| Unit name | Prints |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART30046 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Miss. Brace |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The Department of History of Art at Bristol has a substantial collection of prints, ranging from the Renaissance to the present day and, in medium, from engravings to etchings and lithographs. The collection is a valuable aid to teaching and research, but only a fraction is ever on display. The unit will introduce students to the collection and will cover the history and techniques of print making. Students will gain firsthand experience of researching and cataloguing individual works. This course will culminate in a scholarly exhibition of prints drawn from the collection in a selection curated and presented by the students themselves.
Aims:
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate skills appropriate to level H/6 in:
(1) independent research;
(2) cataloguing;
(3) curating;
(4) demonstration of expert knowledge in the history and techniques of print making.
1 x 2hr seminar and 1 x 1hr seminar per week
Summative assessment is a 2-hour unseen exam (50%), an essay of 1000 words (25%) and assessment of the exhibition (25%).
Susan Lambert , Prints: art and techniques (London, 2000)
Anthony Wells-Cole, Art and decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: the influence of continental prints, 1558-1625 (New Haven and London, 1997)
B.E. Maidment, Reading popular prints, 1790-1870 I (Manchester, 1996)
Martin Hopkinson, Italian Prints, 1875-1975 (London, 2007)
Raymond Lister, Prints and Printmaking: a dictionary and handbook of the art in C19th Britain (London, 1983)
Amelia Rauser, Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity and Individualism in C18th English Prints (Newark, 2008)
