervised visit to Glasgow or Edinburgh. 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 portfolio (100%).

Resit: In-course assessment: attendance on compulsory visits and production of draft portfolio (100%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

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 students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in the first half-session in 2005/06.

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.

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

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

This course will be available in the first half-session in 2005/06 as HA 3057.

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.

Structure

3-4 hours per week, divided into seminars and small-group tutorials.

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

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

This course will be available in 2006/07 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 (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 (30%). NB: All coursework must have been handed in.

Credit Points

30

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 students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in 2005/06.

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 handed in.

Credit Points

30

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 students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in 2005/06.

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.

Structure

3-4 hours per week, divided into seminars and small-group tutorials.

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

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

This course will not be available in 2005/06.

Overview

The course examines French painting from Romanticism to Impressionism set in the context of social, political and cultural developments in France in the nineteenth century.

Structure

3-4 hours per week, divided into seminars and small-group tutorials.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%) and in-course assessment (70%), which 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

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

This course will be available in 2005/06. Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

This course analyses in detail developments in north European art (especially paintings, sculptures and prints from Germany, the Netherlands and Britain) from ca 1480 to ca 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).

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%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

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

This course will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This interdisciplinary course will focus on the material culture associated with the sick, the dying and the dead in the European Middle Ages. Some of the inherited artefacts and goods under study will include the medieval hospital and its liturgical and medical paraphernalia, literary responses to disease such as leprosy and the black death, cemeteries, tombs, visual and written accounts of funerals. The course will also draw on anthropological studies of ritual and rites of passage.

Structure

2 two-hour other classes per week. Field work - a variety of formats for small group work - seminars, projects etc.

Assessment

In-course assessment: 2 essays [essay one (25%), essay two (30%) (2500 words each)], class participation (5%) and 2 hour class examination (40%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

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

This course will not be available in 2005/06.

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.

Structure

1 three-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

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

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

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.

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 a portfolio.

Assessment

1st Attempt: in-course assessment (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

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 2006/07 and 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). 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 '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.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr L Bourdua

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 or Art in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will be available from 2006/07, and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course explores the Italian altarpiece's design, carpentry, function and development from c1215-c1320.

Structure

3-4 hours per week.

Assessment

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

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

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 or Art. It is available for Joint and Combined degree students, or for Historical Studies students, with special permission from the Undergraduate Degree Programme Coordinator.

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.

Structure

1 or 2 two-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

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

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

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 be available from 2005/06, and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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

3-4 hours per week, divided into seminars and small-group tutorials.

Assessment

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

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

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 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%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.