| Unit name | Introduction to Early-Modern Art |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART10216 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Haut |
| Open unit status | Open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit provides a broadly chronological introduction to European art from the post-Renaissance period to the beginnings of Modernism. Introducing a variety of art-historical practices, it will focus on a range of significant individuals but also on thematic issues such as artistic institutions, the rise of exhibitions and the relationship between art and the contexts of its production. It will consider works from a number of European traditions, seeking to examine their individuality but also links between them.
Aims:
The unit seeks to provide a sound introductory understanding of significant themes and individuals involved in artistic production in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It aims to introduce students to key works produced by significant artists and to enable them to distinguish the particularities of such works. It also seeks to explain the differing professional contexts in which artists worked and the impact on them of events of the time. It will use a variety of art-historical methods to introduce students to the range of approaches in the discipline.
By the end of this unit, the students should:
1. have gained a broad chronological understanding of the development of art production and consumption during this period
2. be acquainted with a group of major works of art produced during this period
3. be able to reflect upon these objects in their historical context
4. be able to assess some of the ways in which art was used and consumed by patrons, both individual and institutional
5. be aware of different approaches to art, and be able to reflect critically upon these different approaches. Students will have been given the opportunity to tackle some of the key issues and concepts connected with the study of the art of this period, and given the opportunity to develop their visual recognition, iconographical skills and visual analysis.
Two one-hour lectures per week
Fortnightly small-group discussion seminars
Feedback on 2500-word essay
Additional access to tutors in Office Hours
2 hour examination
* M. Craske Art in Europe 1700-1830 (Oxford, 1997) * S. Eisenman Nineteenth-Century Art A Critical History (London, 2007) * F. Frascina Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven/London, 1993) * A. Harris Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture (London, 2005) * C. Harrison/P. Wood Art in Theory Vol. 1 1648-1815, Vol 2 1815-1900 (Oxford, 2000) * J Martin Baroque (Harmondsworth, 1989)
